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Hi, Ville. On Sep 28 2005, Ville Herva wrote: > You may be running into this problem: > > http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0207.2/0574.html > http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/linux/linux-kernel/2002-02/1727.html > http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/linux/linux-kernel/2002-01/1048.html > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=99889965423508&w=2 > > (A google search will turn up more.) Thank you very much for these links. It seems that I may be not alone here, unfortunately. :-( > Placing network card to a different PCI slot helped somewhat as did > upgrading the bios. I have not played with the network cards, but I have already upgraded the BIOS firmware to the latest version that I could find (in the hope that I could get the Duron 1.3GHz being actually identified as such, instead of operating at 1.1GHz). > It seemed to be a KT133 Northbridge DMA issue. My impression is that > KT133 is utter crap period. Well, is this a problem particular with KT133 or is this a generic thing with VIA chipsets? I'm interested because I don't know the other chipset options that are Open Source friendly---it seems that Nvidia-based ones have to have reverse-engineered drivers (e.g., forcedeth), which is quite bad, IMO. I'm intenging to get another system as soon as the dust settles and x86_64 and SATA drives become mainstream enough to be readily available here in Brazil for reasonable prices. But, then, I'd be concerned in getting a chipset from an company that plays nice with Linux (and the *BSDs too, for that matter). Opinions are more than welcome. Thanks, Rogério Brito. -- Rogério Brito : rbrito@ime.usp.br : http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito Homepage of the algorithms package : http://algorithms.berlios.de Homepage on freshmeat: http://freshmeat.net/projects/algorithms/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | |||||||||
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