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Hi folks,
Gentoo_amd64
I need to recompile kernel to enable/check some items.
I'll run
# cd /usr/src/linux
# make menuconfig
checked "Legacy Power Management API", etc.
# make
Here I hesitated what shall I copy.
# ls arch/alpha cris i386 m68k parisc s390 sparc v850
arm frv ia64 m68knommu powerpc sh sparc64 x86_64
arm26 h8300 m32r mips ppc sh64 um xtensa
I'm running Gentoo_amd64, not 32 bits.
cp arch/x86-64/boot/bzImage /boot ??
OR
cp arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot ??
Afterwards shall I further run;
# make install
# make modules_install
I haven't enable "module"
TIA
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satimis
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to build a new kernel:
su
<root password>
cd /usr/src/linux
make menuconfig
<configure kernel via gui interface, then save and exit>
make && make modules_install
<skip following line if /boot is already mounted>
mount /boot
<replace 'version_info' with your kernel version, so as not to cause confusion>
cp ./arch/x86_64/boot/bzImage /boot/bzImage-version_info
next you need to edit your grub.conf to load the new kernel image. until you know the new kernel works you should leave your old kernel in place and keep its grub entries for a while, so for now just add the new kernel entry as a second grub title. for example, if your current config is:
default 0
timeout 5
title=Gentoo Linux 2.6.15
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/kernel-2.6.15-gentoo-r5 root=/dev/hda1
then change it to the following, replacing 'version_info' with the name you copied your image over as:
default 0
timeout 5
title=Gentoo Linux version_info
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/kernel-version_info root=/dev/hda1
title=Gentoo Linux 2.6.15
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/kernel-2.6.15-gentoo-r5 root=/dev/hda1
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Laptop: 2GHz Acer Aspire 9301AWSMi, 1GB DDR2, 17" TFT, 256MB GeForce Go 6100
Sold Development System: 2GHz AMD Opteron 246, Socket 940 Asus K8N-DL
Server System: 1.2GHz AMD Athlon, Socket 462 Apollo KT133 VT82C686
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cp arch/x86-64/boot/bzImage /boot ??
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cp arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot ??
In "make menuconfig" check what System Type and Processor you have chosen.
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Hi TrickyRic,
to build a new kernel: # cd /usr/src/linux
# make && make modules_install.....
ld: warning: i386:x86-64 architecture of input file `arch/x86_64/boot/compressed/head.o' is incompatible with i386 output
OBJCOPY arch/x86_64/boot/vmlinux.bin
BUILD arch/x86_64/boot/bzImage
Root device is (3, 2)
Boot sector 512 bytes.
Setup is 6988 bytes.
System is 2741 kB
Kernel: arch/x86_64/boot/bzImage is ready (#5)
Building modules, stage 2.
MODPOST
INSTALL drivers/net/s2io.ko
if [ -r System.map -a -x /sbin/depmod ]; then /sbin/depmod -ae -F System.map 2.6.17-gentoo-r7; fi
# cp arch/x86_64/boot/bzImage /boot/linux-2.6.17-gentoo-r7-api
Edited /boot/grub/grub.conf
# cat /boot/grub/grub.conftimeout 5
default 0
fallback 1
splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title=Gentoo Linux 2.6.17-r7-api
root (hd0,0)
kernel (hd0,0)/boot/linux-2.6.17-gentoo-r7-api root=/dev/hda2 noapic
title=Gentoo Linux 2.6.17-r7
root (hd0,0)
kernel (hd0,0)/boot/linux-2.6.17-gentoo-r7 root=/dev/hda2 noapic
Rebooted PC and selected "/boot/linux-2.6.17-gentoo-r7-api"
# dmesg$ dmesg
Bootdata ok (command line is root=/dev/hda2 noapic)
Linux version 2.6.17-gentoo-r7 (root@localhost) (gcc version 4.1.1 (Gentoo 4.1.1)) #5 SMP Mon Sep 25 18:27:54 HKT 2006
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000e5000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000003bfc0000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000003bfc0000 - 000000003bfce000 (ACPI data)
BIOS-e820: 000000003bfce000 - 000000003bff0000 (ACPI NVS)
BIOS-e820: 000000003bff0000 - 000000003c000000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec01000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fef00000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000ff780000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
DMI 2.3 present.
ACPI: RSDP (v002 ACPIAM ) @ 0x00000000000fb870
ACPI: XSDT (v001 A M I OEMXSDT 0x10000505 MSFT 0x00000097) @ 0x000000003bfc0100
ACPI: FADT (v003 A M I OEMFACP 0x10000505 MSFT 0x00000097) @ 0x000000003bfc0290
ACPI: MADT (v001 A M I OEMAPIC 0x10000505 MSFT 0x00000097) @ 0x000000003bfc0390
ACPI: MCFG (v001 A M I OEMMCFG 0x10000505 MSFT 0x00000097) @ 0x000000003bfc0400
ACPI: OEMB (v001 A M I AMI_OEM 0x10000505 MSFT 0x00000097) @ 0x000000003bfce040
ACPI: DSDT (v001 A0367 A0367001 0x00000001 INTL 0x02002026) @ 0x0000000000000000
Scanning NUMA topology in Northbridge 24
Number of nodes 1
Node 0 MemBase 0000000000000000 Limit 000000003bfc0000
NUMA: Using 63 for the hash shift.
Using node hash shift of 63
Bootmem setup node 0 0000000000000000-000000003bfc0000
On node 0 totalpages: 240378
DMA zone: 2081 pages, LIFO batch:0
DMA32 zone: 238297 pages, LIFO batch:31
Nvidia board detected. Ignoring ACPI timer override.
ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x508
ACPI: Local APIC address 0xfee00000
ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x01] lapic_id[0x00] enabled)
Processor #0 15:15 APIC version 16
ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x02] lapic_id[0x81] disabled)
ACPI: Skipping IOAPIC probe due to 'noapic' option.
Using ACPI for processor (LAPIC) configuration information
Intel MultiProcessor Specification v1.4
Virtual Wire compatibility mode.
OEM ID: TEMPLATE Product ID: APIC at: 0xFEE00000
I/O APIC #1 Version 17 at 0xFEC00000.
Setting APIC routing to physical flat
Processors: 1
Allocating PCI resources starting at 40000000 (gap: 3c000000:c2c00000)
Checking aperture...
CPU 0: aperture @ ac0000000 size 32 MB
Aperture from northbridge cpu 0 too small (32 MB)
No AGP bridge found
SMP: Allowing 2 CPUs, 1 hotplug CPUs
Built 1 zonelists
Kernel command line: root=/dev/hda2 noapic
Initializing CPU#0
PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 12, 32768 bytes)
time.c: Using 3.579545 MHz WALL PM GTOD PIT/TSC timer.
time.c: Detected 1808.261 MHz processor.
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
Memory: 959564k/982784k available (3641k kernel code, 22832k reserved, 1846k data, 204k init)
Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 3619.76 BogoMIPS (lpj=7239529)
Mount-cache hash table entries: 256
CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line), D cache 64K (64 bytes/line)
CPU: L2 Cache: 512K (64 bytes/line)
CPU 0/0(1) -> Node 0 -> Core 0
ACPI Error (nssearch-0311): Bad character in ACPI Name: 43025350 [20060127]
ACPI Error (dswload-0305): [0x43025350] (NON-ASCII) Namespace lookup failure, AE_BAD_CHARACTER
ACPI Exception (psloop-0281): AE_BAD_CHARACTER, During name lookup/catalog [20060127]
ACPI Exception (tbxface-0115): AE_BAD_CHARACTER, Could not load namespace [20060127]
ACPI Exception (tbxface-0122): AE_BAD_CHARACTER, Could not load tables [20060127]
ACPI: Unable to load the System Description Tables
Using local APIC timer interrupts.
result 12557377
Detected 12.557 MHz APIC timer.
Brought up 1 CPUs
testing NMI watchdog ... OK.
migration_cost=0
NET: Registered protocol family 16
PCI: BIOS Bug: MCFG area at e0000000 is not E820-reserved
PCI: Not using MMCONFIG.
PCI: Using configuration type 1
ACPI: Subsystem revision 20060127
ACPI: Interpreter disabled.
SCSI subsystem initialized
usbcore: registered new driver usbfs
usbcore: registered new driver hub
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
Boot video device is 0000:03:00.0
PCI: Transparent bridge - 0000:00:10.0
PCI: Using IRQ router default [10de/0261] at 0000:00:0a.0
PCI-DMA: Disabling IOMMU.
PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:02.0
IO window: disabled.
MEM window: disabled.
PREFETCH window: disabled.
PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:03.0
IO window: disabled.
MEM window: disabled.
PREFETCH window: disabled.
PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:04.0
IO window: disabled.
MEM window: f6a00000-faafffff
PREFETCH window: 9ff00000-bfefffff
PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:10.0
IO window: disabled.
MEM window: disabled.
PREFETCH window: disabled.
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:02.0 to 64
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:03.0 to 64
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:04.0 to 64
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:10.0 to 64
NET: Registered protocol family 2
IP route cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
TCP established hash table entries: 131072 (order: 9, 2097152 bytes)
TCP bind hash table entries: 65536 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes)
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 131072 bind 65536)
TCP reno registered
IA32 emulation $Id: sys_ia32.c,v 1.32 2002/03/24 13:02:28 ak Exp $
Total HugeTLB memory allocated, 0
squashfs: version 3.0 (2006/03/15) Phillip Lougher
Installing knfsd (copyright (C) 1996 okir@monad.swb.de).
JFS: nTxBlock = 7496, nTxLock = 59972
SGI XFS with large block/inode numbers, no debug enabled
io scheduler noop registered
io scheduler deadline registered
io scheduler cfq registered (default)
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:02.0 to 64
pcie_portdrv_probe->Dev[02fc:10de] has invalid IRQ. Check vendor BIOS
assign_interrupt_mode Found MSI capability
Allocate Port Service[0000:00:02.0:pcie00]
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:03.0 to 64
pcie_portdrv_probe->Dev[02fd:10de] has invalid IRQ. Check vendor BIOS
assign_interrupt_mode Found MSI capability
Allocate Port Service[0000:00:03.0:pcie00]
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:04.0 to 64
pcie_portdrv_probe->Dev[02fb:10de] has invalid IRQ. Check vendor BIOS
assign_interrupt_mode Found MSI capability
Allocate Port Service[0000:00:04.0:pcie00]
Real Time Clock Driver v1.12ac
Software Watchdog Timer: 0.07 initialized. soft_noboot=0 soft_margin=60 sec (nowayout= 0)
Linux agpgart interface v0.101 (c) Dave Jones
Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 4 ports, IRQ sharing disabled
serial8250: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size 1024 blocksize
loop: loaded (max 8 devices)
Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Driver - version 7.1.9-k4
Copyright (c) 1999-2006 Intel Corporation.
e100: Intel(R) PRO/100 Network Driver, 3.5.10-k2-NAPI
e100: Copyright(c) 1999-2005 Intel Corporation
forcedeth.c: Reverse Engineered nForce ethernet driver. Version 0.54.
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:14.0 to 64
forcedeth: using HIGHDMA
input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard as /class/input/input0
eth0: forcedeth.c: subsystem: 010de:cb84 bound to 0000:00:14.0
PPP generic driver version 2.4.2
tun: Universal TUN/TAP device driver, 1.6
tun: (C) 1999-2004 Max Krasnyansky <maxk@qualcomm.com>
netconsole: not configured, aborting
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
NFORCE-MCP51: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:0d.0
NFORCE-MCP51: chipset revision 161
NFORCE-MCP51: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
NFORCE-MCP51: BIOS didn't set cable bits correctly. Enabling workaround.
NFORCE-MCP51: 0000:00:0d.0 (rev a1) UDMA133 controller
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xffa0-0xffa7, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xffa8-0xffaf, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA
Probing IDE interface ide0...
hda: MAXTOR 6L040J2, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
Probing IDE interface ide1...
hdc: DVD RW DRU-820A, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hdd: SONY CD-ROM CDU5221, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: max request size: 128KiB
hda: 78177792 sectors (40027 MB) w/1818KiB Cache, CHS=65535/16/63, UDMA(133)
hda: cache flushes supported
hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4
hdc: ATAPI 40X DVD-ROM DVD-R-RAM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, UDMA(66)
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
hdd: ATAPI 40X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache, UDMA(33)
megaraid cmm: 2.20.2.6 (Release Date: Mon Mar 7 00:01:03 EST 2005)
megaraid: 2.20.4.8 (Release Date: Mon Apr 11 12:27:22 EST 2006)
megasas: 00.00.02.04 Fri Feb 03 14:31:44 PST 2006
libata version 1.20 loaded.
sata_nv 0000:00:0e.0: version 0.8
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:0e.0 to 64
ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xE800 ctl 0xE482 bmdma 0xE000 irq 5
ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xE400 ctl 0xE082 bmdma 0xE008 irq 5
ata1: SATA link down (SStatus 0)
scsi0 : sata_nv
ata2: SATA link down (SStatus 0)
scsi1 : sata_nv
Fusion MPT base driver 3.03.09
Copyright (c) 1999-2005 LSI Logic Corporation
Fusion MPT SPI Host driver 3.03.09
ieee1394: raw1394: /dev/raw1394 device initialized
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:0b.1 to 64
ehci_hcd 0000:00:0b.1: EHCI Host Controller
ehci_hcd 0000:00:0b.1: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
ehci_hcd 0000:00:0b.1: debug port 1
PCI: cache line size of 64 is not supported by device 0000:00:0b.1
ehci_hcd 0000:00:0b.1: irq 5, io mem 0xfebdfc00
ehci_hcd 0000:00:0b.1: USB 2.0 started, EHCI 1.00, driver 10 Dec 2004
usb usb1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 1-0:1.0: 8 ports detected
ohci_hcd: 2005 April 22 USB 1.1 'Open' Host Controller (OHCI) Driver (PCI)
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:0b.0 to 64
ohci_hcd 0000:00:0b.0: OHCI Host Controller
ohci_hcd 0000:00:0b.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
ohci_hcd 0000:00:0b.0: irq 5, io mem 0xfebde000
usb usb2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 2-0:1.0: 8 ports detected
USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v3.0
usb 2-1: new low speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 2
usb 2-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
usbcore: registered new driver usblp
drivers/usb/class/usblp.c: v0.13: USB Printer Device Class driver
Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage
USB Mass Storage support registered.
input: Microsoft Microsoft USB Wireless Mouse as /class/input/input1
input: USB HID v1.11 Mouse [Microsoft Microsoft USB Wireless Mouse] on usb-0000:00:0b.0-1
usbcore: registered new driver usbhid
drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.6:USB HID core driver
device-mapper: 4.6.0-ioctl (2006-02-17) initialised: dm-devel@redhat.com
Intel 810 + AC97 Audio, version 1.01, 22:54:01 Sep 22 2006
oprofile: using NMI interrupt.
TCP bic registered
NET: Registered protocol family 1
NET: Registered protocol family 10
IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver
NET: Registered protocol family 17
powernow-k8: Found 1 AMD Athlon 64 / Opteron processors (version 1.60.2)
powernow-k8: 0 : fid 0x2 (1000 MHz), vid 0x12 (1100 mV)
powernow-k8: 1 : fid 0xa (1800 MHz), vid 0x6 (1400 mV)
cpu_init done, current fid 0xa, vid 0x6
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
VFS: Mounted root (ext3 filesystem) readonly.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 204k freed
device-mapper: dm-linear: Device lookup failed
device-mapper: error adding target to table
*** repeat above warning ***
EXT3-fs warning: maximal mount count reached, running e2fsck is recommended
EXT3 FS on hda2, internal journal
device-mapper: dm-linear: Device lookup failed
device-mapper: error adding target to table
*** repeat above warning ***
EXT2-fs warning: mounting unchecked fs, running e2fsck is recommended
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3-fs warning: maximal mount count reached, running e2fsck is recommended
EXT3 FS on dm-0, internal journal
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3-fs warning: maximal mount count reached, running e2fsck is recommended
EXT3 FS on dm-1, internal journal
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3-fs warning: maximal mount count reached, running e2fsck is recommended
EXT3 FS on dm-3, internal journal
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3-fs warning: maximal mount count reached, running e2fsck is recommended
EXT3 FS on dm-2, internal journal
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3-fs warning: maximal mount count reached, running e2fsck is recommended
EXT3 FS on dm-4, internal journal
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
eth0: no IPv6 routers present
The warnings still theredevice-mapper: dm-linear: Device lookup failed
device-mapper: error adding target to table
EXT2-fs warning: mounting unchecked fs, running e2fsck is recommended
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3-fs warning: maximal mount count reached, running e2fsck is recommended
EXT3 FS on dm-0, internal journal
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
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# shutdown -h now
System halted but power not off.
I made following tests
1)
Booted "Gentoo install-amd64-minimal-2006-1"
Ran
# shutdown -h now (also tried "poweroff")
System halted but not poweroff
2)
Booted "Knoppix 5"
Ran
# shutdown -h now
System halted and poweroff immediately.
I think it is the problem of Gentoo not hardware.
B.R.
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Hi x86processor,
In "make menuconfig" check what System Type and Processor you have chosen.
AMD-Opteron/Athlon64
General setup ->
System V IPC (checked)
File systems ->
checked follows;
Second extended fs support
Ext2 extended attributes
Ext2 POSIX Access Control List
Ext3 journalling file system support
Ext3 extended attributes
Ext3 POSIX Access Control Lists
ReiserFs support
ReiserFS POSIX Access Control Lists
JFS filesystem support
XFS filesystem support
Inotify file change notification support
Kernel automounter support
Kernel automounter version 4 support (also supports v3)
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System halted but power not off.
...turning the disks off automatically after a system shutdown is a feature of apic. to enable apic you need it configured in your kernel and you must remove the noapic param you currently have set in your kernel boot strings in grub.conf.
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Laptop: 2GHz Acer Aspire 9301AWSMi, 1GB DDR2, 17" TFT, 256MB GeForce Go 6100
Sold Development System: 2GHz AMD Opteron 246, Socket 940 Asus K8N-DL
Server System: 1.2GHz AMD Athlon, Socket 462 Apollo KT133 VT82C686
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AMD-Opteron/Athlon64
Then use arch/x86-64/boot/bzImage. Your i386 image will also run, but, this one should run better and fast.
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Hi x86processor,
Then use arch/x86-64/boot/bzImage. Your i386 image will also run, but, this one should run better and fast.
I did it tks.
My problem is adding "noapic" to /boot/grub/grub.conf...
title=Gentoo Linux 2.6.17-r7-api
root (hd0,0)
kernel (hd0,0)/boot/linux-2.6.17-gentoo-r7-api root=/dev/hda2 noapic
... the line "kernel". Delete it results in mouse pointer hanging.
I just tried it. Previously I made a google search and found it was the problem of xorg. FedoraCore5_64 and Ubuntu_6.0.6_64 also suffer the same problem. I encountered it on running them.
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Hi TrickyRic,
...turning the disks off automatically after a system shutdown is a feature of apic. to enable apic you need it configured in your kernel and you must remove the noapic param you currently have set in your kernel boot strings in grub.conf.
Removing "noapic" param is problem here. I just tested it. The mouse pointer hung immediately after login gnome-light. I have no idea how to solve this problem.
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sounds like a compatibility issue with your motherboard. apic is a great feature but unfortunately some (very few) motherboards handle apic events slightly differently to the standard, thus causing kernel panics. if you really want to use apic all i can suggest is you try a bios update and hope your vender has fixed such issues.
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Laptop: 2GHz Acer Aspire 9301AWSMi, 1GB DDR2, 17" TFT, 256MB GeForce Go 6100
Sold Development System: 2GHz AMD Opteron 246, Socket 940 Asus K8N-DL
Server System: 1.2GHz AMD Athlon, Socket 462 Apollo KT133 VT82C686
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Hi TrickyRic,
....... if you really want to use apic all i can suggest is you try a bios update and hope your vender has fixed such issues. Yes. Before I have been considering update the BIOS of
Asus A8N-VM
However the instruction is for Windows. Unless I specially install WinXP to do the job. Do you know where can I find the relevant steps upgrading BIOS on Linux/Gentoo?
TIA
B.R.
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you shouldn't need any operating system installed to update your bios. most motherboards have a built in update option within bios itself, and all you need at hand is a floppy disk with the latest bios flash image copied to it.
for the record i had similar problems with my asus k8n-dl before i performed a bios update. both acpi events and various nforce4 events were badly handled and caused major kernel panics. i've never had any issues post the update however, and its been a good few month now...
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Laptop: 2GHz Acer Aspire 9301AWSMi, 1GB DDR2, 17" TFT, 256MB GeForce Go 6100
Sold Development System: 2GHz AMD Opteron 246, Socket 940 Asus K8N-DL
Server System: 1.2GHz AMD Athlon, Socket 462 Apollo KT133 VT82C686
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Hi TrickyRic,
you shouldn't need any operating system installed to update your bios. most motherboards have a built in update option within bios itself, and all you need at hand is a floppy disk with the latest bios flash image copied to it.
Mobo - Asus A8N-Vm
OS - Linux Gentoo
I couldn't discover such an option on the BIOS pages. Nor can I discover the relevant procdure on;
http://support.asus.com/technicaldocuments/technicaldocuments.aspx?root=198&SLanguage=en-us
Now I have both BIOS;
- for others
- for DOS
download on BIOS --> BIOS;
http://support.asus.com/download/download.aspx?SLanguage=en-us
(after selecting, motherboard/socket 939/A8N-VM and click "search")
Did no how to proceed further.
B.R.
satimis
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Hi
Further to my late posting;
I got "A8N-VM release BIOS 0702" download, a .zip file download from www.asus.com. I'll decompress it, rename "0702.ROM" as "A8NVM.ROM" (all in CAPITAL) and copy the same on the floppy.
I also found the procedure on "section 2.1.2 of the manual' (page 41, 42, ....)
http://dlsvr01.asus.com/pub/ASUS/mb/socket939/A8N-VM/e2295_a8n-vm.pdf
What I'm most concerned is if something went wrong I can't reverse it back. PC failure to boot will be resulted.
Tks.
B.R.
satimis
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What I'm most concerned is if something went wrong I can't reverse it back. PC failure to boot will be resulted.
...there's always a risk updating bios, but personally i've never had any problems. generally the system will only flash a new bios image if its happy with such file, depending on the flash utility your motherboard uses of course. good luck.
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