Errors

[Alexander Dalloz]

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Am Do, den 29.07.2004 schrieb Michael Hart um 2:28:

Please don't "hijack" foreign threads. You already did it with your last
posting - though nobody pointed you to this fact. Hijacking means you
did a reply to the list mail "Re: Convert CDIR notation to IP range" and
your mail contains now referencing header tags. If you want to write a
new subject mail so please don't reply to an existing mail but write a
new one.

> I am using FC2 kernel 2.6.6 on a HP Pavilion.  Can anyone tell me why
I 
> get what seem to be hardware errors on boot.
> 
> The hardware does seem to work but I get freezing screen in X (KDE)
often.
> 
> Jul 27 08:57:30 Jupiter kernel:     ACPI-1133: *** Error: Method 
> execution failed [\_SB_.PCI0.PIB_.SIO0._INI] (Node 0336aea8), 
> AE_AML_UNINITIALIZED_LOCAL
> Jul 27 08:57:30 Jupiter kernel:     ACPI-1133: *** Error: Method 
> execution failed [\_SB_.PCI0.PIB_.SIO0.LPT_._INI] (Node 0336ab28), 
> AE_AML_UNINITIALIZED_LOCAL
> Jul 27 08:57:31 Jupiter kernel: cdrom: open failed.
> Jul 27 08:58:09 Jupiter kernel: hdc: dma_intr: status=0x51 {
DriveReady 
> SeekComplete Error }
> Jul 27 08:58:09 Jupiter kernel: hdc: dma_intr: error=0x84 { 
> DriveStatusError BadCRC }
> Jul 27 08:58:09 Jupiter kernel: hdc: dma_intr: status=0x51 {
DriveReady 
> SeekComplete Error }
> Jul 27 08:58:09 Jupiter kernel: hdc: dma_intr: error=0x84 { 
> DriveStatusError BadCRC }

That are all DMA errors. Seems your chipset on the motherboard is not
well handled for DMA. It is /dev/hdc with the problem. Disable DMA for
that drive. If its making strange noises it is going to die.

> Jul 27 08:58:17 Jupiter kernel: vortex: IRQ reg error
> Jul 27 08:58:18 Jupiter last message repeated 2 times

The audio card has an IRQ problem.

> I thought it could be interrupt problems
> 
> [root at Jupiter proc]# cat interrupts
>             CPU0
>    0:  177784232          XT-PIC  timer
>    1:      13466          XT-PIC  i8042
>    2:          0          XT-PIC  cascade
>    4:        578          XT-PIC  serial
>    8:          1          XT-PIC  rtc
>    9:      14366          XT-PIC  acpi, uhci_hcd, au8810
>   11:    2034767          XT-PIC  eth0
>   12:    1410826          XT-PIC  i8042
>   14:     207154          XT-PIC  ide0
>   15:    6401853          XT-PIC  ide1
> NMI:          0
> ERR:          1
> [root at Jupiter proc]#

Looks ok. IRQ sharing on IRQ 9 is "normal" with ACPI active. If you like
you can experiment with "acpi=off" as kernel boot parameter whether that
changes anything of the observed effects.

> Both my video card and network card appear to be sharing interrupt 11 
> but the video card is not showing up in the above list.

What kind of graphics card do you have and which driver set up for it?

Alexander


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