I've an promise PDC20267 pci-ide controler, which i use with the kernel module pdc202xx_old that is loaded by coldplug. When i try to mount a partition on a disk connected to that controler [i've tried that with two different disks, both with ntfs filesystems on them] while listening to music i get a terrible beep through my speakers and the system completly freezes. I've looked into /var/log/kernel/current after a reset but didn't find any information connected to that problem. The strange thing is that mounting works when i don't listen to music [an copying 5GB], and even further: turning the music on after mounting worked for at least 15min before the system crashed with a beep as described earlier. As you can see in the lspci output below i've another mass storage controler which doesn't suffer from these strange problems. Maybe i should mention that it is very unlikely that this is a hardware problem, as i didn't experience any problems in win2k. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. get a Promise PDC20267 card and connect a hd to it 2. modprobe pdc202xx_old and turn on some music 3. try to mount a partition on a disk connected to that card Actual Results: system freezes with a terrible beep Expected Results: mount a partition Portage 2.0.51.19 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.3.5, glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r1, 2.6.11.7 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.11.7 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2400+ Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 Python: dev-lang/python-2.3.4-r1 [2.3.4 (#1, Mar 10 2005, 18:30:59)] dev-lang/python: 2.3.4-r1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.8.5-r3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.4_p6, 1.9.4 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.10-r4 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.8.1-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -mmmx -msse -m3dnow -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -mmmx -msse -m3dnow -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.inode.at/" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 3dnow X aalib alsa apm arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bonobo bzlib cdr crypt cups curl emboss encode esd fam firebird foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gnome gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 imagemagick imlib ipv6 java jpeg junit libg++ libwww mad mikmod mmx motif mozilla mp3 mpeg ncurses nls ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png postgres python qt readline sdl slang spell sqlite sse ssl svga tcltk tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts usb vorbis xine xml xml2 xmms xv xvid zlib video_cards_radeon" Unset: ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS $ lsmod [all modules except for nvidia listed here are provided with the kernel] snd_seq_midi 6368 - snd_emu10k1_synth 6624 - snd_emux_synth 34848 - snd_seq_virmidi 5408 - snd_seq_midi_emul 6368 - snd_pcm_oss 47680 - snd_mixer_oss 17088 - snd_seq_oss 31648 - snd_seq_midi_event 6048 - snd_seq 49008 - uhci_hcd 29232 - snd_emu10k1 95492 - snd_rawmidi 19776 - snd_seq_device 6700 - snd_ac97_codec 73752 - snd_pcm 82056 - snd_timer 20868 - snd_page_alloc 7364 - snd_util_mem 3136 - snd_hwdep 6784 - snd 44772 - soundcore 6816 - pdc202xx_old 9376 - usbcore 105208 - nvidia 3916188 - because of bug 87099 i use alsa-lib-1.0.9_rc2-r1 $ lspci 0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8366/A/7 [Apollo KT266/A/333] 0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8366/A/7 [Apollo KT266/A/333 AGP] 0000:00:09.0 RAID bus controller: Silicon Image, Inc. (formerly CMD Technology Inc) PCI0680 Ultra ATA-133 Host Controller (rev 01) 0000:00:0b.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10) 0000:00:0c.0 Unknown mass storage controller: Promise Technology, Inc. PDC20267 (FastTrak100/Ultra100) (rev 02) 0000:00:0d.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10k1 (rev 08) 0000:00:0d.1 Input device controller: Creative Labs SB Live! MIDI/Game Port (rev 08) 0000:00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233 PCI to ISA Bridge 0000:00:11.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06) 0000:00:11.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 1b) 0000:00:11.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 1b) 0000:00:11.4 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 1b) 0000:00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 30) 0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV17 [GeForce4 MX 440] (rev a3) If interested, i can attach my kernel-config ...
Can you do a cat /proc/interrupts, please?
This is $ cat /proc/interrupts CPU0 0: 11092509 XT-PIC timer 1: 7573 XT-PIC i8042 2: 0 XT-PIC cascade 9: 0 XT-PIC acpi 10: 535082 XT-PIC ide0, ide1, EMU10K1, uhci_hcd, uhci_hcd, uhci_hcd, eth0 11: 1037563 XT-PIC ide4, nvidia 12: 496280 XT-PIC i8042 14: 109038 XT-PIC ide2 15: 10 XT-PIC ide3 NMI: 0 ERR: 6
Matthias, is ide0/ide1 the Promise controller? If so, then I assume, that this is really an IRQ conflict. Try to move your SB to another PCI slot and check /proc/interrupts again.
Ok, i tried some differnt [not all] combinations with the cards in my pci slots: The only combination i found that really works is: -------- Promise [PCI - IDE] -------- Silicon Image [PCI - IDE] -------- -------- Realtek [network] -------- -------- Emu10k1 $ cat /proc/interupts CPU0 0: 803413 XT-PIC timer 1: 1487 XT-PIC i8042 2: 0 XT-PIC cascade 9: 0 XT-PIC acpi 10: 2620 XT-PIC ide0, ide1 11: 79771 XT-PIC ide4, EMU10K1, uhci_hcd, uhci_hcd, uhci_hcd, eth0, nvidia 12: 24549 XT-PIC i8042 14: 40199 XT-PIC ide2 15: 10 XT-PIC ide3 NMI: 0 ERR: 0 The following combination worked partley, as the system didn't crash, but the sound was disturbed by short beeping noises from time to time, espacially when network load was high: -------- -------- Silicon Image [PCI - IDE] -------- -------- Promise [PCI - IDE] -------- Realtek [network] -------- Emu10k1 These combinations didn't work: -------- -------- Silicon Image [PCI - IDE] -------- -------- Realtek [network] -------- Promise [PCI - IDE] -------- Emu10k1 -------- -------- Silicon Image [PCI - IDE] -------- -------- Realtek [network] -------- Emu10k1 -------- Promise [PCI - IDE] So, the question that remains for me, as my problem is more or less solved: Why does windows2k not suffer from these issues ? Is it possible that with a well choosen kernel configuration these problems disapear in linux too ? As far as I know the order in which pci cards are plugged in should not make a differnece for the end user, at least whith an ideal motherboard and kernel ...
Try enabling APIC in your kernel config. THis is probably the way that windows does it.
Hmm, according to /proc/cpuinfo my processor doesn't support apic. Is it possible that this problems are caused because '[] Plug and Play ACPI support' and/or '[] ISA support' (allthough i have no isa slots, there is an pci to isa bridge on my bord according to lspci) ?
It would be very unlikely that your processor doesn't support APIC. Please just try turning the config option on.
You are right; APIC was just disabled by my BIOS - thus i passed lapic=yes to the kernel ... Local APIC disabled by BIOS -- reenabling. Found and enabled local APIC! mapped APIC to ffffd000 (fee00000) But this didn't solve my problem ...
Maybe i should mention that i had similar problems (strange beeping noises while listening to music and system/network load is high) with 2.4 kernels and without the promise mass storage controler too: At first I circumvented this issue by using my onboard sound chip instead of emu10k1. After some discussions in the gentoo.user mailing list i moved my soundblaster to the last pci slot - and that solved the problem. Thus, i think that my 'Promise PDC20267' has nothing to do with my problem, as most likely i would have experinced similar behaviour with any other additional pci card, so the summary for this bug (which may be a result of a misconfigured kernel) is somehow misleading. In my opinion this bug should be closed/maked as dublicate in favour of another one. I think that this issue is, if it has to do at least something with my hardware, related to my mainbord, which is an eopx-kh8+.
I also had major troubles with my VIA Apollo board, especially with SB live. I ignored the problems until I bought newer hardware. However the problem is almost certainly that there are so many drivers on one interrupt: 10: 535082 XT-PIC ide0, ide1, EMU10K1, uhci_hcd, uhci_hcd, uhci_hcd, eth0 I'd be interested to see the contents of /proc/interrupts now that APIC is enabled. You could try manually assigning IRQ's in your BIOS setup so that they are spaced out more evenly.
Closing as this seems more like a BIOS issue.. see comment #10
