On Fri, 3 Sep 1999, Francis GALIEGUE wrote:
> > > What's your chipset and CPU? What amount of RAM?
> >
> > AMD K6-2 450 MHz, 128 MB RAM, VIA chipset...
> >
>
> VIA again! Mamma mia!
>
> > > Have you compiled in APM support? If yes, does the kernel boot if you
> > > remove it?
> >
> > Funny, that was never a problem before, but I'll try it out...
> >
> > Greets and btw. thanks for the fast response
>
> np :) But I'd really like to sort out that VIA chipset stuff. All the
> people I know who have such a chipset on their motherboard have had
> problems (from massive disk corruption to "kernel wont boot"-style
> problems).
>
> Re: APM, and related (again!) to VIA, I know a guy with a K6-2 CPU and
> a VIA chipset as well who has had disk corruption problems, but on power
> off the kernel would just oops...
>
> Ban VIA!
>
Only problem i've had witth my Via is the apm shutdown, other than that it
works like a charm. It's just to bad we can't enable the dma driver cause
it requires the dma by default which causes data lose n some
chipset/drive combos. :(
