On Sun, 11 Jan 2004 22:38:27 +0100 Willibald Krenn
wrote: Am Sonntag, 11. Januar 2004 19:53 schrieben Sie:
[Sil 3112A + S-ATA ST3120026AS in UDMA) And it worked with 2.4? That's a big strange. What driver did you use in 2.4?
Don't know what driver SuSE 9.0 uses as default, but I guess it's 'ataraid' (even if I don't have a RAID setup yet in SIL BIOS)
ataraid doesn't work on 2.6. Known problem. The driver still needs to be ported.
I also had some issues with - I think - USB (some kernel Ooopses on system startup), but after the kernel update and disconnecting the USB plug of my MS Natural Keyboard the system is running very well [for a Linux-Box ;-)] with the Logitech mouse as sole USB device.
It's most likely a bug in the shuttle BIOS. Try updating the BIOS. Or disable "USB legacy support" in the BIOS setup (may or may not help)
You can test that by booting the kernel with idle=poll (not recommended as a permanent solution because it burns a lot of power). If that helps the BIOS is missing a workaround for an CPU bug that causes it to corrupt 64bit registers when running the USB emulation code.
Only one thing gets a little bit on my 'nerves': My PCI Radeon 9200 SE is not recognized by the X-Server and the ATI driver seems to be 32bit only. :-( (Still hoping that SuSE will provide an update when the next version of XFree with Radeon 9200 support comes out)
In the worst case you can run a 32bit X server as a workaround. That should work.
I've one criticism though: Unfortunately the DVD does not support a menu
I do sympathise! I just purchased an AMD64fx51 system on an Asus sk8n
motherboard which has a promise sata raid setup. It was purchased with XP
and a striped array on sata drives already setup. It cost me close on £3000
with a 21" monitor and lots of firepower!
I want Linux of whatever flavour and SuSE looked to be supporting the AMD64.
I also looked at red hat but after 9 it seems that I would have to use
fedora, and 64bit support seems a little way off becoming stable. Mandrake
was another contender and appeared to support the promise interface. Naively
I thought SATA and Raid would be working.
I could see from past experiences, that at the outset there might be support
issues, just as when I bought my first PII400 with an ATI all in wonder tv
card - it also took some time to be properly supported. I looked at SuSE and
balked at the price, but hey it might be worth it.
I e-mailed SuSE uk and expressed my concerns over my 2month old system not
being compatible. They kindly suggested I try the 1st cd of SUSE 9.0 and
sent it to me in the post.
Both this and Mandrake and RH9.0 exhibit the same problem of not recognising
the devices which I presume are the drives, remembering of course that they
are formatted as a sata raid array under xp.
I can't complain about SuSE, as a potential first time customer they have
been very helpful, but on this particular matter, until ASUS or promise or
the kernel support my kit, then a true 64bit Linux os has to be put on hold.
The old bit of latin someone told me one of 'caveat emptor' which I think
means buyer beware holds true.
Doubtless in a month or two this support will arrive. I know that this is no
consolation, but we do have a great bit of kit, and a potentially great OS.
Patience ?
BTW It is almost certain that I will eventually end up buying SuSE 9.0 so in
my case customer service and customer satisfaction go hand in hand....
----- Original Message -----
From: "Andi Kleen"
saying 'Re-Install original Kernel plus bootloader'. I really would have needed this at one point, because I completely blew my grub config. (2.6.1-rc3 was not booting and somehow I had 'destroyed' the 2.4 backup) I was badly surprised when I found out that the manual repair dialog did not feature a 'Re-Install kernel plus bootloader' option and the automatic repair did not work.
Well, the idea is when you do things with your grub configuration or your kernel rpm you should be also able to fix it manually from a repair system. The automatic options are more aimed at people who don't change intimate details of the system. Obviously they cannot undo all the damage an user is able to do by hand.
Another note: I had to choose manual installation, as the automatic one leads to Ooops(?).
In general every time you have oopses you should report them. Otherwise they cannot get fixed.
-Andi
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