How interesting! I guess the question now becomes something like "Does
hardrake find the card?" and "Does the card show up anywhere in the proc
file system?" I am noticing some real flakynesses in how the kernel
handles hardware. For example with my system if I put my SCSI card in a
certain slot the bootup complains "found IRQ X, want IRQ Y" but the card
still works. If I put it in another slot, it is as if the card simply
doesn't exist. I am experiencing the same problem with a USB card. I
have never had this kind of problem before with this machine under
either Linux or Windows and I am wondering how it is that the kernel is
trying to assign resources that is causing this. With Windows you can
dynamically manipulate resources with Device Manager, but with Linux it
is like a sealed black box . It either works or it doesn't. There is
no intelligent graphical interface to manage everything from the proc
file system to isapnp to modins/modrm. If it doesn't work you can only
move cards around, play with BIOS settings and lilo appends (noapic,
etc.), try to tweak modprobes, and hope for the best, but you are
basically flying blind. Unfortunately, there is really no way to move
an AGP video card to another slot. You might just try removing all the
PCI/ISA cards and see what happens, if that clears some obscure resource
conflict, but thats a hassle. I really do think gatos should work with
your card, but you should scour the gatos site thoroughly before moving
forward (perhaps they have specific info or even a forum that might be
helpful). And, hopefully, someone on the list can enlighten us further.
- George Mitchell
Robert martin wrote:
But what was the problem when you tried gatos? I assume you tried the
version on
your install disks, right?
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it won't find the card (config problem??) and yes this is the version
from the install cds (it seems to be the one from Cooker also)
X works fine dvd works fine but tv doesn't
