From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 15 May 2001 05:36:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 15 May 2001 05:36:32 -0400 Received: from thimm.dialup.fu-berlin.de ([160.45.217.207]:39429 "EHLO pua.physik.fu-berlin.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 15 May 2001 05:36:25 -0400 Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 11:34:53 +0200 From: Axel Thimm To: John R Lenton Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List , Au-Ja , Yiping Chen , support@msi.com.tw, info@msi-computer.de, support@via-cyrix.de Subject: VIA's Southbridge bug (was: PATCH 2.4.5.1: Fix Via interrupt routing issues) Message-ID: <20010515113453.A3539@pua.nirvana> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 02:07:53PM -0300, John R Lenton wrote: > On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 01:28:06PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > For those of you with Via interrupting routing issues (or > > interrupt-not-being-delivered issues, etc), please try out this patch > > [...] > Just to add a little noise: My box (msi 694d pro AI motherboard, > revI, i.e. vt82c686a) been a *lot* stabler since I removed the > Live! and dropped back to the onboard soundcard. > [...] > If I could put in words the difference between the Live! and the > via, I would. Alas, I can't, so you're stuck with this inane > rant: > > please please please fix it. This has nothing to do with the routing issue, but is a bigger problem by itself :( The VIA chipset is buggy, and your Soundblaster Live! increases the likelyhood of triggering that bug. This is a rather well documented problem, read an english article about it on http://www.au-ja.de/review-kt133a-1-en.html and a german article on the discussion of this on the lkml on http://www.au-ja.de/review-kt133a-linux.html (if you don't read German this is not a problem, as all links found there refer to english pages). You seem to have bad luck, as the 686a should not be a buggy as the 686b. Bottom line: Try to get a BIOS upgrade and hope that VIA will opensource and contribute their Windows patch to linux... Regards, Axel. -- Axel.Thimm@physik.fu-berlin.de