Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3261 mails)

["crrey" <crrey@xxxxxxxx>]

Who's got a via mobo?  I have and bx440 Abit BE6-II rev2.0 with a Celeron
500.  I followed the instructions and the original configs all got hosed and
the original 2.4.0 and 2.4.0 suse setup lost its sound and network
interface.  Yast1/2 won't re-install because the devices are actually there
and setup - for 2.4.2 only though!  I was just hoping to get some pointers
as to where to look for solution and that's when a flame war broke out -
then I got even more frustrated because the moderators seemed to act as if I
was out of line.  Just wanted a few answers - wouldn't bother me if they
said start from scratch or whatever.  I just didn't appreciate being told
that asking for answers or help was not proper or warrented by suggesting
that perhaps there might be a problem with the SuSE packages or whatever -
especially in light of the fact that no one asked what happened in the first
place.

-----Original Message-----
From: b stephen harding [mailto:big-lime@xxxxxxxx]
Sent: Monday, April 23, 2001 2259
To: suse-linux-e@xxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [SLE] Support vs Support (Was: [SLE] util-linux and Kernel
2.4.3)


On Monday 23 April 2001 22:51, you wrote:
> crrey wrote:
> > Yep. make config, make dep, make clean, make bzImage (or bzlilo), make
> > modules, make modules_install, make install, a few cp commands, run
lilo,
> > and viola!  And RPM's, thought those were supposed to take care of that
> > stuff. At least vendor specific rpms into the same vendor specific
> > distro/version.  But, heck what do I know, I'm a newbie!
>
> A blind make config or whatever your are doing will not get you a
> working kernel. Just try to get one of those mobos with VIA chipset to
> work and you are for a sad reality.
>
> There is more to updating kernel RPMs that installing them, it's all
> documented in the Suse web site and posted here by me.
>
> What did you do and what error messages did you get?

Not sure what you are talking about.  I've got one of those VIA Mobo's and
I've just finished doing a kernel compile of 2.4.2 with success and you
can't get much more of a novice then me.

I'm running:
AMD K6III 450
256Mb ram
DFI Mobo with Via chipset
Promise Ultra66 IDE Controller
HDD 20.00 Fujitsu Picobird
HDD 27.2 IBM Deskstar
Sblive
Geforce 2 MX

This was not my first kernel compile though, maybe me 20th (not all
successful).

Honestly I'm not sure what some of you are complaining about with the
support
thing.  Seems clear to me what SuSE covers in there support agreement.  If
you want to upgrade to something not supplied in the orginal package that is
your responsibility.

All my dealings with SuSE support have been satisfactory in the replies and
fixes.  They could have been a bit more timely though.  LOL, the list most
times provides the solutions first.  Well most times anyways, when my posts
don't get ignored. :-)

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