Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2217 mails)

["David C. Rankin" <drankinatty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Bill Anderson wrote:
> David C. Rankin wrote:
>> On my Toshiba P35 laptop, opensuse 10.2, *nothing* is shown in Yast IDE
>> DMA Setup. Is this normal???
>>
>>

Additional explanation, when I say nothing is shown in Yast IDE DMA
Setup, I literally mean *nothing* not just no DMA option, I mean *no*
hard drive at all. That's what is really strange...

> It might not be enabled, try the command hdparm -d /dev/hda to check if
> it is enabled (you need to be root to run this command). If it is not,
> you can enable it with the command hdparm -d1 to enable it. The man page
> gives more information on the command. Also, it wouldn't hurt to check
> the BIOS settings.
> 

That is another strange thing about this laptop, the bios is virtually
void of any information. I mean yes, it shows the drive and basic
time/date information and has the ability to set the boot device, but
that is about it. There is a lot of stuff that just isn't
shown/configurable. This P4 laptop is aging yes, but as far as function
it has integrated 802.11g, firewire, usb, dvd-rw, multicard reader, etc.
but is has the smallest human bios interface known to man - go figure?
Maybe that is why Yast doesn't show the drive and why nobody has
configured a powersave suspend to ram acpi function.

Thanks for the help. If you have any other thoughts, please pass them along!

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