FC 3 and Kernel Lock or Hang
Dave Jones
davej at redhat.com
Wed Jan 5 18:01:38 UTC 2005
On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 07:01:58PM +0100, Dag Wieers wrote:
> On Tue, 4 Jan 2005, Alan Cox wrote:
>
> > I did find it very sensitive to BIOS version, PCI cards and also RAM quality.
> > And finally except for very recent Tyan BIOSes you need a PS/2 mouse connected
> > to avoid IDE lockups
>
> You must be kidding ? This may as well have caused a lot of frustration...
> I removed everything from the system, and still ocassionally had it lock
> up for no apparent reason.
>
> Do you have more information about this bug and is there some way I could
> have found out it was ps/2 mouse myself ?
Theres an errata on early versions of some AMD chipsets.
This should be handled correctly by the current kernels
without the need for the PS/2 mouse workaround.
Dave
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