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SegMon

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November 3rd, 2004 12:00

Inspiron 5160, Intel Mobile Pentium 4 and HyperThreading support in Linux

Hi,

I have a Inspiron 5160 on which i installed Slackware 9.1 with 2.4.22 kernel. The kernel supports SMP and normally supports real HT (I know this for a fact since I have more than 15 selfmade servers running the same setup).

When I try compiling the kernel with support for smp, the computer halts at startup. Does'nt the Inspiron 5160 (2.8GHz, HT Support) have real HT support? Or have I missed something? I even tried compiling ACPI with support and the «CPU Enumeration Only» option.

Am I doing anything wrong? Or is'nt there real support for this?

Thanks in advance!

Best regards
Preben Tønnessen

rbgaynor

4 Posts

November 11th, 2004 22:00

I have a new 3.06GHz HT Inspiron 5160 running Fedora Core 3 with an SMP kernel (2.6.9) - no problems (poor Windows XP never even saw the light of day). Sorry this doesn't solve your problem, but the 5160s do seem to work in smp mode.

Message Edited by rbgaynor on 11-11-2004 04:22 PM

delguy

28 Posts

November 12th, 2004 17:00

SegMon wrote:
Hi,

I have a Inspiron 5160 on which i installed Slackware 9.1 with 2.4.22 kernel. The kernel supports SMP and normally supports real HT (I know this for a fact since I have more than 15 selfmade servers running the same setup).

When I try compiling the kernel with support for smp, the computer halts at startup. Does'nt the Inspiron 5160 (2.8GHz, HT Support) have real HT support? Or have I missed something? I even tried compiling ACPI with support and the «CPU Enumeration Only» option.

Am I doing anything wrong? Or is'nt there real support for this?

Thanks in advance!

Best regards
Preben Tønnessen




On my dell Inspiron 5160, running Debian Sid, kernel 2.6.7 and selfcompiled 2.6.9, the boot process works okay. IIRC, initially when I installed smp enabled kernel I had to give apm=off option.

If that doesn't solve your problem, try both options: "noacpi" and "apm=off" (without the quotes of course) on the grub prompt (or something similar in lilo if you use lilo).

Once you do get it booted up, you will have to ofcourse use ndiswrapper to get wireless working. BTW, could you verify that Slackware uses b44 or bcm4400 module for the ethernet card?

GL.

SegMon

2 Posts

November 14th, 2004 22:00

Hi, thanks for the tips! I'll be sure to try out theese options.

bcm4400 is the right module to load in Slack 9.1 if you want to use the onboard NIC.

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