On Sunday 03 Mar 2002 5:53 pm, Edward Tandi wrote: > David Barker wrote: > >On the whole, beta 3's been great (it's my desktop production machine) > > > >Other than the already talked about dcop stuff, the only other things I've > >noticed are a lack of philips webcam drivers (they were in 2.4.8, they're > >still in the latest kernel releases, just not in the mdk kernel :/) > > > >Also, I've had problems installing on a tyan tiger mp box - it turns out > >that dma support with the amd760mp chipset is a bit broken, and ide=nodma > >needs passing in to get it going with my dvd/cdrw drive - I've read a > > couple of people talk about this in the mdk forums with exactly the same > > symptoms but no-ones posted the solution - maybe it wants to go in a > > readme, errata or in the supported hardware page? > > I also have a twin 1.2GHz Athlon MP machine with the Tyan Tiger > motherboard. I haven't quite got around to updating my server, but it is > running Mandrake 8.0 with a 2.4.17 kernel patched to "patch-2.4.18-pre9" > (which is close to what Mandrake 8.2 beta 3 is using).
Ditto here really, I was running an Abit BP6 with mdk 8.1 and then just swapped in the Tyan. HD performance has been great , I just get coruption when pulling stuff from the cdrom drive with udma enabled - I first saw the symptoms when I tried to install a copy of Unreal Tournament from CD - all the map & texture files always copied corupted until I fired up hdparm and disabled dma on the cdrom (it's not even an old drive, and I know it was fine with dma under the BP6) I don't really care too much about the problem since I know how to get around it (I hardly ever use the cdrom so I'm more bothered about the lack of philips webcam drivers than a slugish cd ;�) Newbies however are going to be doing a lot of head scratching untill they figure this out... It either needs fixing, or a little note writting about it somewhere (it's at least going to be documented in the cooker archives now :) If it get's fixed for rc1, if someone can send me a quick mail I'll happily download the iso's and test it. > > I don't have any DMA problems, it's all (stonkingly) fast and stable. I > did however configure the kernel build options myself, and I specified > both the VIA82CXXX and AMD Viper support in the "IDE,ATA and ATAPI Block > Devices" section. > > Maybe you just need to build a new kernel, although I do agree it's a > pain if you can't get the thing lo load in the first place! quite - a friend has done nothing but tell me to install Slackware as he watched my frustraion ;) I loaded my > system while I was still using 2 PIIIs. > > >(to quote a post to http://mandrakeforum.com/article.php?sid=1346&lang=en) > > > >"I could never get the installer to run. It keeps seg faulting on a signal > > 11 (Tyan Tiger MP, dual Athlon 1.2s, Matrox G550, Mandrake 8.1 download > > version). The kernel boots fine I get to the graphical prompt, try any > > combination of options Itest install, linux, just hit return, whatever, > > just seg faults as it tries to start up. Same problem with Mandrake 8.0, > > Redhat 7.1, but Redhat 7.2 works fine and I'm runnign that. > > Unfortunately, I want Mandrake. Still waiting for delivery of the real > > 8.1 CDs and will try them." > > I have toyed with a few 2.4 kernel revisions and I wouldn't install > anything that uses a kernel prior to 2.4.9 (much fun with VIA bridge > problems). Good luck, tbh, I was running the stock 2.4.8 and thought it was great - I'll probably just downgrade for a while till I can be bothered to compile something newer or the webcam driver makes it back into the mdk kernel ;) -- Dave :) "Unix is not a "A-ha" experience, it is more of a "Holy-shit" experience." - Colin McFadyen in alt.folklore.computers
