David Barker wrote: >On the whole, beta 3's been great (it's my desktop production machine) > >Other than the already talked about dcop stuff, the only other things I've >noticed are a lack of philips webcam drivers (they were in 2.4.8, they're >still in the latest kernel releases, just not in the mdk kernel :/) > >Also, I've had problems installing on a tyan tiger mp box - it turns out >that dma support with the amd760mp chipset is a bit broken, and ide=nodma >needs passing in to get it going with my dvd/cdrw drive - I've read a couple >of people talk about this in the mdk forums with exactly the same symptoms >but no-ones posted the solution - maybe it wants to go in a readme, errata or >in the supported hardware page? > I also have a twin 1.2GHz Athlon MP machine with the Tyan Tiger motherboard. I haven't quite got around to updating my server, but it is running Mandrake 8.0 with a 2.4.17 kernel patched to "patch-2.4.18-pre9" (which is close to what Mandrake 8.2 beta 3 is using).
I don't have any DMA problems, it's all (stonkingly) fast and stable. I did however configure the kernel build options myself, and I specified both the VIA82CXXX and AMD Viper support in the "IDE,ATA and ATAPI Block Devices" section. Maybe you just need to build a new kernel, although I do agree it's a pain if you can't get the thing lo load in the first place! I loaded my system while I was still using 2 PIIIs. > >(to quote a post to http://mandrakeforum.com/article.php?sid=1346&lang=en) > >"I could never get the installer to run. It keeps seg faulting on a signal 11 >(Tyan Tiger MP, dual Athlon 1.2s, Matrox G550, Mandrake 8.1 download >version). The kernel boots fine I get to the graphical prompt, try any >combination of options Itest install, linux, just hit return, whatever, just >seg faults as it tries to start up. Same problem with Mandrake 8.0, Redhat >7.1, but Redhat 7.2 works fine and I'm runnign that. Unfortunately, I want >Mandrake. Still waiting for delivery of the real 8.1 CDs and will try them." > I have toyed with a few 2.4 kernel revisions and I wouldn't install anything that uses a kernel prior to 2.4.9 (much fun with VIA bridge problems). Good luck, Ed-T. _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
