Linux 2.4.21-pre3-ac3 and KT400
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I am running Linux on an ASUS A7V8X, VIA KT400 chipset motherboard. The processor is a 1.5GHz Athlon XP. I started experimenting with new-ish kernels again because of the general lack of kernel support for this chipset in stock kernels. 3 questions below:
Hey finally someone with my setup :-))
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1) I have 1GB ram, but I cannot get high memory support to work. It falls over during boot. I've seen discussions about AMD cache issues, but has it been fixed yet? Is it supposed to work?
I am using older kernels (2.4.20) and it seems to work...
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2) The audio driver. It works and this is the main reason why I use this version of the kernel. The issue I have with it, is that if I start certain applications (gaim, macromedia flash player 6 for example), esd gets itself into some kind of hung/blocked state. When this happens, I need to kill -9 esd and re-start it. Games and xmms work however. The reason I ask about this is that the downloaded driver from the viaarena works on a stock kernel without this glitch. Is this a known problem?
I use the alsa 0.9 driver and never had a problem like that...
3) I get the following messages at boot-time:
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Jan 13 18:23:05 wires kernel: hda: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC } Jan 13 18:23:05 wires kernel: blk: queue c0437940, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff) Jan 13 18:23:05 wires kernel: hdb: DMA disabled Jan 13 18:23:05 wires kernel: ide0: reset: success Jan 13 18:23:05 wires kernel: spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7.Naturally, this is quite alarming. Everything works though, so am I safe in just ignoring this noise?
That sounds like a bad cable. Do you use 80wires ide cables, connectors attached to the ends ?
however I also get this spurious interrupt and it might be alarming...
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4) Does anyone know whether I can get the ethernet interface to work using stock kernel net device drivers (yes VIA supply the source, but I'd rather use stock drivers)? I thought it was the via-rhine driver, but it doesn't seem to recognise the chip. Anyone got it working?
just have a look at the cdrom supplied with your mainboard. there is a GPLed bcm4400 driver on that disk...
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I'd appreciate some help with this (great) motherboard.
well I have all kinds of trouble here (-> freezes)... I still hope that it is not the via chipset nor the mainboard causing it this time.
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I am running Linux on an ASUS A7V8X, VIA KT400 chipset motherboard. The processor is a 1.5GHz Athlon XP. I started experimenting with new-ish kernels again because of the general lack of kernel support for this chipset in stock kernels. 3 questions below:
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Hey finally someone with my setup :-))
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1) I have 1GB ram, but I cannot get high memory support to work. It falls over during boot. I've seen discussions about AMD cache issues, but has it been fixed yet? Is it supposed to work?
I am using older kernels (2.4.20) and it seems to work...
Yes, but as you mention below, it is unstable.
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2) The audio driver. It works and this is the main reason why I use this version of the kernel. The issue I have with it, is that if I start certain applications (gaim, macromedia flash player 6 for example), esd gets itself into some kind of hung/blocked state. When this happens, I need to kill -9 esd and re-start it. Games and xmms work however. The reason I ask about this is that the downloaded driver from the viaarena works on a stock kernel without this glitch. Is this a known problem?
I use the alsa 0.9 driver and never had a problem like that...
OK. I am using the OSS driver. Still, it should work normally.
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3) I get the following messages at boot-time:
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Jan 13 18:23:05 wires kernel: hda: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC } Jan 13 18:23:05 wires kernel: blk: queue c0437940, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff) Jan 13 18:23:05 wires kernel: hdb: DMA disabled Jan 13 18:23:05 wires kernel: ide0: reset: success Jan 13 18:23:05 wires kernel: spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7.
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Naturally, this is quite alarming. Everything works though, so am I safe in just ignoring this noise?
That sounds like a bad cable. Do you use 80wires ide cables, connectors attached to the ends ?
No, but my drives are old and only support UDMA 2 anyway. I get most things off the LAN. It should really enable UDMA 2.
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however I also get this spurious interrupt and it might be alarming...
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4) Does anyone know whether I can get the ethernet interface to work using stock kernel net device drivers (yes VIA supply the source, but I'd rather use stock drivers)? I thought it was the via-rhine driver, but it doesn't seem to recognise the chip. Anyone got it working?
just have a look at the cdrom supplied with your mainboard. there is a GPLed bcm4400 driver on that disk...
This is good to know. It would be nice to see it in the 2.4 kernel though. I believe the 2.5 series already has a driver.
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I'd appreciate some help with this (great) motherboard.
well I have all kinds of trouble here (-> freezes)... I still hope that it is not the via chipset nor the mainboard causing it this time.
Mine is rock solid (as long as I don't enable highmem). Also, I still compile with gcc 2.96 and the "athlon" option.
Thanks, I will try the bcm4400 driver.
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I am running Linux on an ASUS A7V8X, VIA KT400 chipset motherboard. The processor is a 1.5GHz Athlon XP. I started experimenting with new-ish kernels again because of the general lack of kernel support for this chipset in stock kernels. 3 questions below:
Hey finally someone with my setup :-))
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1) I have 1GB ram, but I cannot get high memory support to work. It falls over during boot. I've seen discussions about AMD cache issues, but has it been fixed yet? Is it supposed to work?
I am using older kernels (2.4.20) and it seems to work...
Yes, but as you mention below, it is unstable.
Well it works rock stable - except for one of my harddisks freezing once in a week (but that is another issue) - if I don't use the two additional promise TX2 ide controllers (extra cards not the onboard stuff).
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OK. I am using the OSS driver. Still, it should work normally.
agreed.
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3) I get the following messages at boot-time:
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Jan 13 18:23:05 wires kernel: hda: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC } Jan 13 18:23:05 wires kernel: blk: queue c0437940, I/O limit 4095Mb
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That sounds like a bad cable. Do you use 80wires ide cables, connectors attached to the ends ?
No, but my drives are old and only support UDMA 2 anyway. I get most things off the LAN. It should really enable UDMA 2.
hmmhh, I would consider checking the harddisk then... it might be defective.
Soeren.
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I am running Linux on an ASUS A7V8X, VIA KT400 chipset motherboard. The processor is a 1.5GHz Athlon XP. I started experimenting with new-ish kernels again because of the general lack of kernel support for this chipset in stock kernels. 3 questions below:
Hey finally someone with my setup :-))
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1) I have 1GB ram, but I cannot get high memory support to work. It falls over during boot. I've seen discussions about AMD cache issues, but has it been fixed yet? Is it supposed to work?
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I am using older kernels (2.4.20) and it seems to work...
Yes, but as you mention below, it is unstable.
Well it works rock stable - except for one of my harddisks freezing once in a week (but that is another issue) - if I don't use the two additional promise TX2 ide controllers (extra cards not the onboard stuff).
I did try 2.4.20-ac2. This also had the same problem. I get some kind of null pointer kernel crash.
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3) I get the following messages at boot-time:
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Jan 13 18:23:05 wires kernel: hda: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC } Jan 13 18:23:05 wires kernel: blk: queue c0437940, I/O limit 4095Mb[...]
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That sounds like a bad cable. Do you use 80wires ide cables, connectors attached to the ends ?
No, but my drives are old and only support UDMA 2 anyway. I get most things off the LAN. It should really enable UDMA 2.
hmmhh, I would consider checking the harddisk then... it might be defective.
I don't think it is the hard drive, because if I boot with 2.4.18, I don't see the problem.
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