[linux-help] Re: Bad Swap caused my new video card?

[James Lancaster <james@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 29 January 2003 15:16, you wrote:
> I took linux off of my desktop at home because it would not run the voodoo
> 3.  If you get it going, please let me know how, and I can put my linux
> back on....
>
> Mike

What distro (you and clint) Running the "evil commercial" (which is actually 
as free code wise (all rh's stuff is GPL, compatiblity (and debian gets a bad 
review here too) with other's distros is not it's strong point) as debian) 
Redhat has resulted in no problems since 6.2 with regards to video.

What version X? 4.0.0 or 4.1.0 (fixed bugs directly related to voodoo3) or 
4.2.0 (runs even better, and has some various general fixes/improvements)

Which kernel as well, The Voodoo 3 needs the tdfx module to run well (or no 
hardware OpenGL) only 2.4+ kernels support this, and they changed the format 
somewhere (latest kernel is probably best (unless rh's patched kernel works 
better, and you have to strip the ide stuff out of rh's version and put it in 
the new one, long story)) 

Or it could be a bad card, ram etc.

James L

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>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Clint Brubakken [SMTP:cabrubak@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2003 11:25 AM
> To:   linux-help@xxxxxxxxx
> Subject:      [linux-help] Bad Swap caused my new video card?
>
>
> I just replaced my onboard SiS video card (a long and annoying process
> on the HP pavillion I use) with a Vodoo 3 2000 PCI.
>
>
> It is a million times faster, but I'm getting kernel errors:
>
>
>
> Jan 28 10:18:05 linux1 kernel: Unable to handle kernel paging request at
> virtual address d4aed057
> Jan 28 10:18:05 linux1 kernel:  printing eip:
> Jan 28 10:18:05 linux1 kernel: c012a57c
> Jan 28 10:18:05 linux1 kernel: *pde = 00000000
> Jan 28 10:18:05 linux1 kernel: Oops: 0002
> Jan 28 10:18:05 linux1 kernel: soundcore binfmt_misc printer autofs
> tulip ide-scsi scsi_mod ide-cd cdrom usb-
> Jan 28 10:18:05 linux1 kernel: CPU:    0
> Jan 28 10:18:05 linux1 kernel: EIP:    0010:[<c012a57c>]    Not tainted
> Jan 28 10:18:05 linux1 kernel: EFLAGS: 00210206
> Jan 28 10:18:05 linux1 kernel:
> Jan 28 10:18:05 linux1 kernel: EIP is at filemap_nopage [kernel] 0xbc
> (2.4.18-5)
> Jan 28 10:18:05 linux1 kernel: eax: c119d35c   ebx: c7ea4c94   ecx:
> c7ea4c94   edx: 0000001a
> Jan 28 10:18:05 linux1 kernel: esi: 0000001c   edi: 0000001a   ebp:
> cfd58aa4   esp: c0e85e60
> Jan 28 10:18:05 linux1 kernel: ds: 0018   es: 0018   ss: 0018
> Jan 28 10:18:05 linux1 kernel: Process evolution-execu (pid: 1507,
> stackpage=c0e85000)
> Jan 28 10:18:05 linux1 kernel: Stack: c7ea4c94 0000001a cfd58aa4
> 0000001c c7ea4be0 c7ea4c94 c9ac65c0 00000100
> Jan 28 10:18:05 linux1 kernel:        00000000 c01322c2 c02157e1
> c0e7d0e0 c012a4c0 c0e7d0e0 c7ffa5c0 c0126751
> Jan 28 10:18:05 linux1 kernel:        c7ffa5c0 41052000 00000000
> c0e7d0e0 c0e7d0e0 c0e7d0e0 c7ffa5c0 c01269d4
> Jan 28 10:18:06 linux1 kernel: Call Trace: [<c01322c2>] __alloc_pages
> [kernel] 0x72
> Jan 28 10:18:06 linux1 kernel: [<c02157e1>] rb_insert_color [kernel]
> 0x61
> Jan 28 10:18:06 linux1 kernel: [<c012a4c0>] filemap_nopage [kernel] 0x0
> Jan 28 10:18:06 linux1 kernel: [<c0126751>] do_no_page [kernel] 0x51
> Jan 28 10:18:06 linux1 kernel: [<c01269d4>] handle_mm_fault [kernel]
> 0xe4
> Jan 28 10:18:06 linux1 kernel: [<c01276e5>] do_mmap_pgoff [kernel] 0x5b5
> Jan 28 10:18:06 linux1 kernel: [<c011421b>] do_page_fault [kernel] 0x12b
> Jan 28 10:18:06 linux1 kernel: [<c010d14d>] old_mmap [kernel] 0xed
> Jan 28 10:18:06 linux1 kernel: [<c010d175>] old_mmap [kernel] 0x115
> Jan 28 10:18:06 linux1 kernel: [<c012c557>] sys_mprotect [kernel] 0x117
> Jan 28 10:18:06 linux1 kernel: [<c013894d>] filp_close [kernel] 0x4d
> Jan 28 10:18:07 linux1 kernel: [<c01140f0>] do_page_fault [kernel] 0x0
> Jan 28 10:18:07 linux1 kernel: [<c0108a64>] error_code [kernel] 0x34
> Jan 28 10:18:07 linux1 kernel:
> Jan 28 10:18:07 linux1 kernel:
> Jan 28 10:18:07 linux1 kernel: Code: ff 89 c3 83 c4 0c 85 db 74 2c 8b 43
> 18 83 e0 08 74 62 8b 4c
> Jan 28 10:20:50 linux1 kernel:  <3>swap_dup: Bad swap file entry
> 0713f044
> Jan 28 10:20:50 linux1 kernel: VM: killing process tcsh
>
>
> any ideas?
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