I'm a newbie just getting started with Linux, but if preponderance of evidence is helpful at all, I also have a VIA chipset, and Mandrake 7 hasn't found my RAM above 64MB... - Av - -- Av Pinzur / Crisp Graphics [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.crispgraphics.com/~newav > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Christian A > Str�mmen [Number1/NumeroUno] > Sent: Thursday, 30 November, 2000 16:40 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: Larry Tobos > Subject: Re: [expert] Slow system > > > On Thursday 30 November 2000 21:39, you wrote: > > In my case, Winblows gets the correct amount of memory... > > Forcing the detection in Lilo as suggested had the impact of > freezing the > > system, until I reverted it ... > > > > The problem is hardware related: the kernel does not see the > memory, even > > if it is there. I bet my problem is the VIA chipset support in > the kernel > > Ahh.. Well, we fixed the performance with hdparm and mem=, but > now, when the > disk use is high (like when starting X) the computer freezes, the > disk spins > down and the harddisk light light constantly. The only thing I > can figure is > that it must be the ide chipset on the mainboard, which is a VIA > chipset. I > haven't gotten any response from anybody about this, so I'll past > the last > mail below and hope that someone will answer. If not we'll have > to change > the mainboard. > > Previous mail: > I've had a lot of problems installin Linux Mandrake 7.2 at my friends > computer. �Sent a mail earlier about a problem with the system > being terribly > slow, and got a lot of good help on this, but encountered another problem > (with might be related?) afterwards. �I'll try to get this as > specific as I > possibly can. �Please read on. > > The first problem I had was that the system was terribly slow, especially > when starting X and other stuff that takes up more memory than > just bash. �I > got two suggestions on how to deal with this; �the first being to add > "append="mem=128M"" in lilo, something that helped cause the > kernel seemed to > only see 64M. �The second was that I should run hdparm to get the disk in > 32bit mode and to use dma, I checked and the disk was running in > 16bit and > with dma turned off. �So I fixed both of these problems and > everything seemed > to run a lot faster(16/no-dma=64M in 17seconds, 32/dma=64M in 3seconds). > > Then when I tried to install a big rpm from disk2 (hadn't started > X yet) the > system freezed. �I could not do anything at all and the > harddisk-light light > constantly without the harddisk doing anything (it spinned down and got > quiet). �After rebooting the disk wasn't detected in the bios, I > had to turn > off again and then it was detected. I booted up again and tried > to start X > and kde2, but halfway into starting kde2 it locked again. �It > seemed after > more tests that when there was a lot of activitiy on the disk it > locked. �I > now shut off 32bit and dma on the disk believing that this was > the problem, > after more tests I found out it wasn't. �To make sure this wasn't > a hardware > problem we afterwards installed first Windows2k (yuck, yeah I > know) and then > Windows98(even more yuck) and ran extencive tests on both, > without getting > the same problem. > > After these tests I decided to try again and installed linux once > more but > still get the same problem. > > The specifications on the machine is(it's 2 weeks old btw.): > Mainboard: MSI K7T-Pro > (http://www.msi-computer.nl/product/mainboard/k7tpro.htm) > Processor: �AMD Duron 700 MHz > Display adapter: �ATI Xpert 2000 32MB AGP > Memory: �128MB original SDRAM pc100 > Harddrive: Fujitsu 20.5GB UDMA/66 > > I also noticed just before I left that the kernel told me that > the bus-speed > was set to 33, and that I could override it with idebus= in lilo, > could this > have anything to do with this? > > I really appreciate any help that I could get on this, and if you > feel that > you need some more info, just let me know and I will email it... > > Ps. when installing mandrake it always gives me the text-install, > never the > fancy graphical one, is there some problem with the chipset on > the display > adapter? > > -- > \ Christian A Str�mmen / > \ Number1/NumeroUno @ Undernet - Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] / > \ Web: www.realityx.net - Cell: +47 911 43 948 / > Live your life by your dreams, > not by the limits of reality... > >
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