On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 15:48:21 -0500, Lee Revell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2005-03-16 at 16:11 +0100, jerome lacoste wrote: > > On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 15:22:36 -0500, Lee Revell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 13:09 +0100, jerome lacoste wrote: > > > > I have a VIA Epia M10000 board that crashes very badly (and pretty > > > > often, especially when using DMA). I want to fix that. > > > > > > > > > > Are the crashes associated with any particular workload or device? My > > > M6000 works perfectly. > > > > > > The one big problem I had with is is the VIA Unichrome XAA driver had a > > > FIFO related bug that caused it to stall the PCI bus, delaying > > > interrupts for tens of ms unless "Option NoAccel" was used. > > > > > > This bug was fixed over 6 months ago though. > > > > It crashes my box within minutes if not seconds when using mythtv > > (tuner using ivtv driver) while using my network card. If I disable > > DMA on the disk and don't use my card, it's much more stable (several > > hours without problem). > > > > Well, you might have better luck capturing the Oops with kdb. At the > very least it might drop you into the debugger instead of locking up the > machine.
It doesn't. I patched and recompiled my kernel and made sure the /proc/sys/kernel/kdb is set to 1. Machine dies with no kdb started. I guess I just need for VIA to wake up now, right? No more bullets in my gun? Jerome - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
