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, 29 May 2001 15:56:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 29 May 2001 15:56:32 -0400 Received: from ndslppp45.ptld.uswest.net ([63.224.227.45]:5975 "HELO galen.magenet.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Tue, 29 May 2001 15:56:19 -0400 Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 12:57:20 -0700 From: Joseph Carter To: Holger Lubitz Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: VIA KT133A Northbridge bug reported Message-ID: <20010529125720.D20990@debian.org> In-Reply-To: <3B13AA7F.F9C0454@internet-factory.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="lkTb+7nhmha7W+c3" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.17i In-Reply-To: <3B13AA7F.F9C0454@internet-factory.de>; from h.lubitz@internet-factory.de on Tue, May 29, 2001 at 03:56:15PM +0200 X-Operating-System: Linux galen 2.4.3-ac12 X-No-Junk-Mail: Spam will solicit a hostile reaction, at the very least. Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --lkTb+7nhmha7W+c3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 03:56:15PM +0200, Holger Lubitz wrote: > Translation: "As Stephan Schwolow from MSI Germany told Chip Online, the > problem with the VIA northbridge can be identified by a warm start from > DOS or a Windows reboot: If the screen stays black, the chip has an > error." >=20 > As far as I understand it, the problem is only affecting "warm reboots". > And I couldn't care less about warm reboots - my machines usually run > 24/7 :)=20 I have seen this problem sometimes. I don't read German though - does the page mention a fix? My machines usually run 24/7 too, but there's this little think called DRI which for some people works really nicely. Some of us are not as lucky though and in the meantime have problems with rebooting our machines. It seems that an ATX power off is not sufficient to get things going again, power must be cut to the main supply for a few seconds first. Thankfully my PSU has a real switch. --=20 Joseph Carter Free software developer I sat laughing snidely into my notebook until they showed me a PC running Linux. And oh! It was as though the heavens opened and God handed down a client-side OS so beautiful, so graceful, and so elegant that a million Microsoft developers couldn't have invented it even if they had a hundred years and a thousand crates of Jolt cola. -- LAN Times --lkTb+7nhmha7W+c3 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: 1024D/DCF9DAB3 20F6 2261 F185 7A3E 79FC 44F9 8FF7 D7A3 DCF9 DAB3 iEYEARECAAYFAjsT/yAACgkQj/fXo9z52rOhPQCfSfthBVNW9qYKBKutc+BNdaD/ F9kAn1ptOyM97N90LTiRG4Qv0rdP68ix =f6GD -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --lkTb+7nhmha7W+c3--