Re: More on the VIA KT133 chipset misbehaving in Linux

David Raufeisen
2001-01-29T10:20:42Z

On Monday, 29 January 2001, at 01:20:15 (-0800),
Quim K Holland wrote:

>> "DG" == Dylan Griffiths <Dylan_G@bigfoot.com> writes:
>>
> DG> The VIA KT133 chipset exhibits the following bugs under Linux
> DG> 2.2.17 and 2.4.0:
> DG> 1) PS/2 mouse cursor randomly jumps to upper right hand corner
> DG> of screen and locks for a bit
> DG> 2) Detects a maximum of 64mb of ram, unless worked around by the
> DG> "mem=" switch
> DG> 3) The clock drifts slowly (more so under heavy load than light
> DG> load), leaking time.
>
> I am not a guru, but AOpen AK73PRO which uses VIA KT133 does not
> show any of these symptoms that you describe (I cannot be sure
> about #3 since I run ntp). You may want to make your hardware
> description a bit more specific to help gurus to help you...
>

I experience #2 and #3 on the following board w/ VIA KT133:

BIOS Vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
BIOS Version: 62710
BIOS Release: 07/15/97
Board Vendor: Gigabyte Technology Co. Ltd..
Board Name: 7ZX.
Board Version: 1.0.

ntpdate is run at boot..

2:14am up 14:59, 3 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00

And i just ran it again after running uptime, it showed the following:

29 Jan 02:15:20 ntpdate[3879]: step time server 164.67.62.194 offset 11.398730 sec

This is 2.4.1per11 btw.

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