From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933265AbXD2OVz (ORCPT ); Sun, 29 Apr 2007 10:21:55 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S933273AbXD2OVz (ORCPT ); Sun, 29 Apr 2007 10:21:55 -0400 Received: from mcr-smtp-002.bulldogdsl.com ([212.158.248.8]:2153 "EHLO mcr-smtp-002.bulldogdsl.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933265AbXD2OVy (ORCPT ); Sun, 29 Apr 2007 10:21:54 -0400 X-Spam-Abuse: Please report all spam/abuse matters to abuse@bulldogdsl.com From: Alistair John Strachan To: Syren Baran Subject: Re: Probable PCIE prob Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2007 15:21:48 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 Cc: LKML References: <1177790017.3649.23.camel@excalibur> In-Reply-To: <1177790017.3649.23.camel@excalibur> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200704291521.48769.s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Saturday 28 April 2007 20:53:37 Syren Baran wrote: > Hi, > > i got a problem with the combination of an Asrock AM2NF4G-SATA2 > mainboard with a Radeon X1900 (chip 1002,724b) graphics > card. /i386/pci/mmconfig.c reports a buggy bios (e0000000 is not > E820-reserved). System crashes only happen when viewing films (neither > xine nor mplayer run with root privileges) and independent of video > drivers (framebuffer, vesa and fglrx). Logs dont show any anomalies > before crashing. Anybody got a clue? This is a pretty bizarre crash. It might be a hardware problem. Try running a load intensive task, something that heats your CPU up, for a long period. See if it lasts longer than 30 minutes.. Another thing you could try doing was eliminating X completely, by using mplayer on a vesafb console.. -- Cheers, Alistair. Final year Computer Science undergraduate. 1F2 55 South Clerk Street, Edinburgh, UK.