Richard Smith schrieb:
On 5/9/06, Eric Poulsen eric@zyxod.com wrote:
I've been researching the IDE/DMA/Linux issue that appears to plague the VT8235 southbridge. Seems there is _no_ reliable fix for this issue, which has been known to exhibit itself even in Windows if you're using the old/stock via drivers. Even if I do get the LB issues figured out, the DMA issue (as far as I can tell) is _unfixable_. Reliability is a huge thing for me (hence the use of Linux). The Epia board is bound for Ebay.
Somewhere I have read, that disabling the acpi function in the kernel solve many problems for the epia. I use an Epia-M for myself and it works stable, without acpi. Ok, the running applications for my board don't make high loads on the cpu/ide or network.
Working well with LB is the kicker. You could join us on the GX1 quest. There are several GX1 boards out there. If you get one like Chris's with an external VGA chip then you won't have to mess with the VSA stuff. I think the GX1 is close to working good but it just need a few tweaks to get there.
My stb3036 is not the fastet thing I guess ;) It is a question of usage.
-- Richard A. Smith