Problems with Intel 865GLC motherboard
Hello all, A friend of mine purchased a computer with Intel 865GLC motherboard, and a SerialATA hard disc. SuSE 8.2 Pro installer doesn't recognise the hard disc (or the controller). So I had him install 8.2 on his old computer, compiled a 2.4.22 kernel, plugged it into the new machine (the old drive is PATA), booted up and copied the installation over to the new machine. So the new machine boots now, recognises the SATA controller and disc, DMA is on and it's fast! Three problems remain though: 1. Yast2 configured the sound and at boot there are no errors when the sound module is loaded, but it doesn't make any sound. I checked with gamix that everything is on and set correctly, but no sound. Programs like xmms and MPlayer work as if the sound is there, no errors. Just no sound. 2. Yast2 configured the onboard Intel NIC, but this gives an error on boot - simply that it failed with no specifics. 3. Hotplug fails (with no specific error) and it seems that this is because USB won't work. Does anybody have experience with this board or know how to get everything on it going? All the hardware are just recognised as "Intel ICH" something or other, no specifics. I compiled the kernel like so: I first did a make cloneconfig in the suse kernel tree. Saved and copied that config out to the 2.4.22 tree. Loaded it in make menuconfig, changed the CPU type to Pentium 4 and disabled the stuff we don't need like bluetooth, all the unnecessary scsi drivers, ect. Althouhg I was careful to leave support for all the hotplugging controllers on - USB, FireWire, ect I all left as they were. Any help would be appreciated Thanks Hans
On Monday 22 September 2003 00:41, H du Plooy wrote:
Hello all,
A friend of mine purchased a computer with Intel 865GLC motherboard, and a SerialATA hard disc. SuSE 8.2 Pro installer doesn't recognise the hard disc (or the controller). So I had him install 8.2 on his old computer, compiled a 2.4.22 kernel, plugged it into the new machine (the old drive is PATA), booted up and copied the installation over to the new machine.
So the new machine boots now, recognises the SATA controller and disc, DMA is on and it's fast!
Three problems remain though:
1. Yast2 configured the sound and at boot there are no errors when the sound module is loaded, but it doesn't make any sound. I checked with gamix that everything is on and set correctly, but no sound. Programs like xmms and MPlayer work as if the sound is there, no errors. Just no sound.
2. Yast2 configured the onboard Intel NIC, but this gives an error on boot - simply that it failed with no specifics.
3. Hotplug fails (with no specific error) and it seems that this is because USB won't work.
Does anybody have experience with this board or know how to get everything on it going? All the hardware are just recognised as "Intel ICH" something or other, no specifics.
Hans: Are you sure ACPI is running on that machine? 8.2 usually detects if acpi should run or not, but it might have missed it because of the way you installed. On boot command line you could add pci=acpi to force it on. Also is acpid loaded (run-level editor). -- _____________________________________ John Andersen
On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 10:58, John Andersen wrote:
Hans: Are you sure ACPI is running on that machine? 8.2 usually detects if acpi should run or not, but it might have missed it because of the way you installed.
On boot command line you could add pci=acpi to force it on. Also is acpid loaded (run-level editor).
Positive, dmesg show all sorts of ACPI related output. Some progress though. He did find out that Intel does provide a driver for the NIC for SuSE 8.2 and has downloaded it. We'll try it out tonight or tomorrow night, and report back. USB is supposed to be fully supported. I can't remember what he said about the sound, I think there's an intel driver for that too. I'll keep you posted. Thank you for your reply Hans
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