* Alex @ Avantel Systems <ahv [ at ] avantel [ dot ] ca> [070425 09:02]: > Not AFAIK. What I don't know is when this problem got fixed so if you have an > A8N board that works - let me know which one, please! My motherboard is ASUS A8N5X My saga is documented here... http://www.jukie.net/~bart/blog/rtag/opteron ... but my issues started when I upgraded my CPU to dual core. There is more of it here... http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/11/29/156 http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/12/2/108 One of the replies suggests to add acpi_use_timer_override to your kernel command line. http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/12/2/143 > > Can you try running with noapic noacpi -- they are both kernel options, > > you pass them through grub or lilo. I don't remember which actually > > helps in this situation, but one of them does and the other is not > > harmful. > > Tried that - no joy. You said the installer stops? Or the host freezes/crashes after install is done? Reviewing my blog link above, I seem to have said that at one point I had to disable DRM to have things remain stable. If it crashes for you in the installer, try the text installer. If it crashes later, disable the dri module in your xorg.conf. Section "Module" ... Load "dri" <== remove or comment out this ... EndSection > > That's running 2.6.9 if my memory serves me right. That's a really old > > kernel. > > Yeah, I'm not looking for (b)leading edge - I have other boxes for that :). > I'll go with Centos 5 at some point but it needs time to settle down. Centos 5 may have this fixed. RHEL5 uses 2.6.18, iirc. And I am running... > What would you use for a "production" server? Debian/stable on outward facing servers, Debian/testing on internal servers (nfs, backup, distcc). The ASUS board is running Debian/testing kernel 2.6.18. Mind you, RH and Debian have different patches they apply to Linus' releases. So being fixed in one is not necessarily fixed in the other. -Bart -- WebSig: http://www.jukie.net/~bart/sig/
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