[07:23] <desrt> benc; ping
[10:55] <fabbione> mjg59: ping?
[01:59] <mjg59> fabbione: Hi
[02:00] <fabbione> mjg59: yo.. sorry i am busy to fix something atm, but i have an interesting problem for you on my new amd64
[02:00] <fabbione> will you be around in a couple of hours?
[02:02] <mjg59> fabbione: Ought to be
[02:06] <fabbione> ok great
[03:16] <fabbione> mjg59: still around?
[03:18] <mjg59> fabbione: Hi
[03:18] <fabbione> yo
[03:18] <fabbione> so that's the situation...
[03:18] <fabbione> i just bought an AMD64
[03:18] <fabbione> with an A8V mobo
[03:18] <fabbione> if you need links to the references you tell me
[03:19] <fabbione> basically i have 2 video card there
[03:19] <fabbione> one AGP and one PCI
[03:19] <fabbione> both of them nvidia
[03:19] <fabbione> indipendently if:
[03:19] <fabbione> a)  i use the free or the binary driver
[03:20] <fabbione> b) i pass the hell of a command line like acpi=off pci=noacpi pci=routeirq acpi=noirq 
[03:20] <fabbione> c) indipendently to whatever i set in the BIOS
[03:20] <fabbione> everytime i start to make load on the PCI card
[03:20] <fabbione> the machine hangs very very hard
[03:20] <fabbione> and i know for a fact that the card is good
[03:20] <fabbione> there are no irq conflicts whatsoever
[03:21] <mjg59> fabbione: Hm. No idea, I'm afraid.
[03:21] <fabbione> it happens if i change slot of the card
[03:21] <mjg59> Does it happen with only the PCI card?
[03:21] <fabbione> so it's not related to position on the PCI bus
[03:21] <fabbione> you mean without initizialing the AGP one?
[03:22] <mjg59> Pulling the AGP one?
[03:22] <fabbione> hmmmm didn't check...
[03:22] <fabbione> point
[03:22] <fabbione> ok let say that it doesn't work...
[03:22] <mjg59> It could be a PCI controller issue
[03:22] <mjg59> It'd be interesting to see what happens if you try heavy DMA load over another PCI device
[03:22] <fabbione> i doubt.. there are other 3 cards there that are working fine
[03:22] <fabbione> already done
[03:22] <mjg59> Ah, ok
[03:23] <fabbione> cat /proc/mdstat 
[03:23] <fabbione> Personalities : [raid5]  
[03:23] <fabbione> md0 : active raid5 hde1[0]  hdg1[2]  hdh1[3]  hdf1[1] 
[03:23] <fabbione>       361871808 blocks level 5, 64k chunk, algorithm 2 [4/4]  [UUUU] 
[03:23] <mjg59> Could be the PCIGART code doing something wrong on amd64, I guess
[03:23] <fabbione> these 4 disks have been resyncing a few times during the 40 reboots/crashes
[03:23] <fabbione> i did try also to run i386
[03:23] <fabbione> same story
[03:23] <mjg59> Heh. Ok, so probably not a generic PCI issue.
[03:23] <mjg59> Have you tried an earlier X?
[03:24] <mjg59> I'm sorry, I'm running out of possible issues here. It'd be interesting to see if it happens with only the PCI card, which would narrow things down a bit
[03:25] <fabbione> ok.. i will try in a few minutes
[03:25] <fabbione> i was just searching ideas on how to isolate the bug
[03:25] <fabbione> that would make me happy enough for today
[03:26] <mjg59> Narrowing it down to the PCI or the PCI+AGP cases would probably help
[03:26] <fabbione> yup
[03:26] <mjg59> If it happens with just the PCI card, it's probably an X boog
[03:27] <fabbione> well yeah, but the machine should hang dead hard... but well it's X :)
[03:46] <fabbione> let see
[03:46] <fabbione> it seems i did mistype noapic the first time
[04:06] <fabbione> hey ik5pvx 
[04:06] <ik5pvx> hello
[04:06] <fabbione> guys.. meet ik5pvx .. the guy that ported me to linux
[04:06] <fabbione> ik5pvx: meet the guys
[04:06] <desrt> hello ik5pvx.  thanks for porting fabbio
[04:06] <ik5pvx> quit saying that fabio, or people may think I'm actually able to do anything useful here
[04:06] <ik5pvx> :)
[04:06] <fabbione> hey desrt 
[04:07] <desrt> ik5pvx; he has some endianness issues, though, that maybe you could fix up...
[04:07] <fabbione> ik5pvx: the DVB guy is not online.. but well
[04:07] <desrt> good 'morning'
[04:07] <ik5pvx> fabbione ? hes BIG endian. 
[04:07] <fabbione> ahha
[04:08] <fabbione> hey i lost 4 kg in the last 2 weeks
[04:08] <fabbione> desrt: no.. your problem is that you are canadian.. and you use ppc
[04:08] <desrt> you're going to ubz, right?
[04:09] <fabbione> desrt: i have to.. it's no option for me
[04:09] <fabbione> i will be there almost 3 weeks
[04:09] <desrt> cool.  i'll get to meet you then :)
[04:09] <fabbione> ah cool!
[04:09] <desrt> y'all were nice enough to sponsor me
[04:09] <fabbione> desrt: remember the G5 you promised me
[04:09] <desrt> actually, no... i don't remember that at all :)
[04:09] <fabbione> that's why i am sending you a reminder
[04:09] <desrt> hah
[04:09] <fabbione> so you have time to pack it :)
[04:09] <fabbione> ahha
[04:10] <fabbione> anyway i am back to mount the XP2100+
[04:10] <fabbione> hopefully it will work
[04:10] <desrt> k
[04:10] <desrt> i'll have to start working on packing it
[04:16] <fabbione> desrt: oh don't forget the 24 ports Gigabit Cisco switch!
[04:16] <desrt> i -definitely- don't remember promising that one
[04:17] <fabbione> ahha
[04:20] <desrt> k
[04:20] <desrt> G5 all packed up
[04:22] <fabbione> eheh
[09:40] <quartermain> can I ask a questionn about initramfs here?