So, It follows then that the lance cards are kind of _NOT_RECOMMENDED_ in
a) APM - using systems
b) Cyrix using systems
c) Powerful systems in general, since as you say, it locks up bus
mastering.
It wasnt even that cheap since at $129 CDN
>> suspend halt. I've exchanged the card, with no change in symptom. It
>> even gives 5 to 10 errors per day with suspend halt disabled.
>
>Thats not unusual if you have a lot of DMA going on. Especially a
>sound blaster.
>
Or perhaps a Triton MB and a fast HD?
>> Can anyone shed light on this issue? I have tried turning on APM in bios
>> and that made X stop working, as well as not helping my problem. .
>
>Basically if you are using a lance based device turn APM off. I know of
>no other solution.
>
>Alan
APM won't _really_ turn off on my godforsaken Award BIOS. It pretends it
is, but
APM in the kernel finds it, and so does Win95.
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