Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Subject | Re: Linux 2.4.21-pre3-ac3 and KT400 | From | Edward Tandi <> | Date | 13 Jan 2003 22:38:44 +0000 |
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On Mon, 2003-01-13 at 22:10, Soeren Sonnenburg wrote: > [...] > > 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...
Yes, but as you mention below, it is unstable.
> > 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...
OK. I am using the OSS driver. Still, it should work normally.
> 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 ?
No, but my drives are old and only support UDMA 2 anyway. I get most things off the LAN. It should really enable UDMA 2.
> 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...
This is good to know. It would be nice to see it in the 2.4 kernel though. I believe the 2.5 series already has a driver.
> > 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.
Mine is rock solid (as long as I don't enable highmem). Also, I still compile with gcc 2.96 and the "athlon" option.
Thanks, I will try the bcm4400 driver.
Ed-T.
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