On a Libranet 2.8.1 install.
Machine:
- # Dual Intel Pentium 3 650 MHz cpu's
# 640Mb of RAM
# ATrend Freeway FW-6280BXDR/155 Motherboard
# Echo Darla24 sound card
# Creative Live! Soundblaster Platinum sound card
# ATi 64Mb VIVO video card
# Matrox Millenium II video card
# Ricoh MP9060A DVD/CDRW
# Panasonic LS-120 Superdisk drive
# Adeptec 3100LP USB 2.0 card
# Promise Ultra66 card
# 7 hard drives, many of which are removable
# Dell D1226H 19" Monitor
# Optiquest Q71-2 17" Monitor
# HP Deskjet 670C Printer
Major problems first...
I installed with only a few minor problems and then I had a series of lockups. The symptoms are screen freeze (must reboot) and the scrollock and numlock lights on the keyboard start flashing. The system doesn't respond to anything.
The freezes occur under a number of situations - untarring an archive, manipulating a file under gimp, surfing, apt-getting and sometimes while doing nothing.
At first I assumed that the problems were caused by some bug. So I eventually was able to successfully uprade my whole system (minus 4 packages) after a dozen freezes. That didn't fix anything so I tried upgrading the kernel... and using the smp option. I finally was able to catalog an error message:
Code:
Message from syslogd@Libratest........
Libratest Kernel: CPU 0: Machine check Exception: 0000000000000004
Message from syslogd@Libratest........
Libratest Kernel: Bank 4: b200000000040151
Message from syslogd@Libratest........
Libratest Kernel: Kernel Panic: CPU Context Corrupt
Any ideas?
Minor problems:
1) I want to enable dual monitors... but I'm not advanced enough yet to do it myself. I have a working installment of XandrOS (another debian based distro) with both monitors enabled. Can I use the XandrOS x86 config file on Libranet or even cut and paste a portion of it?
I've also posted this on another forum to extend the scope of answers. But this one seems to be a good one.
I've also asked the maintainers but it's the weekend.