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From: Rob Shortt <rob@infointeractive.com>
To: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: DMA errors - 2.4.22-pre8 - SiS730 - WD800JB
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 10:51:00 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3F267BC4.8000507@infointeractive.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030729153309.A25792@bouton.inet6-interne.fr>

Lionel Bouton wrote:
> On mar, jui 29, 2003 at 09:42:01 -0300, Rob Shortt wrote:

>>ECS K7SEM w/ Athlon XP 2100+
> 
> 
> This is a SiS based mainboard.
> SiS APIC support was still buggy last time I checked.

Darn. :)

>>Local APIC disabled by BIOS -- reenabling.
>>Found and enabled local APIC!
> 
> 
> Argh ?

Yeah, that raised some flags for me as well.  I was hoping someone would 
comment on it.

> Usually disabling local APIC support solves this (sometimes with nasty
> side-effects like huge perf drops or lost peripheral support).
> 
> You can quickly try to pass "noapic" to the kernel and report.

Will do, thanks.

> 
> There are SiS APIC patches floating around, try looking in the mailing list
> archives, there was a similar problem reported not long ago (for a SiS based
> laptop).

I will look for this as well.

> 
> Best regards,
> 
> LB.

Thanks for your help, I will try these things later and report back.

-Rob


  reply	other threads:[~2003-07-29 13:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-07-29 12:42 DMA errors - 2.4.22-pre8 - SiS730 - WD800JB Rob Shortt
2003-07-29 13:33 ` Lionel Bouton
2003-07-29 13:51   ` Rob Shortt [this message]
2003-07-29 21:22     ` Rob Shortt

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