Re: do amd processors work well with debian?
On Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 08:20:42PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
>On Fri, 2003-01-17 at 17:03, George Georgalis wrote:
>> On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 08:59:00AM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote:
>>
>> >> by the way, any baddies when it comes to mobo chipset?
>> >
>> >Nforce chipsets. AFAIK you need a non-free driver to make the LAN chip
>> >work.
>>
>> 'in the beginning' there was problems with the VIA IDE controller
>> drivers (ie, my chipset, a year or two ago) used on some boards
>> for amd CPUs. I'm now running a 2.4.20 kernel with compile option
>> CONFIG_BLK_DEV_VIA82CXXX=y and while I have no problems with disk
>> access, I'm not convinced all problems were addressed for the floppy
>> drive. I cannot always run fdformat /dev/fd0 (and I don't have removed
>> media mounted) but rebooting fixes it.
>>
>> I'm not sure exactly which components are relevant but am guessing
>> 'Apollo Super South'
>>
>> 00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8363/8365 [KT133/KM133] (rev 03)
>> 00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8363/8365 [KT133/KM133 AGP]
>> 00:07.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super South] (rev 40)
>> 00:07.4 Bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super ACPI] (rev 40)
>
>I've got the same chipset you do (on an A7V133-C mobo) and have
>had none of those IDE problem, even back when others were
>complaining about them. Haven't formatted too many floppys,
>so can't speak to that...
I think most people don't use floppies so this issue was not fully
addressed. I've wasted a lot of time (and changed drives and floppies)
only to have sector (track?) 60 something not verify correctly. PITA
Far as ide drives are concerned it think the issue is
resolved in current 2.4 (I guess 2.2) kernels. Here is the
tail end of the discussion if anyone wants to research.
http://kt.zork.net/kernel-traffic/kt20010416_114.html#3
// George
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