Constant Freezing
Hello all,
I knew to Mepis and I'm also somewhat new to linux. I heard good reviews from this distribution, So I decided to try it. However everytime I come back to my pc after a 30 min or so extent from being away from it, It's completely frozen. So I'm posting my DMESG in hopes that someone can provide me with some help. Please let me know if you guys notice any issue. I have ran MEMTEST and yes I had quite a bit of memory errors. Please Help!!
***DMESG***
[17179569.184000] Linux version 2.6.15-26-386 (root@mepis-party) (gcc version 4.0.3 (Ubuntu 4.0.3-1ubuntu5)) #1 PREEMPT Wed Jul 19 12:14:26 EDT 2006
[17179569.184000] BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
[17179569.184000] BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
[17179569.184000] BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
[17179569.184000] BIOS-e820: 00000000000ec000 - 00000000000f0000 (ACPI NVS)
[17179569.184000] BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
[17179569.184000] BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 0000000040000000 (usable)
[17179569.184000] BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec01000 (reserved)
[17179569.184000] BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee01000 (reserved)
[17179569.184000] BIOS-e820: 00000000fffc0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
[17179569.184000] 128MB HIGHMEM available.
[17179569.184000] 896MB LOWMEM available.
[17179569.184000] On node 0 totalpages: 262144
[17179569.184000] DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch:0
[17179569.184000] DMA32 zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:0
[17179569.184000] Normal zone: 225280 pages, LIFO batch:31
[17179569.184000] HighMem zone: 32768 pages, LIFO batch:7
[17179569.184000] DMI 2.3 present.
[17179569.184000] ACPI: RSDP (v000 COMPAQ ) @ 0x000ec010
[17179569.184000] ACPI: RSDT (v001 COMPAQ HAWA7K21 0x00010921 0x00000000) @ 0x000ec080
[17179569.184000] ACPI: FADT (v001 COMPAQ HAWA7K21 0x00010921 0x00000000) @ 0x000ec0d0
[17179569.184000] ACPI: SSDT (v001 COMPAQ HAWA7K2 0x00000001 MSFT 0x0100000c) @ 0x000ec281
[17179569.184000] ACPI: MADT (v001 COMPAQ HAWA7K21 0x00010921 0x00000000) @ 0x000ec144
[17179569.184000] ACPI: DSDT (v001 COMPAQ DSDTTBL 0x00000001 MSFT 0x0100000c) @ 0x00000000
[17179569.184000] ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0xee08
[17179569.184000] ACPI: Local APIC address 0xfee00000
[17179569.184000] ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x00] lapic_id[0x00] enabled)
[17179569.184000] Processor #0 6:6 APIC version 16
[17179569.184000] ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x00] low edge lint[0x1])
[17179569.184000] ACPI: IOAPIC (id[0x01] address[0xfec00000] gsi_base[0])
[17179569.184000] IOAPIC[0]: apic_id 1, version 17, address 0xfec00000, GSI 0-23
[17179569.184000] ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 0 global_irq 2 low edge)
[17179569.184000] ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 9 global_irq 9 low level)
[17179569.184000] ACPI: IRQ0 used by override.
[17179569.184000] ACPI: IRQ2 used by override.
[17179569.184000] ACPI: IRQ9 used by override.
[17179569.184000] Enabling APIC mode: Flat. Using 1 I/O APICs
[17179569.184000] Using ACPI (MADT) for SMP configuration information
[17179569.184000] Allocating PCI resources starting at 50000000 (gap: 40000000:bec00000)
[17179569.184000] Built 1 zonelists
[17179569.184000] Kernel command line: root=/dev/hda1 nomce quiet vga=791
[17179569.184000] mapped APIC to ffffd000 (fee00000)
[17179569.184000] mapped IOAPIC to ffffc000 (fec00000)
[17179569.184000] Initializing CPU#0
[17179569.184000] PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 12, 65536 bytes)
[17179569.184000] Detected 1524.394 MHz processor.
[17179569.184000] Using pmtmr for high-res timesource
[17179569.184000] Console: colour dummy device 80x25
[17179572.744000] Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
[17179572.748000] Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
[17179572.788000] Memory: 1034772k/1048576k available (2633k kernel code, 13228k reserved, 929k data, 192k init, 131072k highmem)
[17179572.788000] Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok.
[17179572.872000] Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 3051.47 BogoMIPS (lpj=6102943)
[17179572.872000] Security Framework v1.0.0 initialized
[17179572.872000] SELinux: Disabled at boot.
[17179572.872000] Capability LSM initialized
[17179572.872000] Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
[17179572.872000] CPU: After generic identify, caps: 0383fbff c1cbfbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
[17179572.872000] CPU: After vendor identify, caps: 0383fbff c1cbfbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
[17179572.872000] CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line), D cache 64K (64 bytes/line)
[17179572.872000] CPU: L2 Cache: 256K (64 bytes/line)
[17179572.872000] CPU: After all inits, caps: 0383fbff c1cbfbff 00000000 00000420 00000000 00000000 00000000
[17179572.872000] mtrr: v2.0 (20020519)
[17179572.872000] CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1800 stepping 02
[17179572.872000] Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
[17179572.872000] Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
[17179572.872000] Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
[17179572.892000] ACPI: Looking for DSDT ... not found!
[17179572.896000] ENABLING IO-APIC IRQs
[17179572.896000] ..TIMER: vector=0x31 apic1=0 pin1=2 apic2=-1 pin2=-1
[17179573.040000] NET: Registered protocol family 16
[17179573.040000] ACPI: bus type pci registered
[17179573.048000] PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfa164, last bus=1
[17179573.048000] PCI: Using configuration type 1
[17179573.048000] ACPI: Subsystem revision 20051216
[17179573.056000] ACPI: Interpreter enabled
[17179573.056000] ACPI: Using IOAPIC for interrupt routing
[17179573.056000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs *3 4 5 6 7 10 11 15)
[17179573.056000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 3 4 *5 6 7 10 11 15)
[17179573.056000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 *10 11 15)
[17179573.056000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 *11 15)
[17179573.056000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [VLKC] (IRQs 3 5 7 10 11) *255, disabled.
[17179573.056000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [VLKD] (IRQs 3 5 7 10 *11), disabled.
[17179573.056000] ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (0000:00)
[17179573.056000] PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
[17179573.056000] ACPI: Assume root bridge [\_SB_.PCI0] bus is 0
[17179573.060000] PCI quirk: region ec00-ec0f claimed by vt82c686 SMB
[17179573.060000] Boot video device is 0000:01:05.0
[17179573.060000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT]
[17179573.068000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.AGPB._PRT]
[17179573.068000] Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay
[17179573.068000] pnp: PnP ACPI init
[17179573.072000] pnp: PnP ACPI: found 12 devices
[17179573.072000] PnPBIOS: Disabled by ACPI PNP
[17179573.072000] SCSI subsystem initialized
[17179573.072000] usbcore: registered new driver usbfs
[17179573.072000] usbcore: registered new driver hub
[17179573.072000] PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing
[17179573.072000] PCI: If a device doesn't work, try "pci=routeirq". If it helps, post a report
[17179573.108000] pnp: 00:0b: ioport range 0x4d0-0x4d1 has been reserved
[17179573.108000] pnp: 00:0b: ioport range 0xee00-0xee7f could not be reserved
[17179573.108000] pnp: 00:0b: ioport range 0xee80-0xeeff has been reserved
[17179573.108000] PCI: Failed to allocate mem resource #6:10000@90000000 for 0000:01:05.0
[17179573.108000] PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:01.0
[17179573.108000] IO window: disabled.
[17179573.108000] MEM window: 80000000-80ffffff
[17179573.108000] PREFETCH window: 88000000-8fffffff
[17179573.108000] Machine check exception polling timer started.
[17179573.112000] audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled)
[17179573.112000] audit(1157893072.112:1): initialized
[17179573.112000] highmem bounce pool size: 64 pages
[17179573.112000] VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1
[17179573.112000] Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
[17179573.112000] squashfs: version 3.0prerelease (2006/1/24) Phillip Lougher
[17179573.112000] NTFS driver 2.1.25 [Flags: R/W].
[17179573.112000] Registering unionfs 1.1.2
[17179573.112000] Initializing Cryptographic API
[17179573.112000] io scheduler noop registered
[17179573.112000] io scheduler anticipatory registered
[17179573.112000] io scheduler deadline registered
[17179573.112000] io scheduler cfq registered
[17179573.112000] PCI: Enabling Via external APIC routing
[17179573.112000] vesafb: framebuffer at 0x88000000, mapped to 0xf8880000, using 3072k, total 65536k
[17179573.112000] vesafb: mode is 1024x768x16, linelength=2048, pages=0
[17179573.112000] vesafb: protected mode interface info at c000:c2c0
[17179573.112000] vesafb: scrolling: redraw
[17179573.112000] vesafb: Truecolor: size=0:5:6:5, shift=0:11:5:0
[17179573.112000] vesafb: Mode is VGA compatible
[17179573.208000] Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 128x48
[17179573.208000] fb0: VESA VGA frame buffer device
[17179573.208000] isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
[17179573.520000] isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
[17179573.536000] Non-volatile memory driver v1.2
[17179573.536000] PNP: PS/2 Controller [PNP0303:KBD,PNP0f0e:PS2M] at 0x60,0x64 irq 1,12
[17179573.536000] serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
[17179573.536000] serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
[17179573.536000] Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 48 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
[17179573.536000] serial8250: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
[17179573.540000] 00:02: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
[17179573.540000] RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 65536K size 1024 blocksize
[17179573.540000] loop: loaded (max 8 devices)
[17179573.540000] Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
[17179573.540000] ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
[17179573.540000] VP_IDE: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:14.1
[17179573.540000] VP_IDE: chipset revision 6
[17179573.540000] VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
[17179573.540000] VP_IDE: VIA vt82c686b (rev 40) IDE UDMA100 controller on pci0000:00:14.1
[17179573.540000] ide0: BM-DMA at 0x1460-0x1467, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
[17179573.540000] ide1: BM-DMA at 0x1468-0x146f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA
[17179573.540000] Probing IDE interface ide0...
[17179574.016000] hda: WDC WD1000BB-60CCB0, ATA DISK drive
[17179574.296000] hdb: WDC WD2500JB-00FUA0, ATA DISK drive
[17179574.352000] ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
[17179574.356000] Probing IDE interface ide1...
[17179575.220000] hdc: SONY DVD RW DRU-710A, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
[17179576.004000] hdd: _NEC CD-RW NR-7800A, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
[17179576.072000] ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
[17179576.072000] hda: max request size: 128KiB
[17179576.092000] hda: 195371568 sectors (100030 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=65535/16/63, UDMA(100)
[17179576.092000] hda: cache flushes not supported
[17179576.092000] hda: hda1 hda2 hda3
[17179576.116000] hdb: max request size: 1024KiB
[17179576.132000] hdb: 488397168 sectors (250059 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=30401/255/63, UDMA(100)
[17179576.132000] hdb: cache flushes supported
[17179576.132000] hdb: hdb1 hdb2
[17179576.144000] hdc: ATAPI 48X DVD-ROM DVD-R CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache
[17179576.144000] Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
[17179576.148000] hdd: ATAPI 40X CD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, DMA
[17179576.148000] ACPI: bus type scsi registered
[17179576.148000] libata version 1.20 loaded.
[17179576.148000] Driver 'sd' needs updating - please use bus_type methods
[17179576.148000] ieee1394: Initialized config rom entry `ip1394'
[17179576.148000] ieee1394: raw1394: /dev/raw1394 device initialized
[17179576.148000] sbp2: $Rev: 1306 $ Ben Collins
[17179576.148000] ieee1394: sbp2: Driver forced to serialize I/O (serialize_io=1)
[17179576.148000] ieee1394: sbp2: Try serialize_io=0 for better performance
[17179576.148000] usbmon: debugfs is not available
[17179576.148000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:09.2[C] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 169
[17179576.148000] ehci_hcd 0000:00:09.2: EHCI Host Controller
[17179576.172000] ehci_hcd 0000:00:09.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
[17179576.172000] ehci_hcd 0000:00:09.2: irq 169, io mem 0x81200000
[17179576.172000] ehci_hcd 0000:00:09.2: USB 2.0 started, EHCI 0.95, driver 10 Dec 2004
[17179576.172000] hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
[17179576.172000] hub 1-0:1.0: 5 ports detected
[17179576.276000] Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
[17179576.276000] usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage
[17179576.276000] USB Mass Storage support registered.
[17179576.276000] mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
[17179576.276000] NET: Registered protocol family 2
[17179576.312000] IP route cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
[17179576.312000] TCP established hash table entries: 262144 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes)
[17179576.312000] TCP bind hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
[17179576.316000] TCP: Hash tables configured (established 262144 bind 65536)
[17179576.316000] TCP reno registered
[17179576.316000] ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team
[17179576.352000] TCP bic registered
[17179576.352000] NET: Registered protocol family 1
[17179576.352000] NET: Registered protocol family 8
[17179576.352000] NET: Registered protocol family 20
[17179576.352000] Using IPI Shortcut mode
[17179576.352000] ACPI wakeup devices:
[17179576.352000] PBTN PCI0 USB0 USB1
[17179576.352000] ACPI: (supports S0 S1 S3 S4 S5)
[17179576.360000] EXT3-fs: INFO: recovery required on readonly filesystem.
[17179576.360000] EXT3-fs: write access will be enabled during recovery.
[17179576.504000] EXT3-fs: hda1: orphan cleanup on readonly fs
[17179576.504000] ext3_orphan_cleanup: deleting unreferenced inode 944751
[17179576.504000] ext3_orphan_cleanup: deleting unreferenced inode 944750
[17179576.504000] ext3_orphan_cleanup: deleting unreferenced inode 944748
[17179576.504000] ext3_orphan_cleanup: deleting unreferenced inode 944749
[17179576.504000] ext3_orphan_cleanup: deleting unreferenced inode 944726
[17179576.504000] ext3_orphan_cleanup: deleting unreferenced inode 944725
[17179576.504000] ext3_orphan_cleanup: deleting unreferenced inode 944747
[17179576.504000] ext3_orphan_cleanup: deleting unreferenced inode 944746
[17179576.504000] ext3_orphan_cleanup: deleting unreferenced inode 944736
[17179576.504000] EXT3-fs: hda1: 9 orphan inodes deleted
[17179576.504000] EXT3-fs: recovery complete.
[17179576.504000] kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
[17179576.504000] EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
[17179576.504000] VFS: Mounted root (ext3 filesystem) readonly.
[17179576.504000] Freeing unused kernel memory: 192k freed
[17179577.168000] EXT3 FS on hda1, internal journal
[17179581.216000] Adding 976552k swap on /dev/hda2. Priority:1 extents:1 across:976552k
[17179581.992000] EXT3 FS on hda1, internal journal
[17179585.172000] ohci_hcd: 2005 April 22 USB 1.1 'Open' Host Controller (OHCI) Driver (PCI)
[17179585.172000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:09.0[A] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 177
[17179585.172000] ohci_hcd 0000:00:09.0: OHCI Host Controller
[17179585.172000] ohci_hcd 0000:00:09.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
[17179585.172000] ohci_hcd 0000:00:09.0: irq 177, io mem 0x81000000
[17179585.336000] 8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.27
[17179585.752000] hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
[17179585.752000] hub 2-0:1.0: 3 ports detected
[17179585.928000] pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5
[17179586.156000] Linux agpgart interface v0.101 (c) Dave Jones
[17179586.188000] shpchp: HPC vendor_id 1022 device_id 700f ss_vid 0 ss_did 0
[17179586.188000] shpchp: shpc_init: cannot reserve MMIO region
[17179586.224000] USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v2.3
[17179586.280000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:09.1[B] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 185
[17179586.280000] ohci_hcd 0000:00:09.1: OHCI Host Controller
[17179586.280000] ohci_hcd 0000:00:09.1: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3
[17179586.280000] ohci_hcd 0000:00:09.1: irq 185, io mem 0x81100000
[17179586.320000] Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
[17179586.368000] FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
[17179586.420000] parport_pc: VIA 686A/8231 detected
[17179586.420000] parport_pc: probing current configuration
[17179586.420000] parport_pc: Current parallel port base: 0x378
[17179586.420000] parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778), irq 7, using FIFO [PCSPP,TRISTATE,COMPAT,ECP]
[17179586.516000] parport_pc: VIA parallel port: io=0x378, irq=7
[17179586.608000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:07.0[A] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 193
[17179587.164000] hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found
[17179587.164000] hub 3-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
[17179587.420000] gameport: EMU10K1 is pci0000:00:07.1/gameport0, io 0x1470, speed 1242kHz
[17179587.608000] Real Time Clock Driver v1.12
[17179587.632000] input: PC Speaker as /class/input/input0
[17179587.680000] PCI: Enabling device 0000:00:0a.0 (0004 -> 0007)
[17179587.680000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:0a.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 185
[17179587.680000] eth0: RealTek RTL8139 at 0xf8840000, 00:30:f1:14:bd:c3, IRQ 185
[17179587.680000] eth0: Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8139C'
[17179587.684000] shpchp: Standard Hot Plug PCI Controller Driver version: 0.4
[17179587.684000] **** SET: Misaligned resource pointer: f7739a22 Type 07 Len 0
[17179587.684000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [VLKD] disabled and referenced, BIOS bug.
[17179587.684000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [VLKD] enabled at IRQ 11
[17179587.684000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:14.2[D] -> Link [VLKD] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
[17179587.684000] uhci_hcd 0000:00:14.2: UHCI Host Controller
[17179587.684000] uhci_hcd 0000:00:14.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 4
[17179587.684000] uhci_hcd 0000:00:14.2: irq 11, io base 0x00001420
[17179587.684000] hub 4-0:1.0: USB hub found
[17179587.684000] hub 4-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
[17179587.788000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:14.3[D] -> Link [VLKD] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
[17179587.788000] uhci_hcd 0000:00:14.3: UHCI Host Controller
[17179587.788000] uhci_hcd 0000:00:14.3: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 5
[17179587.788000] uhci_hcd 0000:00:14.3: irq 11, io base 0x00001440
[17179587.788000] hub 5-0:1.0: USB hub found
[17179587.788000] hub 5-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
[17179587.788000] lp0: using parport0 (interrupt-driven).
[17179587.908000] vt596_smbus 0000:00:14.4: SMBUS: Error: Host SMBus controller not enabled! - upgrade BIOS or use force=1
[17179587.960000] via686a 0000:00:14.4: base address not set - upgrade BIOS or use force_addr=0xaddr
[17179588.108000] agpgart: Detected AMD 761 chipset
[17179588.116000] agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0x90000000
[17179588.284000] usb 5-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2
[17179588.428000] hub 5-1:1.0: USB hub found
[17179588.428000] hub 5-1:1.0: 3 ports detected
[17179588.776000] usb 5-2: new low speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 3
[17179589.160000] usb 5-1.1: new low speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 4
[17179589.308000] usbcore: registered new driver hiddev
[17179589.332000] input: Microsoft Microsoft Wheel Mouse Optical® as /class/input/input1
[17179589.332000] input: USB HID v1.00 Mouse [Microsoft Microsoft Wheel Mouse Optical®] on usb-0000:00:14.3-2
[17179589.352000] input: Chicony Compaq Internet Keyboard as /class/input/input2
[17179589.352000] input: USB HID v1.10 Keyboard [Chicony Compaq Internet Keyboard] on usb-0000:00:14.3-1.1
[17179589.400000] input: Chicony Compaq Internet Keyboard as /class/input/input3
[17179589.400000] input,hiddev96: USB HID v1.10 Device [Chicony Compaq Internet Keyboard] on usb-0000:00:14.3-1.1
[17179589.400000] usbcore: registered new driver usbhid
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[17179592.364000] cdrom: open failed.
[17179592.912000] powernow-k8: Processor cpuid 662 not supported
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[17179596.484000] ibm_acpi: ec object not found
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Memory errors
Are likely the cause of your problems. You might list your hardware specs to see if anyone knows of other problems with your rig.
jim
Memory Errors
Well im using a AMD 1800 athlon. One thing I find wierd is that it says my processor is unknown when i type "uname -p" is that suppose to happen? My graphic card is a 128 bit nVIDIA MX/MX 400. Also my card seems to lock up when I try and display OPENGL. How can I fix memory errors if that is the case? I'm really at a loss.
Linux StormX 2.6.15-26-386 #1 PREEMPT Wed Jul 19 12:14:26 EDT 2006 i686 GNU/Linux
nvidia??
do you have the official nvidia driver enabled???
to see if that is the culprit, let's see if the problem occurs with the open source nv driver as well. To set the X server to use nv:
- open terminal
- cd /etc/X11
- su (enter and password)
- kedit xorg.conf
- find 'nvidia' (driver line), and change to 'nv'
- save and reboot.
Try this for a couple of days. If the problems have gone away, keep using the nv driver, or, if you definitely want the official driver, come back for some tips.
Newbie or not Newbie, there's always a question
Memory Errors
When you run memtest it tests the physical memory in your rig and errors indicate bad connections bad memory in short its not a good thing. If you have other memory you might test it , no errors at all is preferred. All kinds of strange things happen with bad memory and that kind of thing should be avoided and its a problem that should be solved for reliable computing.
jim
RE: nvidia??
It appears that I have the official driver.
**ENTRY FROM XORG.CONF***
Section "Device"
Identifier "Card0"
Driver "nv"
BoardName "unknown"
RE: Memory Errors
Jim,
So basically I need to go out and buy more ram? Last test was 2 days ago, and I let it run for 9 hours. I seen over 1400 memory errors. No way to fix this?
RE: Memory Errors
" So basically I need to go out and buy more ram? "
Looks that way did you reset and retest the ram to make sure it was seated with no obvious problems? 1400 memory errors is a bunch! DO you have more than one stick if so you might try them one at a time to see if any is good . If your board permits you might try moving them around to check for bad slots allso. Other than that if tests remain bad off that stuff.
jim
RE: Memory Errors
Jim,
Ok..Unfortunately at this time I do not have more ram, however I do have multiple ram slots on my mobo. So I will try and remove one to test each. If I do find out it's the RAM it may be a few before I can purchase new. Heh raising a family on one salary.. I gotta pick and choose my battles well
I will be sure to let you know my findings, Thank you for your quick responses.
RE: Memory Errors
Yeah i hear you that stuff dont grow on trees ! By the way what kind of board do you have ? After thinking a bit i suppose it could be other things too like bad capacitor-s or flaky power supply. If its got some age on it you might want to look it over good.
jim
correct driver
**ENTRY FROM XORG.CONF***
Section "Device"
Identifier "Card0"
Driver "nv"
BoardName "unknown"
You have the open source driver, so the graphics should not be the problem. It explains though why OpenGL is flaky, since the nv driver uses the Open GL software emulation in the X server.
Newbie or not Newbie, there's always a question
Freezes
Another thing i have had problems with is case fans attached to motherboard headers. If you have one disconnecting it for a test . I had a bad one like that a while back pulling voltage down on the board to the point it was super flaky after disconnecting the fan the board returned to normal. Tracking down these kinds of problems can be a pita at times,you just have to try anything you can think of to eliminate good from bad. Good luck!
jim
Freezes
Jim,
My board is about 5 years old. I was getting errors with windows as well. I had quite a bit of physical dumps, and then my system would reboot. So then I went and ran a memtest, and that in lies my problem. Way too many errors..
About 5 years old?
About 5 years old?
Say, check the caps on that motherboard and make sure they don't look anything like this:
If they do, you're in for a bit of a repair, and replacing memory probably won't do you much good.
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I'm Back
Ok fellas I'm up and running again. Thank god my mobo looks nothing like that. I am quite happy to let you guys know I bought more RAM yesterday and installed it and so far no more memdumps or memory errors. I let it run 1 pass through my memory and no errors recovered
) So now I'm a happy camper. Now if I can only figure out where my desktop taskbar went?? 
Laughs
Glad to see that it was the
Glad to see that it was the easier of the two possibilities.
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Missing Task Bar
I'm sorry neostorm. If you forgot to backup your taskbar from RAM prior to swapping it out, that's your own problem
Actually, is it hidden? Do you have either a small, vertical box on the bottom right or left of your screen? If so, press it and see if the task bar is re-displayed. If it does pop back up, right-click on it and choose Configure Taskbar. Next, choose the Layout button to the left, and finally the Hiding tab on the right. You may want to make changes in the "Hide Mode" or "Panel-Hiding Buttons" sections.
If that doesn't help, then there may be some other things to try, but I can't thing of any at the moment
Jon
Missing Task Bar
Jon Du,
Nah I would have noticed that. I completely closed the taskbar. All I need to know is the shortcut name for the taskbar and I can use "run" to open however I can't for the life of me remember, but I'll get there hopefully.
That would be the kicker, I
That would be the kicker, I believe.
Possible File
Yeah, one of the files you might want to examine and edit is /home/youraccount/.kde/share/config/kickerrc
I noticed that there were a couple referrences to "Hide"ing variables in the file, so you might make a copy and then modify it.
Let us know what you find out. I could have sworn that someone ran into this exact problem a couple months ago!
Jon
Missing Task Bar
Try moving the mouse over to the extreme left and down . If it pops up you probably forgot to click open when mouse at bottom instead of left bottom . In whitch case right click desktop hit the hiding tab &click on unhide when mouse hits bottom of screen.
jim
Kicker
Ok guys figured out how to do it. Through some testing. All you have to do is if you lose your kicker, do this
Alt+F2 then type "panel" in the box and boom all you needed to do then you can configure it from there. Next step is to learn how to build my own kernel
this is going to be SCARY!!
Next steps
Alt+F2 then type "panel" in the box and boom all you needed to do then you can configure it from there. Next step is to learn how to build my own kernel
this is going to be SCARY!!
Right. After configuring the toolbar, you're definitely ready for the kernel.
Now get in there, champ.
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ASUS A8V Deluxe
512 MB RAM
ATI Radeon 9200 AGP (ATI sucks don't buy their products)
80 Gig Maxtor Drive (the 60 Gig Maxtor died)
Next Steps
Glad your so confident, I'm seem to lack that faith..
I'm Still Waiting!
Look neostorm I don't have all day. You said you were going to build a new kernel now WHERE IS IT?? You've had at least 12 hours to do this. Quit slacking!
And if you loose that kicker bar one more time you're outa here
Actually, glad you found the fix and posted it. It will help others!
Jon
RE:Still Waiting
Ok kernel compiled however it doesnt let me boot into it from grub, and yes I added it to grub. if you dont use a debian based kernel you shouldn't need the debian packages right?
RE:Still Waiting
"Ok kernel compiled however it doesnt let me boot into it from grub, and yes I added it to grub. if you dont use a debian based kernel you shouldn't need the debian packages right?"
Can you explain what you mean by not needing Debian packages? Im not sure if i follow your thinking . You are running a Debian system and you will need corresponding modules and packages.
jim
Compiling Kernel
Jim,
Yesterday, I spent a long time trying to build a kernel. The kernel did install, however when I booted into it I had no keyboard and mouse support. Hell I can't even create a bzImage. I followed mepis kernel guide down to the periods, and nothing was working for me. Do you happen to know of any good kernel guides for upgrading your kernel? Also does patching work the same way as upgrading? Like if I patch my current 2.6.15.26 will it display as the new version in uname? Apparently I just need some real helpful guides to building a kernel. I'm usually pretty good at teaching myself stuff, However I'm getting frustrated on not being able to find a good kernel walk-thru.
Completely Frustrated!
neostorm
Why, do you want to upgrade..
Why, do you want to upgrade your kernel? If I knew why then I may be able to help.
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Compiling Kernel
It would appear you left out the particular functions in the build list that you need. And allso im wondering why you want to compile a new kernel when Warren has provided several allready built for most any need with modules that match.
If you are just doing it to learn there are how tos at debian.org that should explain most of the steps in detail. Debian is a very fast moving target lately so documentation is usually dated no matter where you get it.
In most cases like mepis recompiling the kernel is done to add missing pieces for hardware and the original build list is just added to with what ever you function thats needed. The options in the build list is mind boggling by the way only serious geeks will understand half of the options . I gave up on it for that reason. Its damn near impossible to build a kernel from scratch if you dont know what the options are referring to and there are a bunch lately as the kernel gets bigger and bigger.
If you will post what your trying to do someone can surely point the way.
jim
The Reason Why
Jim,
Well the main reason is because I'm big into development, I work for a software educational firm known as Scholastic and I love working in linux. Already I have learned a ton on n?x. I've only really been working on it for a couple of weeks. I love learning new things and I'm really knowledgeable when it comes to my hardware. I know I can build a kernel, It's not that difficult it just takes trial & error. Once I complete one it will be like riding a bike. I'm just trying to figure out why when I do a "make bzImage" does it not make me a bzImage. Or when you upgrade your kernel via the instructions on mepis why it doesnt work for me. I love cutting edge so updating my OS is something I feel I need to learn for me to be happy with myself. It's my way of self-evaluating. I am a sponge I must absorb