Re: P4/HT and 2.6 kernels...

On Thu, 07 Oct 2004 10:54:45 -0700 Tobias Rice wrote:

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| 
| Randy.Dunlap wrote:
| | On Wed, 06 Oct 2004 15:59:56 -0700 Tobias Rice wrote:
| |
| | |
| | | I have a single cpu laptop P4 with HT. I assumed that when compiling I'd
| | | select SMP and Hyperthreading Support, but it gacks when I try to boot
| | | from the new kernel. Am I wrong to assume I'd use SMP?
| | | I'm using the 2.6.8.1 from kernel.org and the ck8 patch.
| |
| | Yes, you need SMP for HT.  Can you try it without the ck patch?
| | or try 2.6.9-rc3.
| |
| | Define gacks.  any messages?
| |
| By gack I mean all I see is the Loading Linux.....
| ...and the screen goes black.
| 
| I tried many other configurations w/ck and w/o ck and 2.6.9-rc3.
| 2.6.9-rc3 actully booted once and saw "both" cpus. But my nvida driver
| won't compile under 2.6.9-rc3 :(

Kernel driver or external driver?

| Some errors I saw along the way:
| Oct  6 21:24:16 localhost kernel: Dell Inspiron with broken BIOS
| detected. Refusing to enable the local APIC.
| Oct  6 21:24:16 localhost kernel: ACPI: RSDP (v000 DELL
| ~                     ) @ 0x000fdea0
| Oct  6 21:24:16 localhost kernel: ACPI: RSDT (v001 DELL    CPi R
| 0x27d4071e ASL  0x00000061) @ 0x1fff0000
| Oct  6 21:24:16 localhost kernel: ACPI: FADT (v001 DELL    CPi R
| 0x27d4071e ASL  0x00000061) @ 0x1fff0400
| Oct  6 21:24:16 localhost kernel: ACPI: MADT (v001 DELL    CPi R
| 0x27d4071e ASL  0x00000047) @ 0x1fff0c00
| Oct  6 21:24:16 localhost kernel: ACPI: DSDT (v001 INT430 SYSFexxx
| 0x00001001 MSFT 0x0100000e) @ 0x00000000
| Oct  6 21:24:16 localhost kernel: ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x1008
| Oct  6 21:24:16 localhost kernel: ACPI: Local APIC address 0xfee00000
| Oct  6 21:24:16 localhost kernel: ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x00]
| lapic_id[0x00] enabled)
| Oct  6 21:24:16 localhost kernel: Processor #0 15:2 APIC version 20
| Oct  6 21:24:16 localhost kernel: ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x01]
| lapic_id[0x01] enabled)
| Oct  6 21:24:16 localhost kernel: Processor #1 15:2 APIC version 20
| Oct  6 21:24:16 localhost kernel: WARNING: NR_CPUS limit of 1 reached.
| Processor ignored.
| Oct  6 21:24:16 localhost kernel: ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x00] high
| edge lint[0x1])
| Oct  6 21:24:16 localhost kernel: ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x01] high
| edge lint[0x1])
| Oct  6 21:24:16 localhost kernel: ACPI: Skipping IOAPIC probe due to
| 'noapic' option.
| Oct  6 21:24:16 localhost kernel: Built 1 zonelists
| Oct  6 21:24:16 localhost kernel: Kernel command line:
| BOOT_IMAGE=LinuxOLD ro root=1604 noapic video=vesa
| Oct  6 21:24:16 localhost kernel: Initializing CPU#0
| Oct  6 21:24:16 localhost kernel: PID hash table entries: 2048 (order
| 11: 16384 bytes)
| Oct  6 21:24:16 localhost kernel: Detected 3190.523 MHz processor.
| Oct  6 21:24:16 localhost kernel: Using pmtmr for high-res timesource
| Oct  6 21:24:16 localhost kernel: Console: colour dummy device 80x25
| Oct  6 21:24:16 localhost kernel: Dentry cache hash table entries:
| 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
| Oct  6 21:24:16 localhost kernel: Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536
| (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
| Oct  6 21:24:16 localhost kernel: Memory: 513948k/524092k available
| (2845k kernel code, 9388k reserved, 1170k data, 168k init, 0k highmem)
| Oct  6 21:24:16 localhost kernel: Checking if this processor honours the
| WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok.
| Oct  6 21:24:16 localhost kernel: Calibrating delay loop... 6324.22 BogoMIPS
| Oct  6 21:24:16 localhost kernel: Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
| (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
| Oct  6 21:24:16 localhost kernel: CPU: After generic identify, caps:
| bfebfbff 00000000 00000000 00000000
| Oct  6 21:24:16 localhost kernel: CPU: After vendor identify, caps:
| bfebfbff 00000000 00000000 00000000
| Oct  6 21:24:16 localhost kernel: CPU: Trace cache: 12K uops, L1 D cache: 8K
| Oct  6 21:24:16 localhost kernel: CPU: L2 cache: 512K
| Oct  6 21:24:16 localhost kernel: CPU: After all inits, caps:
| bfebfbff 00000000 00000000 00000080
| Oct  6 21:24:16 localhost kernel: Intel machine check architecture
| supported.
| Oct  6 21:24:16 localhost kernel: Intel machine check reporting enabled
| on CPU#0.
| Oct  6 21:24:16 localhost kernel: CPU0: Intel P4/Xeon Extended MCE MSRs
| (12) available
| Oct  6 21:24:16 localhost kernel: CPU: Intel Mobile Intel(R) Pentium(R)
| 4     CPU 3.20GHz stepping 09
| Oct  6 21:24:16 localhost kernel: Enabling fast FPU save and restore...
| done.
| Oct  6 21:24:16 localhost kernel: Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception
| support... done.
| Oct  6 21:24:16 localhost kernel: Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
| 
| 
| After google'n around about the Dell BIOS broken... I forced acpi on by
| commenting out some lines in my
| /usr/src/linux/arc/i386/kernel/dmi_scan.c file and recompiled. I no
| longer get the message. ACPI seem to be working. CPUDyn is working.
| Since smp/ht needs acpi I hoped that editing my source would fix it. I
| checked off the smp/2 and ht in my 2.6.8.1-ck9 .config and recompiled.
| Black screen again, frozen, no errors.
| Arrrrrggg!
| 
| Any suggestions?

Have you looked at http://www.minion.de/ for NVIDIA driver
updates and helpful hints?

This is not an NFORCE2 chipset, is it?
There are some patches floating around for that also.

I don't have any other specific ideas, sorry.

-- 
~Randy