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  • From: "Eric Sandall" <eric AT sandall.us>
  • To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] 2.5.x kernel and NVIDIA_nforce spell
  • Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2003 14:07:57 -0700 (PDT)


Wolfgang Scheicher said:
> On Sunday 06 July 2003 16:34, John T Copeland wrote:
>> I have tried 2.4.21 also. It supports SATA kind of; ie, it recognizes
>> the SATA drives but won't turn on DMA. In fact it won't turn on DMA on
>> the PATA drives, and it won't let you turn DMA on with hdparm for any of
>> the drives. 2.4.21 does not appear to have "native support" for the
>> nforce2 chipset. Also 2.4.21 does not "number" the drives starting with
>> the PATA controllers, but with the SATA controllers. IMO 2.4.21 does
>> NOT support SATA in a usable manner. Maybe 2.4.22 will.
>
> Did you:
> <*> AMD Viper support
> "This driver adds explicit support for AMD-7xx and AMD-8111 chips and also
> for
> the nVidia nForce chip. This allows the kernel to change PIO, DMA and
> UDMA
> speeds and to configure the chip to optimum performance."
> dmesg | grep NFORCE

Hmmm...I think I missed that when I compiled my machine, not sure, will
check, but my nForce2 machine is working fine (minus the problems I have
getting a USB mouse to work in XFree86....grr! Perhaps 4.3.99 will fix
it...).

<snip>

>> Incidentally other compiles fail also. Spells glibc 2.3.2 and gcc 3.3
>> both failed, but compiled with 2.4.20.
>
> but 2.4.20 won't compile with gcc 3.3 - but that's a different story
>
> Worf

2.4.20 (and .21) compiles fine for me with gcc 3.3, but I've never gotten
a 2.5.x kernel to boot (compiled fine, but goes nowhere upon boot). :(

-sandalle

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