Via Kt133

[smarty]

I have an ASUS AV7 with a via KT133 chipset. I found out that there are some problems with this Via chip. My system freezes after a few minutes of QUAKE ARENA. It also happens at random. I had no problem with the standard drivers but I wanted to use the Openg GL ones. Has anyone heard how to fix this? I heard that if you compile the kernel and somehow remove the advanced features for the 3Dnow by compiling it for the Intel Processor that I works. Is that true for the new drivers or do I have to buy another motherboard. How do you modify and recompile it?

Linux distro: Mandrake 9.0
Mother Board: Asus AV7 Via KT133 chipset
CPU: AMD 800 T Bird
RAM: 128MB SDRAM 133
Hard Drive: WDC 9.1 GIG
VIDEO: PNY GE Force2 MX200 PCI

[Icarus]

I don't think compiling an Athlon for a Pentium will work...I know when I select the wrong CPU when building a kernel it hangs at boot with a kernel panic...

This normally happens when IRQ is shared between sound and video. Check your BIOS and see if this is true and/or move your sound card into another PCI slot away from the video (typically AGP and PCI slot 1 share the same IRQ and bus), and don't put a network card in slot 3...I forget why, but I remember that was a problem for me when I had my ASUS board...

[dave houk]

Thats odd, I have the same board and have'nt noticed any problems. All my problems were on my Intel machine with 810 chipset. Does it mostly happen in Quake?

[smarty]

It seems to happen with any Open GL game. Is ther a way to check the irqs. I tried to use
cat /proc/interupts
but its does not work is there a gui to check the options?

[Choozo]

Appending "mem=nopentium" to your boot parameters in LILO or GRUB usually solve this problem for AMD systems.