Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4165 mails)

[Mark Gray <markgray-list-1050230496@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Joe Morris (NTM)" <Joe_Morris@xxxxxxx> writes:

> On 04/27/2003 03:04 PM, Mark Gray wrote:
> 
>> ide dma still appears to be unusable with my VIA chipset board even
>> with SuSE-8.2 (it hangs so solid while starting up KDE that the ATX
>> power switch won't even turn it off -- and then part of the CMOS is
>> changed when I reboot!)  This is no big problem for me since I have
>> gotten used to not using DMA on this machine, but I just wondered if
>> there were any VIA chipset users reading this list who had gotten it
>> work.

>> The output of lspci:
>> 
>> 00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C598 [Apollo MVP3] (rev 04)
>> 00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C598/694x [Apollo MVP3/Pro133x AGP]
>> 00:07.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586/A/B PCI-to-ISA [Apollo VP] (rev 47)
>> 00:07.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586/B/686A/B PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
>> 00:07.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 02)
>> 00:07.3 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586B ACPI (rev 10)
>> 00:09.0 Ethernet controller: Winbond Electronics Corp W89C940
>> 00:0b.0 Ethernet controller: Linksys Network Everywhere Fast Ethernet 10/100 model NC100 (rev 11)
>> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV4 [RIVA TNT] (rev 04)

> I have it working (or rather the kernel) with dma for my hard drives, 
> but NOT my dvd or cdrw (they have problems with DMA enabled.

> joe@jmorris:~> /sbin/lspci
> 00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C598 [Apollo MVP3] (rev 04)
> 00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C598/694x [Apollo 
> MVP3/Pro133x AGP]
> 00:07.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586/A/B PCI-to-ISA 
> [Apollo VP] (rev 47)
> 00:07.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
> 00:07.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. UHCI USB (rev 02)
> 00:07.3 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586B ACPI (rev 10)
> 00:08.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139 
> (rev 10)
> 00:09.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139 
> (rev 10)
> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage 128 RF/SG AGP

Excellent -- your example gave me the motivation to remove my ISA
sound card and give UDMA another shot -- and so far it is working like
a champ (but I think I will give my disks a good long torture test
before putting down any money for a new PCI sound card.)

Thanks.