Mandrake 9.2 install H/W problem

[Net Llama!]

On Sat, 27 Dec 2003, Keith Antoine wrote:

> 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  :)
>
> Reference my last mail this is an extract of /var/log /dmesg which is also truncated but at the end and not the beggining, wierd.
> Please note my comments ----------------->.
>
> Kernel command line: root=/dev/hda14 devfs=mount hdb=ide-scsi acpi=off   --------------------->      <scsi as append??>
> Found and enabled local APIC!                       ---------------------------->                                          <do I need this>
> ACPI: Disabled via command line (acpi=off)   ---------------------------->                                           <this also>

ACPI is the replacement for apm in more modern hardware.  Unless you need
power management (laptops mostly) you don't need ACPI.  Granted, acpi is
alot more than just power management, but if you have to ask if you need
it, and you're not using a laptop, then the answer is likely no.

> NFORCE2: IDE controller at PCI slot 00:09.0
> NFORCE2: chipset revision 162
> NFORCE2: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
>     ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0xf007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
>     ide1: BM-DMA at 0xf008-0xf00f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA
> SiI3112 Serial ATA: IDE controller at PCI slot 01:0b.0       ---------------------------->       <drivers for ata specifically recognised from this point>

I'm not convinced that thsi means that you have any explicit SATA support.
It just means that the kernel is seeing the component on the motherboard.

> hde: 156301488 sectors (80026 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=155061/16/63 ------------------------------>  <this is the 80 gig sata seagate drive>
> Partition check:
>  /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2 < p5 p6 p7 p8 p9 p10 p11 p12 p13 p14 >
>  /dev/ide/host0/bus1/target0/lun0:<6> [PTBL] [4865/255/63] p2 < p5 p6 p7 >
>  /dev/ide/host2/bus0/target0/lun0:<6> [PTBL] [9729/255/63] p2 < p5 >

Maybe you do have SATA support, grepping through the 2.4.23 code, i see
some drivers for sata.  Like i said earlier, i don't have any SATA
hardware to play with, so i don't know much more than what i've read
online.

> I also have 2 (two) TV cards one a pinnacle and the other a Nebula DigiTV.
> On e the pinnacle captures from my cable tv programs the other is a digital
> TV card for capture in hires. I have yet to be able to access the Nebula card
> but it is seen first:
>
> bttv0: Bt878 (rev 17) at 01:09.0, irq: 5, latency: 32, mmio: 0xd4000000    -------------------------------> <this is the Nebula card>
> bttv0: subsystem: 0071:0101 (UNKNOWN)
> please mail id, board name and the correct card= insmod option to kraxel at bytesex.org
> bttv0: using: BT878( *** UNKNOWN/GENERIC **) [card=0,autodetected]

That unknown stuff doesn't look good to me.  There is an article in the
January issue of Linux Journal that discusses setting up DVB hardware in
linux.  Googling a bit seems to indicate that support for the bt878 was
added to the kernel about 7 days ago:
http://groups.google.com/groups?q=Nebula+DigiTV+group:*linux*&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&selm=14soJ-ZJ-5%40gated-at.bofh.it&rnum=4

And only to the 2.6.0 kernel.  If i'm interpretting this all correctly,
you're going to have to build 2.6.0 to use that card.  I'd suggest the
same for decent SATA support.

> I'll leave the DVD authoring for a few months. <|:-)

Actually that part should be alot easier.  The December issue of Linux
Journal had two excellent articles on DVD authoring.  If you want to ship
me your DVD drive, i'll gladly tet it out, and write the SxS  ;)

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