I'm back to AlphaBIOS for the moment it's running
fine, I couldn't stand those checks anymore
every time I had netscape(or any browser for the
matter) and mp3's playing I would get
machine check 660
or
halt code 7 PC=18400
thanks
Greg Meno
--- Peter Petrakis <ppetrakis@alphalinux.org> wrote:
> I was seeing similar lockups using netscape under
> those conditions. What
> was the
> problem? A badly crimped LVD cable and execessive
> heat. I never saw
> machine checks though. What where the vectors? I too
> could not get sound
> to function under SRM with my isa SB64. If I loaded
> the sound modules a
> few moments later after using sound the machine
> would lock solid. You
> can't compile the drivers into the kernel and use
> isapnp at the sametime
> in a 2.2 kernel because isapnp gets called after the
> drivers get
> loaded... so no device to load the driver and no
> sound. The solution to
> that is to use the latest 2.4 and enable isapnp
> support in the kernel
> and compile sound drivers into the kernel. Been
> working great for me.
>
> Peter
>
>
> GReg meno wrote:
> >
> > Sadly,
> >
> > That's what I was really getting at.
> > After running /usr/sbin/sndconfig all is well.
> > I feel kinda silly forgetting about that bit.
> Thanks
> > Robert.
> >
> > Another few things I' noticed with SRM is every so
> > often(usually running netscape) The three keyboard
> > leds flash like during system startup and the
> whole
> > thing just locks solid can't even telnet in to
> kill
> > something. What is happening? Has anyone seen
> this?
> >
> > Another small thing while I'm complaining is:
> > When I shut the machine down with halt or
> reboot
> > everything seem to be fine till I see the SRM
> console
> > Red instead of Blue and it spits out a machine
> check
> > and halts....
> >
> > Thanks
> > Greg Meno
> > --- Robert McGwier <rwmcgwier@home.com> wrote:
> > > Greg:
> > >
> > > Are you talking about kudzu finding your ISA
> card?
> > > I think you need to run sndconfig once after
> SRM/6.2
> > > has booted and subsequent to the successful
> > > completion
> > > of this, the parameters are read from a file at
> boot
> > > time,
> > > and the modules are loaded.
> > >
> > > Bob
> > >
> > >
> > > At 10:23 PM 07/06/2000 Thursday, you wrote:
> > > >Recently I had alphaBIOS v 5.7 on my system an
> LX
> > > >and redhat 6.2 installed.
> > > >I have a soundblaster 16 VIBRA PNP
> > > >6.2 and kernel 2.2.15 seemed to do the auto
> probe
> > > of
> > > >the ISA bus quite nice and sound worked
> excellent
> > > >
> > > >I have version 5.3-3 or SRM currently with
> aboot
> > > 0.7
> > > >and
> > > >now with redhat 6.2 and the same kernel config
> my
> > > >sound card doesn't get auto probed... why ?
> > > >
> > > >TIA
> > > >Greg Meno
> > > >
> > > >_
> > >
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