On Dec 23, 2011, at 2:47 PM, fred smith <fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us> wrote: > On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 01:02:12PM -0500, fred smith wrote: >> On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 05:53:13PM -0600, Johnny Hughes wrote: >>> On 12/22/2011 05:44 PM, fred smith wrote: >>>> On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 04:56:42PM -0600, Johnny Hughes wrote: >> <snip> >>>>> >>>>> There is a new kernel building right now that might >>>>> fix something ... though I do not see anything specifically about your cpu. >>>>> >>>>> Here is the errata link: >>>>> >>>>> http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-1849.html >>>>> >>>>> If everything builds it should be released in a couple of hours. >>>>> >>>> >>>> so it'll show up in a release channel (or CR repo) ? >>>> >>>> >>> It will be in 6.2/updates/ >>> >>> Still building right now. >>> >> >> Johnny, I got that kernel, and it dies what appears to be the same >> death as the prior one. the register dump is different than the one >> I showed, but even before that the dump didn't always look the same. >> this one also mentions something about alsa or snd. I can put it up on >> the same web site as the last one if anyone would find it useful to >> see (I certainly don't know how to interpret it). >> >> also, this is a netbook, so it has no serial port. If it did I'd look >> into a serial console on the theory that I could capture the entire >> dump. Can anyone suggest how I would do that without a serial console? >> ... or if not exactly that, other things that would be useful to do >> to help clarify/diagnose this? >> >> thanks all! >> >> Fred > > here's th e register dump for this failure. it looks like it may be > more useful than the last one: > > http://users.rcn.com/fredricksmith/100_2020.JPG Is that sound on-board? If it is disable it in BIOS, if it isn't, remove the card. See if it breaks after that. -Ross
