Re: Problem with kernel 2.2.19 Ultra-DMA and SMP, once more

2001-06-03 Thread Magnus . Sandberg
Hi, I guess there are no simple answers... Below I have 3 different answers to my previous questions. As they relate to the same problem,I descided to put them togheter in this mail. Mark Hahn don't realy seams to agree with Andre about if noapic is crippling the system or not. Alan Cox says

Re: Problem with kernel 2.2.19 Ultra-DMA and SMP, once more

2001-06-03 Thread Magnus . Sandberg
Hi, I guess there are no simple answers... Below I have 3 different answers to my previous questions. As they relate to the same problem,I descided to put them togheter in this mail. Mark Hahn don't realy seams to agree with Andre about if noapic is crippling the system or not. Alan Cox says

Re: Problem with kernel 2.2.19 Ultra-DMA and SMP, once more

2001-06-02 Thread Magnus . Sandberg
Hi Andre, The motherboard has VIA-chipset. What does this mean for me? Will the APIC-problems be solved in the future or do I have to deside upon running "noapic" semi-crippled or not run Ultra-DMA? _\\|//_ (-0-0-)

Re: Problem with kernel 2.2.19 Ultra-DMA and SMP, once more

2001-06-02 Thread Magnus . Sandberg
Hi Andre, The motherboard has VIA-chipset. What does this mean for me? Will the APIC-problems be solved in the future or do I have to deside upon running noapic semi-crippled or not run Ultra-DMA? _\\|//_ (-0-0-)

RE: Problem with kernel 2.2.19 Ultra-DMA and SMP, once more

2001-06-01 Thread Juha Saarinen
:: If this is a VIA SMP system there are APIC problems that you :: do not want :: to even think about addressing. :: :: MPS1.1 and passing "noapic" will fix most of there mess, but :: you have a :: semi-crippled system, but it runs. Andre, I don't suppose these APIC problems are documented

Re: Problem with kernel 2.2.19 Ultra-DMA and SMP, once more

2001-06-01 Thread Andre Hedrick
If this is a VIA SMP system there are APIC problems that you do not want to even think about addressing. MPS1.1 and passing "noapic" will fix most of there mess, but you have a semi-crippled system, but it runs. On Fri, 1 Jun 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi once more... > > I'm sorry for

Problem with kernel 2.2.19 Ultra-DMA and SMP, once more

2001-06-01 Thread Magnus . Sandberg
Hi once more... I'm sorry for the layout of this mail. It is written in a web mail system... The attachements are in ASCII format even if the web-mail make it base-64 Now I have compiled a vanilla 2.2.19 kernel and have SMP working, without Ultra-DMA. I used the functional kernel config from

Problem with kernel 2.2.19 Ultra-DMA and SMP, more info

2001-06-01 Thread Magnus . Sandberg
Hi again, Earlier today I wrote about my SMP and Ultra-DMA problem. Now have I written down the boot information. I hope that the attachment show the correct information, it was written in W*rd so some lower case chars can have been converted into upper case... I also checked the IDE-patch and

Problem with kernel 2.2.19 Ultra-DMA and SMP

2001-06-01 Thread Magnus Sandberg
PROTECTED] From: Magnus Sandberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Problem with kernel 2.2.19 Ultra-DMA and SMP Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2001 13:55:02 +0200 Hi, I need some help with Linux kernel 2.2.19. I added Andre Hidrick's IDE-patch to get Ultra-DMA for my IDE disk. That kernel has worked for a

Problem with kernel 2.2.19 Ultra-DMA and SMP

2001-06-01 Thread Magnus Sandberg
PROTECTED] From: Magnus Sandberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Problem with kernel 2.2.19 Ultra-DMA and SMP Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2001 13:55:02 +0200 Hi, I need some help with Linux kernel 2.2.19. I added Andre Hidrick's IDE-patch to get Ultra-DMA for my IDE disk. That kernel has worked for a month

Problem with kernel 2.2.19 Ultra-DMA and SMP, more info

2001-06-01 Thread Magnus . Sandberg
Hi again, Earlier today I wrote about my SMP and Ultra-DMA problem. Now have I written down the boot information. I hope that the attachment show the correct information, it was written in W*rd so some lower case chars can have been converted into upper case... I also checked the IDE-patch and

Problem with kernel 2.2.19 Ultra-DMA and SMP, once more

2001-06-01 Thread Magnus . Sandberg
Hi once more... I'm sorry for the layout of this mail. It is written in a web mail system... The attachements are in ASCII format even if the web-mail make it base-64 Now I have compiled a vanilla 2.2.19 kernel and have SMP working, without Ultra-DMA. I used the functional kernel config from

Re: Problem with kernel 2.2.19 Ultra-DMA and SMP, once more

2001-06-01 Thread Andre Hedrick
If this is a VIA SMP system there are APIC problems that you do not want to even think about addressing. MPS1.1 and passing noapic will fix most of there mess, but you have a semi-crippled system, but it runs. On Fri, 1 Jun 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi once more... I'm sorry for the