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[strredwolf]

Oh great.  I now know how quirky the VT8235 southbridge is.  BTTV and IDE banging DMA out is freezing it.

So I have a few choices:

1. I can remove the card -- but it's a good card!  Downside is that there's some fuzziness, so I'm still running it off the VCR.
2. I can force DMA off on all my IDE drives... which is only a temporary solution.  I can send a bug report to the Linux Kernel developers in the meanwhile.
3. I can switch to SCSI drives... which means looking for a 60 meg SCSI HD and a CD-RW.

Boy do I need a good job.

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[strredwolf.livejournal.com]

Making my PC happy.

Let me tell you how different OS's play with the hardware.

Windows abuses hardware. It slaps it around, demands everything and more from it, and is probably the Sadam Hussein of OS's. It crashes hard and fast.

Linux, FreeBSD, even OS/2 took a different tact and loves the hardware, carressing it. You could say they would marry it... but then you have these differences between what Linux expects and what the hardware does. Think of it as asking for lasanga in English and getting a Korean pizza instead. The OS's are smart, knowing you have to ask for it in Korean... But sometimes it's off.

My computer freezes if I have heavy accesses to my HD while watching TV on it. The developer of the drivers for my TV capture card (the Linux bttv driver) said "Hey, if you're getting crashes with the hard drive and bttv active, it's a mobo chipset problem, try a few switches."

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[mozdoc.livejournal.com]

Whatever Striker... you can keep your Linux crap, I don't care. I'm not particullary in a pleasant mood at this moment to care and hear you blab about how great all your low grade stuff is.

--Mozdoc