Posts by Chenar

Ya, start with as few flags as possible. Once you have your system built and running you can start adding flags slowly. My make.conf has rather a lot of flags in it atm (over 100) that I've slowly added over the past 6 months. ...

Not sure if the tuners are the same, but I have an 8890 with a TV tuner, and it works perfectly. Show's up as a BT878 chip, which is very well supported in Linux.

try: ifconfig eth1 up iwconfig eth1 essid "Network" iwconfig eth1 key ffff-ffff-ff dhcpcd eth1

Gave up on getting Solaris 10 on my 8890. The installer absolutely refused to acknowledge my hard drives, even with the raid disabled, so I went back to gentoo on my baby. The 420r definately has some issues, though not with the...

Hiya folks, I need a little help. First a little background. I've recently become enamoured with Solaris 10 after installing it on a Sun E420R in my basement, and wanted to check out the x86 version on my lappy. So, I checked the...

Just wanted to add a note on this thread letting people know that even though promises drivers are nowhere in sight, it is possible to install/boot Gentoo w/Kernel 2.6 on an 8890 with raid enabled! Found this on the gentoo forums, and...

That video/overlay problem with the more recent ATI drivers was due to a hardware issue that was fixed with the 8890 bios update. Works like a charm now.

I could be wrong, but I think grub loads the kernel using bios level disk access, which the raid controller can handle without a driver. Basically, it's the same way DOS accesses the harddrive, not very fast or efficient, and can't...

Are you using the hardware Raid-0, or the WinXP software raid? This is pretty strange. I'm running an 8890 with Raid-0 and installed redhat without any problems. Even have grub in the mbr and both XP and linux boot without issue.

Might want to try putting grub/lilo on the linux partition, and NOT on the MBR. You'll have to config the XP bootloader to transfer control to the linux partition, but it's a pretty easy process... That way, linux won't touch the MBR. ...