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...got almost says it all: "Extremely broken BIOS", but can I ask for help if there some ideas how to fix this, cause if I put the HDD back the CD boots without any problem. The hardware: CPU: VIA C3 Samuel2 1Giga Pro lspci output: 00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8601 [Apollo ProMedia] (rev 05) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8601 [Apollo ProMedia AGP] 00:07.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super South] (rev 40) 00:07.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. Bus Master IDE (rev 06) 00:07.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 1a) 00:07...

...''t change anything visible. Is this a known problem? Or just a knowingly unsupported chipset? Have you any hints how to track down this problem? thanks Rupert ---- output from lspci, slightly reformetted for readability: 0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8601 [Apollo ProMedia] (rev 05) 0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8601 [Apollo ProMedia AGP] 0000:00:07.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super South] (rev 40) 0000:00:07.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06) 00...

...n the "Original" and their "test" samples. (Distortion sample only), but I do hear everything else up to the "Difficult" samples. Of course, maybe I just don't know what to listen for. My listenig equipment should be better than my ears are, though: Klipsch ProMedia 4.1 speakers, SB Live Platinum 5.1 (I know, it's sound ain't the greatest...) What particular aspects of Vorbis are particularly well-suited to this weakness in my hearing? (I'm figuring that lossy stereo is a big win here for me) (The big thing here is that I don't know what...

...;d loose the timer, so music-on-hold might not work so well Anyone have any other suggestions? Other things I might try? Ways I could go about debugging this? Here is what lspci says about the installed pci devices: > lspci -vvv > 00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8601 [Apollo ProMedia] (rev 05) > Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device aa03 > Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- > Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort+ >SERR- <PERR+ > Laten...

..._softirq+0x35/0x79 [<c010934c>] do_softirq+0x46/0x4d Don't know for you, but im using on that host an PCI/USB 2.0 card, im not having issues/tested yet same situation for hosts with native USB 2.0. [root at fattybox ~]# lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8601 [Apollo ProMedia] (rev 05) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8601 [Apollo ProMedia AGP] 00:07.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super South] (rev 40) 00:07.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06) 00:07.4 Bridge: VIA Tech...

I came across an interesting test sample the other day while trying to compress some of my music and trying out different encoders. You can grab the sample in question from here: http://www.animus-facticius.org drone_clip.zip is a 9 second clip of the track where the artifact is most apparent, drone_short.pac is a 1 minute clip of track. The sample is from the song "Drone" from

...de interface info at c000:7e40 vesafb: scrolling: redraw vesafb: Pseudocolor: size=6:6:6:6, shift=0:0:0:0 Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 160x64 fb0: VESA VGA frame buffer device Real Time Clock Driver v1.12 Linux agpgart interface v0.100 (c) Dave Jones agpgart: Detected VIA Apollo ProMedia/PLE133Ta chipset agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 314M agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0xe8000000 serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12 serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1 Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 8 ports, IRQ sharing enabled ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4...