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

[Jeff Vian <jvian10@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have never had a problem with a voodoo card.
I have had a Diamond Monster (voodoo driver) that worked very well, and 
now have a voodoo4 4500 card and never had problems.

I would suspect the SIS card as a problem since you say it worked VERY 
SLOW before you installed the voodoo3.  I have not seen very many 
reports of slow performance if the card is good and the correct drivers 
are loaded.

On the last Compaq, HP, and Dell I worked with, I did not have to 
disable the onboard video to add another card.  The bios was smart 
enough to use the added card as the primary video and told the OS which 
was there.  
I did not even have to tell X which card to load  drivers for. It used 
the card the bios selected as primary.  Even if it does not, when more 
than one video card is available, you can tell it which card to use.

Your description indicates a bios/hardware and possibly driver conflict 
rather than a bad video card on the Voodoo3

Cheez-Czar wrote:

>I'm not sure about that, I finally got the video card disable (involved 
>taking the machine in half). 
>
>I'd suspect a video problem, if thinkgs displated wrong, but I'd think the 
>video drivers are a higer level then the kernel. 
>
>The only thing that makes me thinks its the video, is that until I 
>installed the new card, It worked veeeeeeery slooooow, but no problems 
>like this. 
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>On Tue, 28 Jan 2003, David E Carmichael wrote:
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>>Clint -
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>>I am far from an expert on Linux... but from my personal tried to
>>get Voodoo cards to work under Linux it at first glance looks as
>>if the SiS video is still trying to load device drivers....
>>
>>Did you find a copy of the BETA Voodoo 3 200 drivers?
>>
>>I was having to try to use generic "X" drivers many moons ago.
>>
>>--David
>>
>>----- Original Message -----
>>From: "Clint Brubakken" <cabrubak@xxxxxxx>
>>To: <linux-help@xxxxxxxxx>
>>Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2003 11:24 AM
>>Subject: [linux-help] Bad Swap caused my new video card?
>>
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>>>I just replaced my onboard SiS video card (a long and annoying
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>>process
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>>>on the HP pavillion I use) with a Vodoo 3 2000 PCI.
>>>
>>>
>>>It is a million times faster, but I'm getting kernel errors:
>>>
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>>>
>>>Jan 28 10:18:05 linux1 kernel: Unable to handle kernel paging
>>>      
>>>
>>request at
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>>>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
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>>
>>>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
>>    
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>>>(2.4.18-5)
>>>Jan 28 10:18:05 linux1 kernel: eax: c119d35c   ebx: c7ea4c94
>>>      
>>>
>>ecx:
>>    
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>>>c7ea4c94   edx: 0000001a
>>>Jan 28 10:18:05 linux1 kernel: esi: 0000001c   edi: 0000001a
>>>      
>>>
>>ebp:
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>>>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,
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>>>stackpage=c0e85000)
>>>Jan 28 10:18:05 linux1 kernel: Stack: c7ea4c94 0000001a
>>>      
>>>
>>cfd58aa4
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>>>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
>>    
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>>>c0e7d0e0 c0e7d0e0 c0e7d0e0 c7ffa5c0 c01269d4
>>>Jan 28 10:18:06 linux1 kernel: Call Trace: [<c01322c2>]
>>>      
>>>
>>__alloc_pages
>>    
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>>>[kernel] 0x72
>>>Jan 28 10:18:06 linux1 kernel: [<c02157e1>] rb_insert_color
>>>      
>>>
>>[kernel]
>>    
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>>>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]
>>    
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>>>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
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>>
>>>Jan 28 10:18:06 linux1 kernel: [<c012c557>] sys_mprotect
>>>      
>>>
>>[kernel] 0x117
>>    
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>>>Jan 28 10:18:06 linux1 kernel: [<c013894d>] filp_close [kernel]
>>>      
>>>
>>0x4d
>>    
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>>>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
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>>>18 83 e0 08 74 62 8b 4c
>>>Jan 28 10:20:50 linux1 kernel:  <3>swap_dup: Bad swap file
>>>      
>>>
>>entry
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>>>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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