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magicmarkus · 01-14-07, 06:04 PM

Some updates on this problem:

I contacted the MSI support, which was quite disappointing since they dont seem to be very experienced in Linux support. They even admitted that they did not test with Linux

So I will keep bothering you

I installed a new Bios version, but with no improvement.

My current setup:

Bios version: 1.4
Linux kernel: 2.6.19.2-amd64
Nvidia driver: 9746

I can reproduce the freeze very fast ( < 5 min) by playing Warcraft III with wine.
But also the SPECViewperf Benchmark results in the freeze.

However I was only able to reproduce the problem in my 32Bit chroot. So maybe there is something wrong with the 32Bit libraries.
<edit>I was able to reproduce the problem also in the normal 64Bit environment. It just takes some more time...</edit>

I also tried a new kernel version 2.6.20-rc4 without success.
And in addition I bootet the kernel with various combinations of noapic, pci=noacpi and pci=biosirq, but the freezes still occur. I thought that these options would circumvent Bios problems?

I you have any ideas how to debug this problem, I would appreciate this!

Regards,
Markus

01-14-07, 06:04 PM	#5
magicmarkus Registered User Join Date: Dec 2006 Posts: 7	GeForce 7600 GS freeze: "irq 114: nobody cared" - update Some updates on this problem: I contacted the MSI support, which was quite disappointing since they dont seem to be very experienced in Linux support. They even admitted that they did not test with Linux So I will keep bothering you I installed a new Bios version, but with no improvement. My current setup: Bios version: 1.4 Linux kernel: 2.6.19.2-amd64 Nvidia driver: 9746 I can reproduce the freeze very fast ( < 5 min) by playing Warcraft III with wine. But also the SPECViewperf Benchmark results in the freeze. However I was only able to reproduce the problem in my 32Bit chroot. So maybe there is something wrong with the 32Bit libraries. <edit>I was able to reproduce the problem also in the normal 64Bit environment. It just takes some more time...</edit> I also tried a new kernel version 2.6.20-rc4 without success. And in addition I bootet the kernel with various combinations of noapic, pci=noacpi and pci=biosirq, but the freezes still occur. I thought that these options would circumvent Bios problems? I you have any ideas how to debug this problem, I would appreciate this! Regards, Markus Last edited by magicmarkus; 01-14-07 at 06:43 PM.