On Fri, 6 Dec 2002, Kevin Waterson wrote: > This one time, at band camp, > Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com> wrote: > > > there is no such thing as "THE aic7xxx issue". aic7xxx is one of the > > first PCI cards that wants an interrupt so if it breaks it usually is a > > sign of broken interrupt routing more than anything else. > > So, these machines have worked with versions from 4.2 to 7.3 and now > the interupt routing is broken? A lot of these machines have had this problem in one form or another since upgrading them to 2.4 kernels. On 7.2 systems for instance running the smp kernels on UP machines worked around it for us. On 8.0 I have actually had to compile a slightly modified version of the Red Hat kernel to get them to boot. The problems with this chipset are well known. Bugzilla has numerous entries in it for this problem. I wish I understood things better but this seems to be the way things are. :-( It is trivial to recompile the kernel to get it to work. The only problem is doing so appears to break compatiblilty with numerous laptops so Red Hat will not fix it at the cost of breaking the laptops. :-( FYI the above information is documented in bugzilla. HTH, -- .............Tom "Nothing would please me more than being able to tdiehl@rogueind.com hire ten programmers and deluge the hobby market with good software." -- Bill Gates 1976 We are still waiting .... -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
