Ok, I guess it's my turn to chime in ;-)
I've been running a VooDoo 3 2000 APG without any ill effects
I have a Ensonic ES1371 in slot 2 and a 3Com 905b in slot 4
Everything is stable running 2.2.15pre series kernels.
I am not using the HTP366 controller, and do not use the NOAPIC boot parm
One thing is have noticed is that I have not been able to control what
interrupt are assigned to the various pci slots.
I need to do this because I have to Dual-Boot to do CAD work on NT. I would
like to use my sound card on NT, but NT doesn't share interrupts well. The
Bios seems to ignore what I tell it to do.
I've turned off the assign interrupt to USB and VGA without any ill effects,
but I'm not sure how this will effect both OS's. I'm getting ready to move
my USB scanner from a Win98 machine to this one, so I'm a bit concerned how
this will effect USB on Linux. Does anyone have any experience with this.
i.e., do interrupts need to be assigned to VGA and USB for them to work
properly.
Thanks,
Craig
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Zdenek Kabelac [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, April 03, 2000 11:31 AM
> To: Discussion List for Linux on Abit Motherboards
> Subject: Re: [LINUX-ABIT] Odd Behavior
>
> > don't put anything in pci slot 3, its shared with the hpt controller,
> > slot 4 and slot 5 are bus mastered. Maybe that was causing the problem.
> >
>
> Well this Voodoo doesn't work for me.
>
> However from my fresh experience I can tell this:
>
> Before I've used 2.2.15pre17 + 3c59x 0.99L - downloaded from
>
> http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/vortex.html
>
> - as kernel 2.2.15pre17 contains some older version 0.99H
> I was able to lock my computer easily just by running ispell over nfs.
>
> Now it looks like I'm unable to crash my Bp6 network connected computer.
> (as all my crashes were network related it looks like some
> spinlock race in 0.99L is being fixed in 0.99H)
>
> So unhappy users of 3com cards might try to download newer driver
> from the author (also it should be probably updated in kernel,
> but it probably needs longer observation)
>
> (running BP6, 128MB, G400 (UtahGLX), SBLive & RTLinux2.2, using noapic,
> Debian Potato)
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> Zdenek Kabelac http://i.am/kabi/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] {debian.org; fi.muni.cz}
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