From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263770AbUGRLDs (ORCPT ); Sun, 18 Jul 2004 07:03:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263775AbUGRLDs (ORCPT ); Sun, 18 Jul 2004 07:03:48 -0400 Received: from web40309.mail.yahoo.com ([66.218.78.88]:3944 "HELO web40309.mail.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S263770AbUGRLDo (ORCPT ); Sun, 18 Jul 2004 07:03:44 -0400 Message-ID: <20040718110343.42481.qmail@web40309.mail.yahoo.com> Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2004 04:03:43 -0700 (PDT) From: Adrian Sandor Subject: disabling irq, nobody cared To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hello all, Apologizes if this is a duplicate, many people seem to have similar error messages but it may or may not be the same problem. For the past couple of weeks I've been trying hard to install a distribution of linux on this computer, and failed every time. Suse, Fedora, Knoppix hdd installation, Gentoo... all failed with every kernel I tried. The ones that didn't hang or reboot immediately displayed error messages like: irq 18: nobody cared! Call Trace: [] __report_bad_irq+0x2a/0x8b [] note_interrupt+0x6f/0x9f [] do_IRQ+0x161/0x192 [] common_interrupt+0x18/0x20 [] do_softirq+0x57/0xc2 [] do_IRQ+0x13e/0x192 [] common_interrupt+0x18/0x20 [] default_idle+0x0/0x2c [] default_idle+0x29/0x2c [] cpu_idle+0x33/0x3c [] printk+0x17d/0x1e6 handlers: [] (ide_intr+0x0/0x1cb) [] (ide_intr+0x0/0x1cb) [] (usb_hcd_irq+0x0/0x67) Disabling IRQ #18 and hdb: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x64 hdb: DMA interrupt recovery hdb: lost interrupt with various irq numbers and stack traces. That either slowed the system to a crawl or flooded the console with "disabling irq x" messages. I have tried different kernel options: SMP and no SMP, disabling APIC, etc, different kernels: 2.4.25, 2.6.5, 2.6.8-rc1, even tried some patches, but nothing worked (2.4 usually hanged, and 2.6 gave the above error messages). The only kernels that booted without problems were the Gentoo (2004.1) and Knoppix (3.4) live cd kernels. Knoppix (booted from cd) works generally well, but hangs from time to time (especially when I access the disks in mc). I have an Asus P4P800 Deluxe mobo, and a P4 2.8GHz with HT activated. I uploaded a var/log/messages file at http://aditsu.freeunixhost.com/messages.zip for your reference (68KB zipped, 980KB unpacked). This is from gentoo only. The computer works flawlessly in windows xp. Please help me out, so that all these wasted days won't be in vain. I can provide any other necessary information if I can understand how to obtain it (I'm not a linux expert). I'd appreciate if you could cc me in the replies. Thanks Adrian __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Vote for the stars of Yahoo!'s next ad campaign! http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/yahoo/votelifeengine/