Vaughn Treude wrote:
>I've been trying to fix a problem I've been having on one of my systems.
>Maybe one of you have encountered something similar.
>
>When I first got this Soyo Dragon motherboard last year, I installed Mandrake
>9.1 on the system and encountered a weird hang problem. At some point (not
>immediately) when the screen saver was running, the keyboard lights would
>start flashing and it would be completely locked. (Is this the usual sign of
>a kernel panic?) This problem would happen fairly frequently. Shortly
>afterwardI had to back off to Mandrake 8 due to problems getting Kylix 3
>running on the newer distro. At that same time I'd just discovered (and
>disabled) the ACPI option in the bios, so I thought I'd fixed it. Recently I
>set up 9.1 in a spare partition so I could run Eclipse. In 9.1, the problem
>was back. It also happens in Red Hat 9 and Red Hat 7.3 - the common thread
>appears to be kernels that are newer than 2.4.3-20. But unfortunately I
>can't find anything in the log about that, I just see normal stuff like cron
>messages. One thing that makes me suspect power management was the
>following, which I see occasionally in the log files on all the different
>distro installs:
>
>Mar 6 04:06:41 vaughn kernel: Uhhuh. NMI received for unknown reason 3d.
>Mar 6 04:06:41 vaughn kernel: Dazed and confused, but trying to continue
>Mar 6 04:06:41 vaughn kernel: Do you have a strange power saving mode
>enabled?
>
>I suppose that may be totally coincidental, but the hang problem has never
>happened while I've been actively using the machine. (The other oddity about
>this system is that sometimes when I reboot it, it hangs on the reboot, and I
>must press the reset switch in order for it to come up. That's probably not
>related, but you never know.)
>
>Is there a way I could make the logs more verbose so I could get a handle on
>this problem? Another approach might be to run some sort of a cron job which
>would keep the system from ever being inactive for too long. That would
>allow me to test my hibernation theory.
>
>Thanks,
>Vaughn Treude
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Please let me know if you find anything. I've been having the same
problem. Haven't had time to search it out though. Never a problem while
I'm actively usin the box. Only happens when I'm using one of the last
three kernels on my box. Thought it might be related to my screensaver
so I turned it off but still have the problem. I'm running Fedora Core 1
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