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- From: weh@beta.lanl.gov (William E. Harvey)
- Subject: Re: Error...NMI received?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec26.112516.7750@newshost.lanl.gov>
- Sender: news@newshost.lanl.gov
- Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory
- References: <1992Dec24.190119.13102@r-node.gts.org> <BzsCpn.4v1@citrus.SAC.CA.US> <1992Dec25.143730.25517@klaava.Helsinki.FI>
- Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 11:25:16 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec25.143730.25517@klaava.Helsinki.FI> torvalds@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Linus Torvalds) writes:
- >NMI's generally get generated by either memory parity errors or by
- >special hardware (power-saving features etc). Linux tries to disable
- >NMI completely because it can't handle it anyway, but it seems some
- >motherboards let it through anyway (or then I do the disabling
- >incorrectly: I have never seen a NMI anyway).
- >
- > Linus
-
-
- I was getting this all the time on my laptop. What I did was find the
- section of source code that printed out "NMI received ..." and
- commented it out. The power saving features of the laptop work fine
- and my screen doesn't get garbaged up whenever the disk drive autoparks.
-
- Billy Harvey
- weh@lanl.gov
-