On Monday 03 February 2003 09:47 am, Franklin Maurer wrote:
I've used Suse since 6.2? and have always been impressed by it's reliability. However, ...
A couple weeks ago I did a fresh install of 8.1 (replacing my 8.0) and since then the system freezes up 1-3 times a day. There is no response to keyboard or mouse and I can't telnet in from another computer. ------------snip------------------- Did you update the kernel? This supposedly fixed the problem for most people. I'm not sure of
On Monday 03 February 2003 12:35 pm, Patrick J. Hays wrote: the actual cause of the problem though.
In my case the kernel that shipped w/ SuSE 8.1 had serious problems w/ my via southbridge. It actually worked fine until I started moving my IDE hard drives around while trying to get DMA working. Symptoms were as you report, You can check /var/log/boot.msg to see if your problem is the same Look for an error around this area <4>VP_IDE: chipset revision 6 <4>VP_IDE: not 100%% native mode: will probe irqs later <6>VP_IDE: VIA vt8235 (rev 00) IDE UDMA133 controller on pci00:11.1 If it says something about unrecognized southbridge... <4>VP_IDE: Unknown VIA SouthBridge, contact Vojtech Pavlik then you need the new kernel. (my mb is msi KT333Ultra2, via chipset) SuSE kernel 2.4.19-115 finally fixed it but not before I had totally hosed my system. good luck -- dh Don't shop at GoogleGear.com!