On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 04:05:55PM +0100, Leonardo Boselli wrote: > [I am not subscribed to this list, so please reply to my own address] > ... beside this it is also not strictly pertinent to amd64 port since the > problem is on the 32bit klernel, on a athlon64 PC. i post here since i > ham trying since a couple of week and any suggestion was different and > unsuccessful, and the same model is often used for 64bit development] > I have a HP ZV6100 . I have installed debian serge, then updated to etch. > but either with 2.6.8 or 2.6.15, k7 or 486 i am unable to activate dma and > in turn the computer freeze almost completely during disk access > (expecailly if i download large files from a fast lan server). > The hardware is fine since if i use a 2.6.12 from ububntu the dma is > correctly activated and i can also activcate/deactivate it with hdparm. > Any hint ? possible kernel personalization to get it to work ? > [I am not subscribed to this list, so please reply to my own address] > > Leonardo Boselli, unhappy user of a HP ZV6100 .....
I would have thought with 2.6.15 it had a chance. 2.6.8 certainly won't like the chipset in it. So far support for ATI chipsets has seemed very unstable in linux, although it does seem to be improving a bit with each new 2.6 kernel. Is the bios up to date? I had all sorts of trouble recently trying to install on an athlon with nforce2/sil3112 controllers, and a bios update made all the problems go away. Not sure why 2.6.12 in ubuntu would work and 2.6.15 in debian wouldn't. Unless they load different drivers or something. Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
