Re: 3ware 9550 SATA RAID controller problems
On Wed, 2006-01-04 at 20:39 -0500, Stephen Woodbridge wrote: > Hi Again, > > After finally getting Sarge installed on my SuperMicro X6DHT-G > motherboard system, I am having a problem recognizing the 3ware 9550 > SATA Raid Controller card. I have loaded the 3w-9xxx module but that is > not getting me anywhere yet. This system boots from a separate SATA disk > so the system is running, just without the 1.6TB raid array :( > > lspci is reporting: > > :03:02.0 RAID bus controller: 3ware Inc: Unknown device 1003 > > So, I think what needs to happen next is one or more of the following: You can get lspci to show the full and correct details if you run update-pciids. > 1) upgrade to the 2.6.12 kernel > 2) compile the updated vendor source for 3w-9xxx module on either > 2.6.8-11 or 2.6.12 > 3) something simpler that I am missing. > > Ideally, I would like to use a stock kernel which was why I was thinking > of getting 2.6.12 from etch otherwise I will need to try and figure out > how to use the kernel-package system and long term maintenance becomes a > bigger problem. > > Thoughts and suggestions would be greatly appreciated. We recently bought a system with a 3ware 9550 controller and found 2.6.12 was not recent enough. We got it working with 2.6.15-rc6 in the end, and now that 2.6.15 is released we will upgrade it to a more stable release - fortunately the system using this machine is still under development. So I would heartily recommend coming to grips with kernel-package and building your own (hopefully simpler) kernel. When building with make-kpkg we generally don't use the .config from a Debian build as we can make it more hardware specific and so do not need the complexity of an initrd image for the build. I find it's better to spend 20 minutes going through all the options in make menuconfig and specifying appropriate settings for your hardware. Of course I have been doing that for more than ten years now, so I guess I'm not daunted by it... :-) Regards, Andrew McMillan. - Andrew @ Catalyst .Net .NZ Ltd, PO Box 11-053, Manners St, Wellington WEB: http://catalyst.net.nz/PHYS: Level 2, 150-154 Willis St DDI: +64(4)803-2201 MOB: +64(272)DEBIAN OFFICE: +64(4)499-2267 Make things as simple as possible, but no simpler -- Einstein - signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: what are the missing ports?
On Sun, 2005-05-29 at 13:15 +0200, Lasse Bombien wrote: > Hi, > I'm about to buy e Turion MT32 notebook and I will install sarge amd64 on it. > However, I'm trying to find out what packages are not ported yet. The links > below > are appearently broken... > > The other thing is the graphics card: Ati Radeon X700. Will I have a decent X > server even if I don't use Ati's proprietary driver? Is there some generic > driver? Hi, I don't know whether the X.Org or XFree86 drivers work with the X700, although I suspect they are fine, but I do know that ATI's proprietary driver does not support suspend / resume, and so can be a pain on a laptop. See question ID 218 on the ATI site (Advanced Search, "by ID"...). Unfortunately ATI's website now sucks even more than it used to, and deep linking appears to be impossible... :-( Regards, Andrew McMillan. - Andrew @ Catalyst .Net .NZ Ltd, PO Box 11-053, Manners St, Wellington WEB: http://catalyst.net.nz/PHYS: Level 2, 150-154 Willis St DDI: +64(4)803-2201 MOB: +64(272)DEBIAN OFFICE: +64(4)499-2267 A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds -- Shaw - signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: New soundcard, no cd sound
On Tue, 2005-01-11 at 20:05 +0100, Ernest jw ter Kuile wrote: > On Tuesday 11 January 2005 08:26, Norval Watson wrote: > > > > ... I have run alsaconf (actually, I have to run it each > > time I restart the box..) > > Believe me, you have your card muted in some hidden alsa config file. > > Solution: > - don't run alsaconfig after startup > - run alsamixer, > - scroll right until you have reviewed all the mixer settings, and probably > the one which is completely to the right will be muted. This is not necessarily the case though. For example I just encountered a machine yesterday where hotplug or discover was loading the sound card modules before alsa, and in a different order than alsa would: it was loading the Alsa ICH AC97 modem driver first. We would then run alsaconf and it would unload everything and reload it in the right order and it would work again. The solution we chose in our case was to put the module name for the primary sound card into /etc/modules, to force it to be loaded first. Regards, Andrew McMillan. - Andrew @ Catalyst .Net .NZ Ltd, PO Box 11-053, Manners St, Wellington WEB: http://catalyst.net.nz/PHYS: Level 2, 150-154 Willis St DDI: +64(4)803-2201 MOB: +64(272)DEBIAN OFFICE: +64(4)499-2267 I like the way ONLY their mouths move ... They look like DYING OYSTERS - signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
AMD64 now most popular arch after i386?
Hi all, According to the popularity contest at http://popcon.debian.org/ it appears that AMD64 has just taken a big leap in popularity - over 200 systems now pegging it at more than 3x powerpc and more than 4x sparc. Has someone just installed a whole whack of these, to skew the statistics, or is the architecture really starting to take off now the pure64 archive for Sid is working? Come on, own up - 180 of these in just the last week? :-) Andrew. - Andrew @ Catalyst .Net .NZ Ltd, PO Box 11-053, Manners St, Wellington WEB: http://catalyst.net.nz/PHYS: Level 2, 150-154 Willis St DDI: +64(4)803-2201 MOB: +64(272)DEBIAN OFFICE: +64(4)499-2267 You need more time; and you probably always will. - signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
