Via EPIA Mini-ITX Motherboard & SuSE 9.2 locking up.
Just a bit of information relating to VIA EPIA Mini-ITX Motherboard and lockups when running SuSE 9.2. I've been having problems with SuSE 9.2 on a VIA EPIA Mini-ITX Motherboard. SuSE 9.2 would either lockup solid during the boot process or if I managed to login it would lockup when running programs like MC or YaST. I initially thought the problem was memory related. But after running the memory test for a day ruled that out. I appear to have isolated the problem to the power management package. I'm still testing but when the powermanagement is disabled I have yet to have it lockup on me. I'll repost if I find out further details. -- Regards, Graham Smith ---------------------------------------------------------
I have a similiar problem with myepia motherboard. I have an older version. of the motherboard, it is a 933 Hhz version. I find that my system will run for awhile and randomly lockup. It seems to happen more when I am using the X11 windows with YAST or trying to configure the system. I installed the no ACPI and it still locks up. I turned off all the power management facilities and still it locks up . I suspect that there is an incompatibility between the Cyrix processor and the versions they have. Graham Smith wrote:
Just a bit of information relating to VIA EPIA Mini-ITX Motherboard and lockups when running SuSE 9.2.
I've been having problems with SuSE 9.2 on a VIA EPIA Mini-ITX Motherboard. SuSE 9.2 would either lockup solid during the boot process or if I managed to login it would lockup when running programs like MC or YaST.
I initially thought the problem was memory related. But after running the memory test for a day ruled that out.
I appear to have isolated the problem to the power management package. I'm still testing but when the powermanagement is disabled I have yet to have it lockup on me.
I'll repost if I find out further details.
-- Joseph Loo jloo@acm.org
Graham Smith wrote:
Just a bit of information relating to VIA EPIA Mini-ITX Motherboard and lockups when running SuSE 9.2.
I've been having problems with SuSE 9.2 on a VIA EPIA Mini-ITX Motherboard. SuSE 9.2 would either lockup solid during the boot process or if I managed to login it would lockup when running programs like MC or YaST.
I initially thought the problem was memory related. But after running the memory test for a day ruled that out.
I appear to have isolated the problem to the power management package. I'm still testing but when the powermanagement is disabled I have yet to have it lockup on me.
I'll repost if I find out further details.
On Tuesday 23 November 2004 21:44, Joseph Loo wrote:
I have a similiar problem with myepia motherboard. I have an older version. of the motherboard, it is a 933 Hhz version. I find that my system will run for awhile and randomly lockup. It seems to happen more when I am using the X11 windows with YAST or trying to configure the system. I installed the no ACPI and it still locks up. I turned off all the power management facilities and still it locks up . I suspect that there is an incompatibility between the Cyrix processor and the versions they have.
Arrgh! Just what I wanted to hear. NOT! I just bought parts to make a dwarvish, home file server based on a VIA EPIA mini-itx. Between the posts about the EPIA problems and the other ones today about the kernel's inherent IDE interrupt problem, I've just lost the will to live. And I'm all out of Hot Pockets, too. Thanks, Ken Jennings
On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 13:44, Joseph Loo wrote:
I have a similiar problem with myepia motherboard. I have an older version. of the motherboard, it is a 933 Hhz version. I find that my system will run for awhile and randomly lockup. It seems to happen more when I am using the X11 windows with YAST or trying to configure the system. I installed the no ACPI and it still locks up. I turned off all the power management facilities and still it locks up . I suspect that there is an incompatibility between the Cyrix processor and the versions they have.
I read somewhere that there is a problem running these chipsets with the framebuffer on. So it might be an idea to turn off the framebuffer and see what happens. When booting try entering vga=normal and see if your problems persist. I have been using EPIA Mini-ITX Motherboard with SuSE 9.1 as a firewall for over 3 months without a problem. But it is headless and does not have any X11 installed. -- Regards, Graham Smith ---------------------------------------------------------
You could be right about that. I noticed that if you left the machine on and did nothing to the machine, it seems to work withou a problem. I was looking at some other Distro. I know Red Hat is not the place to go. It seems that Fedora Core 2 just reboots my machine. The workstation version of red hat detects an incompatible processor, then reboots. I am hoping to see what the Mandrake version is going or maybe a debian version. Graham Smith wrote:
On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 13:44, Joseph Loo wrote:
I have a similiar problem with myepia motherboard. I have an older version. of the motherboard, it is a 933 Hhz version. I find that my system will run for awhile and randomly lockup. It seems to happen more when I am using the X11 windows with YAST or trying to configure the system. I installed the no ACPI and it still locks up. I turned off all the power management facilities and still it locks up . I suspect that there is an incompatibility between the Cyrix processor and the versions they have.
I read somewhere that there is a problem running these chipsets with the framebuffer on. So it might be an idea to turn off the framebuffer and see what happens. When booting try entering vga=normal and see if your problems persist.
I have been using EPIA Mini-ITX Motherboard with SuSE 9.1 as a firewall for over 3 months without a problem. But it is headless and does not have any X11 installed.
-- Joseph Loo jloo@acm.org
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