Re: [gentoo-user] MCE in kernel

["Alan E. Davis" <lngndvs@gmail.com>]

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Thank you.  I noticed that when I ran "make oldconfig" on a new kernel, the
configs were not what I'd expected.  The wrong CPU type was configured.

Alan

On 9/5/07, Don Jerman <djerman@pobox.com> wrote:
>
> On 9/3/07, Alan E. Davis <lngndvs@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Thank you.  I have solved the problem for now, but live in fear that
> there
> > is something untoward going in on my hardware.
> >
> Quite possible.  It can also be caused by misconfiguring kernel
> drivers.  I recently (accidently) selected the ATI agpart driver
> instead of the Intel driver.  Most drivers correctly detect when their
> corresponding device isn't present, but this one gamely tried to
> manage the AGP bridge and fouled up memory whenever X started...
>
> So you may want to review your kernel config and make sure you have
> all the devices you're attempting to use.
> --
> gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
>
>


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Alan Davis, Kagman High School, Saipan  lngndvs@gmail.com

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non-existent."
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