Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Linux 2.4.21-pre3-ac3 and KT400 | From | Soeren Sonnenburg <> | Date | 13 Jan 2003 23:10:30 +0100 |
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[...] > I am running Linux on an ASUS A7V8X, VIA KT400 chipset motherboard. > The processor is a 1.5GHz Athlon XP. I started experimenting with > new-ish kernels again because of the general lack of kernel support > for this chipset in stock kernels. 3 questions below:
Hey finally someone with my setup :-))
> 1) I have 1GB ram, but I cannot get high memory support to work. It > falls over during boot. I've seen discussions about AMD cache issues, > but has it been fixed yet? Is it supposed to work?
I am using older kernels (2.4.20) and it seems to work...
> 2) The audio driver. It works and this is the main reason why I use > this version of the kernel. The issue I have with it, is that if I > start certain applications (gaim, macromedia flash player 6 for > example), esd gets itself into some kind of hung/blocked state. When > this happens, I need to kill -9 esd and re-start it. Games and xmms > work however. The reason I ask about this is that the downloaded > driver from the viaarena works on a stock kernel without this glitch. > Is this a known problem?
I use the alsa 0.9 driver and never had a problem like that...
3) I get the following messages at boot-time: [...] > Jan 13 18:23:05 wires kernel: hda: dma_intr: error=0x84 { > DriveStatusError BadCRC } > Jan 13 18:23:05 wires kernel: blk: queue c0437940, I/O limit 4095Mb > (mask 0xffffffff) > Jan 13 18:23:05 wires kernel: hdb: DMA disabled > Jan 13 18:23:05 wires kernel: ide0: reset: success > Jan 13 18:23:05 wires kernel: spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7.
> Naturally, this is quite alarming. Everything works though, so am I > safe in just ignoring this noise?
That sounds like a bad cable. Do you use 80wires ide cables, connectors attached to the ends ?
however I also get this spurious interrupt and it might be alarming...
> 4) Does anyone know whether I can get the ethernet interface to work > using stock kernel net device drivers (yes VIA supply the source, but > I'd rather use stock drivers)? I thought it was the via-rhine driver, > but it doesn't seem to recognise the chip. Anyone got it working?
just have a look at the cdrom supplied with your mainboard. there is a GPLed bcm4400 driver on that disk...
> I'd appreciate some help with this (great) motherboard.
well I have all kinds of trouble here (-> freezes)... I still hope that it is not the via chipset nor the mainboard causing it this time.
Soeren.
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