I've tried slackware-current several times the last few months,
everytime but once I've encountered a strange problem (I've used FULL Install every time) the problem is that my machine reboots after 20-30 seconds after login. And then I just tried again the other day and reinstalled slack-current, and it didn't reboot (same install method)
I ran it for several days without any problems at all, and then I updated some stuff, and when I rebooted the problem occured again.
I wiped the install and did a fresh install with the same cd that worked the last time, but the machine kept rebooting again. So I went back to slackware 8.1 which works beutifully, never fails.
I know for sure it is no hardware problem in terms that my machine is broken or something, instead it is something to do with slack-current/2.4.19 that missinterpreter my hardware configuration in some way.
I've noticed there are several errors occuring in the bootupsequence something about a"i810_rng" which as far as I've found out is some kind of random function for intel 810 chipset motherboard (I have a intel 850 chipset on my machine though) could that be the problem ?
if thats likely the problem, how do I remove that from the start?
Another error that displays is "rivafb" I don't know if thats the right driver either because I do have a "asus nvidia geoforce 3" card.
I'd apreciate any help cause that slack-current was beutiful and so very fast, I've saved a syslog which I will paste in this message.
syslog:
Feb 6 20:02:33 Khan_LinuX kernel: Linux version 2.4.19 (root@midas) (gcc version 3.2) #1 Sun Aug 18 13:24:13 PDT 2002
Feb 6 20:02:33 Khan_LinuX kernel: BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
Feb 6 20:02:33 Khan_LinuX kernel: BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
Feb 6 20:02:33 Khan_LinuX kernel: BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
Feb 6 20:02:33 Khan_LinuX kernel: BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000001fff0000 (usable)
Feb 6 20:02:33 Khan_LinuX kernel: BIOS-e820: 000000001fff0000 - 000000001fff3000 (ACPI NVS)
Feb 6 20:02:33 Khan_LinuX kernel: BIOS-e820: 000000001fff3000 - 0000000020000000 (ACPI data)
Feb 6 20:02:33 Khan_LinuX kernel: BIOS-e820: 00000000ffb00000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
Feb 6 20:02:33 Khan_LinuX kernel: On node 0 totalpages: 131056
Feb 6 20:02:33 Khan_LinuX kernel: zone(0): 4096 pages.
Feb 6 20:02:33 Khan_LinuX kernel: zone(1): 126960 pages.
Feb 6 20:02:33 Khan_LinuX kernel: zone(2): 0 pages.
Feb 6 20:02:33 Khan_LinuX kernel: Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=SlackWare ro root=301 hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi
Feb 6 20:02:33 Khan_LinuX kernel: ide_setup: hdc=ide-scsi
Feb 6 20:02:33 Khan_LinuX kernel: ide_setup: hdd=ide-scsi
Feb 6 20:02:33 Khan_LinuX kernel: Detected 1980.379 MHz processor.
Feb 6 20:02:33 Khan_LinuX kernel: Console: colour dummy device 80x25
Feb 6 20:02:33 Khan_LinuX kernel: Calibrating delay loop... 3945.26 BogoMIPS
Feb 6 20:02:33 Khan_LinuX kernel: Mount-cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
Feb 6 20:02:33 Khan_LinuX kernel: Buffer-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Feb 6 20:02:33 Khan_LinuX kernel: Page-cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
Feb 6 20:02:33 Khan_LinuX kernel: CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 1.80GHz stepping 02
Feb 6 20:02:34 Khan_LinuX kernel: POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
Feb 6 20:02:34 Khan_LinuX kernel: mtrr: v1.40 (20010327) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
Feb 6 20:02:34 Khan_LinuX kernel: mtrr: detected mtrr type: Intel
Feb 6 20:02:34 Khan_LinuX kernel: Unknown bridge resource 0: assuming transparent
Feb 6 20:02:34 Khan_LinuX kernel: Unknown bridge resource 2: assuming transparent
Feb 6 20:02:34 Khan_LinuX kernel: Initializing RT netlink socket
Feb 6 20:02:34 Khan_LinuX kernel: Starting kswapd
Feb 6 20:02:35 Khan_LinuX kernel: Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 100x37
Feb 6 20:02:35 Khan_LinuX kernel: pty: 512 Unix98 ptys configured
Feb 6 20:02:35 Khan_LinuX kernel: ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
Feb 6 20:02:35 Khan_LinuX kernel: ICH2: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev f9
Feb 6 20:02:35 Khan_LinuX kernel: ICH2: chipset revision 4
Feb 6 20:02:35 Khan_LinuX kernel: ICH2: not 100%% native mode: will probe irqs later
Feb 6 20:02:35 Khan_LinuX kernel: ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0xf007, BIOS settings: hda
MA, hdb
MA
Feb 6 20:02:35 Khan_LinuX kernel: ide1: BM-DMA at 0xf008-0xf00f, BIOS settings: hdc
MA, hdd
MA
Feb 6 20:02:35 Khan_LinuX kernel: hda: WDC WD1200JB-00CRA0, ATA DISK drive
Feb 6 20:02:35 Khan_LinuX kernel: hdb: WDC WD1200JB-75CRA0, ATA DISK drive
Feb 6 20:02:35 Khan_LinuX kernel: hdc: Hewlett-Packard DVD Writer 200, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
Feb 6 20:02:35 Khan_LinuX kernel: hdd: PLEXTOR CD-R PX-320A, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
Feb 6 20:02:35 Khan_LinuX kernel: ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
Feb 6 20:02:35 Khan_LinuX kernel: ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
Feb 6 20:02:35 Khan_LinuX kernel: hdb: setmax LBA 234441648, native 234375000
Feb 6 20:02:35 Khan_LinuX kernel: ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide
Feb 6 20:02:35 Khan_LinuX kernel: RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 7777K size 1024 blocksize
Feb 6 20:02:35 Khan_LinuX kernel: ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide
Feb 6 20:02:35 Khan_LinuX kernel: kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno = 2
Feb 6 20:02:35 Khan_LinuX last message repeated 2 times
Feb 6 20:02:35 Khan_LinuX kernel: 8regs : 2304.000 MB/sec
Feb 6 20:02:35 Khan_LinuX kernel: 32regs : 1415.200 MB/sec
Feb 6 20:02:35 Khan_LinuX kernel: pIII_sse : 2589.200 MB/sec
Feb 6 20:02:35 Khan_LinuX kernel: pII_mmx : 2279.200 MB/sec
Feb 6 20:02:35 Khan_LinuX kernel: p5_mmx : 2307.200 MB/sec
Feb 6 20:02:36 Khan_LinuX kernel: raid5: using function: pIII_sse (2589.200 MB/sec)
Feb 6 20:02:36 Khan_LinuX kernel: VFS: Mounted root (ext3 filesystem) readonly.
Feb 6 20:02:36 Khan_LinuX kernel: Vendor: HP Model: DVD Writer 200j Rev: 1.27
Feb 6 20:02:36 Khan_LinuX kernel: Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Feb 6 20:02:36 Khan_LinuX kernel: Vendor: PLEXTOR Model: CD-R PX-320A Rev: 1.01
Feb 6 20:02:36 Khan_LinuX kernel: Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Feb 6 20:02:36 Khan_LinuX kernel: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
Feb 6 20:02:36 Khan_LinuX kernel: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr1 at scsi0, channel 0, id 1, lun 0
Feb 6 20:02:36 Khan_LinuX kernel: sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 32x/32x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
Feb 6 20:02:36 Khan_LinuX kernel: sr1: scsi3-mmc drive: 40x/40x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
Feb 6 20:02:36 Khan_LinuX kernel: rivafb: cannot reserve FB region
Feb 6 20:02:36 Khan_LinuX kernel: PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:1f.2 to 64
Feb 6 20:02:36 Khan_LinuX kernel: PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:1f.4 to 64
Feb 6 20:02:36 Khan_LinuX kernel: i810 TCO timer init: failed to reset NO_REBOOT flag, reboot disabled by hardware
Feb 6 20:02:36 Khan_LinuX kernel: i810_rng: RNG not detected
Feb 6 20:02:36 Khan_LinuX kernel: rivafb: cannot reserve FB region
Feb 6 20:02:36 Khan_LinuX kernel: i810 TCO timer init: failed to reset NO_REBOOT flag, reboot disabled by hardware
Feb 6 20:02:37 Khan_LinuX kernel: i810_rng: RNG not detected
Feb 6 20:02:37 Khan_LinuX kernel: rivafb: cannot reserve FB region
Feb 6 20:02:37 Khan_LinuX kernel: i810 TCO timer init: failed to reset NO_REBOOT flag, reboot disabled by hardware
Feb 6 20:02:37 Khan_LinuX kernel: usb.c: USB device 2 (vend/prod 0x5e3/0x502) is not claimed by any active driver.
Feb 6 20:02:37 Khan_LinuX kernel: i810_rng: RNG not detected
Feb 6 20:02:37 Khan_LinuX kernel: rivafb: cannot reserve FB region
Feb 6 20:02:37 Khan_LinuX kernel: i810 TCO timer init: failed to reset NO_REBOOT flag, reboot disabled by hardware
Feb 6 20:02:37 Khan_LinuX kernel: i810_rng: RNG not detected
Feb 6 20:02:37 Khan_LinuX kernel: rivafb: cannot reserve FB region
Feb 6 20:02:37 Khan_LinuX kernel: i810 TCO timer init: failed to reset NO_REBOOT flag, reboot disabled by hardware
Feb 6 20:02:37 Khan_LinuX kernel: i810_rng: RNG not detected
Feb 6 20:02:37 Khan_LinuX kernel: rivafb: cannot reserve FB region
Feb 6 20:02:37 Khan_LinuX kernel: i810 TCO timer init: failed to reset NO_REBOOT flag, reboot disabled by hardware
Feb 6 20:02:37 Khan_LinuX kernel: i810_rng: RNG not detected
Feb 6 20:02:37 Khan_LinuX kernel: rivafb: cannot reserve FB region
Feb 6 20:02:37 Khan_LinuX kernel: i810 TCO timer init: failed to reset NO_REBOOT flag, reboot disabled by hardware
Feb 6 20:02:37 Khan_LinuX kernel: i810_rng: RNG not detected
Feb 6 20:02:37 Khan_LinuX kernel: rivafb: cannot reserve FB region
Feb 6 20:02:37 Khan_LinuX kernel: i810 TCO timer init: failed to reset NO_REBOOT flag, reboot disabled by hardware
Feb 6 20:02:37 Khan_LinuX kernel: i810_rng: RNG not detected
Feb 6 20:02:37 Khan_LinuX kernel: rivafb: cannot reserve FB region
Feb 6 20:02:37 Khan_LinuX kernel: i810 TCO timer init: failed to reset NO_REBOOT flag, reboot disabled by hardware
Feb 6 20:02:37 Khan_LinuX kernel: i810_rng: RNG not detected
Feb 6 20:02:37 Khan_LinuX kernel: rivafb: cannot reserve FB region
Feb 6 20:02:37 Khan_LinuX kernel: i810 TCO timer init: failed to reset NO_REBOOT flag, reboot disabled by hardware
Feb 6 20:02:37 Khan_LinuX kernel: i810_rng: RNG not detected
Feb 6 20:02:37 Khan_LinuX kernel: rivafb: cannot reserve FB region
Feb 6 20:02:37 Khan_LinuX kernel: i810 TCO timer init: failed to reset NO_REBOOT flag, reboot disabled by hardware
Feb 6 20:02:37 Khan_LinuX kernel: i810_rng: RNG not detected
Feb 6 20:02:37 Khan_LinuX kernel: rivafb: cannot reserve FB region
Feb 6 20:02:37 Khan_LinuX kernel: i810 TCO timer init: failed to reset NO_REBOOT flag, reboot disabled by hardware
Feb 6 20:02:37 Khan_LinuX kernel: i810_rng: RNG not detected
end syslog
Sorry for the big post,
and thanks in advance for any help you can provide..
//Kenneth