Re: Via chipset problems

[Colin Tree <coltree@chc.net.au>]

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

On 5/7/99, 1:26:27 AM, Bob Nielsen <nielsen@primenet.com> wrote 
regarding Re: Via chipset problems:

Hi Bob,
		try < > use DMA by default when available.
Thanks I think I've spotted it ....don't use ^.
I'm not going to try it again. 

Spose I should find out how to boot from floppy to run e2fsck,
then can e2fsck fix problems it finds ?


Cheers,
Colin Tree

> On Thu, May 06, 1999 at 11:57:25AM +0300, Heikki Ylipiessa wrote:
> > On Thu, 6 May 1999, Colin Tree wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > Yo!
> > >   I have a K6II-350 on a motherboard which
> > > has a Via Apollo MVP3 chipset. I tried kernel 2.2.1 a
> > > couple of times. If I select via82c586 chipset support
> > > and PCI bus-master DMA support, it stuffs the whole
> > > file system. I patched it up to 2.2.7, still the same
> > > problem.
> > >
> > > Has anyone else seen this?
> > > Who do I report it to?
> > > Is there a kernel group?
> >
> > I had similar problems .. but when i disabled the VIA support
> > nb after that .
> > so the problem is with via driver .
> > Don't know whos work is it .. but i hope someone will do
> > something about this BUG asap.

> What are the symptoms of this?  I just recompiled 2.2.7 with via 
support
> to take a look.  So far I don't see any problems.