Daniel Parthey wrote: > Christian Sühs schrieb: > >>Richard Smith schrieb: >> >>>On 5/9/06, Eric Poulsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> >>>>I've been researching the IDE/DMA/Linux issue that appears to plague >>>>the VT8235 southbridge. Seems there is _no_ reliable fix for this >>>>issue, [...] Reliability is a huge thing for me (hence the use of >>>>Linux). The Epia board is bound for Ebay. >> >>Somewhere I have read, that disabling the acpi function in the kernel >>solve many problems for the epia. >>I use an Epia-M for myself and it works stable, without acpi. > > > Somebody on this list recommended me to disable ACPI in the Linux kernel. > This had solved my kernel panic on EPIA ML. > Eric, please try to disable ACPI, even if it is merely a workaround. > > Any ideas why kernel ACPI works with factory BIOS but panics > with LinuxBIOS on VIA EPIA ML? >
oh, there's all kinds of fun possibilities :-) possible the ML says 'tweak this bit' and the bit is set up wrong on LB. ACPI is Yer Basic Shoppe of Horrors ron -- linuxbios mailing list [email protected] http://www.openbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
