Re: 2.4 freezes on VIA KT133

2001-05-31 Thread Tomas Styblo
It seems the problem is caused by some DMA related bug in the VIA chipset and/or in the Linux DMA-IDE VIA driver. I finnaly get rid of the freezes, by simply compiling the kernel completely without IDE-DMA support. Now hdparm shows disks do not use DMA and the system is stable, as far as I can say

Re: 2.4 freezes on VIA KT133 -- mine FIXED

2001-05-29 Thread Robert Redelmeier
Mark Hahn wrote: > > > contrary to the implication here, I don't believe there is any *general* > > > problem with Linux/VIA/AMD stability. there are well-known issues > ... > > VIA hardware is not suitable for anything until we _know_ the > > truth about what is wrong. VIA is hiding somethin

Re: 2.4 freezes on VIA KT133

2001-05-25 Thread Alan Cox
> VIA hardware is not suitable for anything until we _know_ the > truth about what is wrong. VIA is hiding something big. I dont think thats true > Creative Labs ought to toast VIA over blaming the sound card. :-) Of course the card might be buggy too The big problem with VIA is not that their

Re: 2.4 freezes on VIA KT133

2001-05-25 Thread Mark Hahn
> > contrary to the implication here, I don't believe there is any *general* > > problem with Linux/VIA/AMD stability. there are well-known issues ... > VIA hardware is not suitable for anything until we _know_ the > truth about what is wrong. VIA is hiding something big. this is INCORRECT: we k

Re: 2.4 freezes on VIA KT133

2001-05-24 Thread Albert D. Cahalan
Mark Hahn writes: > contrary to the implication here, I don't believe there is any *general* > problem with Linux/VIA/AMD stability. there are well-known issues > with specific items (VIA 686b, for instance), but VIA/AMD hardware > is quite suitable for servers. VIA hardware is not suitable for

Re: 2.4 freezes on VIA KT133

2001-05-24 Thread Mark Hahn
> This report is probably not very helpful, but it may be useful for those who > planned to purchase AMD / VIA solution for a server. contrary to the implication here, I don't believe there is any *general* problem with Linux/VIA/AMD stability. there are well-known issues with specific items (VI

2.4 freezes on VIA KT133

2001-05-24 Thread Tomas Styblo
Hi ! I've yet seen similar freeze reports here in the past, so I decided to post my one too. The said system is a server, Athlon 850, no overclocking, no overheating, 100 Mhz FSB, 512 MB brand RAM, Abit KT7A board with VIA KT133. The system is heavy loaded in daytime, but almost idle at night. I