2940U2W under Linux 2.4.x

[Larry Battraw]

Justin T. Gibbs wrote:

> Have you verified that there are no new BIOS versions available for your
> motherboard?  From what I can tell, when we write to registers over the
> PCI bus, we are not getting the expected results.  This may mean that
> the PCI chipset has a non-standard caching feature enabled that violates
> the PCI spec.  I've seen this on some other VIA based boards.
> 
> --
> Justin
> 
> 


I am running the latest BIOS version available.  However, your comment 
about PCI features helped to pinpoint the problem.  Many reboots later 
it looks like the byte-merge function is the culprit.  All other 
features can be turned on (including PCI bus master read caching, which 
I was suspicious of).  Thanks for the help with this dilemma; it was 
sure mystifying when the rest of the world wasn't having the same 
problem with relatively common hardware!

Larry


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