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  • From: sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>
  • To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [BL] scsi pcmcia in BL3.40 - module missing?
  • Date: Tue, 30 May 2006 01:28:56 +0000 (UTC)

On Tue, 30 May 2006 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

sindi keesan wrote:

Is there some way to determine directly, using cardmgr,
which card line I should use for this unsupported card?

cardmgr -vo

Cheers,
Steven

I will try this as soon as we get the 'new' pcmcia desktop computer plugged in. The old one was intermittently finding its IDE drives and then stopped completely. So we checked out the one we found next to the dumpster with 333MHz Celeron cpu. Known good RAM (ours) and cards. Onboard ATI video and ES1371 sound. Added a PCMCIA controller and ethernet card and IDE zip drive. DOS has some IRQ conflict (IRQ 10 for two things) but boots.

We had to plug in the two IDE drives both as master because if you put in an IDE drive as a slave the computer no longer recognize even the master. CD-ROM drive as primary slave, IDE zip drive as secondary slave. Did not try out the zip drive yet. It normally works in DOS and linux.

CD-ROM drive works in DOS (tho it takes a while for Oak driver to find it) but not in linux.

dmesg:
hdb: end_request: I/O error, dev 03:40 (hdb) sector 0
(and similarly for 2 4 6 0 2 4 6) Unable to read partition table.
When I try to mount a CD, 'hdb not a valid block device'.

Is there something I can do with loadlin so linux will not try to find a
partition table or sectors, but treat it as a CD-ROM device?


Next problem is the onboard ATI video. (Did not check sound).

Two of our ATI AGP cards work with Xvesa, the other does not, and all three crash with the SVGA server. This ATI chip, predictably, displays very odd colors with Xvesa (and after exiting) and with the SVGA server it displays at 320 and crashes (using Steven's minimal XF86Config but higher monitor refresh rates to match our monitor).

So I put in S3 Virge which with SVGA server also displays at 320 and crashes, and with Virge server simply crashes. This card worked with both in another computer. The card works fine with Xvesa.

zgv (svgalib) crashes with no chipset specified but works as VESA or VGA.

Apparently the onboard AGP video chip (ATI) is doing something odd in linux that affects the PCI card. The ATI does framebuffer but I can't make it work in X.

I will be trying Xvesa first from now on except for laptops or Nvidia or Matrox cards.

Would a later version of the SVGA server work any better, from SW8.1, or if I can compile it, something more recent?

Sindi




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