Are we going too fast?
Quoted 6 lines · Francois Romieu
Try and send specific bug-reports to the maintainers. l-k archives may give you some light on issues with VIA chipsets.
I'm not convinced that gaining stability on a VIA + G400 + X + smp combo is an easy task anyway.
VIA (694X) (Gigabyte 6VXD7), G450, XF4.0/XF4.1, SMP (2xPIII/833) works fine if you
(1) do not use matrox module from Matrox and
(2) there is not PCI activity which targets G400 when X initialize hardware (during start or console switch) and
(3) it is highly unrecommended to use DRI (as it touches G400 hardware even when X are not on foreground)
If it is too limiting for you, look for another chipset. With i440BX you'll get at least 2x faster PCI->AGP transfers than with VIA: i440BX can handle 60MBps (32bpp full PAL) without any problems, while 694x has problems with 30MBps (16bpp full PAL) (IDE disk accesses are visible as dropouts on picture).
There is nothing Linux kernel can do for stability of such box.
Best regards,
Petr Vandrovec [email protected]