Hi all,
I'm new to the list. My name is Eric Pierce.
I'm having some problems with my new SuSE 9.0 network install.
Read on if you have a minute.
My network install went fine. However, X will load up and freeze under a minute. I can swirl around the mouse for 10-20 seconds then everything freezes up.
I'm unable to jump to other terminals at this point. The kernel, however, is still purring along. I can ssh into the machine. But killing X remotely doesn't give me back any control over said machine.
I've tried quite a few things to figure this out, but to no avail.
I deleted the XF86Config to get a fresh start and ran Sax2. Sax2 crashes in less than a minute after X is up. I also tried using my working XF86Config file from SuSE 8.2, but that didn't help any (ie., X still froze).
I have 2 devices that are getting different IRQ assignments under SuSE 9.0 than what they got under 8.2.
8.2 had: 10: 2 XT-PIC ohci1394, Intel 82801BA-ICH2 11: 30 XT-PIC eth0
9.0 had: 5: 25 XT-PIC eth0, ohci1394
Everything is the same except for these 2 devices grabbing IRQ 5 (they had 10 & 11 under SuSE 8.2).
I'm not so sure if this IRQ reassignment under 9.0 is really the problem anyhow. I popped out the firewire card (ohci1394 above) so eth0 could grab IRQ 5 all for itself, but X still dies.
I don't see anywhere in BIOS to reassign these particular IRQs.
Not knowing exactly what I'm doing, I also tried setpci -s 02:08.8 INTERRUPT_LINE=11 (11 was what SuSE 8.2 put eth0 at). That went in quietly. I also did setpci -s 02:08.8 INTERRUPT_PIN=11 which went in quietly too. I reassigned the firewire card as SuSE8.2 had it as well, but I saw no change when doing 'cat /proc/interrupts'.
I don't see any errors in /var/log/XFree86.0.log either. A few Warnings, but nothing that looks detrimental.
I also tried pci=noacpi at bootup. When I 'dmesg' it suggested that I try this. Still no go.
My video card is a NVidia TNT2 32MB / AGP. It more or less worked find with SuSE 8.2.
I'm truly stumped on this one. Anyone have any ideas?
Anyway, thanks for reading! Eric Pierce
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