Mandrake 9.2 install H/W problem

[Keith Antoine]

On Sat, 27 Dec 2003 04:40 am, Net Llama! wrote:

> > 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  :)

If this were so then how come that I can boot up with 9.1 and have linux see
my sata drive ? 

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

I had forgotten that SxS, will refer him to that. Thanks.

There was something else with my sons booting with 9.1 also. Now as you are 
aware this is secondhand, however. On boot he has to switch on his adsl modem 
at the point in time when its indicating that its accessing that piece 
otherwise it does not recognise the item. If switched on before it does not 
work.

I am aware that the information is sparse, but I am relied upon to get things 
going. I am totally ignorant of adsl and its foibles. I will ask for him to 
do a dmesg and send that to me. In the meantime any thoughts ?

I was going to sne my relevent dmesg but it seems like the begining has been 
truncated. So will have to look in /var.

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Keith Antoine (GANDALF) aka 'SKIPPY'
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Practising Geriatric, Retired Electronics Engineer, Knowall, Brain in storage