On Wed, 17 Apr 2002, Dexter Filmore wrote: > > Sorry, consider me a fellow sufferer. We should stay in touch on this > > though. I am going to try ONE thing next: I have a Soundblaster Live! > > Value card and I've heard bad things about them. I'm going to pop it out > > and see if I get the same problem. Then I'm going to try a methodical > > combination of DRI-enabled kernels and XFree86 versions. > > The problems with VIA KT266A chipsets, DMA enabled HDs combined with a SB Live! are due to some trouble with PCI timings. > With this config I'd rather not use DMA since cases of severe data loss were reported, but I can't tell if this affects AGP ops as well tho I can imagine, since the AGP has a direct connection via the north bridge. Watch out for BIOS updates. > Hi Dexter, thanks for the info. I'm using a ABit BM6 motherboard (which may have been lost in my post). I have been using DMA and I also have an SBLive! Value on this. I'll report back when I get 'round to taking the card out. I haven't really researched the issue but there was in general a very negative feeling about the SBLive! on the RH lists toward the end of last year. -Oisin
