Re: The system works (2.6.14-rc2): functional k8n-dl

[Sean Bruno <sean.bruno@dsl-only.net>]

On Fri, 2005-09-23 at 10:20 -0700, Nishanth Aravamudan wrote:
> On 23.09.2005 [10:08:16 -0700], Sean Bruno wrote:
> > On Thu, 2005-09-22 at 17:29 -0400, Karim Yaghmour wrote:
> > > Nish,
> > > 
> > > OK, I can confirm that with version 1006 of the BIOS it works flawlessly
> > > with Linux. I was able to install full FC4 and boot without a problem
> > > even with the SATA disk plugged to the nVidia controller (reading the
> > > archives you will see that the nVidia SATA controller is something I
> > > was simply unable to get working.) I didn't need to recompile anything.
> > > The kernel that came with FC4 worked just fine.
> > I can also confirm these findings.  However, I still have to boot the
> > kernel with iommu=memaper=3 in order to get the system to work
> > properly.  
> 
> You have 6GB of RAM, right? That must be the difference, as I only have
> 2 GB (and the IOMMU is used when you have more than 3 GB according to
> menuconfig?).
> 
Yes 6GB of ram.


> Regardless, a better state now, I think?
> 

And yes!  quite a bit better now.


> Thanks,
> Nish

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