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

[Jonathan Hall <flimzy@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Voodoo is traditionally one of the easiest 3D cards to get working in
Linux.  I had no problem with mine at all 2 years ago.

Just follow the instructions.

-- Jonathan


On Wed, 2003-01-29 at 15:16, Michael Holmes 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
> 
> 
> 
> -----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?
> 
> 
> --
> 
> Clint Brubakken <cabrubak@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Programmer Analyst
> Inetic Web Development
> ---
> Black holes are where God divided by zero.
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