On Sat, May 10, 2003 at 08:42:15AM -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
>
> System:
> Tyan 2466 MPX board, 2 Athlon 1800MP, bios 1.01 from March 2002
> 1 gb ram, ibm + maxtor ide disks, ide cdrom + cdrw
> ati rage 128, sb pci 128, on-board 3c905 nic, ps/2 mouse
> no other cards
> hardware configuration unaltered since June of last year
>
> Enabling or disabling the HIGHME patch is enough to trigger/suppress
> hard locking. When HIGHMEM is enabled, locking occurs very easily when
> trying to copy a (cloop-mounted) Knoppix image, or even when compiling
> a kernel.
As a follow-up, 2.4.21-rc2 looks fine so far. The only other change was to
enable support the proper mobo i/o chipset, which I should have done earlier.
Dirk
> I run fairly stock kernels (from Debian kernel source packages) with the
> win4lin patch as the only external patch. ACPI is disabled. Disk access is
> not tuned in any way, DMA gets enabled by default.
>
> Dirk
>
> --
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