Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 27 Jul 2001 16:39:16 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 27 Jul 2001 16:39:06 -0400 Received: from router-100M.swansea.linux.org.uk ([194.168.151.17]:52748 "EHLO the-village.bc.nu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 27 Jul 2001 16:38:50 -0400 Subject: Re: VIA KT133A / athlon / MMX To: cw@f00f.org (Chris Wedgwood) Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2001 21:40:09 +0100 (BST) Cc: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox), ppeiffer@free.fr (PEIFFER Pierre), linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20010728083724.A1571@weta.f00f.org> from "Chris Wedgwood" at Jul 28, 2001 08:37:24 AM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL5] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: From: Alan Cox Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-kernel-outgoing > On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 09:19:21PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > Its heavily tied to certain motherboards. Some people found a > better PSU fixed it, others that altering memory settings > helped. And in many cases, taking it back and buying a different > vendors board worked. > > Does anyone know *why* stuff breaks? surely VIA do as they have a fix > for (some, all?) cases of breakage? At the moment the big problem is I don't have enough reliable info to see patterns that I can give to VIA for study. VIAs fixes for board problems are for the fifo problem normally seen with the 686B and SB Live but sometimes in other cases. (and it seems also we have a few via + promise weirdnesses on all sorts of boards not yet explained) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/