process hangs on 13xx smp kernels

[Jonathan Deitch]

Dave Jones wrote:

>On Wed, Jun 01, 2005 at 01:52:04AM -0400, Jonathan Deitch wrote:
> > Dave Jones wrote:
> > 
> > >On Wed, Jun 01, 2005 at 01:27:24AM -0400, Jonathan Deitch wrote:
> > >
> > >> >if you change the /etc/inittab so it defaults to runlevel 3 instead of 
> > >5,
> > >> >it should stay on the console, instead of starting X.
> > >> >Then, hopefully you'll see something after the nmi watchdog triggers.
> > >> Believe it or not, I just found the solution to this issue ...
> > >> 
> > >> USB Legacy was enabled in the bios, on the suggestion from someone in 
> > >> #Fedora, I disabled this and it fixed the problem.
> > >
> > >Excellent. That setting has caused no end of different problems.
> > >
> > >		Dave
> > >
> > > 
> > >
> > Are we at the point where it needs to be in the Fedora FAQs to simply 
> > disable this, period, prior to installation?  That would solve soooo 
> > many problems, including mine ...
>
>I need to add some more polish to this document..
>http://people.redhat.com/davej/hardware-problems.txt
>
>Which would make for a handy 'readme first' reference for such problems.
>I actually forgot I wrote it. I'll look at making it a bit more
>publically visible.
>
>		Dave
>
>  
>
That is a very handy document.  Handy enough where, IMHO, it needs to be 
in the root directory of the Fedora install cd, labelled "READ ME FIRST" 
... or "IN CASE OF FIRE, READ ME" ... or something similar clever that 
will get someone to actually read it ...

- JD