Problem with linux

Anthony J. Gabrielson agabriel at coe.neu.edu
Wed Aug 25 09:27:05 EDT 1999


Hello,
	What kind of proccessor do you have?  I put linux up on a cryix
300 once and compilied the kernel for a pentium - and it had similar
results.  Have you tried compiling you kernel for a 386?

Just a thought,
Anthony

On Tue, 24 Aug 1999, Jerry Feldman {75562} wrote:

> I'm just grasping at straws here. I would suggest you try a few things:
> First, go back to an earlier kernel. If you have the sources, say, 2.2.10 or
> earlier, try building it with the same configuration. 
> 
> Also, I don't think your problem is related to X or graphics since you have
> a problem in command line. You could try to crash the system from single
> user mode, but that might be a bit harder. 
> 
> I would also look at the IRQs you have assigned. You could have an IRQ
> conflict. I don't recall what command line utilities are available to list
> IRQs, but the KDE control panel has this capability. 
> 
> You could also have a board without a driver generating a spurious
> interrupt, a bad driver, or whatever. Do the quickest things first, which is
> probably booting a backup kernel. 
> 
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