[ale] Lockups

[Tejus Parikh]

I had a similar problem that resulted from the NVIDIA graphics driver
not cooperating nicely with local APIC.  You can disable it in the
kernel config, under processor options.  Once I did that, my uptime
under linux went from a few minutes - a few hours to more than three
months.  


On Wed, 2004-09-29 at 09:37, David Corbin wrote:
> I have Dell Dimesnion 4600 that dual boots as WIndows XP and Gentoo Linux 
> (desktop), running Kernel 2.6.7.  It seems to suffer "random lockups", most 
> often during the 'startup process".  The system is entirely frozen an 
> unresponsive -- no mouse, not keyboard input.  no switching virtual screens.  
> And the disk-activity light is 'on solid'.  OTOH, usually  if I can get 
> booted, I can run for hours, or a day without any problems.  Unfortunately, 
> it runs pretty well under WIndows, considering the OS.  FWIW, the two OSes 
> are on different physical drives.
> 
> I'm looking for suggestions on how to diagnose the root cause.
> 
> Thanks
> David
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