Re: How's the nforce4 support in Linux?

2005-04-10 Thread Julien Wajsberg
On Apr 6, 2005 6:02 PM, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > There still can be a bug in setting up DMA timings etc. > > It is hard to even guess as you haven't given any details about your > system: dmesg/hdparm/lspci/config... (or I overlooked it somehow). I sent the

Re: How's the nforce4 support in Linux?

2005-04-10 Thread Julien Wajsberg
On Apr 6, 2005 1:41 PM, Richard B. Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > How would you know? Windows will just run it as PIOW and be done > with it. Yes, but there's a way to know which mode you're using (maybe not precisely, but at least PIO vs DMA). > Did you ever try to copy a large file in

Re: How's the nforce4 support in Linux?

2005-04-10 Thread Julien Wajsberg
On Apr 6, 2005 1:41 PM, Richard B. Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How would you know? Windows will just run it as PIOW and be done with it. Yes, but there's a way to know which mode you're using (maybe not precisely, but at least PIO vs DMA). Did you ever try to copy a large file in XP?

Re: How's the nforce4 support in Linux?

2005-04-10 Thread Julien Wajsberg
On Apr 6, 2005 6:02 PM, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There still can be a bug in setting up DMA timings etc. It is hard to even guess as you haven't given any details about your system: dmesg/hdparm/lspci/config... (or I overlooked it somehow). I sent the related

Re: How's the nforce4 support in Linux?

2005-04-06 Thread Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
On Apr 6, 2005 1:41 PM, Richard B. Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 5 Apr 2005, Julien Wajsberg wrote: > > > On Apr 5, 2005 4:10 PM, Richard B. Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Tue, 5 Apr 2005, Julien Wajsberg wrote: > >> > >>> On Mar 26, 2005 12:59 AM, Julien Wajsberg

Re: How's the nforce4 support in Linux?

2005-04-06 Thread Richard B. Johnson
On Tue, 5 Apr 2005, Julien Wajsberg wrote: On Apr 5, 2005 4:10 PM, Richard B. Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, 5 Apr 2005, Julien Wajsberg wrote: On Mar 26, 2005 12:59 AM, Julien Wajsberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I own an Asus A8N-Sli motherboard with the Nforce4-Sli chipset, and I

Re: How's the nforce4 support in Linux?

2005-04-06 Thread Richard B. Johnson
On Tue, 5 Apr 2005, Julien Wajsberg wrote: On Apr 5, 2005 4:10 PM, Richard B. Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 5 Apr 2005, Julien Wajsberg wrote: On Mar 26, 2005 12:59 AM, Julien Wajsberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I own an Asus A8N-Sli motherboard with the Nforce4-Sli chipset, and I

Re: How's the nforce4 support in Linux?

2005-04-06 Thread Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
On Apr 6, 2005 1:41 PM, Richard B. Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 5 Apr 2005, Julien Wajsberg wrote: On Apr 5, 2005 4:10 PM, Richard B. Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 5 Apr 2005, Julien Wajsberg wrote: On Mar 26, 2005 12:59 AM, Julien Wajsberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How's the nforce4 support in Linux?

2005-04-05 Thread Julien Wajsberg
On Apr 5, 2005 4:10 PM, Richard B. Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 5 Apr 2005, Julien Wajsberg wrote: > > > On Mar 26, 2005 12:59 AM, Julien Wajsberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I own an Asus A8N-Sli motherboard with the Nforce4-Sli chipset, and I > >> experiment the following

Re: How's the nforce4 support in Linux?

2005-04-05 Thread Richard B. Johnson
On Tue, 5 Apr 2005, Julien Wajsberg wrote: On Mar 26, 2005 12:59 AM, Julien Wajsberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I own an Asus A8N-Sli motherboard with the Nforce4-Sli chipset, and I experiment the following problem : Mar 25 22:42:55 evenflow kernel: hda: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x60 Mar 25

Re: How's the nforce4 support in Linux?

2005-04-05 Thread Julien Wajsberg
On Mar 26, 2005 12:59 AM, Julien Wajsberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I own an Asus A8N-Sli motherboard with the Nforce4-Sli chipset, and I > experiment the following problem : > > Mar 25 22:42:55 evenflow kernel: hda: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x60 > Mar 25 22:42:55 evenflow kernel: hda:

Re: How's the nforce4 support in Linux?

2005-04-05 Thread Julien Wajsberg
On Apr 5, 2005 4:10 PM, Richard B. Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 5 Apr 2005, Julien Wajsberg wrote: On Mar 26, 2005 12:59 AM, Julien Wajsberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I own an Asus A8N-Sli motherboard with the Nforce4-Sli chipset, and I experiment the following problem :

Re: How's the nforce4 support in Linux?

2005-04-05 Thread Julien Wajsberg
On Mar 26, 2005 12:59 AM, Julien Wajsberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I own an Asus A8N-Sli motherboard with the Nforce4-Sli chipset, and I experiment the following problem : Mar 25 22:42:55 evenflow kernel: hda: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x60 Mar 25 22:42:55 evenflow kernel: hda: DMA

Re: How's the nforce4 support in Linux?

2005-04-05 Thread Richard B. Johnson
On Tue, 5 Apr 2005, Julien Wajsberg wrote: On Mar 26, 2005 12:59 AM, Julien Wajsberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I own an Asus A8N-Sli motherboard with the Nforce4-Sli chipset, and I experiment the following problem : Mar 25 22:42:55 evenflow kernel: hda: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x60 Mar 25

Re: How's the nforce4 support in Linux?

2005-04-02 Thread Julien Wajsberg
On Mar 26, 2005 7:32 PM, Marcin Dalecki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 2005-03-26, at 16:19, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > > ` > >> hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } > >> hda: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC > > > > BadCRC is 99% sure a cabling issue;

Re: How's the nforce4 support in Linux?

2005-04-02 Thread Julien Wajsberg
On Mar 26, 2005 7:32 PM, Marcin Dalecki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2005-03-26, at 16:19, Arjan van de Ven wrote: ` hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hda: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC BadCRC is 99% sure a cabling issue; either a

Re: How's the nforce4 support in Linux?

2005-03-30 Thread Martin Schlemmer
On Wed, 2005-03-30 at 16:01 -0500, Lee Revell wrote: > On Wed, 2005-03-30 at 21:19 +0200, Martin Schlemmer wrote: > > On Wed, 2005-03-30 at 17:00 +0200, Tomasz Torcz wrote: > > > > > quake3 still segfaults when run through "aoss". And can't be fixed, > > > > > as > > > > > it's closed source

Re: How's the nforce4 support in Linux?

2005-03-30 Thread Jeff Garzik
Francois Romieu wrote: Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : Andi Kleen wrote: [r8169 driver] It does not seem to support DAC (or rather it breaks with DAC enabled), which makes it not very useful on any machine with >3GB of memory. Driver bug. I can futz with it and get it to do 64-bit on my

Re: How's the nforce4 support in Linux?

2005-03-30 Thread Francois Romieu
Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : > Andi Kleen wrote: [r8169 driver] > >It does not seem to support DAC (or rather it breaks with DAC enabled), > >which makes it not very useful on any machine with >3GB of memory. > > Driver bug. I can futz with it and get it to do 64-bit on my Athlon64. Care

Re: How's the nforce4 support in Linux?

2005-03-30 Thread Lee Revell
On Wed, 2005-03-30 at 21:19 +0200, Martin Schlemmer wrote: > On Wed, 2005-03-30 at 17:00 +0200, Tomasz Torcz wrote: > > > > quake3 still segfaults when run through "aoss". And can't be fixed, as > > > > it's closed source still. > > > > > > > I guess that's Quake3's problem... > > > > It an

Re: How's the nforce4 support in Linux?

2005-03-30 Thread Indrek Kruusa
Jeff Garzik wrote: Indrek Kruusa wrote: Jeff Garzik wrote: Andi Kleen wrote: Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I won't disagree with your experiences. For me, outside of one brief moment when the r8169 driver didn't work on Athlon64, it has worked flawlessly for me. RealTek 8169 is

Re: How's the nforce4 support in Linux?

2005-03-30 Thread Jeff Garzik
Indrek Kruusa wrote: Jeff Garzik wrote: Andi Kleen wrote: Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I won't disagree with your experiences. For me, outside of one brief moment when the r8169 driver didn't work on Athlon64, it has worked flawlessly for me. RealTek 8169 is currently my favorite

Re: How's the nforce4 support in Linux?

2005-03-30 Thread Indrek Kruusa
Jeff Garzik wrote: Andi Kleen wrote: Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I won't disagree with your experiences. For me, outside of one brief moment when the r8169 driver didn't work on Athlon64, it has worked flawlessly for me. RealTek 8169 is currently my favorite gigabit chip. It does not

Re: How's the nforce4 support in Linux?

2005-03-30 Thread Jeff Garzik
Andi Kleen wrote: Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I won't disagree with your experiences. For me, outside of one brief moment when the r8169 driver didn't work on Athlon64, it has worked flawlessly for me. RealTek 8169 is currently my favorite gigabit chip. It does not seem to support

Re: How's the nforce4 support in Linux?

2005-03-30 Thread Martin Schlemmer
On Wed, 2005-03-30 at 17:00 +0200, Tomasz Torcz wrote: > On Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 03:40:07PM -0500, Lee Revell wrote: > > On Tue, 2005-03-29 at 20:58 +0200, Tomasz Torcz wrote: > > > On Fri, Mar 25, 2005 at 06:14:22PM -0500, Lee Revell wrote: > > > > On Fri, 2005-03-25 at 23:59 +0100, Julien

Re: How's the nforce4 support in Linux?

2005-03-30 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Mar 30, 2005 at 05:00:23PM +0200, Tomasz Torcz wrote: > It an glaring example, dmix is unsufficient in one third of my sound > uses (other two beeing movie and music playback) > But you advertise dmix like it was silver bullet. An emu10k1 is a silver bullet. :) Len Sorensen - To

Re: How's the nforce4 support in Linux?

2005-03-30 Thread Tomasz Torcz
On Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 03:40:07PM -0500, Lee Revell wrote: > On Tue, 2005-03-29 at 20:58 +0200, Tomasz Torcz wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 25, 2005 at 06:14:22PM -0500, Lee Revell wrote: > > > On Fri, 2005-03-25 at 23:59 +0100, Julien Wajsberg wrote: > > > > - audio works too. The only problem is that

Re: How's the nforce4 support in Linux?

2005-03-30 Thread Tomasz Torcz
On Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 03:40:07PM -0500, Lee Revell wrote: On Tue, 2005-03-29 at 20:58 +0200, Tomasz Torcz wrote: On Fri, Mar 25, 2005 at 06:14:22PM -0500, Lee Revell wrote: On Fri, 2005-03-25 at 23:59 +0100, Julien Wajsberg wrote: - audio works too. The only problem is that two

Re: How's the nforce4 support in Linux?

2005-03-30 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Mar 30, 2005 at 05:00:23PM +0200, Tomasz Torcz wrote: It an glaring example, dmix is unsufficient in one third of my sound uses (other two beeing movie and music playback) But you advertise dmix like it was silver bullet. An emu10k1 is a silver bullet. :) Len Sorensen - To

Re: How's the nforce4 support in Linux?

2005-03-30 Thread Martin Schlemmer
On Wed, 2005-03-30 at 17:00 +0200, Tomasz Torcz wrote: On Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 03:40:07PM -0500, Lee Revell wrote: On Tue, 2005-03-29 at 20:58 +0200, Tomasz Torcz wrote: On Fri, Mar 25, 2005 at 06:14:22PM -0500, Lee Revell wrote: On Fri, 2005-03-25 at 23:59 +0100, Julien Wajsberg wrote:

Re: How's the nforce4 support in Linux?

2005-03-30 Thread Jeff Garzik
Andi Kleen wrote: Jeff Garzik [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I won't disagree with your experiences. For me, outside of one brief moment when the r8169 driver didn't work on Athlon64, it has worked flawlessly for me. RealTek 8169 is currently my favorite gigabit chip. It does not seem to support DAC

Re: How's the nforce4 support in Linux?

2005-03-30 Thread Indrek Kruusa
Jeff Garzik wrote: Andi Kleen wrote: Jeff Garzik [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I won't disagree with your experiences. For me, outside of one brief moment when the r8169 driver didn't work on Athlon64, it has worked flawlessly for me. RealTek 8169 is currently my favorite gigabit chip. It does not

Re: How's the nforce4 support in Linux?

2005-03-30 Thread Jeff Garzik
Indrek Kruusa wrote: Jeff Garzik wrote: Andi Kleen wrote: Jeff Garzik [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I won't disagree with your experiences. For me, outside of one brief moment when the r8169 driver didn't work on Athlon64, it has worked flawlessly for me. RealTek 8169 is currently my favorite gigabit

Re: How's the nforce4 support in Linux?

2005-03-30 Thread Indrek Kruusa
Jeff Garzik wrote: Indrek Kruusa wrote: Jeff Garzik wrote: Andi Kleen wrote: Jeff Garzik [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I won't disagree with your experiences. For me, outside of one brief moment when the r8169 driver didn't work on Athlon64, it has worked flawlessly for me. RealTek 8169 is currently

Re: How's the nforce4 support in Linux?

2005-03-30 Thread Lee Revell
On Wed, 2005-03-30 at 21:19 +0200, Martin Schlemmer wrote: On Wed, 2005-03-30 at 17:00 +0200, Tomasz Torcz wrote: quake3 still segfaults when run through aoss. And can't be fixed, as it's closed source still. I guess that's Quake3's problem... It an glaring example, dmix is

Re: How's the nforce4 support in Linux?

2005-03-30 Thread Francois Romieu
Jeff Garzik [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Andi Kleen wrote: [r8169 driver] It does not seem to support DAC (or rather it breaks with DAC enabled), which makes it not very useful on any machine with 3GB of memory. Driver bug. I can futz with it and get it to do 64-bit on my Athlon64. Care to send a

Re: How's the nforce4 support in Linux?

2005-03-30 Thread Jeff Garzik
Francois Romieu wrote: Jeff Garzik [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Andi Kleen wrote: [r8169 driver] It does not seem to support DAC (or rather it breaks with DAC enabled), which makes it not very useful on any machine with 3GB of memory. Driver bug. I can futz with it and get it to do 64-bit on my Athlon64.

Re: How's the nforce4 support in Linux?

2005-03-30 Thread Martin Schlemmer
On Wed, 2005-03-30 at 16:01 -0500, Lee Revell wrote: On Wed, 2005-03-30 at 21:19 +0200, Martin Schlemmer wrote: On Wed, 2005-03-30 at 17:00 +0200, Tomasz Torcz wrote: quake3 still segfaults when run through aoss. And can't be fixed, as it's closed source still. I

Re: How's the nforce4 support in Linux?

2005-03-29 Thread Lee Revell
On Tue, 2005-03-29 at 20:58 +0200, Tomasz Torcz wrote: > On Fri, Mar 25, 2005 at 06:14:22PM -0500, Lee Revell wrote: > > On Fri, 2005-03-25 at 23:59 +0100, Julien Wajsberg wrote: > > > - audio works too. The only problem is that two applications can't > > > open /dev/dsp in the same time. > > > >

Re: How's the nforce4 support in Linux?

2005-03-29 Thread Tomasz Torcz
On Fri, Mar 25, 2005 at 06:14:22PM -0500, Lee Revell wrote: > On Fri, 2005-03-25 at 23:59 +0100, Julien Wajsberg wrote: > > - audio works too. The only problem is that two applications can't > > open /dev/dsp in the same time. > > Not a problem. ALSA does software mixing for chipsets that can't

Re: How's the nforce4 support in Linux?

2005-03-29 Thread Tomasz Torcz
On Fri, Mar 25, 2005 at 06:14:22PM -0500, Lee Revell wrote: On Fri, 2005-03-25 at 23:59 +0100, Julien Wajsberg wrote: - audio works too. The only problem is that two applications can't open /dev/dsp in the same time. Not a problem. ALSA does software mixing for chipsets that can't do it

Re: How's the nforce4 support in Linux?

2005-03-29 Thread Lee Revell
On Tue, 2005-03-29 at 20:58 +0200, Tomasz Torcz wrote: On Fri, Mar 25, 2005 at 06:14:22PM -0500, Lee Revell wrote: On Fri, 2005-03-25 at 23:59 +0100, Julien Wajsberg wrote: - audio works too. The only problem is that two applications can't open /dev/dsp in the same time. Not a

Re: How's the nforce4 support in Linux?

2005-03-28 Thread Julien Wajsberg
On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 15:13:47 +0100, Michal Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Julien Wajsberg wrote: > > Good point... I just tried, but forcedeth doesn't support netpoll. If > > you have a pointer, I could try to implement it ;-) > > Can you try the attached patch for forcedeth? > It compiles

Re: How's the nforce4 support in Linux?

2005-03-28 Thread Andi Kleen
Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I won't disagree with your experiences. For me, outside of one brief > moment when the r8169 driver didn't work on Athlon64, it has worked > flawlessly for me. > > RealTek 8169 is currently my favorite gigabit chip. It does not seem to support DAC (or

Re: How's the nforce4 support in Linux?

2005-03-28 Thread Andi Kleen
Jeff Garzik [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I won't disagree with your experiences. For me, outside of one brief moment when the r8169 driver didn't work on Athlon64, it has worked flawlessly for me. RealTek 8169 is currently my favorite gigabit chip. It does not seem to support DAC (or rather

Re: How's the nforce4 support in Linux?

2005-03-28 Thread Julien Wajsberg
On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 15:13:47 +0100, Michal Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Julien Wajsberg wrote: Good point... I just tried, but forcedeth doesn't support netpoll. If you have a pointer, I could try to implement it ;-) Can you try the attached patch for forcedeth? It compiles for me,

Re: How's the nforce4 support in Linux?

2005-03-27 Thread Chuck
On Saturday, 26. March 2005 18:32, Marcin Dalecki wrote: > On 2005-03-26, at 16:19, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > ` > > > >> hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } > >> hda: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC > > > > BadCRC is 99% sure a cabling issue; either a

Re: How's the nforce4 support in Linux?

2005-03-27 Thread Chuck
On Saturday, 26. March 2005 18:32, Marcin Dalecki wrote: On 2005-03-26, at 16:19, Arjan van de Ven wrote: ` hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hda: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC BadCRC is 99% sure a cabling issue; either a bad/overheated

Re: How's the nforce4 support in Linux?

2005-03-26 Thread Marcin Dalecki
On 2005-03-26, at 16:19, Arjan van de Ven wrote: ` hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hda: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC BadCRC is 99% sure a cabling issue; either a bad/overheated cable or a cable used at too high a speed for the cable. No. It is more

Re: How's the nforce4 support in Linux?

2005-03-26 Thread Arjan van de Ven
` > hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } > hda: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC BadCRC is 99% sure a cabling issue; either a bad/overheated cable or a cable used at too high a speed for the cable. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: How's the nforce4 support in Linux?

2005-03-26 Thread Chuck
On Fri, 2005-03-25 at 23:59 +0100, Julien Wajsberg wrote: > Mar 25 22:42:55 evenflow kernel: hda: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x60 > Mar 25 22:42:55 evenflow kernel: hda: DMA timeout retry > Mar 25 22:42:55 evenflow kernel: hda: timeout waiting for DMA > Mar 25 22:42:55 evenflow kernel: hda:

Re: How's the nforce4 support in Linux?

2005-03-26 Thread Michal Schmidt
Julien Wajsberg wrote: Good point... I just tried, but forcedeth doesn't support netpoll. If you have a pointer, I could try to implement it ;-) Can you try the attached patch for forcedeth? It compiles for me, but I don't have nForce hardware to test it. Michal ---

Re: How's the nforce4 support in Linux?

2005-03-26 Thread Michal Schmidt
Julien Wajsberg wrote: Good point... I just tried, but forcedeth doesn't support netpoll. If you have a pointer, I could try to implement it ;-) Can you try the attached patch for forcedeth? It compiles for me, but I don't have nForce hardware to test it. Michal ---

Re: How's the nforce4 support in Linux?

2005-03-26 Thread Chuck
On Fri, 2005-03-25 at 23:59 +0100, Julien Wajsberg wrote: Mar 25 22:42:55 evenflow kernel: hda: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x60 Mar 25 22:42:55 evenflow kernel: hda: DMA timeout retry Mar 25 22:42:55 evenflow kernel: hda: timeout waiting for DMA Mar 25 22:42:55 evenflow kernel: hda:

Re: How's the nforce4 support in Linux?

2005-03-26 Thread Arjan van de Ven
` hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hda: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC BadCRC is 99% sure a cabling issue; either a bad/overheated cable or a cable used at too high a speed for the cable. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe

Re: How's the nforce4 support in Linux?

2005-03-26 Thread Marcin Dalecki
On 2005-03-26, at 16:19, Arjan van de Ven wrote: ` hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hda: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC BadCRC is 99% sure a cabling issue; either a bad/overheated cable or a cable used at too high a speed for the cable. No. It is more

Re: How's the nforce4 support in Linux?

2005-03-25 Thread Lee Revell
On Sat, 2005-03-26 at 01:38 +0100, Julien Wajsberg wrote: > On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 18:14:22 -0500, Lee Revell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, 2005-03-25 at 23:59 +0100, Julien Wajsberg wrote: > > > - audio works too. The only problem is that two applications can't > > > open /dev/dsp in the

Re: How's the nforce4 support in Linux?

2005-03-25 Thread Julien Wajsberg
On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 18:14:22 -0500, Lee Revell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 2005-03-25 at 23:59 +0100, Julien Wajsberg wrote: > > - audio works too. The only problem is that two applications can't > > open /dev/dsp in the same time. > > Not a problem. ALSA does software mixing for

Re: How's the nforce4 support in Linux?

2005-03-25 Thread Julien Wajsberg
On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 18:20:54 -0500, Lee Revell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 2005-03-25 at 23:59 +0100, Julien Wajsberg wrote: > > I also experiment sometimes a complete hang of the system. But I > > didn't find how to reproduce the bug yet, especially because it seems > > to happen when I

Re: How's the nforce4 support in Linux?

2005-03-25 Thread Julien Wajsberg
On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 18:21:42 -0500, Lee Revell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 2005-03-25 at 23:59 +0100, Julien Wajsberg wrote: > > Mar 25 22:42:55 evenflow kernel: hda: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x60 > > Mar 25 22:42:55 evenflow kernel: hda: DMA timeout retry > > Mar 25 22:42:55

Re: How's the nforce4 support in Linux?

2005-03-25 Thread Lee Revell
On Fri, 2005-03-25 at 23:59 +0100, Julien Wajsberg wrote: > Mar 25 22:42:55 evenflow kernel: hda: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x60 > Mar 25 22:42:55 evenflow kernel: hda: DMA timeout retry > Mar 25 22:42:55 evenflow kernel: hda: timeout waiting for DMA > Mar 25 22:42:55 evenflow kernel: hda:

Re: How's the nforce4 support in Linux?

2005-03-25 Thread Lee Revell
On Fri, 2005-03-25 at 23:59 +0100, Julien Wajsberg wrote: > I also experiment sometimes a complete hang of the system. But I > didn't find how to reproduce the bug yet, especially because it seems > to happen when I do nothing (when I'm sleeping or am at work ;), and I > can't get a Oops because I

Re: How's the nforce4 support in Linux?

2005-03-25 Thread Lee Revell
On Fri, 2005-03-25 at 23:59 +0100, Julien Wajsberg wrote: > - audio works too. The only problem is that two applications can't > open /dev/dsp in the same time. Not a problem. ALSA does software mixing for chipsets that can't do it in hardware. Google for dmix. However this doesn't (and can't

Re: How's the nforce4 support in Linux?

2005-03-25 Thread Julien Wajsberg
Hi Just to answer some questions : - USB works ok since 2.6.11 - audio works too. The only problem is that two applications can't open /dev/dsp in the same time. - network works I own an Asus A8N-Sli motherboard with the Nforce4-Sli chipset, and I experiment the following problem : Mar 25

Re: How's the nforce4 support in Linux?

2005-03-25 Thread Chuck Ebbert
On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 at 10:34:12 +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > probably just one of those things implemented in the binary drivers in > software, just like the "hardware" IDE raid is most of the time (3ware > being the positive exception there) IT8212 is a real hardware ATA RAID controller.

Re: How's the nforce4 support in Linux?

2005-03-25 Thread Chuck Ebbert
On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 at 10:34:12 +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote: probably just one of those things implemented in the binary drivers in software, just like the hardware IDE raid is most of the time (3ware being the positive exception there) IT8212 is a real hardware ATA RAID controller. Too

Re: How's the nforce4 support in Linux?

2005-03-25 Thread Julien Wajsberg
Hi Just to answer some questions : - USB works ok since 2.6.11 - audio works too. The only problem is that two applications can't open /dev/dsp in the same time. - network works I own an Asus A8N-Sli motherboard with the Nforce4-Sli chipset, and I experiment the following problem : Mar 25

Re: How's the nforce4 support in Linux?

2005-03-25 Thread Lee Revell
On Fri, 2005-03-25 at 23:59 +0100, Julien Wajsberg wrote: - audio works too. The only problem is that two applications can't open /dev/dsp in the same time. Not a problem. ALSA does software mixing for chipsets that can't do it in hardware. Google for dmix. However this doesn't (and can't be

Re: How's the nforce4 support in Linux?

2005-03-25 Thread Lee Revell
On Fri, 2005-03-25 at 23:59 +0100, Julien Wajsberg wrote: I also experiment sometimes a complete hang of the system. But I didn't find how to reproduce the bug yet, especially because it seems to happen when I do nothing (when I'm sleeping or am at work ;), and I can't get a Oops because I

Re: How's the nforce4 support in Linux?

2005-03-25 Thread Lee Revell
On Fri, 2005-03-25 at 23:59 +0100, Julien Wajsberg wrote: Mar 25 22:42:55 evenflow kernel: hda: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x60 Mar 25 22:42:55 evenflow kernel: hda: DMA timeout retry Mar 25 22:42:55 evenflow kernel: hda: timeout waiting for DMA Mar 25 22:42:55 evenflow kernel: hda:

Re: How's the nforce4 support in Linux?

2005-03-25 Thread Julien Wajsberg
On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 18:21:42 -0500, Lee Revell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2005-03-25 at 23:59 +0100, Julien Wajsberg wrote: Mar 25 22:42:55 evenflow kernel: hda: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x60 Mar 25 22:42:55 evenflow kernel: hda: DMA timeout retry Mar 25 22:42:55 evenflow

Re: How's the nforce4 support in Linux?

2005-03-25 Thread Julien Wajsberg
On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 18:20:54 -0500, Lee Revell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2005-03-25 at 23:59 +0100, Julien Wajsberg wrote: I also experiment sometimes a complete hang of the system. But I didn't find how to reproduce the bug yet, especially because it seems to happen when I do

Re: How's the nforce4 support in Linux?

2005-03-25 Thread Julien Wajsberg
On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 18:14:22 -0500, Lee Revell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2005-03-25 at 23:59 +0100, Julien Wajsberg wrote: - audio works too. The only problem is that two applications can't open /dev/dsp in the same time. Not a problem. ALSA does software mixing for chipsets that

Re: How's the nforce4 support in Linux?

2005-03-25 Thread Lee Revell
On Sat, 2005-03-26 at 01:38 +0100, Julien Wajsberg wrote: On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 18:14:22 -0500, Lee Revell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2005-03-25 at 23:59 +0100, Julien Wajsberg wrote: - audio works too. The only problem is that two applications can't open /dev/dsp in the same time.

Re: How's the nforce4 support in Linux?

2005-03-24 Thread Lee Revell
On Thu, 2005-03-24 at 20:15 -0600, Robert Hancock wrote: > There is no need to use any binary drivers on the nForce4 - the only > ones even available are for the network and audio. The network works > fine with the forcedeth driver included in the kernel - I don't know > about the audio, I'm

Re: How's the nforce4 support in Linux?

2005-03-24 Thread Robert Hancock
Asfand Yar Qazi wrote: NForce4 Ultra is brilliant - in many ways. Except it requires binary drivers, which I really don't want to use. And apparently, the hardware firewall seems to restrict bandwidth a bit. And even when its off, external chips that end up being faster

Re: How's the nforce4 support in Linux?

2005-03-24 Thread Jeff Garzik
Lennart Sorensen wrote: I think the r8139 has ruined realtek for me forever. I like the Marvell Yukon chip Asus includes on many boards (although some people have reported problems with some Asus boards using them with Linux). I won't disagree with your experiences. For me, outside of one brief

Re: How's the nforce4 support in Linux?

2005-03-24 Thread Jeff Garzik
Asfand Yar Qazi wrote: However, this doesn't answer my original question (which I suppose I should have made clearer): can I get SATA II NCQ support in Linux with an nForce 4 chipset? I answered this question already. The answer is no. Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: [OT] Re: How's the nforce4 support in Linux?

2005-03-24 Thread Asfand Yar Qazi
Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 10:33:03AM +, Asfand Yar Qazi wrote: No, but I do need NCQ Perhaps a stupid question... but: Why do you _need_ NCQ? If you need it that badly (not sure why anyone would), you could always get SCSI or a 3ware controller. For the novelty value.

Re: [OT] Re: How's the nforce4 support in Linux?

2005-03-24 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 10:33:03AM +, Asfand Yar Qazi wrote: > No, but I do need NCQ Perhaps a stupid question... but: Why do you _need_ NCQ? If you need it that badly (not sure why anyone would), you could always get SCSI or a 3ware controller. NCQ is a nice feature, but hardly essential.

Re: How's the nforce4 support in Linux?

2005-03-24 Thread Raphael Jacquot
Lennart Sorensen wrote: Until the OS loads network drivers AND configures IP support AND starts accepting packets in, there is nothing for the firewall to do. Certainly on Linux I can make sure iptables is populated (or least has a sane policy set) before I bring up networking. In other words:

Re: How's the nforce4 support in Linux?

2005-03-24 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 10:00:46AM +, Asfand Yar Qazi wrote: > http://www.neoseeker.com/Articles/Hardware/Previews/nvnforce4/3.html > > You're right there - some semi-hardware support combined with drivers > apparently result in lower CPU usage that software firewalls. Apparently. > >

Re: How's the nforce4 support in Linux?

2005-03-24 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 04:30:32AM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Well, let's cut through the B.S. ;-) > > * Even when the SATA core is updated to support NCQ, nForce will not > support it under Linux. No hardware info. Hmm, either that or someone will figure it out anyhow, like they did with

Re: [OT] Re: How's the nforce4 support in Linux?

2005-03-24 Thread Asfand Yar Qazi
Pawel Sikora wrote: Do You really need nforce4? Maybe sis76[01]GX will be enough? :-) http://www.sis.com/products/sis760gx.htm http://www.sis.com/pressroom/pressrelease_000184.htm No, but I do need NCQ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a

Re: How's the nforce4 support in Linux?

2005-03-24 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Thu, 2005-03-24 at 10:00 +, Asfand Yar Qazi wrote: > Arjan van de Ven wrote: > >>* "hardware firewall" -- sounds silly. Pretty sure Linux doesn't support > >>it in any case. > >> > > > > > > probably just one of those things implemented in the binary drivers in > > software, just like

[OT] Re: How's the nforce4 support in Linux?

2005-03-24 Thread Pawel Sikora
Do You really need nforce4? Maybe sis76[01]GX will be enough? :-) http://www.sis.com/products/sis760gx.htm http://www.sis.com/pressroom/pressrelease_000184.htm - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More

Re: How's the nforce4 support in Linux?

2005-03-24 Thread Asfand Yar Qazi
Asfand Yar Qazi wrote: Arjan van de Ven wrote: * "hardware firewall" -- sounds silly. Pretty sure Linux doesn't support it in any case. probably just one of those things implemented in the binary drivers in software, just like the "hardware" IDE raid is most of the time (3ware being the

Re: How's the nforce4 support in Linux?

2005-03-24 Thread Tupshin Harper
Arjan van de Ven wrote: * "hardware firewall" -- sounds silly. Pretty sure Linux doesn't support it in any case. probably just one of those things implemented in the binary drivers in software, just like the "hardware" IDE raid is most of the time (3ware being the positive exception there)

Re: How's the nforce4 support in Linux?

2005-03-24 Thread Asfand Yar Qazi
Arjan van de Ven wrote: * "hardware firewall" -- sounds silly. Pretty sure Linux doesn't support it in any case. probably just one of those things implemented in the binary drivers in software, just like the "hardware" IDE raid is most of the time (3ware being the positive exception there)

Re: How's the nforce4 support in Linux?

2005-03-24 Thread Arjan van de Ven
> > * "hardware firewall" -- sounds silly. Pretty sure Linux doesn't support > it in any case. > probably just one of those things implemented in the binary drivers in software, just like the "hardware" IDE raid is most of the time (3ware being the positive exception there) - To unsubscribe

Re: How's the nforce4 support in Linux?

2005-03-24 Thread Jeff Garzik
On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 09:20:29AM +, Asfand Yar Qazi wrote: > Hi, > > I'm currently contemplating going for an Athlon 64 system. However, > I'll primarily be using a Linux-based OS (Gentoo, namely), so I need > to know how well the chipsets are supported currently. > > I'd really like to

How's the nforce4 support in Linux?

2005-03-24 Thread Asfand Yar Qazi
Hi, I'm currently contemplating going for an Athlon 64 system. However, I'll primarily be using a Linux-based OS (Gentoo, namely), so I need to know how well the chipsets are supported currently. I'd really like to go Via - but the crummy KT890 / VT8237 combo sucks - mainly due to the lack of

How's the nforce4 support in Linux?

2005-03-24 Thread Asfand Yar Qazi
Hi, I'm currently contemplating going for an Athlon 64 system. However, I'll primarily be using a Linux-based OS (Gentoo, namely), so I need to know how well the chipsets are supported currently. I'd really like to go Via - but the crummy KT890 / VT8237 combo sucks - mainly due to the lack of

Re: How's the nforce4 support in Linux?

2005-03-24 Thread Jeff Garzik
On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 09:20:29AM +, Asfand Yar Qazi wrote: Hi, I'm currently contemplating going for an Athlon 64 system. However, I'll primarily be using a Linux-based OS (Gentoo, namely), so I need to know how well the chipsets are supported currently. I'd really like to go Via

Re: How's the nforce4 support in Linux?

2005-03-24 Thread Arjan van de Ven
* hardware firewall -- sounds silly. Pretty sure Linux doesn't support it in any case. probably just one of those things implemented in the binary drivers in software, just like the hardware IDE raid is most of the time (3ware being the positive exception there) - To unsubscribe from

Re: How's the nforce4 support in Linux?

2005-03-24 Thread Asfand Yar Qazi
Arjan van de Ven wrote: * hardware firewall -- sounds silly. Pretty sure Linux doesn't support it in any case. probably just one of those things implemented in the binary drivers in software, just like the hardware IDE raid is most of the time (3ware being the positive exception there)

Re: How's the nforce4 support in Linux?

2005-03-24 Thread Tupshin Harper
Arjan van de Ven wrote: * hardware firewall -- sounds silly. Pretty sure Linux doesn't support it in any case. probably just one of those things implemented in the binary drivers in software, just like the hardware IDE raid is most of the time (3ware being the positive exception there)

Re: How's the nforce4 support in Linux?

2005-03-24 Thread Asfand Yar Qazi
Asfand Yar Qazi wrote: Arjan van de Ven wrote: * hardware firewall -- sounds silly. Pretty sure Linux doesn't support it in any case. probably just one of those things implemented in the binary drivers in software, just like the hardware IDE raid is most of the time (3ware being the positive

[OT] Re: How's the nforce4 support in Linux?

2005-03-24 Thread Pawel Sikora
OT Do You really need nforce4? Maybe sis76[01]GX will be enough? :-) http://www.sis.com/products/sis760gx.htm http://www.sis.com/pressroom/pressrelease_000184.htm /OT - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More

Re: How's the nforce4 support in Linux?

2005-03-24 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Thu, 2005-03-24 at 10:00 +, Asfand Yar Qazi wrote: Arjan van de Ven wrote: * hardware firewall -- sounds silly. Pretty sure Linux doesn't support it in any case. probably just one of those things implemented in the binary drivers in software, just like the hardware IDE raid

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