Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] Can low-latency patch cause CPU freeze?
From: Paul Winkler (slinkp23_AT_yahoo.com)
Date: Fri Oct 26 2001 - 09:16:27 EEST
On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 10:49:37PM -0400, Larry Troxler wrote:
> Since then, I've noticed that after a period of time after bootup, I get
> a hard freeze in X - Neither Ctrl-alt-BS nor Ctrl-alt-del does anything,
> and the mouse cursor dissapeears.
Have a look at sysreq.txt in the linux source tree.
It's saved my ass a couple times...
I don't have an other terminal handy
> to check if I can log in through a serial port. But I'm pretty sure it's
> hardware related because when this happens, the computer does not boot
> up for a period of time, giving the sequence of long beeps like a RAM
> error.
The number of beeps is significant. (Found this out when my first crap
motherboard started to die.) But IIRC the meaning of the beep count
may vary depending on the BIOS.
I don't have any particular reason to suspect your RAM, but it can't
hurt to test it, and bad RAM can cause weird and *nasty* problems.
If you're on an i386-like system, check out memtest86:
http://reality.sgi.com/cbrady/memtest86
Takes quite some time to run, but it's easy to do, and definitely
worth finding out.
--paul winkler home: http://www.slinkp.com music: http://www.reacharms.com calendars: http://www.calendargalaxy.com
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