Re: Kernel 2.4 problems on K7
Hello Scott,
I have one of the first K7 with also an ALI chipset. The messages at
startup that you get are the same I got when tried to enable DMA.
I suggest you disable the activation of the DMA settings at startup and
try to find your best configuration later with hdparm and activate it
with the other daemons using hwtools.
No matter what I did (you can find messages on this list) I couldn't
activate more than multiword dma and my HD certainly supports high DMA
configurations.
Hope this heps.
Chainy.
El vie, 07-02-2003 a las 05:38, Scott Nanni escribió:
> I am sure I am not the only one, as I have heard quite a bit about this
> but I am just gonna throw this one out there...
> I have tried several 2.4 kernels, debian stock 2.4.16-k7, 2.4.18-k7 as
> well as custom kernels 2.4.16, 2.4.18, 2.4.19 from kernel.org
> If I load my usb (usb-ohci) or alsa sound (snd-card-ali5451) I get errors
> like
>
> hda: { timed out }
> hda: DMA Disabled
>
> then it usually begins to tear up my filesystem spitting out pages of errors.
>
> I have a Presario 906US model pc, AMD Mobile Athlon XP 1500+
> ACPI-compliant system, its an ALi chipset M1535+ (Southbridge)
> ATI U1 (Northbridge) I am currently using Ext2, but I have tried Ext3 as well.
> these problems dont seem to happen with the 2.2.20 kernel.. but I would
> like to get my sound working as well as my ACPI features so that I can ditch
> the windows XP and I would like Ext3 support.. the USB is not really an issue
> I dont know where to go from here.. its been hell, and I have found many good
> documents, patches, etc.. and still no luck yet.
>
> Additional note, when I compile my own 2.4.x kernel if I use the K7 arch setting
> and the MCE is enabled the kernel wont boot.. now I have a feeling this is not cpu
> damage, but some strange unmapped/incompatible functions of this Mobile XP cpu.
> but again, my main concerns are getting the ACPI Thermal zone, power management,
> sound, and other main essentials working.. I am not worried about over optimizing at
> this point.. if anyone can shed some light on this please help.. I have compiled many
> kernels and so far I gotta boot a different one for each piece of hardware to work..
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