Re: nforce2 random lockups - still no solution ?

[Samuel Kvasnica]

> > Now, in the system with MSI K7N2 motherboard I have a framegrabber
> > (Hauppauge PVR-250) installed, using ivtv driver.
> > I'm able to lock-up the system when streaming uncompressed video
> > (e.g. cat /dev/yuv0 >/dev/null) and the lockups are also hard, w/o
> > debug info. The ivtv driver is using DMA very heavily  but seems to
> > work on other chipsets. So these lock-up problems might be rather DMA
> > then APIC related. Interesting is that I've never had such a lock-up
> > when running WinXP on same computer ( :-) seems impossible), even
> > under load and with the framegrabber.
> >    
>
> It can be a too-aggressive chipset configuration triggering chipset big.
>
> Maybe do lspci -vvvxxx and it's WinXP equivalent (I think such tool
> for Win ought to exist somewhere, although I had no need for it yet)
> and compare the result.
> --
> vda

It was local APIC ! After recompiling 2.4.22 without local apic 
everything works smoothly since several  weeks. I wonder when there'll 
be a kernel
patch that really solves these nforce2/amd issues.
Sam


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