alpha/67626: X crashes an alpha machine, resulting reboot

Kazuyoshi Furutaka furutaka at jb3.so-net.ne.jp
Tue Jun 20 20:40:06 UTC 2006


From: Bernd Walter <ticso at cicely12.cicely.de>
Subject: Re: alpha/67626: X crashes an alpha machine, resulting reboot
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 19:31:48 +0200

> > A 0x670 vector machine check indicates a hardware failure specific to the
> > CPU such as a cache failure.
> 
> On some machine modells it could also be accessing non exiting memory,
> which can point to a broken memory mapped videocard driver.
> If the video card is on a secondary bus it can also be a sparse
> initialisation problem related to PCI-PCI bridges.
> Moving slots may help in that case.

I'll check this.

By the way, as an additional note, the same machine and
the video card was running Linux and XFree86 without any
problem before it was converted to FreeBSD.

Yours,
Kazuyoshi
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Kazuyoshi Furutaka
furutaka at jb3.so-net.ne.jp


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