From: "Stefan van der Eijk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | > | - experimental fix for NForce2 motherboards & ACPI (thanks to Andy | | > Grover to explain me ACPI). | | I've yet to try. I installed my asus a7n8x deluxe board on tuesday. The | onboard 3Com network card works properly on mine. |
Hmm... Maybe it's a hardware problem, since I'm running my memory in Aggressive mode (that's DualDDR mode...) and you are not...(since you have 1.5GB ram) I'll have to run some tests... | But any PCI network card (I've tried 2, from different brands) I use ends | up using IRQ 16. I then disabled APIC mode in the BIOS, which would let me | use the PCI cards properly, but now only 900 or so Mb of the 1.5Gb RAM is | seen by Linux (there is a warning about this in dmesg). | That's not a bug, it's exactly how the APIC works... it's the only way to get around the limitations of only 15 irq's... the problem is if the ACPI does not work it also kills APIC, atleast for now... as for the Ram, it's because only enterprise kernel supports more than ~1GB of ram. If you want the "standard" kernel to support more you have to recompile it with highmem options turned on... | Also, my usb mouse is not seen. | This is the probably because of ACPI problems..., or try to move the mouse to another controller, since one of them does not get asigned an irq at bootup (go figure...) and this is also known at the kernel ML. | I've also tried to compile the nvnet module, but it fails. The license is | probably incompatible for mdk to add it to their kernels... Yep, It's almost GPL according to the license, but the nvnet source contains one binary-only file wich makes it useless... | | Oh yeah, this was all based on the 2.4.21.0.pre4.5mdk kernel. | | Do you think that I can enable the APIC mode with 2.4.21.0.pre4.6mdk? | | Stefan | you could try, so that we get more bug reports, and even better maybe some solutions... Oh well... I'll be "out of office" for about a week starting tomorrow (or actually later today), but when I get back I'll start digging in to this problem again... IMHO it has to been solved before 9.1 ships.... (along with many other things... of course) Thomas
