Moved HD to new computer - some problems [SOLVED]

rhfrommn · 2005-06-23 17:16:56

I got a newer PC to use for Arch after the system board failed on my old one. I just took the hard drive out of my old system and moved it to the new one. Almost everything worked after booting up and running alsaconf to detect the different sound chip on the new motherboard. But I am having a few problems.

When I open smc (super-mario brothers clone) it opens full screen. When I try to go to windowed it crashes the program and leaves my xfce messed up so I have to kill and restart X. There is a similar lockup with bumprace where it hangs then I have to restart X from the console. When I try to start frozen-bubble it just hangs before getting to the menu screen. I need to do a kill -9 on its process to get things working again. However, all games aren't broken since maelstrom runs perfectly. I'm puzzled why some are broken while others work fine.

When frozen-bubble hangs and I do an alt-ctrl-f1 here is what I see:

[SDL Init] GetModeLine - scrn: 0 clock: 157500
GetModeLine hdsp: 1280 hbeg: 1344 hend: 1504 httl: 1728
GetModeLine vdsp: 1024 vbet: 1025 vend: 1028 vttl: 1072 flags: 5

bomberclone has the same kind of lockup when I start it, and the console shows the exact same thing except it doesn't have the [SDL Init] at the start of the first line. I'm not sure if these have anything to do with the problem, but that is where the console is at when the programs hang.

Firefox seems to be working fine. And I can do stuff in terminal windows as I would expect with no trouble so far. So the box is operational and all, but I am a little bothered by the fact that a bunch of stuff that worked fine before is now broken, and after a couple days of working on it I can't figure it out.

I have a GeForce2 TI 64MB card in this machine, while the old one had a GeForce2 MX with 32MB in it. However, I am using the nv driver instead of the current nvidia driver since both of those cards are so old nvidia considers them legacy and doesn't support them with the current driver. Thus I don't think it is a video driver problem, but I could be wrong. Maybe there is some config setting I need to change. I did update the video ram to 65536 in xorg.conf.

I did try a pacman -Syu after moving the HD to the new system, but that didn't seem to change anything. Is there anything else I missed doing that I should have done to get arch working correctly on the new system?

Thanks much for any advice you can give me.
Ralph

dtw · 2005-06-23 18:49:47

I would just guess that your xorg config could use a refresh, but that is a guess, did you start from scratch?

rhfrommn · 2005-06-23 19:15:15

Hi Dibble,

Nope, I hadn't changed my xorg.conf, other than correcting the video ram size for the new card.

After reading your post I did try running xorgconfig and rebooting, but it still has exactly the same behavior as I described before. I did a diff on the xorg.conf and the previous one I saved and they ended up basically identical anyway, just some differences in the text strings for the monitor label and stuff like that. It chose all the settings the same as I had them before.

I've never used hwd before. Is this something that I might need to install that and see if it can figure my new hardware out?

Ralph

i3839 · 2005-06-23 19:49:22

To rule out the videocard try the vesa driver. If the problems go away then it's probably videocard/driver related. If using vesa helps then you could try a minimal xorg config without any options like ramsize etc, but only setting the driver to nv.

You could also take a look at the logfiles, who knows what useful info is hidden there...

rhfrommn · 2005-06-23 20:10:57

Thanks for the tip. I went into xorg.conf and commented out the video ram and nv driver lines and added a line with the vesa driver. It is behaving the same way. The only difference I noticed is that on the console after the games hang up now the hdsp and vdsp numbers are 1024 by 768 and the rest are all 0. Before none of the numbers were zero. I don't know if that means anything, but it is the only thing I could find different between having the vesa and nv drivers in use.

I checked /var/log/messages and didn't see anything that looked relevant, other than some messages about gconf. I rebooted and tried starting frozen-bubble and bomberclone. Both hung up as they have been doing. Here are all the messages from the reboot till now:

Jun 23 15:00:56 arch shutdown[760]: shutting down for system reboot
Jun 23 15:00:56 arch init: Switching to runlevel: 6
Jun 23 15:01:04 arch exiting on signal 15
Jun 23 15:01:45 arch syslogd 1.4.1: restart.
Jun 23 15:03:45 arch gconfd (root-527): starting (version 2.10.0), pid 527 user 'root'
Jun 23 15:03:45 arch gconfd (root-527): Resolved address "xml:readonly:/opt/gnome/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.mandatory" to a read-only configuration source at position 0
Jun 23 15:03:45 arch gconfd (root-527): Resolved address "xml:readwrite:/root/.gconf" to a writable configuration source at position 1
Jun 23 15:03:45 arch gconfd (root-527): Resolved address "xml:readonly:/opt/gnome/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults" to a read-only configuration source at position 2

I'm a little suprised to find gnome messages since I use xfce. Are these games looking for some gnome libraries or other stuff and not finding them now? It would be strange that moving the hard disk from one machine to another would cause that, but at the moment I don't know what else to go on . . .

Since the vesa driver didn't help I'm going to go ahead and switch back to nv.

Thanks again for the help.

Ralph

iphitus · 2005-06-24 06:04:33

gconf is used by a lot of GTK programs to store settings in a similar form to the windows registry.

i3839 · 2005-06-24 11:16:56

My guts tell me this problem is related to the one described here.

It's a very wild guess though, so probably rubbish, but do you have the problem when you run twm or something without gdm and use startx instead? (just start the apps from the xterm) I want to rule out gconfd, xfce and gdm.

Does it only happen with SDL programs? (though not all??) Nothing in the kernel log either?

rhfrommn · 2005-06-24 18:48:23

Thanks for the suggestion. To test what you were talking about I exited xfce and ran startx from the console. It brought me up in a gray screen with some xterms open. I think that is twm, but honestly I'm not sure. I ran bomberclone, frozen-bubble, and smc from the xterm as you suggested. Bomberclone and frozen-bubble did the exact same thing - even the messages I saw on the console when doing alt-ctl-f1 were the same. Smc didn't start up at all this time, while in xfce it started up with the wrong resolution and messed up xfce when I quit the game. So that was a bit different. But basically it seems like xfce isn't the problem since they still didn't work right without it.

I read through the link to the other thread you gave. I am not using udev at all - should I try installing that and see if it solves this issue? I know I need to do that eventually, but I thought I should fix this problem first. Maybe I should do it now though.

I didn't see anything other than what I think are normal boot messages in /var/log/kernel. Here is the last batch of stuff in case you see something I missed.

Thanks again for taking the time to help.

Jun 24 13:37:09 arch kernel: klogd 1.4.1, log source = /proc/kmsg started.
Jun 24 13:37:09 arch kernel: Cannot find map file.
Jun 24 13:37:09 arch kernel: No module symbols loaded - kernel modules not enabled.
Jun 24 13:37:09 arch kernel: Linux version 2.6.3 (root@mars) (gcc version 3.3.3) #1 SMP W
ed Feb 18 00:08:24 PST 2004
Jun 24 13:37:09 arch kernel: BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
Jun 24 13:37:09 arch kernel: BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
Jun 24 13:37:09 arch kernel: BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
Jun 24 13:37:09 arch kernel: BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
Jun 24 13:37:09 arch kernel: BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000002fff0000 (usable)
Jun 24 13:37:09 arch kernel: BIOS-e820: 000000002fff0000 - 000000002fff8000 (ACPI data)
Jun 24 13:37:09 arch kernel: BIOS-e820: 000000002fff8000 - 0000000030000000 (ACPI NVS)
Jun 24 13:37:09 arch kernel: BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec01000 (reserved)
Jun 24 13:37:09 arch kernel: BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee01000 (reserved)
Jun 24 13:37:09 arch kernel: BIOS-e820: 00000000ffee0000 - 00000000fff00000 (reserved)
Jun 24 13:37:09 arch kernel: BIOS-e820: 00000000fffc0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
Jun 24 13:37:09 arch kernel: user-defined physical RAM map:
Jun 24 13:37:09 arch kernel: user: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
Jun 24 13:37:09 arch kernel: user: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
Jun 24 13:37:09 arch kernel: user: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
Jun 24 13:37:09 arch kernel: user: 0000000000100000 - 000000002fff0000 (usable)
Jun 24 13:37:09 arch kernel: 767MB LOWMEM available.
Jun 24 13:37:09 arch kernel: On node 0 totalpages: 196592
Jun 24 13:37:09 arch kernel: DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch:1
Jun 24 13:37:09 arch kernel: Normal zone: 192496 pages, LIFO batch:16
Jun 24 13:37:09 arch kernel: HighMem zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:1
Jun 24 13:37:09 arch kernel: DMI 2.3 present.
Jun 24 13:37:09 arch kernel: ACPI: RSDP (v000 AMI )
@ 0x000fa300
Jun 24 13:37:09 arch kernel: ACPI: RSDT (v001 AMIINT SiS735XX 0x00001000 MSFT 0x0100000b)
@ 0x2fff0000
Jun 24 13:37:09 arch kernel: ACPI: FADT (v001 AMIINT SiS735XX 0x00001000 MSFT 0x0100000b)
@ 0x2fff0030
Jun 24 13:37:09 arch kernel: ACPI: DSDT (v001 SiS 735 0x00000100 MSFT 0x0100000d)
@ 0x00000000
Jun 24 13:37:09 arch kernel: Built 1 zonelists
Jun 24 13:37:09 arch kernel: Kernel command line: root=/dev/discs/disc0/part3 ro mem=7863
68K
Jun 24 13:37:09 arch kernel: Local APIC disabled by BIOS -- reenabling.
Jun 24 13:37:09 arch kernel: Found and enabled local APIC!
Jun 24 13:37:09 arch kernel: Initializing CPU#0
Jun 24 13:37:09 arch kernel: PID hash table entries: 4096 (order 12: 32768 bytes)
Jun 24 13:37:09 arch kernel: Detected 1394.326 MHz processor.
Jun 24 13:37:09 arch kernel: Using tsc for high-res timesource
Jun 24 13:37:09 arch kernel: Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Jun 24 13:37:09 arch kernel: Memory: 772204k/786368k available (3768k kernel code, 13416k
reserved, 1150k data, 240k init, 0k highmem)
Jun 24 13:37:09 arch kernel: Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in superv
isor mode... Ok.
Jun 24 13:37:09 arch kernel: Calibrating delay loop... 2760.70 BogoMIPS
Jun 24 13:37:09 arch kernel: Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 by
tes)
Jun 24 13:37:09 arch kernel: Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 byte
s)
Jun 24 13:37:09 arch kernel: Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
Jun 24 13:37:09 arch kernel: CPU: After generic identify, caps: 0383fbff c1cbfbff 000
00000 00000000
Jun 24 13:37:09 arch kernel: CPU: After vendor identify, caps: 0383fbff c1cbfbff 0000
0000 00000000
Jun 24 13:37:09 arch kernel: CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line), D cache 64K (64 bytes/
line)
Jun 24 13:37:09 arch kernel: CPU: L2 Cache: 256K (64 bytes/line)
Jun 24 13:37:09 arch kernel: CPU: After all inits, caps: 0383fbff c1cbfbff 00000000 0
0000020
Jun 24 13:37:09 arch kernel: Intel machine check architecture supported.
Jun 24 13:37:09 arch kernel: Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
Jun 24 13:37:09 arch kernel: Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Jun 24 13:37:09 arch kernel: Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Jun 24 13:37:09 arch kernel: Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
Jun 24 13:37:09 arch kernel: POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
Jun 24 13:37:09 arch kernel: CPU0: AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1600+ stepping 02
Jun 24 13:37:09 arch kernel: per-CPU timeslice cutoff: 731.25 usecs.
Jun 24 13:37:09 arch kernel: task migration cache decay timeout: 1 msecs.
Jun 24 13:37:09 arch kernel: SMP motherboard not detected.
Jun 24 13:37:09 arch kernel: enabled ExtINT on CPU#0
Jun 24 13:37:09 arch kernel: ESR value before enabling vector: 00000000
Jun 24 13:37:09 arch kernel: ESR value after enabling vector: 00000000
Jun 24 13:37:09 arch kernel: Using local APIC timer interrupts.
Jun 24 13:37:09 arch kernel: calibrating APIC timer ...
Jun 24 13:37:09 arch kernel: ..... CPU clock speed is 1393.0804 MHz.
Jun 24 13:37:09 arch kernel: ..... host bus clock speed is 265.0486 MHz.
Jun 24 13:37:09 arch kernel: Starting migration thread for cpu 0
Jun 24 13:37:09 arch kernel: Brought up 0 CPUs
Jun 24 13:37:09 arch kernel: NET: Registered protocol family 16
Jun 24 13:37:09 arch kernel: PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfdb01, last bus=1
Jun 24 13:37:09 arch kernel: PCI: Using configuration type 1
Jun 24 13:37:09 arch kernel: mtrr: v2.0 (20020519)
Jun 24 13:37:09 arch kernel: ACPI: Subsystem revision 20040116
Jun 24 13:37:09 arch kernel: ACPI: IRQ9 SCI: Edge set to Level Trigger.
Jun 24 13:37:09 arch kernel: ACPI: Interpreter enabled
Jun 24 13:37:09 arch kernel: ACPI: Using PIC for interrupt routing
Jun 24 13:37:09 arch kernel: ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (00:00)
Jun 24 13:37:09 arch kernel: PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
Jun 24 13:37:09 arch kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [_SB_.PCI0._PRT]
Jun 24 13:37:09 arch kernel: ACPI: Power Resource [URP1] (off)
Jun 24 13:37:09 arch kernel: ACPI: Power Resource [URP2] (off)
Jun 24 13:37:09 arch kernel: ACPI: Power Resource [FDDP] (off)
Jun 24 13:37:09 arch kernel: ACPI: Power Resource [LPTP] (off)
Jun 24 13:37:09 arch kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs 3 4 *5 7 10 11 12 14 1
5)
Jun 24 13:37:09 arch kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 10 11 12 14 15
)
Jun 24 13:37:09 arch kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 10 *11 12 14 1
5)
Jun 24 13:37:09 arch kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 10 *11 12 14 1
5)
Jun 24 13:37:09 arch kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKE] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 10 11 12 14 15
)
Jun 24 13:37:09 arch kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKF] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 10 11 12 14 15
)
Jun 24 13:37:09 arch kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKG] (IRQs 3 4 *5 7 10 11 12 14 1
5)
Jun 24 13:37:09 arch kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKH] (IRQs 3 4 *5 7 10 11 12 14 1
5)
Jun 24 13:37:09 arch kernel: Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay
Jun 24 13:37:09 arch kernel: SCSI subsystem initialized
Jun 24 13:37:09 arch kernel: Linux Kernel Card Services
Jun 24 13:37:09 arch kernel: options: [pci] [cardbus] [pm]
Jun 24 13:37:09 arch kernel: drivers/usb/core/usb.c: registered new driver usbfs
Jun 24 13:37:09 arch kernel: drivers/usb/core/usb.c: registered new driver hub
Jun 24 13:37:09 arch kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] enabled at IRQ 11
Jun 24 13:37:09 arch kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKH] enabled at IRQ 5
Jun 24 13:37:09 arch kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] enabled at IRQ 11
Jun 24 13:37:09 arch kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKG] enabled at IRQ 5
Jun 24 13:37:09 arch kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] enabled at IRQ 5
Jun 24 13:37:09 arch kernel: PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing
Jun 24 13:37:09 arch kernel: PCI: if you experience problems, try using option 'pci=noacp
i' or even 'acpi=off'
Jun 24 13:37:09 arch kernel: Machine check exception polling timer started.
Jun 24 13:37:09 arch kernel: apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.16ac)
Jun 24 13:37:09 arch kernel: apm: overridden by ACPI.
Jun 24 13:37:09 arch kernel: ikconfig 0.7 with /proc/config*
Jun 24 13:37:09 arch kernel: VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1
Jun 24 13:37:09 arch kernel: devfs: v1.22 (20021013) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
Jun 24 13:37:09 arch kernel: devfs: boot_options: 0x1
Jun 24 13:37:09 arch kernel: Installing knfsd (copyright (C) 1996 okir@monad.swb.de).
Jun 24 13:37:09 arch kernel: udf: registering filesystem
Jun 24 13:37:09 arch kernel: SGI XFS with ACLs, security attrs, no debug enabled
Jun 24 13:37:09 arch kernel: SGI XFS Quota Management subsystem
Jun 24 13:37:09 arch kernel: Initializing Cryptographic API
Jun 24 13:37:09 arch kernel: ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF]
Jun 24 13:37:09 arch kernel: ACPI: Sleep Button (CM) [SLPB]
Jun 24 13:37:09 arch kernel: ACPI: Processor [CPU1] (supports C1)
Jun 24 13:37:09 arch kernel: isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
Jun 24 13:37:09 arch kernel: spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7.
Jun 24 13:37:09 arch kernel: isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
Jun 24 13:37:09 arch kernel: pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
Jun 24 13:37:09 arch kernel: Linux agpgart interface v0.100 (c) Dave Jones
Jun 24 13:37:09 arch kernel: Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 8 ports, IRQ sha
ring disabled
Jun 24 13:37:09 arch kernel: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
Jun 24 13:37:09 arch kernel: ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
Jun 24 13:37:09 arch kernel: Using anticipatory io scheduler
Jun 24 13:37:10 arch kernel: Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
Jun 24 13:37:10 arch kernel: FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
Jun 24 13:37:10 arch kernel: RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size 1024
blocksize
Jun 24 13:37:10 arch kernel: loop: loaded (max 8 devices)
Jun 24 13:37:10 arch kernel: Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
Jun 24 13:37:10 arch kernel: ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override
with idebus=xx
Jun 24 13:37:10 arch kernel: SIS5513: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:02.5
Jun 24 13:37:10 arch kernel: SIS5513: chipset revision 208
Jun 24 13:37:10 arch kernel: SIS5513: not 100%% native mode: will probe irqs later
Jun 24 13:37:10 arch kernel: SIS5513: SiS735 ATA 100 (2nd gen) controller
Jun 24 13:37:10 arch kernel: ide0: BM-DMA at 0xff00-0xff07, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, h
db:DMA
Jun 24 13:37:10 arch kernel: ide1: BM-DMA at 0xff08-0xff0f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, h
dd:DMA
Jun 24 13:37:10 arch kernel: hda: WDC WD300BB-00AUA1, ATA DISK drive
Jun 24 13:37:10 arch kernel: ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
Jun 24 13:37:10 arch kernel: hdc: 36X CD-ROM, ATAPJun 24 13:37:10 arch kernel: ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
Jun 24 13:37:10 arch kernel: hda: max request size: 128KiB
Jun 24 13:37:10 arch kernel: hda: 58633344 sectors (30020 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=58168/
16/63, UDMA(100)
Jun 24 13:37:10 arch kernel: /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2 p3
Jun 24 13:37:10 arch kernel: hdc: ATAPI 24X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache, UDMA(33)
Jun 24 13:37:10 arch kernel: Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
Jun 24 13:37:10 arch kernel: Intel ISA PCIC probe: not found.
Jun 24 13:37:10 arch kernel: Databook TCIC-2 PCMCIA probe: not found.
Jun 24 13:37:10 arch kernel: drivers/usb/host/uhci-hcd.c: USB Universal Host Controller I
nterface driver v2.1
Jun 24 13:37:10 arch kernel: drivers/usb/core/usb.c: registered new driver hiddev
Jun 24 13:37:10 arch kernel: drivers/usb/core/usb.c: registered new driver hid
Jun 24 13:37:10 arch kernel: drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.0:USB HID core driver
Jun 24 13:37:10 arch kernel: mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
Jun 24 13:37:10 arch kernel: input: PC Speaker
Jun 24 13:37:10 arch kernel: serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
Jun 24 13:37:10 arch kernel: input: PS/2 Generic Mouse on isa0060/serio1
Jun 24 13:37:10 arch kernel: serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
Jun 24 13:37:10 arch kernel: input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard on isa0060/serio0
Jun 24 13:37:10 arch kernel: md: linear personality registered as nr 1
Jun 24 13:37:10 arch kernel: md: raid0 personality registered as nr 2
Jun 24 13:37:10 arch kernel: md: raid1 personality registered as nr 3
Jun 24 13:37:10 arch kernel: md: raid5 personality registered as nr 4
Jun 24 13:37:10 arch kernel: raid5: measuring checksumming speed
Jun 24 13:37:10 arch kernel: 8regs : 2016.000 MB/sec
Jun 24 13:37:10 arch kernel: 8regs_prefetch: 1916.000 MB/sec
Jun 24 13:37:10 arch kernel: 32regs : 1608.000 MB/sec
Jun 24 13:37:10 arch kernel: 32regs_prefetch: 1300.000 MB/sec
Jun 24 13:37:10 arch kernel: pIII_sse : 1764.000 MB/sec
Jun 24 13:37:10 arch kernel: pII_mmx : 3716.000 MB/sec
Jun 24 13:37:10 arch kernel: p5_mmx : 4980.000 MB/sec
Jun 24 13:37:10 arch kernel: raid5: using function: pIII_sse (1764.000 MB/sec)
Jun 24 13:37:10 arch kernel: md: multipath personality registered as nr 7
Jun 24 13:37:10 arch kernel: md: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
Jun 24 13:37:10 arch kernel: device-mapper: 4.0.0-ioctl (2003-06-04) initialised: dm@uk.s
istina.com
Jun 24 13:37:10 arch kernel: NET: Registered protocol family 2
Jun 24 13:37:10 arch kernel: IP: routing cache hash table of 8192 buckets, 64Kbytes
Jun 24 13:37:10 arch kernel: TCP: Hash tables configured (established 262144 bind 65536)
Jun 24 13:37:10 arch kernel: NET: Registered protocol family 1
Jun 24 13:37:10 arch kernel: NET: Registered protocol family 10
Jun 24 13:37:10 arch kernel: IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver
Jun 24 13:37:10 arch kernel: NET: Registered protocol family 17
Jun 24 13:37:10 arch kernel: ACPI: (supports S0 S1 S4 S5)
Jun 24 13:37:10 arch kernel: md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
Jun 24 13:37:10 arch kernel: md: autorun ...
Jun 24 13:37:10 arch kernel: md: ... autorun DONE.
Jun 24 13:37:10 arch kernel: kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
Jun 24 13:37:10 arch kernel: EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
Jun 24 13:37:10 arch kernel: VFS: Mounted root (ext3 filesystem) readonly.
Jun 24 13:37:10 arch kernel: Mounted devfs on /dev
Jun 24 13:37:10 arch kernel: Freeing unused kernel memory: 240k freed
Jun 24 13:37:10 arch kernel: Adding 262576k swap on /dev/discs/disc0/part2. Priority:-1
extents:1
Jun 24 13:37:10 arch kernel: EXT3 FS on hda3, internal journal
Jun 24 13:37:10 arch kernel: Real Time Clock Driver v1.12
Jun 24 13:37:10 arch kernel: sis900.c: v1.08.07 11/02/2003
Jun 24 13:37:10 arch kernel: eth0: Realtek RTL8201 PHY transceiver found at address 1.
Jun 24 13:37:10 arch kernel: eth0: Using transceiver found at address 1 as default
Jun 24 13:37:10 arch kernel: eth0: SiS 900 PCI Fast Ethernet at 0xcc00, IRQ 5, 00:d0:09:e
c:66:13.
Jun 24 13:37:10 arch kernel: intel8x0_measure_ac97_clock: measured 49499 usecs
Jun 24 13:37:10 arch kernel: intel8x0: clocking to 48000
Jun 24 13:37:10 arch kernel: Disabled Privacy Extensions on device c0572980(lo)
Jun 24 13:37:10 arch kernel: eth0: Media Link On 100mbps full-duplex
Jun 24 13:37:18 arch kernel: eth0: no IPv6 routers present
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i3839 · 2005-06-24 20:11:41

Only useful thing the logfile tells is that you use a rather old kernel. I wouldn't try udev with that version as quite a lot of things may have changed in between. All I can say is that I've done more or less the same as you, replacing almost all hardware except the hd, and I've had no problems at all. I'd try a pacman -Syu and if you've a custom kernel then update that too. You could try checking your memory and hd for corruption or badblocks too, and try reinstalling mesa and sdl to see if that helps anything. In short, I've no idea what could explain the weirdness other than hardware problems.

rhfrommn · 2005-06-24 20:23:33

Ok. Thanks for all the time you spent looking into this. I'll upgrade the kernel before going to udev. I'll also run a fsck to make sure my hard drive didn't get scrambled in the switch, that might explain why it can't find the files and hangs up when loading programs.

Ralph

rhfrommn · 2005-06-24 21:11:28

Well, your tips led to it being solved even though we had given up . . . .

I upgraded to the latest 2.6 kernel with a simple pacman -S kernel26. Once that was done everything works fine.

I wonder if there is some hardware in this new box that my old 2.3.1 kernel didn't like but the newest version can handle fine. Anyways, all the games now run ok. When I feel brave I'll tackle switching to udev.

Thanks again for all the help.

Ralph

i3839 · 2005-06-25 12:54:25

Great to hear that it's solved. (Though you upgraded from a 2.6.3, not from 2.3.1 ;-)

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Moved HD to new computer - some problems [SOLVED]

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Re: Moved HD to new computer - some problems [SOLVED]

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Re: Moved HD to new computer - some problems [SOLVED]

#8 2005-06-24 18:48:23

Re: Moved HD to new computer - some problems [SOLVED]

#9 2005-06-24 20:11:41

Re: Moved HD to new computer - some problems [SOLVED]

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Re: Moved HD to new computer - some problems [SOLVED]

#11 2005-06-24 21:11:28

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#12 2005-06-25 12:54:25

Re: Moved HD to new computer - some problems [SOLVED]

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