Re: enabling IOAPIC on C3 processor?

[Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>]

On Wed, 2005-03-16 at 16:11 +0100, jerome lacoste wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 15:22:36 -0500, Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 13:09 +0100, jerome lacoste wrote:
> > > I have a VIA Epia M10000 board that crashes very badly (and pretty
> > > often, especially when using DMA). I want to fix that.
> > >
> > 
> > Are the crashes associated with any particular workload or device?  My
> > M6000 works perfectly.
> > 
> > The one big problem I had with is is the VIA Unichrome XAA driver had a
> > FIFO related bug that caused it to stall the PCI bus, delaying
> > interrupts for tens of ms unless "Option NoAccel" was used.
> > 
> > This bug was fixed over 6 months ago though.
> 
> It crashes my box within minutes if not seconds when using mythtv
> (tuner using ivtv driver) while using my network card. If I disable
> DMA on the disk and don't use my card, it's much more stable (several
> hours without problem).
> 

Well, you might have better luck capturing the Oops with kdb.  At the
very least it might drop you into the debugger instead of locking up the
machine.

Lee