Re: Mainboard with Serverworks HE Chipset

[Matti Aarnio]

On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 12:33:09AM +0100, Matthias Schniedermeyer wrote:
> I got a "Tyan Thunder HE-SL"-Mainboard today, which has a "Severworks
> ServerSet III HE"-Chipset. (2xPIII 933, 2x512MB PC133 ECC-Registered
> SDRAM)
...
> First the question. I have an uptime of phenomenal 29minutes and "cat
> /proc/interrupts" tells me this
> 
> NMI:     175819     175819
> LOC:     175829     175828
> 
> Should i be worried? Or can i ignore it. With my former Mainboard NMI was
> (AFAIR) always 0.

	My ASUS P2B-DS with intel 440BX/ZX chipset shows the same.

	As far as I can see, that means SMP with APICs.
	"LOC" is "Local APIC", "NMI" is perhaps "Remote APIC",
	or inter-processor APIC call, or some such.
	(Global CLI, TLB flushes, ...)

> Now my problem.
> 
> The Graphic-Card is a Geforce 2, Xfree is 4.02 (compiled under 2.2.17).
> 
> When i start X, everything is fine. When i go back to text-console and
> wait "some time" and then switch back to X the computer locks solid and i
> have to press the Big-Red Button. (Switching back to X after a "short"
> periode of time, at the text-console, works "normaly")
> 
> If anyone needs more information, i will happily provide them.

	I have same card, but haven't tried to do that kind of switching..
	.. at least not recently.

	You don't mention which kernel you are running, and what userspace
	package.

> Bis denn

/Matti Aarnio