kernel 2.6.0 and Compaq Proliant 6500 Pentium Pro

kernel 2.6.0 and Compaq Proliant 6500 Pentium Pro

[Don t Spam Me!!!]

Hi,

     I was successfully running the latest RedHat 9 kernel (2.4.20-smp) 
and upgraded to Fedora Core stable(2.4.22-nptlsmp) and testing
(2.6.0smp).  The 6500 has an Orion (82450KX) chipset.  During bootup, I 
receive a number of error messages.  Among other things:
1)   The system is a quad processor PPro, but it says "no smp detected"
2)   I get two ACPI errors (ACPI-0084 and ACPI-0134)
3)   The kernel cannot determine the bus topology, and kudzu asks me to 
reconfigure my two ethernet cards everytime I boot
4)   I was using two 3c905 cards, but now am using one 3c905 and one 
TLAN.  Apparently, these are both working.

     I'm sorry that the RedHat kernel isn't more standard because I'd 
be able to tell you exactly when the support broke.  There were a few 
of the older RH9 kernels that I couldn't run because they would hang at 
boot time, but the latest one was working wonderfully.

     Does anyone have any pointers (aside from tossing the computer in 
the garbage or downgrading to RedHat 9 again - although that's 
presently my only option)

     I _can_ get some more verbose descriptions if someone wants to 
point me in the right direction - I've been hacking with Linux since 
1994 so I'm not a newbie.

Thanks!

Mark Schaefer

Re: kernel 2.6.0 and Compaq Proliant 6500 Pentium Pro

[Joseph Fannin]

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On Mon, Dec 22, 2003 at 10:05:54PM -0700, Don t Spam Me!!! wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
>      I was successfully running the latest RedHat 9 kernel (2.4.20-smp) 
> and upgraded to Fedora Core stable(2.4.22-nptlsmp) and testing
> (2.6.0smp).  The 6500 has an Orion (82450KX) chipset.  During bootup, I 
> receive a number of error messages.  Among other things:

    Hmm, my Quad PPro Proliant 5000 has been working fine with 2.6
kernels, but it's an older model of course.  I'm still learning about
these Compaqs.  Same chipset though.

> 1)   The system is a quad processor PPro, but it says "no smp detected"
> 2)   I get two ACPI errors (ACPI-0084 and ACPI-0134)

    I think I can safely say the two ACPI errors mean your 6500 doesn't
support ACPI, which doesn't surprise me.

    I wonder if booting with acpi=off might fix both (1) and (2)?
I know there are two methods of detecting and setting up SMP, one via
ACPI.  I think it's supposed to fall back to the older MPS SMP stuff
but Compaqs are weird.  I've built my own kernels since day one with
ACPI off and never had this problem.

    I haven't looked, but I'd guess that the difference between the
RH9 kernel and the Fedora 2.4 kernel is the new ACPI stuff too.

> 3)   The kernel cannot determine the bus topology, and kudzu asks me to 
> reconfigure my two ethernet cards everytime I boot

    What do you mean by 'cannot determine the bus topology'?  Are you
getting an error message?  Does this occur with both 2.6
and 2.4.22-blah?

    If turning ACPI off too doesn't fix all this, a copy of your dmesg
output would probably be helpful.  I beat my 5000 into submission, so
maybe I can help.

-- 
Joseph Fannin
jhf@rivenstone.net


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