This is nonsense. You say "don't comment, it works for you" but
does it _really_?
Overclocking causes more system/program/etc failures than any other
single cause I have seen. And it is a big waste of time trying to
find a bug, only to discover that the cpu is clocked 50% beyond
the Intel spec.
Robert Hyatt Computer and Information Sciences
hyatt@cis.uab.edu University of Alabama at Birmingham
(205) 934-2213 115A Campbell Hall, UAB Station
(205) 934-5473 FAX Birmingham, AL 35294-1170
On Tue, 24 Aug 1999, Timothy Wood wrote:
> Do you have the same problem when your CPUs are clocked properly?
>
> Mumford wrote:
> >
> > I'm trying to migrate to a 2.3.X kernel to do some USB stuff. When I
> > fired up a 2.3.13. The computer accepts the username alright, but doesn't
> > give a password prompt. Instead it reprints the login prompt (overwriting
> > the one that was already there). Syslog says mingetty is giving an
> > 'invalid character' error. After a slight change to mingetty, I found
> > the invalid character it was getting was \0.
> >
> > The problem is not just with mingetty, however. I gave up on trying
> > to log in on the console and tried telnetting in. It was giving the
> > same symptoms (reprinting the login prompt). There were no messages
> > in syslog. I was able to rlogin in (no username/password required),
> > but once at a prompt, I could not do anything; no keystrokes appeared.
> >
> > I know this sounds like a usermode problem, but it's not happening if
> > I compile out SMP. I downloaded all the 2.3.X's and tracked down the
> > problem to 2.3.2/2.3.3. Something changed between those versions that
> > broke me. I've tried replacing 2.3.13's drivers/char/keyboard.c with
> > 2.3.2's with no luck. I also tried ALT-sysrq-r (reset the keyboard),
> > and trying a kernel without sysrq (both ideas are from another keyboard/
> > SMP thread), both with no luck.
> >
> > So does anyone know what's going on? Does this have anything to do
> > with the glibc 2.1/SMP problem I've heard about?
> >
> > Details:
> > Board: Tyan Tiger 1832DL. Intel PIIX chipset support compiled in.
> > CPU's: Two 300A celeries o'clocked to 450 (no comments, please.
> > they work just fine for me :)
> > Keyboard: standard PS/2 style connector.
> > Mouse: standard PS/2 style connector.
> > Distrib: mandrake. redhat 6.0 based. glibc 2.1
> > packages: everything is up-to-date with what's in the kernel Changes
> > file.
> >
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