Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 30 Jul 2001 03:19:11 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 30 Jul 2001 03:19:02 -0400 Received: from [195.139.250.10] ([195.139.250.10]:40204 "EHLO elin.scali.no") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 30 Jul 2001 03:18:49 -0400 Message-ID: <3B65099E.8004F9E5@scali.no> Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 09:15:42 +0200 From: Steffen Persvold X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2-2 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Gav CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: VIA KT133A / athlon / MMX In-Reply-To: <01072904032900.04737@box.penguin.power> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-kernel-outgoing Gav wrote: > Just FYI, I've been running 2.4.7-pre6 for a few weeks on a Abit-KT7-a > (hpt370) that uses the KT133/VIA chipset, with a 1.33Ghz Athlon and the > kernel compiled for an Athlon. > > The machine is now rock solid. I've given it the usual tests, k7burn for 5 > hours, cp'ing 30G+ across drives a few times etc, and all is good. > > The broken sound (crackle/pop) with my SB128PCI (same problem as SBLive) > still didn't go away though, but enabling PCI DRAM PREFETCH on the VT8363 > Bus-PCI Bridge does cure it. This took me a while to find as I can't set this > in my bios, but powertweak came to the rescue. > > While DRAM Prefetch is supposed to be an option to increase performance, my > sound is totally unusable without this set. I've heard numerous people > explain the same problem and it would be interesting to find out if this > cures their sound troubles too. If this is the case, is this something that > belongs in quirks, or is it too hardware specific? and would enabling this by > default hurt anything anyway? Or is this just masking the underlaying problem > ? Hmm, I think "DRAM Prefetch" is the one you _don't_ want to turn on, because (and correct me if i'm wrong) it's causing all the problems with the IDE controller (data trashing). Regards, -- Steffen Persvold Systems Engineer Email : mailto:sp@scali.no Scali AS (http://www.scali.com) Tlf : (+47) 22 62 89 50 Olaf Helsets vei 6 Fax : (+47) 22 62 89 51 N-0621 Oslo, Norway - 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/