Re: Total kernel freeze under 2.6.1

[Neil Macvicar]

On Tuesday 27 January 2004 01:32, Christian Unger wrote:
> Forewarning ... i ain't "qualified" ... heck i couldn't get my gfx card to
> work on 2.6 until yesterday (and i still don't know why that was).
>
> ANYWAY
>
> i got the same symptoms, and the reason it was doing it on my system was
> that in the config i was using in several places it referenced the wrong
> chipset. via instead of nforce2 type thing.
>
> From memory it did this all over the place with regards to sound, hdd and
> memory.
> Check
> Device Drivers - ATA/ATAPI/MFM/RLL
> Character Devices - AGP Support
> 		  - i2c Support

Thanks alot ! The offending part was in the ALSA driver. It had selected Sound 
-> ALSA -> PCI -> Intel 18x0/MX440, SiS 7012; Ali 5455 ; NForce Audio; 
AMD768/8111 by default, which I missed when I built the kernel.

Even so, this ought not to hang the kernel ! I'm surprised there wasn't more 
interest in this from developers.. hangs are serious issues.

--Neil.
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