From owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 20 20:40:06 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 402B016A47A; Tue, 20 Jun 2006 20:40:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from furutaka@jb3.so-net.ne.jp) Received: from mx52.ms.so-net.ne.jp (mx52.ms.so-net.ne.jp [202.238.83.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE4F143D5E; Tue, 20 Jun 2006 20:40:02 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from furutaka@jb3.so-net.ne.jp) Received: from localhost (pd3986e.tkyoac00.ap.so-net.ne.jp [220.211.152.110]) by mx52.ms.so-net.ne.jp with ESMTP id k5KKdqkH009839; Wed, 21 Jun 2006 05:39:53 +0900 (JST) Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 05:39:52 +0900 (JST) Message-Id: <20060621.053952.1016293264.furutaka@jb3.so-net.ne.jp> To: ticso@cicely.de, ticso@cicely12.cicely.de From: Kazuyoshi Furutaka In-Reply-To: <20060620173147.GB14871@cicely12.cicely.de> References: <20060620.233256.345485143.furutaka@jb3.so-net.ne.jp> <200606201249.25983.jhb@freebsd.org> <20060620173147.GB14871@cicely12.cicely.de> X-Mailer: Mew version 5.1rc1 on XEmacs 21.4.19 (Constant Variable) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org, linimon@freebsd.org Subject: Re: alpha/67626: X crashes an alpha machine, resulting reboot X-BeenThere: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the Alpha List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 20:40:06 -0000 From: Bernd Walter 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 -- Kazuyoshi Furutaka furutaka@jb3.so-net.ne.jp