From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 8 Aug 2001 13:08:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 8 Aug 2001 13:08:17 -0400 Received: from www.grips.com ([62.144.214.31]:33800 "EHLO grips_nts2.grips.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 8 Aug 2001 13:08:03 -0400 Message-ID: <3B717220.8050308@grips.com> Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2001 19:08:48 +0200 From: jury gerold User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.2) Gecko/20010701 X-Accept-Language: de-at, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Gerbrand van der Zouw CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Athlon/MSI mobo combo broken? In-Reply-To: <20010723180201.A10557@convergence.de> <20010723183204.B27310@lightning.swansea.linux.org.uk> <3B6071F8.5090104@chello.nl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org If you have PC100 SDRAM try to replace it with PC133. This worked for my motherboard. (Gigabyte GA-7ZXR, VIA-KT133A, Athlon 1.1MHz) Cheers too Gerold Gerbrand van der Zouw wrote: > Hi, > > Alan Cox wrote: > >> I'd be interested to know if 2.4.6-ac5 Athlon optimised works on your >> board. >> The reason for this is that it contains the official VIA fixes for >> their IDE >> corruption problem rather than our own. > > > I have a MSI K7T Turbo (MS-6330) mobo (VIA-KT133A chipset) and had a > go with the 2.4.6-ac5 kernel with Athlon optimisations on. The overall > impression is that the combination is slightly more stable than > kernels without the Southbridge fix. I.e. I now manage to boot in > single user mode, however running anything as advanced as gcc is out > of the question: oopses all over the place and also some complaints > from the VM-system. > > I am in no way qualified enough to go hacking around in the kernel > myself, but am quite willing to test any patches that might help > towards solving the problem. > > Cheers, > > Gerbrand van der Zouw >