--- Jon Pennington
--- babu walad
wrote: The fact is, if things worked fine out of the box, I would absolutely not update except when a major new functionality or feature was added.
This is the way it should be.
1. No drivers for AMI RAID. There is support for the chipset, but no drivers.
This strikes me a bit funny, but I have no experience with AMI. Are you saying that you can use the RAID card as a SCSI controller, but not run the hardware RAID parts? I've seen a lot of this before; VA Linux and Compaq each did a lot of work on this front; perhaps you should track down one of their people...what functionality are you looking for specifically?
Actually, after some digging I found both sources and object file for the megaraid driver. However, the 2.4.0 kernel does not want to recognize the device and a modprobe results in an error. Something about the right parameters may not be set for insmod... I've tried alias scsi-adaptor megaraid and alias ide-scsi megaraid in modules.conf but still no luck. It actualy comes back with an error saying it cannot find any 3WARE RAID cards!
2. My OrangeMicro IEE1394, NEC chipset PCI card is unsupported.
Sounds more like a Linux problem than a SuSE problem to me, or are you just whining about the fact that it's not supported buy default SuSE kernels? I seem to remember that the OMC Firewire product was supported, but it's a very low-cost solution, IIRC, and should be avoided. Get a Ti chip. I didn't even know that NEC made PCI nics; an Intel 10/100 is about $30 Stateside, Linksys being about $15, and Realtek 89xx run under $9! I wouldn't even bother beating my head against this particular wall unless there's a *reason* to keep the NEC.
Well, the OrangMicro IEEE1394 PCI card has two Firewire and two USB ports on it. It's not $10 or $50 but about $150. Somehow, the USB ports are recognized but not the FireWire ones. They are OHCI compliant so they are supposed to be supported. I just keep trying to figure out the process if getting misc hardware recognized and supported by Linux. Still eludes me sometimes.
3. Haven't got my ATI TV wonder card working
Which model? I have a bit of experience with v4l, and ATi cards are about the easiest in the world to set up (second to bt848 decendents).
I have the ATI TV Wonder PCI card. It uses a Philips TV Tuner chip, etc...
4. Haven't got my 3DLabs VX1 video card working.
You'll have to buy a commercial X server to do this, such as one from XiG, especially their OpenGL product. The VX1 isn't fantastic, but at least the XiG X server supports most of the features of the card.
Looks like XiG is just about to release v2.0 of their server which will support this card... Babu __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Make a great connection at Yahoo! Personals. http://personals.yahoo.com