Asus P4PE hangs randomly [solved]

tazdevil · Last edited by tazdevil on Fri Dec 17, 2004 6:06 pm; edited 2 times in total

Hi, I'm new to "Gentoo World", but not totally to Linux.
I just installed from 2004-3 stage 3 (I know it's lame...)

I have a problem with my new installation. My PC freezes after seconds or maybe minutes after init, without warning.
When I say freeze, it means, that the cursor goes on on terminal, but I can't move my mouse when X is loaded or change session or anything else.
These hangs never occured with my old Debian nor with a Knoppix cd.

I assume it's a kernel problem issue with AGP port, but I don't know what I've done wrong

I tried various configuration with agpart and ati files as modules or hard compiled and nothing works. I also make tests without ACPI support but it's not better.

Could someone help me ? I'll provide every log file needed or wathever

My harware configuration :
Asus P4PE (i845 Chipset) BIOS rev 1007
Pentium IV 2.53 GHz
512 Mo SDRAM DDR 3200
Ati Radeon 9000 Pro AGP
Creative Labs Sound Blaster Audigy LS
Hauppauge Wintv PCI-FM
Gyabyte GN-WPKG Wireless Card

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mayday147 · Posted: Fri Dec 17, 2004 2:07 am Post subject: Re: Asus P4PE hangs randomly

tazdevil · Posted: Fri Dec 17, 2004 2:19 am Post subject:

ok, is it better like this ?

And could you tell me how I can find .config file printed smoothly (not like I did ), like in menuconfig ?

mayday147 · Posted: Fri Dec 17, 2004 2:40 am Post subject:

tazdevil · Posted: Fri Dec 17, 2004 2:49 am Post subject:

Here it is :

Cintra · Advocate Joined: 03 Apr 2004 Posts: 2111 Location: Norway

Hei tazdevil

I have the p4pe working beautifully with an nvidia board.. the ati cards seems to be more difficult to set up with linux, is my impression, there are quite a number of ATI threads you could check out.

btw, 'io-apic' caught my eye - my cat /proc/interrupts doesn't have that.

have you tried with pci=noacpi in your boot line? don't ask me... ;-)

mvh

Edit: are you using firewire?
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tazdevil · Posted: Fri Dec 17, 2004 9:55 am Post subject:

Hi Cintra

pci=noacpi ? Yes, I tried but no result, freeze, as usual.

ATI cards works well with Linux, I had a Woody for over a year, same graphic card, same mobo, and it wa great.

I have firewire enbedded but I don't use it at the moment.

I have a SATA backup hard disk, if it can change anything...

tazdevil · Posted: Fri Dec 17, 2004 6:11 pm Post subject:

Finally, after many tries, my problem seems to be solved

I deleted my .config file in kernel dir, configured it again (without framebuffer this time), compiled, boot...
and add agp=noacpi in grub.conf.

Thanks for your help folks

Cintra, my /proc/interrupt still says :

Cintra · Advocate Joined: 03 Apr 2004 Posts: 2111 Location: Norway

That is great news!

And weird about io-apic... I checked my config and see I have apic, ioapic, local_apic, io_apic, you name it, all selected=y too.

Oh well, we learn something every day :-)

regards
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