Mandrake 9.2 install H/W problem

[Net Llama!]

On Fri, 26 Dec 2003, Jim Conner wrote:
> On Friday 26 December 2003 03:06 am, Keith Antoine wrote:
> > 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.

That is correct.  In fact, AFAIK, SATA isn't supported at all in 2.4.x
kernels.  It is supposed to have decent support in 2.6.0.  If someone
wanted to donate SATA hardware to me, i could verify that  :)

> > 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.

You don't need avifile at all.  All you need is mplayer or xine.  See the
SxS that I wrote.

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