Hi! Am Montag, den 22.01.2007, 01:56 +0100 schrieb Vincent Penne: > Robert W. Fuller a écrit : > > >/ To give a bit more informations on my system, it is an ATI chipset based/ > > >/ motherboard, the model is RS482-M from Elitegroup, and it has in/ > > >/ particular problems with acpi as well as usb. The kernel is 2.6.19 with/ > > >/ gentoo patches. Originally I had to remove completely ACPI from the/ > > >/ kernel to have it boot, now I can boot with acpi, but with the option/ > > >/ acpi=noirq ./ > > > > The problem is more likely related to the BIOS than the chipset. I have > > a couple of RS482-M's here as well. One has to be booted with the > > option "acpi_skip_timer_override" in order for it to keep time correctly > > and eliminate some APIC errors. The other one does not need any special > > flags. ACPI in general works fine on both boards, even for interrupt > > routing. > > > > >/ Now about usb, it is more interesting : usb wouldn't work until I put/ > > >/ the following options usb-handoff and irqpoll. The description of the/ > > >/ latter option is as follow : "When an interrupt is not handled search/ > > >/ all handlers for it. Also check all handlers each timer interrupt./ > > >/ Intended to get systems with badly broken firmware running."/ > > > > Note that it says "broken firmware." That means BIOS in this case. I > > would contact the vendor and ask them to fix their BIOS. If you do not > > ask them now, they may not be willing to fix the BIOS later when the > > board is no longer being sold. (I had this experience with Tyan. In > > all fairness I was asking them for a BIOS fix years late.) > > > > Have you upgraded your BIOS on the board? If you do, make sure you have > > the system connected to an uninterruptible power supply. Also, a BIOS > > recovery floppy may not be a bad idea. There's a super secret key > > sequence that will reload the BIOS from a floppy in the event of a bad > > flash. You can google that. > > > > Vincent, > > > > you maybe did not see Rob's mail and hints on the video4linux list. > > http://www.spinics.net/lists/vfl/msg30964.html > > > > Rob thanks! > > > > Cheers, > > Hermann > > > > > > > Hi Robert, > > Thanks for the forward Hermann, I am now subscribed on video4linux too. > > A week ago, I upgraded my BIOS to the latest available version , that is > dated 10/17/2006 , version 6.00 PG. My rs492-m model is one with the > optionnal firewire interface (v1.0a). > > May I ask you what version of the kernel are you using ? I am using > 2.6.19 currently (with gentoo patches). > We also have an outstanding patch of Dmitry concerning timings, which doesn't apply currently anymore because of the changes for the remote. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-video&m=116817515302126&w=2 Mauro, should we try to adopt and test it? Cheers, Hermann _______________________________________________ linux-dvb mailing list linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb
