Quoting Dylan Beaudette ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
in order to disable DMA you must start the 'expert' installer, and
pass ide=nodma to the IDE modules so far so good! However, things
got messy when some packages refused to install (exim4 and some
others...) so i gave up on debian.
With the
On Wed, 17 Nov 2004, Rick Moen wrote:
[discussion of variations on kernel options omitted]
Which begs the question: How does one do that on arbitrary Linux
distributions, if they all implement kernel command-line options
differently? (Yes, I do know that more-conservative Linux
On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 01:05:45PM -0800, Jeff Newmiller wrote:
On Wed, 17 Nov 2004, Rick Moen wrote:
[discussion of variations on kernel options omitted]
Which begs the question: How does one do that on arbitrary Linux
distributions, if they all implement kernel command-line options
Hi everyone,
I have a machine here that is starting to drive me crazy. It is a Compaq
Pentiumm III class machine, with integrated everything, and a funky case.
I have tried just about every flavor of linux, and only 1 (SUSE 9.1) would
even install. Even after I installed it, any attempts by the
Can I assume you've googled about your particular hardware? Maybe your
CD/DVD just won't play nice with DMA. One thing worth trying is to see
how your computer behaves with KNOPPIX. When booting knoppix, do:
knoppix dma
to enable dma support of your drives. If everything works, then you
