FC3 and Dell 2850

[Josh Brown]

I would post this question on the linux-poweredge mailing list, 
http://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge
-jb

Stephen Carville wrote:

> Just a heads up.
>
> I have three Dell 2850's with Dual Xeon processors and 2G RAM on which 
> I have installed Fedora Core 3.  All three will lock up when I start 
> either twm or xfce along with the SMP kernel (2.6.11-1.14 and 
> 2.6.11-1.35) and try to drag anything with the mouse.  If I run the 
> non-SMP kernel everything appears to be fine.  The error reported on 
> the dell LCD is C070 which support tells me is a hardware processor 
> error. Dell asked me to return one of the machines to their 
> engineering department so I guess they are taking it seriously.  
> Unfortunately the replacement they sent has the same problem.
>
> This only happens if I start the graphics at the console.  So far the 
> machines work fine in runlevel 3 and VNC is unaffected.
>