Re: Status of ALi MAGiK 1 support in 2.4.?

[Mike Frisch]

On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 05:18:39AM +0600, Bobby D. Bryant wrote:
> sailing ever since.  The only problems that I'm are ware of are a
> (maybe) DMA problem and a (maybe) SMBus problem, per below.  Right now

I noticed the Win32 benchmark/test application Sandra mentioned an SMBus
problem with the A7A266 as well.  I have yet to try lm_sensors myself,
but it looks like I won't get far.

> May 22 21:45:07 pollux kernel: ALI15X3: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev
> 20
> May 22 21:45:07 pollux kernel: PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt pin A of
> device 00:04.0. Please try using pci=biosirq.

I get the same message, but it does not appear to dramatically affect
my performance.  As I mentioned, I am getting 25MB/s (through hdparm; I
have yet to try anything more) with my Quantum Fireball.  My DMA is
enabled in the BIOS and detected by the kernel.

> The routing to IQR 0 sounds funny to me, but this is already way beyond
> what I understand.

Do you have the PnP operating system setting in the BIOS turned off?
(ie. telling the BIOS you have non-PnP aware O/S)  I noticed that prior
to doing this, all of my PCI cards were listed as IRo 0.

Mike.