Re: Machine reboot

[Aleksey Gorelov]

--- Lukas Hejtmanek <xhejtman@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 13, 2006 at 07:36:01AM -0700, Auke Kok wrote:
> > >It's not an issue in the Linux kernel. Using various printk I can see that
> > >tripple fault or reset via KBD is issued and followed by hang of the BIOS. 
> > >
> > >For i965 chipsets, the BIOS is *a lot* buggy :(
> > 
> > that's depressing, can you send me the output of `dmidecode` of the latest 
> > BIOS? Perhaps I can reproduce it myself with that version.
> 
> Good news, as of kernel 2.6.19-rc1-git9, BIOS does *not* hang with both e1000 as
> module or built in kernel.
> 
> The previous version of kernel was 2.6.18 which hangs the BIOS.
> 
> Aleksey:
> are you sure that it is not the same in your case? Did you not switch kernel
> version between e1000 as a module and built in kernel?

  As far as I understand, you've udpated the whole kernel, not just the driver. I've tried using
driver from 2.6.19-rc2 as well as v7.2.9 from Intel's website - same story - still no reboot. Did
you try just updating driver (without whole kernel) ? 

Aleks.


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