Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 16:36:24 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin <jobaldwi@vt.edu> To: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Soft-updates feedback Message-ID: <199907202036.QAA08344@smtp3.erols.com> In-Reply-To: <199907200713.AAA12395@rah.star-gate.com>
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On 20-Jul-99 Amancio Hasty wrote: > Have you checked your syslog to see if you are getting disk errors? > > Also, I noticed that you have a VIA chipset and I know that > at least with the Bt848 driver they have caused havoc. I would > stick to Intel PCI chipsets. > > Not sure if your motherboard supports or not do you have > the latest microcode for your VIA chipset? Huh? Excerpt from my dmesg: Probing for devices on PCI bus 0: chip0: <VIA 82C597 (Apollo VP3) system controller> rev 0x04 on pci0.0.0 chip1: <VIA 82C598MVP (Apollo MVP3) PCI-PCI bridge> rev 0x00 on pci0.1.0 chip2: <VIA 82C586 PCI-ISA bridge> rev 0x41 on pci0.7.0 ide_pci0: <VIA 82C586x (Apollo) Bus-master IDE controller> rev 0x06 on pci0.7.1 chip3: <VIA 82C586B ACPI interface> rev 0x10 on pci0.7.3 bktr0: <BrookTree 848> rev 0x01 int a irq 9 on pci0.9.0 bti2c0: <bt848 Hard/Soft I2C controller> iicbb0: <I2C generic bit-banging driver> on bti2c0 iicbus0: <Philips I2C bus> on iicbb0 master-only smbus0: <System Management Bus> on bti2c0 Hauppauge WinCast/TV, Philips NTSC tuner, dbx stereo. What types of havoc should I be looking for? Haven't had any since December when I bought the new motherboard. Oh, and here's uname -a: FreeBSD john.baldwin.cx 3.2-STABLE FreeBSD 3.2-STABLE #3: Thu Jul 1 21:08:59 EDT 1999 root@john.baldwin.cx:/usr/source/src/sys/compile/JOHN i386 More info available on request. > Cheers > -- > > Amancio Hasty > hasty@rah.star-gate.com --- John Baldwin <jobaldwi@vt.edu> -- http://members.freedomnet.com/~jbaldwin/ PGP Key: http://members.freedomnet.com/~jbaldwin/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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