[ale] Linux lockup issue

Chris Woodruff cwoodruff at openpenguin.com
Tue Jun 17 11:30:40 EDT 2003


I found this and may have found my issue.  Back in Atlanta I had a cable
modem and did not experiencing the freeze.  Now in Lexington on a DSL modem
using PPPoE I get the issue.

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=103421187205986&w=2

Chris W

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Danny Cox" <danscox at mindspring.com>
To: ale at ale.org
To: "ALE Mailing List" <ale at ale.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2003 10:52 AM
Subject: Re: [ale] Linux lockup issue


> Chris,
>
> On Tue, 2003-06-17 at 10:18, Chris Woodruff wrote:
> > I will go back to using nv drivers I guess and see what happens.  Thanks
for
> > the update.  The other interesting thing with this machine is that
trying to
> > install Mandrake 9.1 gets a hang during the initial module dependency
search
> > before the installer starts.  So there may be HW issues.  I am looking
just
> > to scrap the machine as a win32 only box and make a new Athlon 2600+
> > machine.
>
> Something similar to that was covered on the XFS list, too.  In the
> case of >= 1GB of mem, the framebuffer stuff doesn't work right.  You
> have to specify "linux vga=0" or somesuch on the boot command line.
>
> Wait, lemme find the archive, so I can reference it here:
>
> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-xfs&m=105585540310280&w=2
>
> HTH!
>
> -- 
> kernel, n.: A part of an operating system that preserves the
> medieval traditions of sorcery and black art.
>
> Danny
>
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