Messages in this thread | | | From | Denis Vlasenko <> | Subject | Re: AMD Athlon + VIA Crashing On Disk I/O | Date | Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:45:43 -0200 |
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On 16 April 2002 11:28, E M Recio wrote: > Hiya, > > I have an AMD Athlon 1.2 with a VIA 8259A Chipset (see bottom). If I > compile the kernel with the Athlon option it crashes all the time. In > fact, I can't even get Redhat 7.2 installed without a core dump when it > tries to mount the filesystem. With the later kernels, it doesn't core > dump, but just freezes.
Kernel version?
> IE: If I have ide-scsi module loaded, and I try to access the floppy > drive, it locks up the machine (regardless of whether cputype is Athlon > or K6.) > > IE: Updatedb locks up the machine. > > I get (when FSCK): > > spurious 8259A IRQ7
cat /proc/interrupts, is ther lots of ERR: interrupts?
> Does anyone know if there's a bug fix for this chipset? My board is > made from FIC (crappy, instructions don't even matchup). I used to be > able to fix it by changing the CPU type to K6 but that doesn't work now > with the later kernels (2.4.15 and up.)
Try to compile for 486. -- vda - 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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