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post #121 of 159
3/4/05 at 7:45pm
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Ok I cannot get SuSE 9.1 Pro/9.2, Fedora3 or Mandrake 10.1 to see the disk. So far only the latest Gentoo experimental livecd (rc5) works.

Alex
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post #122 of 159
3/5/05 at 7:09am
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Originally Posted by adewolf
Ok I cannot get SuSE 9.1 Pro/9.2, Fedora3 or Mandrake 10.1 to see the disk. So far only the latest Gentoo experimental livecd (rc5) works.

Alex
You try the pre-release (2.2) of the Yoper Linux? Worked for me first time -- still running it as I type. Found the PATA drive on the Promise controller okay, installed okay, built my own kernel okay and haven't had any problems at all.

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post #123 of 159
3/5/05 at 6:04pm

Created working FC3 CD's

Just wanted to give the folks with PATA issues and FC3 a heads up. Ive made my first successfull installation iso, its rough at this point, and I've only got a uniprocessor i586 kernel, but I should get some i686/i686 smp kernels working here shortly.

Currently this is a 2.6.10 kernel modified with the Promise patches put together by the good folks at gentoo. I have not been successful with getting 2.6.11 kernels to work with this controller.

If anyone is interested in helping me out finishing this up and testing my FC3 isos, feel free to contact me directly:

irc: irc.ice.org, #linux, Im on as scott
Yahoo: atomicrocketturtle

-Scott
www.atomicrocketturtle.com
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post #124 of 159
3/7/05 at 2:14pm
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Originally Posted by MarsPoet
You try the pre-release (2.2) of the Yoper Linux? Worked for me first time -- still running it as I type. Found the PATA drive on the Promise controller okay, installed okay, built my own kernel okay and haven't had any problems at all.
I got this to work for me. Which kernel do you build?

Alex
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post #125 of 159
3/8/05 at 6:03am

what about RAID ?

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Originally Posted by darktempes
marspoet, this worked for me:
http://mirror.tucdemonic.org/gentoo/...2005.0-rc5.iso
(or any respective gentoo mirror with the 2005.0 experimental with uses the newer patched version of 2.6.10 (-r5 if i remember correctly)

Hi,

I have been able to use this : PATA support is fonctional. But, as for the RAID, it is an other story.
Does exist a solution to use material RAID (the one mastered by the Promise controler) under Linux ?

Thanks in advance, and good job for the Live CD
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post #126 of 159
3/8/05 at 7:01am
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Originally Posted by adewolf
I got this to work for me. Which kernel do you build?

Alex
I use the 2.6.10 source code from the kernel.org website.
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post #127 of 159
3/9/05 at 4:57pm
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I have gotten Yoper 2.2 installed. I had to order my machine without a wifi card and am trying to get a Linksys dwl-630 working, pcmcia wireless card. I appears that the pcmcia utilities are not finding anything plugged in when I put in the wireless card. Anyone have any ideas?

Alex
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post #128 of 159
3/9/05 at 8:02pm
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Well I have not been able to build a bootable kernel. I keep getting:
Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: unable to mount rootfs on unknown-block (8.4)

Alex
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post #129 of 159
3/9/05 at 8:36pm
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Ok I was using the wrong kernel source (2.6.10-1 instead of 2.6.10-2)

Sorry
Alex
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post #130 of 159
3/10/05 at 2:33am
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I still can't get my cardbus Dlink DWL-G630 recognized. cardmgr shows a 3 volt card inserted but no manufacturer strings are returned. It seems that the cardbus controller is not recognized correctly. I had to order my machine without built in 802.11g so I am trying to use a cardbus adapter (Dlink G630). Any ideas?

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Alex
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post #131 of 159
3/16/05 at 2:23pm
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I see that Fedora 4 test has been released with the 2.6.11-1 kernel. Any ideas if this will work?

Alex
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post #132 of 159
3/17/05 at 5:54am
What I can say is that :

Ubuntu Hoary Preview works with PATA hard drives ...
alsa-1.0.9rc1 works for sound with Ubuntu Hoary but not 1.0.8 (I get full of "azx_get_response timeout" errors and sound card is not detected)

I have a problem though : DVD watching is choppy, so I did a :
hdparm -d1 /dev/hda to get dma on for the drive.

but I got

/dev/hda:
setting using_dma to 1 (on)
HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted
using_dma = 0 (off)

In other words I cannot get dma on for the drive, and this makes DVD viewing choppy !
Any clues ???
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post #133 of 159
3/17/05 at 3:51pm
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Originally Posted by adewolf
I see that Fedora 4 test has been released with the 2.6.11-1 kernel. Any ideas if this will work?

Alex
I tried installing FC4 test on my AW 7700 and it still didn't see the drive.
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post #134 of 159
3/27/05 at 11:57pm
I am looking into the purchase of a AW 7700/Sager 9860. I have read through this thread and am wondering of the problem of not seeing the drives exists with both ATA and SATA drives? Would I have better luck with SATA or ATA or does not matter. I do not care about embedded RAID would rather use SW RAID.


Thanks,
Chris
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post #135 of 159
3/29/05 at 1:16pm
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Arrrggghhh....
Sorry just frustrated over lack of RAID/SATA support in the new distros (Mandrake 10.2, SuSE 9.2, Fedora 3/4) Seems like Yoper and Gentoo (2.6.10 kernel ONLY) are the only two useable distros. I have been trying for about 4 weeks to get everything right. I am not able to build a useable kernel in Gentoo so Yoper is my only useable distro.

Alex
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post #136 of 159
4/1/05 at 3:40pm
So Yoper is the only one that can work with all the hardware in the 9860 but without raid only in PATA mode?
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post #137 of 159
4/8/05 at 11:24pm
gentoo works fine here (and has for months now)

i broke alsa the other day, but it did work at one point (and i'm fixing that right now)

if someone needs a kernel config in gentoo to help them build the kernel (i do not suggest using genkernel, i suggest doing it by hand) i'd be happy to oblige

my first gentoo install took 3 days, but nowadays i can do it in under 2 hours (stage3, you don't need to do a stage1 on a pentium4 processor) so if anyone needs help, just yell =)

note: i'm using an alienware, not a sager, but almost everything is the same except for the screen and the fact that i do not have a minipci tv tuner yet
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post #138 of 159
4/9/05 at 10:34am
Hey, darktempes, a bit off-topic, but care to enlighten us with why stage1 is useless with a P4? I've never heard that one before.
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post #139 of 159
4/9/05 at 8:39pm
This is pure speculation on my part, possibly since they have a P4 optimized stage 3 build???
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post #140 of 159
4/9/05 at 8:46pm
Interesting, looks like they do. Meh, its not like I am planning to reinstall. Been running for 16 months. Its not like you-know-what that pollutes itself.
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