RE: Via KT133 pci corruption: stock 2.4.18pre2 oopses as well

[Daniel J Blueman]

> On Thu, 10 Jan 2002, Daniel J Blueman wrote:
> 
> > There are known issues with the VIA 82C686A/B chipset 
> south-bridge and 
> > IDE in particular. Make sure you have the latest BIOS and 
> latest VIA 
> > 4in1 drivers to workaround the IDE corruption and other 
> known issues 
> > (sound problems with certain soundcards).
> 
> Yes I'm aware of these problems, I thought that the VIA 4in1 
> driver where wintendo drivers. And I also thought that there 
> are workarounds for these bugs in the kernel. 

Yep, the VIA 4in1 drivers are purely for windows.

In linux, if the chipset-fixup code is being trigged on boot (and
appears in your dmesg?), then it looks like the problem maybe
elsewhere...

On the other hand, perhaps that fixup code isn't complete (or relies on
certain chipset features being on/off by default, vendor specific
defaults?)

Dan
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