Re: [newbie] VIA bug?

2001-08-19 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Sunday 19 August 2001 07:32 pm, Andre Dubuc escribió: Dmesg excerpt: via_audio: ignoring drain playback error -11 Before update: This message is repeated 3 times in a row, with three separate occurrences of it. After update: Four occurrences of the message in groupings of 3 repeats.

Re: [newbie] VIA bug?

2001-08-19 Thread Andre Dubuc
On Sunday 19 August 2001 21:45, you wrote: On Sunday 19 August 2001 07:32 pm, Andre Dubuc escribió: Dmesg excerpt: via_audio: ignoring drain playback error -11 Before update: This message is repeated 3 times in a row, with three separate occurrences of it. After update: Four

Re: [newbie] VIA bug?

2001-08-18 Thread Kirby Urner
I sent it back, haven't had those kinds of problems with any other MB. The chipset was VIA... ;-( Thanks for info. Got mine recently and performance is satisfactory w/ Redmond OS, but wuz unaware of VIA north/south bridge probs. Have since patched w/ most recent 4-in-1 drivers (4.32)

Re: [newbie] VIA bug?

2001-08-18 Thread skinky
On Saturday 18 August 2001 19:40, you wrote: You face yet another problem. There is --no ifs ands or buts-- a _hardware problem_ with the 686B southbridge, and another with the KT133A Northbridge. When our 8.0 kernel sees the chipset it will dive into crippled mode with DMA turned off.

Re: [newbie] VIA bug?

2001-08-18 Thread skinky
Oops sorry forgot to mention that I'm using the 2.4.3-20mdk with 60GB IBM DTLA 7200rpm hd (and 6.4GB Quantum Bigfoot CY hd). skinky Just thought you might be interested: Soltek SL-75KAV motherboard, 1GHz Athon, 128MB RAM Chipset: North Bridge VIA VT8363A (KT-133A) and South Bridge VIA

Re: [newbie] VIA bug?

2001-08-18 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Friday 17 August 2001 08:06 pm, Kirby Urner wrote: I notice Abit KT7A is green lined at Mandrake website, meaning tested. My KT7E uses same VIA KT133E /VIA 686B chipset. So maybe I shouldn't be fearing some VIA bug after all (savvy guy Brinkman was suggesting Abits could be problematic,

Re: [newbie] VIA bug?

2001-08-18 Thread Terry C
--- civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You face yet another problem. There is --no ifs ands or buts-- a _hardware problem_ with the 686B southbridge, and another with the KT133A Northbridge. When our 8.0 kernel sees the chipset it will dive into crippled mode with DMA turned off. hdparm

Re: [newbie] VIA bug?

2001-08-18 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Saturday 18 August 2001 09:52 am, Kirby Urner wrote: YMMV, all the above is nothin but my own conjecture and opinions -- Tom Brinkman Galveston Bay I appreciate all the info. The impression I got from Civileme's post is that detection of this KT133? chipset is

Re: [newbie] VIA bug?

2001-08-18 Thread civileme
On Saturday 18 August 2001 10:21, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Friday 17 August 2001 08:06 pm, Kirby Urner wrote: I notice Abit KT7A is green lined at Mandrake website, meaning tested. My KT7E uses same VIA KT133E /VIA 686B chipset. So maybe I shouldn't be fearing some VIA bug after all

Re: [newbie] VIA bug?

2001-08-18 Thread civileme
On Saturday 18 August 2001 10:52, Kirby Urner wrote: YMMV, all the above is nothin but my own conjecture and opinions -- Tom Brinkman Galveston Bay I appreciate all the info. The impression I got from Civileme's post is that detection of this KT133? chipset is

Re: [newbie] VIA bug?

2001-08-18 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Saturday 18 August 2001 06:14 pm, civileme wrote: On Saturday 18 August 2001 11:18, Terry C wrote: I'm very puzzled, I have an Abit KT7A raid, VIA KT133A chipset, IBM IC35L020AVER07-0 20GB ATA100 hard drive, AMD T-bird 1.2 GHz. Using hdparm, (I realize it's maybe not the best hard

Re: [newbie] VIA bug?

2001-08-18 Thread civileme
On Saturday 18 August 2001 11:18, Terry C wrote: --- civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You face yet another problem. There is --no ifs ands or buts-- a _hardware problem_ with the 686B southbridge, and another with the KT133A Northbridge. When our 8.0 kernel sees the chipset it will

Re: [newbie] VIA bug?

2001-08-18 Thread paul rodríguez
Will updating the BIOS or applying the fix make it work as well and fast as any other Mobo? -Paul Rodríguez On 18 Aug 2001 06:10:33 +0200, x wrote: On Saturday 18 August 2001 05:23, Kirby Urner wrote: This is (halfway) fixed in our most recent kernel update, meaning we have a workaround

Re: [newbie] VIA bug?

2001-08-18 Thread skinky
On Sunday 19 August 2001 11:11, you wrote: Actually WinME is getting all that performance because the op system does absolutely nothing to work around the bug. You have HDDs on IDE0 master and slave. If they were on IDE0 master and IDE1 either master or slave (which is the usual

Re: [newbie] VIA bug?

2001-08-18 Thread skinky
On Sunday 19 August 2001 02:32, you wrote: Just thought you might be interested: Soltek SL-75KAV motherboard, 1GHz Athon, 128MB RAM Chipset: North Bridge VIA VT8363A (KT-133A) and South Bridge VIA VT82C686B I haven't as yet tried burning CD-R but CDRW using gtoaster works fine. Well

RE: [newbie] VIA bug?

2001-08-17 Thread Jason Guidry
That message indicates a defective disk--register your product and notify tech support. We have replacements. aaahh. I think that's why the GPL is more customer service friendly. but apparently it also takes people who know how to serve. It may seem simple, but I've had my experience with

Re: [newbie] VIA bug?

2001-08-17 Thread Kirby Urner
At 11:44 AM 8/17/2001 -0500, you wrote: On Friday 17 August 2001 09:56 am, Kirby Urner wrote: I have 2 hdd on IDE 1, cdrw cdr on IDE 2. I've created a linux partition + swap on 2nd hdd. Is infamous VIA bug going to be problematic (that's my bus) VT82C686 is what windows ME properties

Re: [newbie] VIA bug?

2001-08-17 Thread Kirby Urner
Either you are ME are wrong then, 'cause that's sound System Properties includes these entries: VIA Tech VT82C686 PCI to ISA bridge VIA Tech VT82C686 Power Management Controller Wait, I get it. This is about talking to my ISA Ensoniq sound card yes? Anyway, is this info sufficient

Re: [newbie] VIA bug?

2001-08-17 Thread Kirby Urner
There were more including the Abit's, but they were dropped by AMD from approval at the same time the VIA-IDE bug started being hyped last March. Sorry to learn that, as this is what I've got. Sounds like MDK8.1 might have some fixes/workarounds. Thinking to wait. I don't think dma is

Re: [newbie] VIA bug?

2001-08-17 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Friday 17 August 2001 02:02 pm, Kirby Urner wrote: Yes, I have reconfigured ME to do a DOS-style boot, allowing non-Windows access to DOS prompt if I want it. config conflict. Just make sure you have a Mandrake boot floppy handy so you can rerun 'lilo' to restore lilo to the mbr. Is

Re: [newbie] VIA bug?

2001-08-17 Thread Kirby Urner
I notice Abit KT7A is green lined at Mandrake website, meaning tested. My KT7E uses same VIA KT133E /VIA 686B chipset. So maybe I shouldn't be fearing some VIA bug after all (savvy guy Brinkman was suggesting Abits could be problematic, yet none of the Soyo MBs listed at Mandrake are green

Re: [newbie] VIA bug?

2001-08-17 Thread civileme
On Friday 17 August 2001 21:06, Kirby Urner wrote: I notice Abit KT7A is green lined at Mandrake website, meaning tested. My KT7E uses same VIA KT133E /VIA 686B chipset. So maybe I shouldn't be fearing some VIA bug after all (savvy guy Brinkman was suggesting Abits could be problematic,

Re: [newbie] VIA bug?

2001-08-17 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Kirby Urner wrote: I notice Abit KT7A is green lined at Mandrake website, meaning tested. My KT7E uses same VIA KT133E /VIA 686B chipset. So maybe I shouldn't be fearing some VIA bug after all (savvy guy Brinkman was suggesting Abits could be problematic, yet none of the Soyo MBs listed

Re: [newbie] VIA bug?

2001-08-17 Thread x
On Saturday 18 August 2001 05:23, Kirby Urner wrote: This is (halfway) fixed in our most recent kernel update, meaning we have a workaround for the _hardware_ bug, but not a high- performance one. Your computer will seem fairly normal, having jumped from 1.8Mb/S to 13.40Mb/s ide read speed