On Mon, 7 May 2001, jayhen wrote:
I have a MSI K7T Turbo motherboard with the VIA 686B Southbridge chip (KT-133A chipset). Is there a bug fix for Linux? If so how do I correct the problem. I'm currently using SuSE 7.0 but want to fix the problem before upgrading to 7.1.
Kernel 2.4.4 is supposed to fix this. I downloaded it from ftp.kernel.org, compiled and installed without too many problems. The kernel readme recommends upgrading gcc to 2.95.3 before compiling. Be sure to download and compile the latest moduils too. Now the following appears in boot.msg: <6>Applying VIA PCI latency patch. I didn't actually see any problems related to this bug, but we don't use IDE disks. I heard that it had something to do with filesystem corruption during very large file transfers. Did you actually see any problems? It would be nice to hear that the kernel upgrade actually fixed a repeatable symptom. Regards, Lew Wolfgang