[ale] Debian Squeeze install on MSI board?

[Scott Castaline]

On 03/13/2011 11:59 PM, Michael B. Trausch wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-03-09 at 20:20 -0500, Dan Lambert wrote:
>> I may have a chance to look at it again tomorrow, but was wondering if
>> there were any common issues with MSI boards, etc., using Squeeze.
> I can't be sure but I think that someone else had a similar problem.
>
> Try a 32-bit install CD and see if that works.
>
> If 32-bit works, but 64-bit does not, I would be very interested in
> helping troubleshoot, if you don't mind bringing the system here (and if
> your system still has that silly legacy technology known as a serial
> port...)
>
> 	--- Mike
>
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Hey Michael,

That sounds like a similar problem to my Gigabyte and MSI boards. I did 
find a thread I believe on the MSI forums on this problem. Someone had 
posted that they found that AMD had a known bug with specifically the 
890 series of chipsets and 5000 series video cards that had dual GPUs. 
They had determined that for some reason with this combination the OS 
(in this case M$ XP/Vista/7 64 bit ) ran out of resources and was unable 
to assign the board an IRQ. The funny thing about this problem is/was 
that nVidia boards worked. I say is/was since this particular thread 
started around May 2010 and I only went through upto Sept. Why in my 
case the 32bit worked, I still don't know. I have not been able to 
determine if this bug has been fixed yet and I got the impression that 
AMD wasn't very forth coming about it either, in that they didn't 
acknowledge it directly but said they are/were looking into it.

Dan,

Which video card were you using? If AMD/ATI do you have a nVidia to try? 
I have an old PCI (not PCIe) one you could try if you live near the 
Lawrenceville area.