Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [ACPI] acpi problem with nforce motherboards and ethernet | From | Craig Bradney <> | Date | Fri, 06 Feb 2004 01:14:56 +0100 |
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On Fri, 2004-02-06 at 00:40, Andrew Morton wrote: > Luis Miguel García <ktech@wanadoo.es> wrote: > > > > David Ford wrote: > > > > > I have the same problem. I "solved" it a while ago by mucking with > > > the AGP stuff. IIRC, it was turning off AGP fast writes or 8x or > > > something similar in cmos. Went from incredibly broken to stable > > > instantly. I'll check my cmos settings in a bit and refresh my memory. > > > > > > What patches are you using? > > > > > > I'm using nforce2-apic.patch and nforce2-disconnect-quirk.patch that > > Andrew Morton have sent to me. I think they have been included in > > previous mm kernels but now are droped because they caused some > > temperature problems for some people with no nforce motherboards. > > Yes, the patch which disables "Halt Disconnect and Stop Grant Disconnect" > apparently causes the CPU to run hot. > > > By the way, is anyone involved in solving the IO-APIC thing in nforce > > motherboards? Anyone trying a different approach? Anyone contacting > > nvidia about this problem? > > As far as I know, we're dead in the water on these problems.
One day hopefully this will be sorted in the BIOSes and in mainline. I keep having to patch for every release (although as thats the only patch I have to do I'm sure there are many worse off than me). I use the 3com n/w on my A7N8X Deluxe v2 BIOS 1007 so no need for nforcedeth.
Best patches are at: http://lkml.org/lkml/2003/12/21/7
Ive applied them to 2.6.0 and 2.6.1 and give no crashes and no heat issues.
(XP2600+ runs at 31/32C normal use and 38C compiling with Zalman cooler +exhaust fans in box)
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