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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] OT: kernel parameters
Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2011 19:47:43 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4596857.uaNdiZnNgt@nazgul> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201106271757.01209.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org>

On Monday 27 June 2011 17:57:00 Peter Humphrey did opine thusly:
> Hello list,
> 
> Some time ago I saw a comment in a kernel config help page saying to
> enable this option if unexplained, random lockups occurred. I
> didn't need to do that for Gentoo, but every other distro I've
> tried locks up after a random interval - even the latest Fedora 15.
> I suspect I have a chipset problem, but Gentoo runs happily with it
> so there must be a config option of some kind.
> 
> Can anyone point me to the parameter concerned? I can't find it with
> grep.

Could be several things, the latest one to hit /. is

pcie_aspm=force

http://linux.slashdot.org/story/11/06/27/0459252/Nailing-the-Cause-of-
Recent-Linux-Power-
Issues?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Slashdot%2Fslashdot+%28Slashdot%29

Or, you could grep the Makefile[1] for "lockups".

[1] Not sure if it's really in the Makefile or somewhere else


-- 
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com



  reply	other threads:[~2011-06-27 17:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-06-27 16:57 [gentoo-user] OT: kernel parameters Peter Humphrey
2011-06-27 17:47 ` Alan McKinnon [this message]
2011-06-27 17:53 ` [gentoo-user] " Remy Blank
2011-06-28 18:35   ` pk
2011-06-30 12:58   ` Peter Humphrey
2011-06-30 13:28     ` Alan McKinnon
2011-06-30 14:30       ` Peter Humphrey
2011-06-30 14:45         ` Dale
2011-06-30 15:18           ` Peter Humphrey
2011-06-30 15:42             ` Dale

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