I have moved this from OpenSUSE's list as it really doesn't belong there. I am having some interesting problems, and I am not sure what the cause is. Whenever I use the fglrx drivers for the video my machine locks up hard whenever I try anything that uses openGL Also, when I"m using the native wireless madwifi drivers for the Atheros wireless nic The machine will lock up hard when I shut down, or try to disable the NIC. Does anyone here have any idea what could be the problem? I'm running SUSE 9.3 with Kernel: 2.6.11.4-21.9-smp. An lsmod output: Module Size Used by radeon 79744 1 drm 68628 2 radeon usbserial 34024 0 cpufreq_userspace 15360 1 acpi_cpufreq 10368 1 speedstep_lib 8324 0 freq_table 8832 1 acpi_cpufreq thermal 18184 0 processor 28780 2 acpi_cpufreq,thermal fan 8836 0 button 11024 0 ipv6 273920 12 battery 14084 0 ac 9220 0 joydev 13888 0 snd_pcm_oss 66464 0 sg 42912 0 nvram 13576 0 snd_mixer_oss 24448 1 snd_pcm_oss st 43676 0 sd_mod 23168 0 sr_mod 21284 0 scsi_mod 136264 4 sg,st,sd_mod,sr_mod evdev 12928 1 usbhid 48096 0 af_packet 26760 2 8139too 30464 0 mii 9088 1 8139too edd 14560 0 pcmcia 28940 2 ath_pci 65696 0 ath_rate_onoe 13192 1 ath_pci wlan 121820 3 ath_pci,ath_rate_onoe ath_hal 152528 2 ath_pci yenta_socket 25608 1 rsrc_nonstatic 14720 1 yenta_socket pcmcia_core 53424 3 pcmcia,yenta_socket,rsrc_nonstatic ati_agp 12556 1 ehci_hcd 37896 0 agpgart 37676 2 drm,ati_agp ohci_hcd 25864 0 parport_pc 44356 1 lp 15396 0 parport 40392 2 parport_pc,lp snd_atiixp 25696 1 snd_ac97_codec 84476 1 snd_atiixp snd_pcm 108676 3 snd_pcm_oss,snd_atiixp,snd_ac97_codec snd_timer 31364 1 snd_pcm snd 70788 8 snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_atiixp,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer soundcore 13664 1 snd snd_page_alloc 14340 2 snd_atiixp,snd_pcm usbcore 121688 5 usbserial,usbhid,ehci_hcd,ohci_hcd video1394 22860 0 ohci1394 37508 1 video1394 raw1394 34540 0 ieee1394 108472 3 video1394,ohci1394,raw1394 capability 7224 0 nls_iso8859_1 8064 1 nls_cp437 9728 1 vfat 17792 1 fat 43804 1 vfat dm_mod 64768 0 reiserfs 263024 2 ide_cd 44036 0 cdrom 42784 2 sr_mod,ide_cd ide_disk 22400 5 atiixp 10256 0 [permanent] ide_core 131904 3 ide_cd,ide_disk,atiixp lspci output: 0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS300 Host Bridge (rev 02) 0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon 9100 IGP AGP Bridge 0000:00:13.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc OHCI USB Controller #1 (rev 01) 0000:00:13.1 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc OHCI USB Controller #2 (rev 01) 0000:00:13.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc EHCI USB Controller (rev 01) 0000:00:14.0 SMBus: ATI Technologies Inc ATI SMBus (rev 18) 0000:00:14.1 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 4349 0000:00:14.3 ISA bridge: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 434c 0000:00:14.4 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 4342 0000:00:14.5 Multimedia audio controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP150 AC'97 Audio Controller 0000:00:14.6 Modem: ATI Technologies Inc IXP AC'97 Modem (rev 01) 0000:01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RS300M AGP [Radeon Mobility 9100IGP] 0000:02:02.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5212 802.11abg NIC (rev 01) 0000:02:03.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10) 0000:02:04.0 CardBus bridge: ENE Technology Inc CB1410 Cardbus Controller (rev 01) I have not tried openSUSE on this laptop, due to its being my primary, but I would really like to get past this. Any ideas or pointers in the right direction would be appreciated. -- See Ya' Howard Coles Jr. John 3:16! -- See Ya' Howard Coles Jr. John 3:16!
On Wednesday 07 September 2005 12:30 pm, Howard Coles Jr. wrote:
I have moved this from OpenSUSE's list as it really doesn't belong there.
I am having some interesting problems, and I am not sure what the cause is.
Whenever I use the fglrx drivers for the video my machine locks up hard whenever I try anything that uses openGL Also, when I"m using the native wireless madwifi drivers for the Atheros wireless nic The machine will lock up hard when I shut down, or try to disable the NIC.
Does anyone here have any idea what could be the problem? I'm running SUSE 9.3 with Kernel: 2.6.11.4-21.9-smp. <snip>
lspci output:
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS300 Host Bridge (rev 02) 0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon 9100 IGP AGP Bridge 0000:00:13.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc OHCI USB Controller #1 (rev 01) 0000:00:13.1 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc OHCI USB Controller #2 (rev 01) 0000:00:13.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc EHCI USB Controller (rev 01) 0000:00:14.0 SMBus: ATI Technologies Inc ATI SMBus (rev 18) 0000:00:14.1 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 4349 0000:00:14.3 ISA bridge: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 434c 0000:00:14.4 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 4342 0000:00:14.5 Multimedia audio controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP150 AC'97 Audio Controller 0000:00:14.6 Modem: ATI Technologies Inc IXP AC'97 Modem (rev 01) 0000:01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RS300M AGP [Radeon Mobility 9100IGP] 0000:02:02.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5212 802.11abg NIC (rev 01) 0000:02:03.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10) 0000:02:04.0 CardBus bridge: ENE Technology Inc CB1410 Cardbus Controller (rev 01)
I have not tried openSUSE on this laptop, due to its being my primary, but I would really like to get past this. Any ideas or pointers in the right direction would be appreciated.
See Ya' Howard Coles Jr.
Do you have the latest/greatest BIOS for this laptop installed? What make/model is it anyway? Give us more details of the software and hardware besides the WLAN and video card PCI info. I think you are on the right track suspecting driver issues. That is usually where these types of lockups occur. Stan
On Wednesday 07 September 2005 12:44 pm, Stan Glasoe wrote:
On Wednesday 07 September 2005 12:30 pm, Howard Coles Jr. wrote:
I have moved this from OpenSUSE's list as it really doesn't belong there.
I am having some interesting problems, and I am not sure what the cause is.
Whenever I use the fglrx drivers for the video my machine locks up hard whenever I try anything that uses openGL Also, when I"m using the native wireless madwifi drivers for the Atheros wireless nic The machine will lock up hard when I shut down, or try to disable the NIC.
Does anyone here have any idea what could be the problem? I'm running SUSE 9.3 with Kernel: 2.6.11.4-21.9-smp
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I have not tried openSUSE on this laptop, due to its being my primary, but I would really like to get past this. Any ideas or pointers in the right direction would be appreciated.
Do you have the latest/greatest BIOS for this laptop installed? What make/model is it anyway?
Give us more details of the software and hardware besides the WLAN and video card PCI info. I think you are on the right track suspecting driver issues. That is usually where these types of lockups occur.
Last time I checked the BIOS was the latest version, however they have swapped out the system board, I may need to check again. (this was happening before the main board was swapped out, and is happening now). It is a Toshiba A75-S213 Laptop, with 1 GB RAM, ATI Radion 9100 IGP with 128 MB Shared RAM, P4 3.33 GHz / HT processor. (model number is: PSA70U-1Y400G) I'm not sure what you need beyond the SUSE 9.3 basics, xorg 6.8.2-30, The atheros madwifi drivers are evidently built into the Kernel. (wireless-tools-28pre4-16.2 is the rpm for wireless.) The version of fglrx modules I have tried are: 8.16.20 and 8.14.13-0.1 -- See Ya' Howard Coles Jr. John 3:16!
On Wednesday 07 September 2005 12:50 pm, Howard Coles Jr. wrote:
On Wednesday 07 September 2005 12:44 pm, Stan Glasoe wrote:
On Wednesday 07 September 2005 12:30 pm, Howard Coles Jr. wrote: Last time I checked the BIOS was the latest version, however they have swapped out the system board, I may need to check again. (this was happening before the main board was swapped out, and is happening now).
It is a Toshiba A75-S213 Laptop, with 1 GB RAM, ATI Radion 9100 IGP with 128 MB Shared RAM, P4 3.33 GHz / HT processor. (model number is: PSA70U-1Y400G)
I'm not sure what you need beyond the SUSE 9.3 basics, xorg 6.8.2-30, The atheros madwifi drivers are evidently built into the Kernel. (wireless-tools-28pre4-16.2 is the rpm for wireless.)
The version of fglrx modules I have tried are: 8.16.20 and 8.14.13-0.1
Howard Coles Jr.
There was a suggestion on OpenSUSE to try acpi=off on the kernel's boot command line. That will probably disable some power saving features but if the symptoms change this is a clue. The driver info helps to know what you've tried, current state of affairs, etc. Stan
On Wednesday 07 September 2005 01:37 pm, Stan Glasoe wrote:
On Wednesday 07 September 2005 12:50 pm, Howard Coles Jr. wrote:
On Wednesday 07 September 2005 12:44 pm, Stan Glasoe wrote:
On Wednesday 07 September 2005 12:30 pm, Howard Coles Jr. wrote:
There was a suggestion on OpenSUSE to try acpi=off on the kernel's boot command line. That will probably disable some power saving features but if the symptoms change this is a clue.
The driver info helps to know what you've tried, current state of affairs, etc.
Stan
No go. Using the Atheros madwifi driver, with acpi=off I was not able to shut down without it locking up. Also, it hosed my ability to use it again, from then on whenever I tried to startup my wireless it would not connect, and even locked up the system when I tried. I have resorted to the ndiswrapper from sourceforge (1.3rc1 I think) to get it working again. -- See Ya' Howard Coles Jr. John 3:16! -- See Ya' Howard Coles Jr. John 3:16!
On Wednesday 07 September 2005 01:37 pm, Stan Glasoe wrote:
On Wednesday 07 September 2005 12:50 pm, Howard Coles Jr. wrote:
On Wednesday 07 September 2005 12:44 pm, Stan Glasoe wrote:
On Wednesday 07 September 2005 12:30 pm, Howard Coles Jr. wrote:
Last time I checked the BIOS was the latest version, however they have swapped out the system board, I may need to check again. (this was happening before the main board was swapped out, and is happening now).
It is a Toshiba A75-S213 Laptop, with 1 GB RAM, ATI Radion 9100 IGP with 128 MB Shared RAM, P4 3.33 GHz / HT processor. (model number is: PSA70U-1Y400G)
I'm not sure what you need beyond the SUSE 9.3 basics, xorg 6.8.2-30, The atheros madwifi drivers are evidently built into the Kernel. (wireless-tools-28pre4-16.2 is the rpm for wireless.)
The version of fglrx modules I have tried are: 8.16.20 and 8.14.13-0.1
Howard Coles Jr.
There was a suggestion on OpenSUSE to try acpi=off on the kernel's boot command line. That will probably disable some power saving features but if the symptoms change this is a clue.
The driver info helps to know what you've tried, current state of affairs, etc.
Stan
Stan, It looks like none of my previous replies ever made it to the list. I was never able to get the ath_pci to work without it locking up the PC, even with acpi=off and apm=off. As a matter of fact, after I ran it with acpi=off I was never able to get the atheros drivers to work again. -- See Ya' Howard Coles Jr. John 3:16!
On Friday 09 September 2005 9:28 am, Howard Coles Jr. wrote:
Stan, It looks like none of my previous replies ever made it to the list.
I was never able to get the ath_pci to work without it locking up the PC, even with acpi=off and apm=off.
As a matter of fact, after I ran it with acpi=off I was never able to get the atheros drivers to work again.
Howard Coles Jr.
Check out both http://tuxmobil.org/ and http://www.linux-laptop.net/ and the Toshiba laptop areas. Lots of A75 news there. Don't worry too much that your exact Linux distro isn't listed. Most often you can get the info you need to make it work on any distro. Stan
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