FC3 and Dell 2850

[Stephen Carville]

Just a heads up.

I have three Dell 2850's with Dual Xeon processors and 2G RAM on which I 
have installed Fedora Core 3.  All three will lock up when I start 
either twm or xfce along with the SMP kernel (2.6.11-1.14 and 
2.6.11-1.35) and try to drag anything with the mouse.  If I run the 
non-SMP kernel everything appears to be fine.  The error reported on the 
dell LCD is C070 which support tells me is a hardware processor error. 
Dell asked me to return one of the machines to their engineering 
department so I guess they are taking it seriously.  Unfortunately the 
replacement they sent has the same problem.

This only happens if I start the graphics at the console.  So far the 
machines work fine in runlevel 3 and VNC is unaffected.

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Stephen Carville <stephen at totalflood.com>
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