amd64 hardware issues with motherboard
 

hello,


I have PCchips M861G Socket-754 mainboard (and Sempron 2500+).

Chipset is VIA K8M800 Northbridge and VT8237 Southbridge.
Rhine II ethernet and on-board SerialATA functions just doesn't work..
I've tested it on kernel 2.6.14-gentoo-r2, and former on 2.6.12 and 2.6.7 using SLAX. Problem is the same- after trying to identify SATA HDD PC locks up. Last words are that it's 133MB/sec ATA drive.. While just with normal ATA-II drive, ethernet don't work- eth0 drops TX packets. I suppose integrated Unichrome graphics adapter will won't work as well thus I just must have SATA and eth working for now.
I've tried to use different drivers, SATA-lib one and IDE-sata driver- the first locks up whole PC, the second just don't recognizes hardware.
Of course WinXP drivers wich came with hardware are working perfectly.


any suggestions ??

is your kernel config file supporting AMD chipset

Hi Mamnasrane,
I just caught in the same problems. Did you find any way to make the board working?
Thanks a lot,
Clemente