Re: lockup: 2.2.{10,13pre15} while in X

Wakko Warner (wakko@animx.eu.org)
Tue, 12 Oct 1999 12:45:50 -0400


> > Ok guys, I noticed that I *did* have pci quirks installed
> > (the machine that was upgraded from had some interesting
> > problems) and I also had one of the via chipsets enabled.
> > This new machine is piix4 (or 3, not sure which) so I
> > disabled pci quirks and the via chipset, the box doesn't
> > lockup anymore.
>
> Odd. If there isn't a VIA device in the system, the VIA IDE
> chipset support code shouldn't be called. Ever.

This is one of those things that I came across when reconfiguring the new
kernel and since I don't have that chipset, I removed it as well.

> Maybe it's the quirks.c that's at fault.
> A problem with the PIIX3 passive release quirk perhaps ??

Not a kernel hacker, so I don't know

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