FC5 & IBM xSeries 100

[Nicholas Winn]

I don't know the hardware specs you have with that xseries server. I 
have a batch of X 360 IBM servers. To get everything to work properly I 
had to go to a 2.4.9 kernel (only way to see all 16 gigs of mem.).

Karl Larsen wrote:

> Jouni Viikari wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I have installed FC5 to an brand new IBM xSeries 100 type 8486 server.
>> On short trials It seems to work almost normally except:
>>
>> 1)  On boot I always get following messages on console:
>>
>> PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 7 of bridge 0000:00:01.0
>> PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 8 of bridge 0000:00:01.0
>> PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 9 of bridge 0000:00:01.0
>> PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 7 of bridge 0000:00:1c.1
>> PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 8 of bridge 0000:00:1c.1
>> PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 9 of bridge 0000:00:1c.1
>>
>> 2)  On short trial the server seems to work quite normally except when I
>> try to start X.  startx (or gdm at runlevel 5) freezes most of the times
>> (not always) and leaves screen blank and in unusable state.  I still can
>> login to the box through ssh (Server works slowly in this state).
>> Following gets logged during X crash:
>>
>> kernel: [drm] Initialized drm 1.0.1 20051102
>> kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:0a:04.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) ->
>> IRQ 16
>> kernel: [drm] Initialized radeon 1.22.0 20051229 on minor 0
>> kernel: irq 20: nobody cared (try booting with the "irqpoll" option)
>> kernel:  [<c0145ac7>] __report_bad_irq+0x2b/0x69     [<c0145c88>]
>> note_interrupt+0x183/0x1af
>> kernel:  [<c01455f2>] handle_IRQ_event+0x23/0x4c     [<c01456c8>]
>> __do_IRQ+0xad/0xdd
>> kernel:  [<c0105eee>] do_IRQ+0x60/0x7b     =======================
>> kernel:  [<c0104786>] common_interrupt+0x1a/0x20
>> kernel:  [<c0102f65>] mwait_idle+0x1f/0x33     [<c0102f2d>] cpu_idle
>> +0x8f/0xa8
>> kernel:  [<c03c8715>] start_kernel+0x2fe/0x304    <3>handlers:
>> kernel: [<c026e461>] (usb_hcd_irq+0x0/0x50)
>> kernel: Disabling IRQ #20
>>
>> This has happened with every kernel available to FC5 so far.
>>
>> Since this is a box I promised one person to setup as a linux server and
>> it has been already sitting here one month unused, I wonder if anybody
>> knows if it is safe to put it under 'production-use' (If no X is used
>> and just acting as a pure mail/web server)?
>>   
>
>    If the deal is that you will service this server from afar using 
> ssh then I would NEVER turn on X Windows. With ssh you can do all 
> things to this computer so it should be safe.
>
>    If the user looks at the computer you might need X windows to 
> please him.
>
> Karl
>
>
>> I have tried some boot options (e.g. acpi=off pci=noacpi acpi=noirq, but
>> on the kernels I tried they did not help). 
>> Added comments on error #186557
>> BR,
>>
>> Jouni
>>
>>   
>
>


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Nicholas Winn
IT Project Manager
Vacation Express

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