[ale] Slightly OT:Continuing saga of Gigabyte and Linux

[Scott Castaline]

On 02/11/2011 04:07 PM, Michael Trausch wrote:
>
> Quite possibly. Trying a new kernel, if that fails, think we'll patch 
> printk with a 1s delay so the resulting crash can actually be read...
>
Just tried 2.6.38-rc4+ with a nogo. Got all the way through login and 
the enterprise that you saw yesterday showed up and then all went 
bye-bye, black screen and no video signal from either video source. By 
the way the reason I haven't sent you that file yet is that the earlier 
error I got stopped, never repeated. I've just tried blowing off all 
/boot files pertaining to 2.6.38 and redid the make install error free. 
Oh by the way Mike in Fedora when you do make install modules_install it 
automagically updates grub.conf. When I discovered this, I remembered 
seeing something to that effect since F13 that it was taken care of for 
you. I just finished redoing the build again and going to try another 
reboot to see if it flys.
>
> --
> Sent from my phone... a G2 running CM7 nightlies!
>
> On Feb 11, 2011 3:55 PM, "Jim Kinney" <jim.kinney at gmail.com 
> <mailto:jim.kinney at gmail.com>> wrote:
> > buggy bios.
> >
> > On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 3:03 PM, Scott Castaline 
> <skotchman at gmail.com <mailto:skotchman at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >> On 02/11/2011 02:53 PM, Jim Kinney wrote:
> >>> Have you done the "ram dance". swap out ram until it fails or works.
> >>> Also have you run memtest+ (64-bit version)?
> >>>
> >>> If the system really ran OK with a 32 bit OS and them puked with a 64,
> >>> that indicates issues with the CPU or the RAM or the buss joining them
> >>>
> >>> On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 2:41 PM, Scott 
> Castaline<skotchman at gmail.com <mailto:skotchman at gmail.com>>  wrote:
> >>>> Somehow I'm starting to feel like I'm playing the lead role in a 
> movie
> >>>> like "Pee Wee Herman's Great Adventure". Here is my latest update to
> >>>> their support and I just received their reply;
> >>>>
> >>>>   From :     Scott [ skotchman at gmail.com 
> <mailto:skotchman at gmail.com> ]
> >>>> Sent :     2/11/2011 10:46
> >>>> Question :     Win7 32bit works, Win7 64bit does not. Just stops at
> >>>> starting windows. I only have access to Win7 64 for 1 or 2 days 
> and no
> >>>> longer have the 32 bit version. It does not get to the point of
> >>>> reporting errors, just stops.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> (okay so I lied a bit about the 32bit part, it did run 32bit 
> TinyXP though)
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Answer : The board is ready for 64 bit OS and should not be an issue,
> >>>> what type of erring did you received?
> >>>> Please reduce hardware down to the bare minimal
> >>>> - cpu along with heatsinkfan
> >>>> - single stick of memory
> >>>> - videocard
> >>>> - single hdd and optical drive
> >>>>
> >>>> Okay what part of no reported errors as in just stopped booting 
> do they
> >>>> not understand????
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> >>>
> >> Yep, done deal. Ran Memtest 86+ overnight. Walked RAM through the slots
> >> as well as swapped 1st stick with 2nd stick. All diags seem to work. It
> >> just seems that something on the PCIe bus does not like the initial 
> kick
> >> from 64bit, but is ok after it gets past that point. If I don't set the
> >> PCI* card as my default video it will boot and the PCI* card is usable
> >> after that in 64bit environment.
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> > James P. Kinney III
> > I would rather stumble along in freedom than walk effortlessly in 
> chains.
> >
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