From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 29 Jan 2001 05:20:42 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 29 Jan 2001 05:20:31 -0500 Received: from cold.fortyoz.org ([64.40.111.214]:53517 "HELO cold.fortyoz.org") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Mon, 29 Jan 2001 05:20:13 -0500 Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 02:20:38 -0800 From: David Raufeisen To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: More on the VIA KT133 chipset misbehaving in Linux Message-ID: <20010129022038.A22879@fortyoz.org> Reply-To: David Raufeisen In-Reply-To: <200101290920.BAA28321@mail15.bigmailbox.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.12i In-Reply-To: <200101290920.BAA28321@mail15.bigmailbox.com>; from "Quim K Holland" on Monday, 29 January 2001, at 01:20:15 (-0800) X-Operating-System: Linux 2.2.17 i686 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Monday, 29 January 2001, at 01:20:15 (-0800), Quim K Holland wrote: >> "DG" == Dylan Griffiths writes: >> > DG> The VIA KT133 chipset exhibits the following bugs under Linux > DG> 2.2.17 and 2.4.0: > DG> 1) PS/2 mouse cursor randomly jumps to upper right hand corner > DG> of screen and locks for a bit > DG> 2) Detects a maximum of 64mb of ram, unless worked around by the > DG> "mem=" switch > DG> 3) The clock drifts slowly (more so under heavy load than light > DG> load), leaking time. > > I am not a guru, but AOpen AK73PRO which uses VIA KT133 does not > show any of these symptoms that you describe (I cannot be sure > about #3 since I run ntp). You may want to make your hardware > description a bit more specific to help gurus to help you... > I experience #2 and #3 on the following board w/ VIA KT133: BIOS Vendor: American Megatrends Inc. BIOS Version: 62710 BIOS Release: 07/15/97 Board Vendor: Gigabyte Technology Co. Ltd.. Board Name: 7ZX. Board Version: 1.0. ntpdate is run at boot.. 2:14am up 14:59, 3 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 And i just ran it again after running uptime, it showed the following: 29 Jan 02:15:20 ntpdate[3879]: step time server 164.67.62.194 offset 11.398730 sec This is 2.4.1per11 btw. -- David Raufeisen Cell: (604) 818-3596 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/