bay56 wrote:
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Alan Shoemaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Saturday, October 02, 1999 5:17 AM
> Subject: Re: [newbie] UDMA don't work in 6.1 with Ali Chipset
>
> > Ian....oh come on! There's no reason to get this morose over a problem
> > that has a simple workaround. It was just the removal of a -p option
> > from one init file that disabled auto-shutdown that solved the problem
> > being discussed, wasn't it? That seems a paltry item to be so upset
> > over. As I said before -- sheesh!!!
>
> Well if that were the way of it I would agree, but this is not how it
> happened - I tried the fix (by the letter) and it caused it to fail to get
> that far. So no, it did not solve it as such. It may be paltry in your view,
> but it is significant enough to prevent the overall machine from working in
> it's intended manner.
>
> I have learned that if you have a TMC TI5VG+ motherboard with it's MVP3,
> with an AMD K6-2 CPU then you may expect to have some difficulties which
> would prevent linux from running properly. Not many can afford to go out and
> replace motherboard, cpu, videocard, soundcard, and modem, maybe the mouse,
> and possibly the keyboard and monitor too, purely to run linux - especially
> when all of those are average modern day contemporary components - it adds a
> hidden cost to linux, and tends to head it towards eliteist. There is
> nothing particularly wrong in that, but it may not have the kind of wider
> appeal the OS may really deserve. It may be quite able, and it may require
> quite a bit of effort, but it's not reasonable to then suggest an owner
> might like to start by trashing an entire system. (A system which lets face
> it can work if the correct functions are within the cabability of a given
> OS.) This is something which could do with pointing up more strongly that it
> currently is.
>
> So, as a practical approach I will come back to linux either when it can
> support the hardware I have, or when I can afford to build (and want to own)
> the kind of all intel machine it seems linux would be happier with. But
> that's just a practical approach for a given set of circumstances. I can see
> no other ways forward - that is just practical - do you really see it as
> morose? Disappointed perhaps.
>
> Regards,
> Ian
>
Ian....I see. Well, my suggestion would be to email Gael Duval
personally with your story. hope things work out for you.
Alan
