What is it with SuSE 8.1 (lot's of errors)?
Well, I'm dissapointed.... My computer is just a plain simple one, with a Asus A7-VE mainboard, and an Duron at 800 Meg. No peculiar or special hardware involved at all!! The funny thing is that, i had SuSE 7.3 installed before 8.1, and everything just worked right "out of the box". The first time I installed 8.1, I din't include the development tools, thinking I was able to install it afterwards. I did so (all of the tools and libraries), but the damned thing could not compile ANYTHING. I reinstalled 8.1, with the tools, and now it is working fine. I compiled and installed Xine (don't like Mplayer), expecting to have a cozy afternoon with some DVD movies, but i did't went that way, since the kernel was resetting the dma on my DVD-drive all the time. Does anyone know what to do about this? Some info about the drive: IDE 02.0: 10602 CD-ROM (DVD) [Created at ide.122] Unique ID: hY5p.8HChSw0lu7D Hardware Class: cdrom Model: "LG DVD-ROM DRD-8160B" Device: "LG DVD-ROM DRD-8160B" Revision: "1.01" Serial ID: "" Driver: "ide-cdrom" Device File: /dev/hdc Size: 14993988 sectors a 512 bytes Config Status: cfg=yes, avail=yes, need=no Attached to: #19 (IDE interface) I have also a lot of errors on my hdd (LG CD-RW CED-8080B). "ide-scsi: hdd: unsupported command in request queue (0) end_request: I/O error, dev 16:40 (hdd), sector 64" and "cdrom: open failed" The patch for kernel-2.4.19 from SuSE, IS installed! Can anybody help me before I'm giving up SuSE 8.1 completely, and switch back to SuSE 7.3? I'm beginning to get frustrated........ Anyway, have a happy new year, and let's hope SuSE is doing a lot better distro than 8.1 in the future!!
Hi, My experience with VIA chipset was extremely frustruating and unhappy. Once I have replaced VIA chipset m/b with AMD761 one, ALL problems and artifacts have gone COMPLETELY (all other components and s/w remained the same). So the only suggestion I can offer you is to trash VIA chipset m/b and replace it with one with Intel or AMD chipset m/b. On Tuesday, December 31, 2002, at 02:16 AM, Rune Madsen wrote:
Well, I'm dissapointed.... My computer is just a plain simple one, with a Asus A7-VE mainboard, and an Duron at 800 Meg. No peculiar or special hardware involved at all!! The funny thing is that, i had SuSE 7.3 installed before 8.1, and everything just worked right "out of the box".
Ah ha! So this is it. I wondered why I kept getting these messages. And likewise I was ironically going to post a similar question today. So it's VIA - hmmmm. I really don't want to change/upgrade my mobo just yet. I wonder if updating the bios, or chipset firmware is possible or helpful in resolving this? Cheers, Curtis. On Monday 30 December 2002 09:27, Andrei Verovski (aka MacGuru) wrote:
Hi,
My experience with VIA chipset was extremely frustruating and unhappy. Once I have replaced VIA chipset m/b with AMD761 one, ALL problems and artifacts have gone COMPLETELY (all other components and s/w remained the same).
So the only suggestion I can offer you is to trash VIA chipset m/b and replace it with one with Intel or AMD chipset m/b.
On Tuesday, December 31, 2002, at 02:16 AM, Rune Madsen wrote:
Well, I'm dissapointed.... My computer is just a plain simple one, with a Asus A7-VE mainboard, and an Duron at 800 Meg. No peculiar or special hardware involved at all!! The funny thing is that, i had SuSE 7.3 installed before 8.1, and everything just worked right "out of the box".
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Hi Andrei and Rune, I have 8.1 on 2 VIA 694 chipset P-III SMP mboards that do not have any of the errors you 2 mention. One sys is an all scsi system and the other is an all ide sys, including ide DVD rom drive. I have not tried xine so I can't tell you how that works but the DVD does do DMA and never gets reset. Some of the err msgs Rune mentioned look like the msgs posted on my system when there is an audio (CDA or regular record store CD format) CD in the drive. Linux handles audio CDs differently than data filesystem CDs; I have never had those type msgs indicate any kind of failure. Both systems are the most reliable error free Linux (or SuSE for that matter) I have ever used' way better than 7.3 or 8.0. So it may be that looking at your H/W may be the best start to solving your problem. Happy New Year! ................ PeterB On Monday 30 December 2002 09:27 am, Andrei Verovski (aka MacGuru) wrote:
Hi,
My experience with VIA chipset was extremely frustruating and unhappy. Once I have replaced VIA chipset m/b with AMD761 one, ALL problems and artifacts have gone COMPLETELY (all other components and s/w remained the same).
So the only suggestion I can offer you is to trash VIA chipset m/b and replace it with one with Intel or AMD chipset m/b.
On Tuesday, December 31, 2002, at 02:16 AM, Rune Madsen wrote:
Well, I'm dissapointed.... My computer is just a plain simple one, with a Asus A7-VE mainboard, and an Duron at 800 Meg. No peculiar or special hardware involved at all!! The funny thing is that, i had SuSE 7.3 installed before 8.1, and everything just worked right "out of the box".
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