Mandrake 9.2 install H/W problem

[Jim Conner]

On Friday 26 December 2003 03:06 am, Keith Antoine wrote:
> The problem seems to be hardware specific and I am guessing its the
> motherboard that the problem in one case.
>
> First up my problem occurs directly after install of 9.2 and on boot.
> It stops booting at bringing up inbuilt ieee1394, so I disable this in
> bios. It then fails at my 3Com inbuilt lan, again disable in bios; so it
> the fails at bringing up the localhost loop.
>
> The old 9.1 boot fine, so it seems that 9.2 does not like my motherboard
> but that also seems peculiar unless a great deal has changed since 9.1.
>
> Hardware: Asus A7X8N delux, XP2600, 1 gig Extreme Corsair ddr
>
> Feedback please.

This sounds like a zeroconf problem.  I can't remember if you need it turned 
on or need it turned off if this problem occurs.

>
> My Son is up from Sydney, but has also had a problem with booting 9.1 and
> 9.2 after a trouble free install. He cannot boot with a second drive which
> is sata enabled onboard, disabled it boots ok. Now I seem to remember last
> year or early this year I also installed an sata drive and had a problem
> booting. However I cannot remember what it was I did to fix the problem. I
> now boot in 9.1 with the sata enable without any problems. It does hesitate
> and say the dma is disabled, his freezes at this stage.
>
> motherboard: Gigabyte GA-7N400Pro2, extreme ddr ram 500mb amd xp2800.

AFAIK, sata is not fully supported in the 2.4.x kernels.  I don't know about 
the 2.6 kernels.

>
> Another friend with a different motherboard, think its an msi, which I
> despise! installed 9.2 and has experienced no problems at all except with
> crossover 1.2 plugin not being able to use QuickTime. However I do believe
> that linux can install a quicktime that uses sorensen to view online
> tarilers at apple.com

Go here:
http://urpmi.org/easyurpmi/index.php

Setup a source for plf and install avifile-* and xine and mplayer, with those 
and supporting packages, they should be able to play most all formats.  The 
plf source also has all packages for dvds.

Jim
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