Horrible problems trying to run Linux on my hardware

[xyzzy at hotpop.com]

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On Tuesday 03 February 2004 7:45 pm, Bob Chiodini wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-02-03 at 12:31, xyzzy at hotpop.com wrote:
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> > On Tuesday 03 February 2004 6:10 pm, Wade Hampton wrote:
> > > xyzzy at hotpop.com wrote:
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> > > >Greetings,
> > > >
> > > >Hardware:
> > > >ASUS motherboard with 82801EB Intel chipset (865G video, 82562EZ
> >
> > LAN),
> >
> > > >Hyperthread support, Enhanced P-ATA/S-ATA, USB 2.0.
> > > >1 GB ram
> > > >Intel Pentium 4 2.4 GHz
> > > >3 harddisks, first one is the boot disk using Windows XP Pro (with
> >
> > dual
> >
> > > > boot off of the third disk for Linux using XP boot manager) UDMA
> >
> > 2, the
> >
> > > > other two are UDMA 5, the last disk being for Linux with /, /boot,
> >
> > /var
> >
> > > > and swap partitions).
> > > >LG DVD/CD-RW combo
> > > >Adaptec SCSI 2930 PCI card
> > > >[snip]
> > > >
> > > >I managed to upgrade the system using the Internet until everything
> >
> > was at
> >
> > > > "0 updates needed".  It was still VERY slow and I had a few times
> >
> > where
> >
> > > > the system froze completely, necessitating a press of the reset
> >
> > button.
> >
> > > This crash sounds like it could be the Fedora SMP kernel issue that
> >
> > has
> >
> > > been discussed on this list and RedHat's bugzilla.  You might want
> >
> > to see:
> > >     https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=109497
> > >
> > > Also look a the thread about
> > >     Re: System lockup with SMP Kernel.
> > >
> > > As for the running slow, that is a different problem.
> > > --
> > > Wade Hampton
> >
> > Thanks for the reply...
> >
> > I seem to get from the bug reports and message threads that it could
> > be ACPI
> > or autofs.  If it IS ACPI, maybe this is the reason for my slowdown
> > also.  I
> > need to check and find out what what to do, but I can't do anything
> > since I
> > can't get back into X.  Any ideas on what I can do to get my X server
> > back
> > up?  This is the real problem for me right now...
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> Have you tried turning off ACPI at boot up?  Type 'a' at the grub boot
> screen and enter acpi=off to the kernel command line.
>
> Bob...

I'll try that.  What can I do about my X seg fault?  This is probably a 
different issue related to Intel's new driver that doesn't work for me. How 
do I recover from having a clobbered X server installation?  I think I have 
all of the updated X rpms... just do rpm --force -Uvh X*.rpm?

I am also going to try running the 2.6.1 kernel from the rawhide and see if it 
helps me.
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