[Openvortex-dev] VIA fix?

[Seg]

Hey, I've been quiet for a while. A few weeks ago I upgraded my system
from a BH6 440BX Celeron board to a KT7-RAID VIA KT133 with an Athlon
900, and the driver stopped working, using the exact same source that
worked before. XMMS will play for a few seconds, then hang. Hitting stop
then play again just makes XMMS hang completely. Finally got around to
messing with it, took a lot of googling but I finally managed to dredge
up the "VIA fix":

setpci -d '12eb:*' 40.B=ff

And now it works fine. I know at least one other person here uses the
fix, do you get similar problems without it, playback for a second or
two then lockup? Does anyone have any idea what this actually does? Does
it cause problems if done on non-VIA chipsets? Apparently this tweak was
put in the later Windows drivers, those who have disassembled them, do
you have any idea if it is just enabled no matter what or do they check
for a VIA chipset?

This really ought to be in the driver, maybe as a manual module option
to begin with. Is anyone using a (newer) VIA chipset that *doesn't* need
this fix? It'd be useful to know if newer VIA chipsets ever 'fixed'
whatever is going on here.

Will try the latest huge CVS update next.