process hangs on 13xx smp kernels

[Dave Jones]

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