My Gentoo 1.4 hard locks up (no mouse, no keyboard)

snowpalmer · n00b Joined: 06 Oct 2002 Posts: 9

Hello,

I recently installed a fresh Gentoo 1.4 and I am having problems with my system hard locking (no mouse control, no keyboard control). I'm not exactly sure what is causing it. I have one idea, I installed from a stage3 tarball for an Athlon T-Bird. I was guessing my system was a T-Bird as opposed to just a regular Athlon (i'm not sure how to tell the difference). I figured if it wasn't a T-Bird then my system wouldn't work at all. But now I'm wondering whether or not my system is a T-Bird since I keep getting these lock ups.

So my questions are as follows.

Would my system work "almost" if I have a regular athlon and I compiled with a T-Bird. If so how do I find out what kind of CPU I have.. and is there anyway to recompile my system (and apps) without having to nuke the system?

If my system wouldn't work at all if I have a regular athlon and I compiled with a T-Bird then.. any ideas as to what might be causing my problem?

I have general crashes when I boot into windows but the mouse and keyboard don't lock up.

Thanks for your help.

Snowpalmer

pjp · Administrator Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 20067

What is my cpu? might help you identify your CPU.
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snowpalmer · n00b Joined: 06 Oct 2002 Posts: 9

I checked that thread and according to that I have a T-Bird. That kind of leaves me at a loss of ideas.

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pjp · Administrator Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 20067

What are your settigs for CHOST, CFLAGS and CXXFLAGS in /etc/make.conf? Are you using a vanilla kernel, or a Gentoo sources kernel?
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snowpalmer · n00b Joined: 06 Oct 2002 Posts: 9

My flags are as follows

CHOST='i686-pc-linux-gnu' CFLAGS='-march=athlon-tbird -mcpu=athlon-tbird -O3 -pipe' CXXFLAGS='-march=athlon-tbird -mcpu=athlon-tbird -O3 -pipe'

I used a gentoo kernel not a vanilla kernel.

rac · Posted: Thu Oct 17, 2002 7:46 am Post subject:

If you have some time to spare testing your hardware, check out Segmentation fault with GCC. If you had installed from stage1, I would be less tempted to point the finger at things like RAM, but...

Switching to a vanilla kernel might help, as well, but if I were you, I would first reassure myself that the core components (RAM, CPU, disk controller, HDD) were reliable and working together OK.
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snowpalmer · n00b Joined: 06 Oct 2002 Posts: 9

I read through that other forum. I'm going to try some of the things in there and see if I can trace down some type of hardware problem. I'll let you know the results.

Snowpalmer

snowpalmer · n00b Joined: 06 Oct 2002 Posts: 9

I ran the script test for 11 hours and it didn't lock up once. Unfortunately I can't run it for longer than that since I don't have another PC. Is that a long enough test time? If so and it didn't lock up, could it have something to do with my video card?

Snowpalmer