Richard Smith schrieb: > On 5/9/06, Eric Poulsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>I've been researching the IDE/DMA/Linux issue that appears to plague the >>VT8235 southbridge. Seems there is _no_ reliable fix for this issue, >>which has been known to exhibit itself even in Windows if you're using >>the old/stock via drivers. Even if I do get the LB issues figured >>out, the DMA issue (as far as I can tell) is _unfixable_. Reliability >>is a huge thing for me (hence the use of Linux). The Epia board is >>bound for Ebay. >
Somewhere I have read, that disabling the acpi function in the kernel solve many problems for the epia. I use an Epia-M for myself and it works stable, without acpi. Ok, the running applications for my board don't make high loads on the cpu/ide or network. > Working well with LB is the kicker. You could join us on the GX1 > quest. There are several GX1 boards out there. If you get one like > Chris's with an external VGA chip then you won't have to mess with the > VSA stuff. I think the GX1 is close to working good but it just need > a few tweaks to get there. My stb3036 is not the fastet thing I guess ;) It is a question of usage. > > -- > Richard A. Smith > -- linuxbios mailing list [email protected] http://www.openbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
