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

[Clint Brubakken <cabrubak@xxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2003-01-30 at 19:56, Jeff Vian wrote:

> 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.
> 


it seems faster then it did before, maybe its my perception , or maybe
its using a different driver (I hate setting up X)


> 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.
> 


When I installed it and ran Xconfigurator, it say the sis card, I could
have tried to set it up manually, but as setting up X is a pain, and I
figured I'd free some resources I decided to disable it instead.



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


I'm not sure about drivers I was using X 4.2.0, and there were no
problems with the how it worked, just kernel faults. And since they
happened at times before X started and when testing with memtest86
(which loaded of a floppy, and didn't start X of course) I figure its
some hardware compatablity problem. 

I think the best solution is to get a hammer and take this box in a
field somewhere, and order a new one from Penguin Computing, with
everything pre installed and working, so I can just do my job and not
muck around with getting the box to run all day, but as its not my
money, its not really my choice.






> 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. 
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >On Tue, 28 Jan 2003, David E Carmichael wrote:
> >
> >  
> >
> >>Clint -
> >>
> >>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?
> >>
> >>
> >>    
> >>
> >>>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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