Horrible problems trying to run Linux on my hardware

[xyzzy at hotpop.com]

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On Tuesday 03 February 2004 6:10 pm, Wade Hampton wrote:
> xyzzy at hotpop.com wrote:
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> >Greetings,
> >
> >Hardware:
> >ASUS motherboard with 82801EB Intel chipset (865G video, 82562EZ LAN),
> >Hyperthread support, Enhanced P-ATA/S-ATA, USB 2.0.
> >1 GB ram
> >Intel Pentium 4 2.4 GHz
> >3 harddisks, first one is the boot disk using Windows XP Pro (with dual
> > boot off of the third disk for Linux using XP boot manager) UDMA 2, the
> > other two are UDMA 5, the last disk being for Linux with /, /boot, /var
> > and swap partitions).
> >LG DVD/CD-RW combo
> >Adaptec SCSI 2930 PCI card
> >[snip]
> >
> >I managed to upgrade the system using the Internet until everything was at
> > "0 updates needed".  It was still VERY slow and I had a few times where
> > the system froze completely, necessitating a press of the reset button.
>
> This crash sounds like it could be the Fedora SMP kernel issue that has
> been discussed on this list and RedHat's bugzilla.  You might want to see:
>
>     https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=109497
>
> Also look a the thread about
>     Re: System lockup with SMP Kernel.
>
> As for the running slow, that is a different problem.
> --
> Wade Hampton

Thanks for the reply...

I seem to get from the bug reports and message threads that it could be ACPI 
or autofs.  If it IS ACPI, maybe this is the reason for my slowdown also.  I 
need to check and find out what what to do, but I can't do anything since I 
can't get back into X.  Any ideas on what I can do to get my X server back 
up?  This is the real problem for me right now...
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