note on Dual G4 benh install vs. rescue ultra-ATA device
A few months ago, I was having trouble with the Ultra-ATA drive in a dual G4 tower. The 9.1 system would install, but not boot. Eventually I gave up and moved the HD to the normal ATA bus on the motherboard. The drive won't show up at all in the normal mdk kernels, smp or enterprise, if it's connected to the Ultra ATA bus. But recently I figured out what seems to be a strange quirk. The Ultra drive shows up as /dev/hde when you boot the rescue CD with 'install-gui-benh rescue text video=ofonly', but when I booted the machine from the HD with the benh kernel, it shows up as /dev/hda. Odd. On the HD, I've installed the recent benh kernel from Mandrake Club, version: 2.4.21-1bh-mdksmp, which is working well (it feels as fast as before, although only one CPU shows in gkrellm -- i'm curious if this is correct, but content that it works for now... thoughts, anyone?). I just thought I'd share the experience in case anyone else bumps into this problem, because I wasted a lot of time editing /etc/fstab and /etc/yaboot.conf (and doing the accompanying chroot, mount /proc, ybin procedure in rescue mode) to change everything to /dev/hde, before figuring out what was happening, that it should be /dev/hda, not /dev/hde. --i
Re: note on Dual G4 benh install vs. rescue ultra-ATA device
On Monday 03 November 2003 01:36 pm, Stew Benedict wrote: On Mon, 3 Nov 2003, Isaac Csandl wrote: On the HD, I've installed the recent benh kernel from Mandrake Club, version: 2.4.21-1bh-mdksmp, which is working well (it feels as fast as before, although only one CPU shows in gkrellm -- i'm curious if this is correct, but content that it works for now... thoughts, anyone?). Probably just x86-ism in gkrellm. cat /proc/cpuinfo output is different on ppc than x86. -- $ cat /proc/cpuinfo cpu : 7455, altivec supported clock : 866MHz revision: 2.1 (pvr 8001 0201) bogomips: 865.07 machine : PowerMac3,6 motherboard : PowerMac3,6 MacRISC2 MacRISC Power Macintosh board revision : detected as : 129 (PowerMac G4 Windtunnel) pmac flags : L2 cache: 256K unified memory : 256MB pmac-generation : NewWorld H... !
Re: odd gurpmi problem
Thanks. I took both bits of advice. rebuilt the rpm database twice, then ran 'urpmi --clean'. now it works again! :) -i
odd gurpmi problem
hi, anyone know what this could be? i just get this error and can't install anything via rpmdrake: perl: rpmio_internal.h:447: c2f: Assertion `fd fd-magic == 0x04463138' failed. Aborted i get the same message if i just run gurpmi at the command line. manually installing rpms at the command line works though. TIA
Re: difficulty with SMP/enterprise kernel MOL
I got this reply on the mol-general list, in case it'll help anyone else (I'll post further questions if this tip doesn't work): - From: Samuel Rydh [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Monday 06:43:51 pm The SMP support code is not in the 0.9.68 version; you need to build the latest MOL version from the developer tree. For information how to get the latest source, please refer to http://www.maconlinux.org/dev.html. /Samuel -
difficulty with SMP/enterprise kernel MOL
Hello, On this machine (dual G4), mol works if I boot the system with a single-cpu kernel, but it won't launch if running the enterprise kernel. This is mandrake 9.1, kernel-enterprise-2.4.21.0.13mdk-1-1mdk, with mol-0.9.68-5mdk It gets to the screen with MOL logo, and the Mac OS X startup spinner loops for a bit, then MOL freezes up. It keeps one CPU at 99% and the mol process cannot be killed (even -9) short of a reboot. I've tried recompiling the mol-kmods for this kernel to no avail. Any ideas what's wrong? TIA.
Re: Boot Problems on Powerbook G4
On Friday 27 June 2003 07:57 am, John G. Cole wrote: I don't know what init= option to pass to the kernel -- by the way at the top of the screen (above the logo) the kernel is listed as Linux 2.4.21-0.13mdk -- is it possible that the benh kernel was not installed somehow? hi, i'm not sure what kernel opts you need, but the 9.1 text install does not apply any custom package selections you make. so the benh kernel was not installed even though you installed using it. the trick is going to be to somehow get it installed, but i'll defer to the more expert experts on that one. Stew? Any help would be appreciated
cups netatalk startup order
Suggestion: it seems that CUPS will not see AppleTalk printers unless netatalk is running first. I changed the order for starting these up at boot time so that netatalk starts before cups, and now it sees the printers without having to restart cups. this made it possible to use an old laserwriter 4/600 with a localtalk to ethernet bridge (farallon ethertalk). so you could make life easier if this was the default order at install time, since this whole thing is non-obvious to newbies (as is changing the startup order). -i
Re: dual g4 install - progress
Just to share the experience... Moving the drive to the ATA-66 bus allowed me to complete the install and then boot it up. XFDrake then got the GUI working (but now the consoles are invisible if XFree is up, odd) Note: there appears to be a bug in the text installer because I selected the benh kernel (in individual package selection), but it was not installed. I had to install it later with rpmdrake. Now the next step is to move the drive back to the Ultra ATA bus. This will change the drive from /dev/hda to /dev/hde. so to get past this, i have to change yaboot.conf to reflect the change in device and make the benh kernel default, change the open firmware boot-device, and /etc/fstab ... did i miss anything? -i
dual g4 install troubles - pivot_root, init=?
Hi, I've had partial success to share, and would like any tips on getting over the next hump. booting off the installer CD works, and the only way it seems to get anywhere is with this line in yaboot: install-gui-benh text video=ofonly And I was able to do the text install, but now it won't boot. It says pivot_root failed. Basically the kernel gets a panic saying it needs an 'init=' parameter. How would this be formulated if the partitions are as follows: hdd6 = bootstrap hdd7 = / hdd8 = swap hdd9 = /var When I boot into rescue, it does not see the HD at all (presumably because rescue doesn't use benh kernel?) TIA.
Re: dual g4 install troubles - pivot_root, init=? (more)
On Monday 02 June 2003 05:58 pm, Isaac wrote: Hi, I've had partial success to share, and would like any tips on getting over the next hump. booting off the installer CD works, and the only way it seems to get anywhere is with this line in yaboot: install-gui-benh text video=ofonly OK, I realized the first time around that I hadn't installed the benh kernel, therefore it couldn't boot it. BUT now I've done a new text install, including the benh for sure with individual package selection, but it didn't appear in yaboot! The other problem is that in the installer, when I switch to the shell console, my 'A' key is mapped to backspace... so I'm quite limited in what commands I can enter. Ironically, I couldn't even type 'loadkeys' to fix this problem, since that has an 'a' in it. And tab doesn't autocomplete in this limited shell, so that trick won't work either. The 'A' key works correctly in rescue mode, but that's not benh, so then the Ultra ATA drive isn't visible. So... i have a few ideas, if anyone would like to advise which is likely to work best... since it'll be a while until I'm back at this. 1) move this HD from the ultra ATA bus to the normal ATA bus. Would that make it visible under the MDK kernel in rescue mode long enough to fix the yaboot.conf? Then move it back to the Ultra bus? 2) put this HD in another machine that already boots, fix the yaboot.conf 3) something else I'm missing? -i
php with domxml for 8.2 ?
anybody have one compiled that doesn't require the newer glibc? i wanna try out the latest Xaraya.com tarball, but the php that comes with 8.2 doesn't have domxml. --i
Re: LyX 1.2.1
On Thursday 10 October 2002 10:36, Henrik Edlund wrote: Anyone here been successfull in compiling LyX 1.2.1 on Mandrake PPC 8.2? I tried both the SRPM from 9.0 and from source but to no avail. Wish I had an answer for ya, but keep me posted if you get it going. I love LyX. It's D@B0|\/|B. Some folks on this list may be able to help if you post the error messages you got while it was trying to compile. --i -- War Without End? Not In Our Name! http://notinourname.net
printer/modem port devices on a PPC 7200?
hi, following the instructions at: http://lppcfom.sourceforge.net/fom-serve/cache/470.html I'm trying to connect an old HP LaserJet 4 with a GDT powerprint adapter. I had this working under an old version of SuSE once (probably should have left it alone! if it ain't broke...). With MDK8.2, what is the device for the printer or modem port? Seems not to be going anywhere. I tried /dev/cua0 cua1 ttyS0 and ttyS1. I think under SuSE it only worked in the modem port (this is the same box)... but this time neither works. no luck with old LPD or CUPS. thanks for any tips. -- War Without End? Not In Our Name! http://notinourname.net
PowerPrint adapter, parallel printer on Mandrake PPC 8.2 HOWTO
I'll answer my own question, and here's how to do it, for the archives and anyone else who wants to try this feat (actually, once I quit trying to use LPD, it was easy with CUPS): (this is rough, so feel free to improve on this and redistribute if you know a better way or spot a mistake) PowerPrint adapter on Mac Serial with Mandrake Linux PPC 8.2 HOWTO -- (note: this should work on other PPC distros as well) 1. do a 'modprobe macserial' and also add that command to your /etc/init.d/rc.local 2. install and start CUPS, including the cups-serial package (which is not installed by default). 3. add this to your /etc/cups/printers.conf (or use the web-based CUPS configurator at http://127.0.0.1:631/ to add a printer with serial port #1, baud rate 57600, XON/XOFF, No parity, 8 bits ... then choose the type of printer.): Printer LaserJet4 DeviceURI serial:/dev/ttyS0?baud=57600+bits=8+parity=none+flow=soft State Idle Accepting Yes JobSheets none none QuotaPeriod 0 PageLimit 0 KLimit 0 /Printer This works for an old parallel HP LaserJet 4. Your mileage may vary with other printers. Note: I have the PowerPrint adapter in the modem port, not the printer port. Try /dev/ttyS1 instead if you want it in the printer port. It'll *probably* work. [end] -- War Without End? Not In Our Name! http://notinourname.net
Re: Flash Player for PPC
i don't know the numbers, but maybe looking at Linux on PPC as a whole, counting ALL distros instead of only MDK, would be more convincing to something the size of Macromedia. I'm sure if you looked at any one PPC distro, the numbers would be disappointing, but add it all up and it may be much more significant. It would be nice if they'd do it, having to reboot back to MacOS just to see flash sites is huge hassle. Under MOL, the audio is always out of sync and often causes the MOL session to crash after a while of playing sounds. --i
weird kde3 problem -- won't launch anything
hi, ok, i broke my kde3... anybody know what causes this one? i get something similar trying to launch any kde app or kde itself. korganizer: relocation error: /usr/lib/libDCOP.so.4: undefined symbol: _ZN14QPtrCollection7newItemEPv A little history... This was an 8.2 setup, with the kde3 from contribs working fine. Then I thought it would be real clever to update the C libs and try out the newer kde3 and some Cooker goodies like Mozilla 1.0. Bad Idea. Now I can only use gdm and Gnome (no kdm). Argh. Anyway, I can't easily re-install because my internal CD drive is dead, and I can't boot off my external USB CD. Too bad, that would be much easier than trying to fix this mess. Also FYI, I'm able to boot a ramdisk and get to the installer, but it won't recognize the USB CD drive (only the dead internal one), so I can only do a network install of Cooker, which fails anyway, because it can't download the packages for some reason. Is there a better way I'm missing? Any help would be appreciated, I urgently need some things from kmail. here is a listing of relevant packages that are installed. # rpm -qa | grep -e qt -e kde -e arts | sort arts-1.0.1-13mdk kdeartwork-3.0.1-3mdk kdebase-3.0.1-16mdk kdegraphics-3.0.1-7mdk kdelibs-3.0.1-13mdk kdemultimedia-3.0.1-7mdk kdemultimedia-aktion-3.0.1-7mdk kdenetwork-3.0.1-5mdk kdepim-3.0.1-6mdk kdeutils-3.0.1-5mdk libarts-1.0.1-13mdk libqt2-2.3.1-29mdk libqt3-3.0.3-4mdk libqt3-devel-3.0.3-4mdk xmms-arts-0.4-8mdk -i
Re: weird kde3 problem -- won't launch anything
Anne et Bertrand wrote: Upgrading you glibc from cooker semms to be a bad idea. When I tried, I had the same kind of problems. Yes, and I know better, too. I thought maybe it would be OK this time. Ha. Shouldn't you just downgrade your glibc and attached packages to solce the problem (did you ?) ? And you could compile the cooker packages you want from cooker on your 8.2. But won't that break a lot of the cooker packages I installed? (I upgraded a bunch, but how many actually need the newer glibc?) -i
Re: weird kde3 problem -- won't launch anything
ok, it's back. I think. Haven't tried rebooting yet. But downgrading seems to have worked. For the archives: Cooker: don't use it on a machine (or perhaps partition) your life depends on. Seriously, just don't even go there. I was warned and did it anyway. Now I know. Just Don't. Thanks everybody for the tip to downgrade glibc. -i
stupid printing problem w/KDE CUPS
hello, anybody heard of this one? when printing from KDE apps, the document prints all the way to the very bottom of the page. then on the next page, it starts at the very top, with a bit of overlap from the bottom of the previous page (nothing is missing, but it's annoying to have to decipher where the overlap is). this is consistently a problem in kmail, konqueror, korganizer, kword, etc., and consistent across at least the two different printers I've tried (an epson inkjet via USB and an HP laser running with lprng on a separate box on the LAN). problem is the same with KDE 2.x and 3.0 thanks for any tips... i don't even know where to start looking for this one. --i
howto for converting Mac fonts (the macos 9 suitcase variety)?
anybody know of a how-to ... or have an easy answer? TIA --i
Re: experience with USB to serial adapter?
Stew Benedict wrote: On Mon, 17 Jun 2002, isaac wrote: hi, [note: x86 people, please don't answer this, this is for PPC folks only] has anyone tried using a usb to serial adapter to connect an older printer (or other gizmo)? it'd be good to know before spending the $$ on it. the other sorry solution is to set up a whole oldworld machine with actual serial ports to be a printer server, but that's crazy, and i'd rather not have it taking up the space. I've used the Keyspan PDA adapter to connect my camera. It's OK if you don't push the speed too hard. Stew Benedict Just to share the experience: I bought a Belkin USB to serial adapter for Mac, model # F5U103-MAC. It does not work. I found a kernel module called belkin_sa but it's probably for x86 version of this adapter (or something else entirely). In any case, it shows up briefly as unknown device then disappears from USBview. Upon further investigation, it doesn't support the printer I wanted to hook up anyway (HP LaserJet 4 with a PowerPrint adapter--which did work pretty well on a 7200 after a LOT of setup difficulty). So this thing's going back to the store. :| -i
Re: pmud -- screaming powerbook! oh, my!
Ben Reser wrote: Which powerbook G4 do you have? Can you give some details about it (processor speed etc)... If it's a newer one well it's quite possible that pmud isn't entirely compatable... On my TiBook 500 Mhz shutting the lid works fine. This is stock early model 500MHz TiBook ... almost a year old. Nothing special about it beyond that.
anybody have a mozilla-1.0 yet?
just curious... preferably one that'll work on a (mostly) standard 8.2 system. -i
pmud -- screaming powerbook! oh, my!
hello, I updated my pmud from 0.7 to the latest 8.2 version. now when i close the lid on the Ti book (an older model), it makes a horrible screeching sound (like the system beep, but it never ends) until i re-open, and then close it again (or wake it). any ideas why or how to fix? it's pretty terrible, it makes everybody look over like some kind of thief alarm is going off. note, if i sleep it manually (such as with the sleep button on BatMon) it just beeps once nicely and goes to sleep like it should. pmud 0.7 doesn't beep. so it's probably something to do with the beeping. i'll probably just downgrade back to 0.7 for now. --i
Re: know where to get php-xml-4.1.2 ?
awesome, thanks! :)
Re: Mount ext2 partition in OSX or OS9
netatalk and MOL is the best long-term solution for this problem... also consider dumping your files to a zip disk, burn a CD-RW, or some other removable if you don't need to do this very often. or maybe there's some way to do it with NFS? probably more trouble than it's worth. i heard MOL was supposed to be booting OS X one day, have they gotten that far yet? -i
Re: KDM and ATI Rage 128
David BAUDENS wrote: Can people who have problems with KDM and an ATI Rage 128 card can test the following driver: https://qa.mandrakesoft.com/~baudens/ppc/r128_drv.o Hi, maybe it's just me/my ISP, but this URL isn't working.I'd love to test this though.
stupid question: are the mirror ftp sites in sync with the ISO images?
Hi, I'm not familiar with the details of the mirrors and how they get updated... but I'm confused! Are the packages currently in the ftp mirrors the same ones that are in the 8.2b2 images? --i
XFree86-4.2 on older TiBook -- experience
[apologies if you get this twice. it's been a few hours since i first posted it, and it hasn't shown up yet] hi, I just had the following fun experience trying to get the latest XFree packages working on my TiBook (an older one with Rage 128 Mobility). This was originally an 8.0 install, which is now almost in sync with cooker. first, went to runlevel 1 and REMOVED all the XF-4.1.x packages (rpm -e --nodeps ...) next installed all the 4.2's minus some of the unnecessary fonts. it wouldn't work (tried telinit 5, startx, Xtart), here are the errors... Symbol xf86int10Addr from module /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/r128_drv.o is unresolved! Symbol xf86InitInt10 from module /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/r128_drv.o is unresolved! Symbol xf86FreeInt10 from module /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/r128_drv.o is unresolved! Symbol xf86FreeInt10 from module /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/r128_drv.o is unresolved! Symbol drmFreeBufs from module /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/r128_drv.o is unresolved! Symbol drmR128TextureBlit from module /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/r128_drv.o is unresolved! Symbol drmFreeBufs from module /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/r128_drv.o is unresolved! (I have the whole XFree86.0.log file if anybody thinks that info can help) I guessed about several other packages needing to be updated, but this didn't help either (glibc for one). I'm curious about how the kernel-headers package # doesn't match the latest kernel available. Does this matter at all? Also, I corrected for the typo in /etc/X11 with hsync/vsync ... and tried using a backup of my XF86Config-4 that works under 4.1.x ... to no avail. Finally, I downgraded back to 4.1 and everything is mostly fine again. Anyway, thought I'd share the experience and see if anyone has a tip to get it working. -i
XFree86-4.2 on older TiBook -- experience
hi, I just had the following fun experience trying to get the latest XFree packages working on my TiBook (an older one with Rage 128 Mobility). This was originally an 8.0 install, which is now almost in sync with cooker. first, went to runlevel 1 and REMOVED all the XF-4.1.x packages (rpm -e --nodeps ...) next installed all the 4.2's minus some of the unnecessary fonts. it wouldn't work (tried telinit 5, startx, Xtart), here are the errors... Symbol xf86int10Addr from module /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/r128_drv.o is unresolved! Symbol xf86InitInt10 from module /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/r128_drv.o is unresolved! Symbol xf86FreeInt10 from module /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/r128_drv.o is unresolved! Symbol xf86FreeInt10 from module /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/r128_drv.o is unresolved! Symbol drmFreeBufs from module /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/r128_drv.o is unresolved! Symbol drmR128TextureBlit from module /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/r128_drv.o is unresolved! Symbol drmFreeBufs from module /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/r128_drv.o is unresolved! (I have the whole XFree86.0.log file if anybody thinks that info can help) I guessed about several other packages needing to be updated, but this didn't help either (glibc for one). I'm curious about how the kernel-headers package # doesn't match the latest kernel available. Does this matter at all? Also, I corrected for the typo in /etc/X11 with hsync/vsync ... and tried using a backup of my XF86Config-4 that works under 4.1.x ... to no avail. Finally, I downgraded back to 4.1 and everything is mostly fine again. Anyway, thought I'd share the experience and see if anyone has a tip to get it working. -i
Re: [Cooker] Frustration
On 19 Mar 2002, Pixel wrote: FYI, you submitted your bug report on the 16 march. The 2 people (flepied and fpons) that could help you on this are pretty busy/tired. And cooker has been fairly noisy those days. You may have better luck mailing them directly, and choosing a better date to post bugs (when in deep freeze only big problems are taken into account others are devnulled) I submitted bug reports on 2 March, 6 March, and 9 March. This was during the 8.2 beta test period. I posted my reports here after trying (unsuccessfully) bugzilla, mandrakeforum, mandrakeexpert. The bug prevented the install kernel from booting (or, if one supplied the pci=conf2 argument, the kernel would boot, but the installer died at the second stage). I suggested the fix (remove the buggy ali15x3 driver from the instal kernel, since it provides no features necessary for installation and the generic IDE support works fine). The problem goes back as far as at least Mandrake 7.2 in my informal testing. I wanted to help get this resolved before 8.2 went gold. No responses at all, except from one user who responded off-list to tell me he also was having problems getting noticed by mdk maintainers. I was a paying user of Mandrake since 7.1; I've switched to debian on my laptop this week because this bug prevents mdk from installing, and I don't have a spare linux machine on which I can build a custom installer boot disk (and I won't bother now that I've got a nice, working system on my laptop - I didn't buy the thing to tinker with) If Mandrake is still around to put out another version, I might switch back. If the installer boots. -Isaac
Re: some apps launch from shell, but not menu
FYI--Updating kde's sound libs, arts, libarts, menu, and menudrake fixed this. Not sure which one actually did the trick but I suspect menudrake was it. -i
[Cooker] Please!!! install kernel problem (ali15x3 hang) and solution
OK all, I'm trying to help here. I'm giving a clear description of a problem, the hardware it affects, and the proposed solution. PROBLEM: Installer kernel hangs at IDE probe when the ali15x3 driver is loaded and attempts to probe devices. The last few lines of output are: [...etc...] ALI15X3: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 78 PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt pin A of device 00:0f.0. Please try using pci=biosirq. ALI15X3: chipset revision 195 ALI15X3: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later That's it, it hangs dead at this point where it would normally probe the ide devices. The alt1 kernel which uses generic, non-dma IDEPCI does boot but does not support kernel pcmcia or any filesystem but ext2. :( Kernel options pci=biosirq and ide=nodma do nothing to prevent this lockup. HARDWARE: Fujitsu Lifebook P-2040, which uses an ALi 1533 PCI bridge and ALi 5229 IDE controller. SOLUTION PROPOSED: Unset CONFIG_BLK_DEV_ALI15X3=y (and CONFIG_WDC_ALI15X3=y, if configured) in the .config for the install kernel and recompile it without ali15x3 support. REASONING: The features of the ali15x3 driver are not necessary to the install process, and the alt1 kernel is not sufficiently feature complete for laptop installations (i.e. no kernel pcmcia support, no journaling or encrypted filesystems supported). Here's the part where I complain about the Mandrake bug reporting process: This is my third report of this bug here - I haven't recieved a reply or response or any acknowledgment at all, either privately or on the list. Please note that I did not come here first - I tried to jump through the bugzilla hoops, the mandrakeexpert hoops, and even the mandrakeforum hoops - my bugzilla account can't post new bugs (I did search for dupes and found none), mandrakeexpert won't let me post a question to mdk employees (despite the US$80 donation I made when I downloaded 8.1 instead of purchasing a retail box), and I never recieved my mandrakeforum password when I tried to register (twice!). Please restore my faith in this organization by at least replying to this message, even if only to say off! - that would be better than silence. Thanks, -Isaac
crazy printing in KOrganizer
Hi, Is anybody else having this problem with KOrganizer (v2.2.1 on KDE 2.2.2), where the To-Do list prints all jumbled, with things all on top of each other so that it's totally unreadable? It may be particular to having Sub-To-Do's. It's not my printer, because it's a mess in a postscript viewer or in print (and other apps print OK). I have an MDK PPC 8.0 mostly upgraded w/cooker stuff. But maybe I missed something? -i
Re: crazy printing in KOrganizer
I'll answer my own question! Somehow, several items in my to-do list ended up with a Priority of 0 (it's zero in the ical file, shows up as a blank in KOrganzer To-Do view). I really have no idea how that came to be, BUT when I set all those zeros to 3's, it fixed the printing problem. So this is probably a bug: either the problem of some To-Do's getting a zero or blank priority somehow, and how having a zero or blank priority makes the printing freak out. --isaac
[Cooker] 8.2 beta 4 install kernel boot failure! ALI1533 driver hangs.
Just got my 8.2 beta 4 CDs burnt and fired up my Fujitsu Lifebook P-2040. I get the same result booting the default installer kernel and the alt2 (2.2.19) kernel from the second disk which is a hang like so: [...etc...] ALI15X3: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 78 PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt pin A of device 00:0f.0. Please try using pci=biosirq. ALI15X3: chipset revision 195 ALI15X3: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later That's it, it hangs dead at this point where it would normally probe the ide devices. The alt1 kernel which uses generic, non-dma PCI_IDE does boot but does not support kernel pcmcia or any filesystem but ext2. :( Kernel options pci=biosirq and ide=nodma do nothing to prevent this lockup. Is there any way we can get this driver (ali15x3.c) out of the installer kernel at least? I'm not aware of anything in the installation process that relies on it (the alt1 kernel doesn't have it, and it works just fine). Generic PCI IDE works, it's just the ali-specific driver that is locking it up. -Isaac
[Cooker] Buggy ALi 15x3 driver breaks some machines - remove from installkernel?
Hi all, This is my first post to Cooker, though I've been a (paying!) mdk user since 70 I'm just posting here to raise the issue of the ALi 15x3 kernel driver which apparently breaks some machines, including my own new Fujitsu Lifebook P-2040 The symptom is a hard hang during the kernel boot process, as others have reported I am just raising the issue because this driver, while nice for DMA if it works on your machine, is completely unnecessary for the install process Booting an alternate kernel off the second disk that does not have this driver works fine - but the alternate kernels only support ext2, which is unacceptable for portable machines with large disks (At least this is true of Mdk81) So, all I ask is that this driver *not* be compiled into the main installer kernel of Mdk82-final This will save those who are affected by the bugs in the /usr/src/linux/drivers/ide/alim15x3c driver from having to install an ext2 system, and won't affect others at all Is this possible? Thanks, -Isaac
