Re: [Bug 1284] New: Asus P5AB broken BIOS reading ESCD

[Erik Mouw]

On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 07:22:18PM -0300, Cesar Eduardo Barros wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 07:41:27PM +0200, Erik Mouw wrote:
> > FWIW: I used to have a similar board (Asus P5A, it actually died a week
> > ago, so I can't check anything anymore). Never tried 2.6 on it, but I
> > know it had a flakey PnPBIOS implementation: if you put in a Sound
> > Blaster AWE64 Gold, you couldn't use the floppy drive anymore. The
> > latest "Y2K compliant" BIOS (revision 1.005 IIRC) fixed that, it might
> > also fix this particular bug.
> > 
> 
> The latest BIOS (a beta one) still has the same problem. Also, it breaks
> the main timer (for instance, vmstat 1 takes 2-3 seconds between lines,
> and the kernel complains about a broken TSC on boot).

As far as I remember I didn't try the beta BIOS, the latest stable one
fixed my problems with the Sound Blaster and the floppy drive. I only
used the board with 2.4 (last kernel I ran was 2.4.20-rmap15i) and that
worked OK. If that still doesn't solve your problem, I agree the BIOS
has to be blacklisted so we can work around it.


Erik

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