From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 2 May 2002 23:07:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 2 May 2002 23:07:30 -0400 Received: from saltbush.adelaide.edu.au ([129.127.43.5]:43413 "EHLO saltbush.adelaide.edu.au") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 2 May 2002 23:07:30 -0400 From: "Hong-Gunn Chew" To: "'Hong-Gunn Chew'" , "'Petr Vandrovec'" , "'Andrea Arcangeli'" Cc: "'Linux kernel mailing list'" , Subject: RE: Memory corruption when running VMware. (was File curruption when running VMware) Date: Fri, 3 May 2002 12:37:18 +0930 Message-ID: <002301c1f24f$a2d4ae70$241d7f81@hgclaptop> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.3416 In-Reply-To: X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Importance: Normal Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > Hi Petr, Andrea, > > I have been trying different kernel configurations to > overcome this problem. I found that turning on APIC seem to > work properly. However turning on IO-APIC causes it to hang > just after X is started, which seems to be during the startup > of gdm. An added note is that with Local APIC on and IO-APIC off, I am able to start the system up, but swtiching from X to a virtual console during a session, as well as during shutdown, causes the system to hang. There are no error messages that I can find. Does anyone know the cause of the problem? Recap of my system: CPU: P4 2.0A 2.0GHz RAM: 4x256MB RDRAM PC800 MB: ASUS P4-TE firmware:1005 Intel i850 Disk: IBM Deskstar 120GXP 80GB Graphics: ATI 7500 OEM Distri: RedHat 7.2 Kernel: 2.4.18 X: Xfree 4.2.0 glibc: 2.2.4-19.3 Thanks, Hong-Gunn