Re: VIA Southbridge bug (Was: Crash on boot (2.4.5))

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On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 01:27:56PM -0700, David Grant wrote:

> I'd be interested in testing any fixes for the VIA Southbridge chip.  I h=
ave
> an ASUS A7V133.  I was having problems with the IDE controller, but I've
> switched to the on-board Promise IDE and it works fine.  I couldn't get r=
id
> of the DMA timeout errors with my VIA vt82c686b, even with the latest
> patches.  I even completely disabled DMA (through .config options) and I
> although I didn't get DMA timeout errors anymore, everything still came t=
o a
> halt under heavy disk usage.
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> Would it be a good idea to form a small mailing list of people with VIA
> chipsets (vt82c686b only)?  Then perhaps we could communicate with Vojtech
> more easily, and the VIA southbridge problems might end a little quicker.
> It seems like there are a bunch of people still having the VIA problems.

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