Re: Initial test of x86_64 on eMachines / Best Buy / Circuit CityM6805 notebook

[Mike Larkin <mlarkin azathoth net>]

It's a VIA chipset. Sadly, lspci and scanpci both return "unknown 
device" for the southbridge, but it is definitely VIA-made.

I took your advice and ran w/o ACPI and it did resolve the network 
issue. Is this a known problem with x86_64 ? I didn't see that written 
up anywhere. (Check all the READMEs I could find).

Things are looking a little better now.. I've been able to get more 
hardware working today. I did find that the pcmcia-utils package wasn't 
included (intentionally or unintentionally), so picking that package up 
from sourceforge and rebuilding seemed to bring PCMCIA online fine. I 
was also able to fix the SLOW video problem I earlier saw. Suffice to 
say, I saw the same slowdown in windows after playing some DirectX 
games, so perhaps it's an ATI issue if the card is not reset properly. 
Rebooting the machine fixed the problem.

I'm rebuilding XFree86 now from the latest development snapshot, so 
we'll see if that fixes the radeon driver problem. (Crosses fingers..)

-ml

Justin M. Forbes wrote:

> What is the chipset on this laptop? If it is NForce 3 are you booting with
> acpi-off?  That may take care of some of your issues, particularly network.
> But of course you would lose your power management.
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