From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261667AbVGDVDO (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Jul 2005 17:03:14 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261676AbVGDVDO (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Jul 2005 17:03:14 -0400 Received: from iron.pdx.net ([207.149.241.18]:49831 "EHLO iron.pdx.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261691AbVGDVC7 (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Jul 2005 17:02:59 -0400 Subject: Re: ASUS K8N-DL Beta BIOS From: Sean Bruno To: Alexander Nyberg Cc: Andi Kleen , Alistair John Strachan , "Hodle, Brian" , "'linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org'" , "'ipsoa@posiden.hopto.org'" In-Reply-To: <1120507617.5304.1.camel@home-lap> References: <1120246927.2764.26.camel@home-lap> <200507021843.45450.s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk> <20050702194455.GA80118@muc.de> <1120365125.4107.4.camel@home-lap> <1120376236.1175.1.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1120507617.5304.1.camel@home-lap> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Mon, 04 Jul 2005 14:02:53 -0700 Message-Id: <1120510973.5304.6.camel@home-lap> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.2 (2.2.2-5) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Even more fun today with the ASUS release 1004 of the BIOS. Looks like you CANNOT disable the Nvidia SATA controller without causing the system to lock. I can't seem to work around this new issue with the system without backing my BIOS down to 1003. With the Nvidia SATA controller enabled, 2.6.12.2 seems to go insane attempting to talk with it(nv_raid seems to have trouble). I am not going to document this issue, as there are so many other issues that are on-going with this board. It's starting to look like this is a large and expensive exchanger of electricity for heat at this point. 2.6.13-rc1 has some kind of issue with my board due to it's 6GB of RAM. It stops when it discovers that there is no "IOMMU". Since I don't see anything obvious in the BIOS to activate, I can't boot 2.6.13 at all. Sean