I've recently bought a Asus Notebook, model L8490K which sports a 815EP
chipset.
I've installed the Slackware 8.0 distribution and soon recompiled the
2.4.17-rc1 kernel.
After some time of using it I've experienced some kernel oops due to
unhandled NULL pointer. I've just installed ksymoops so I'll try to debug
the error myself but I would like to know which is the support status for
this chipset. Have any problem been reported so far ?
Thank you very much for your support.
Cristiano
> I've recently bought a Asus Notebook, model L8490K which sports a 815EP
> chipset.
>
> I've installed the Slackware 8.0 distribution and soon recompiled the
> 2.4.17-rc1 kernel.
>
> After some time of using it I've experienced some kernel oops due to
> unhandled NULL pointer. I've just installed ksymoops so I'll try to debug
> the error myself but I would like to know which is the support status for
> this chipset. Have any problem been reported so far ?
The problem seems to occur only in kernel 2.4.x (I've tried both
2.4.17-rc1 and 2.4.13-ac5) but not in kernel 2.2.19.
Under Windows 2000 I haven't noticed anythoing strange.
The latest kernel oops I saw is :
Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address ....
while the call trace is :
EIP : __mark_inode_dirty()
try_to_free_buffers()
block_sync_page()
kernel_thread()
Thanks
Cristiano