Re: Reproducable crash under 2.1.86

Tuomo Pyhala (tuomo@lesti.kpnet.fi)
Tue, 17 Feb 1998 14:33:56 +0200 (EET)


On Tue, 17 Feb 1998, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:

> >Can we establish if it is scsi or ide drives that cause the problems?
> >I have problems with the 2.1.x series also. I'm using scsi, a
> >ncr53c810 with the ncr53c8xx driver, what about the rest of you?

> IDE.
> Seems to be do_8259A_IRQ() that don' t return.

I have only IDE drives too, but it seems that my machine crashes due
heavy X activity. mpg123 some.mp3; while [ -d / ]; do set; done seems to
crash it in 2-3 minutes.

BTW. Which soundcard do you have, i'm also somewhat suspicious about GUS
and it's driver, it has strange design anyway i think. Do you have GUS's
also?

I should try new .87 ASAP, have you tried that?

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