From: "Leon Brooks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | On Tuesday 04 February 2003 05:09 am, Thomas Backlund wrote: | > I had some spare time so I decided to try to make | > a kernel with support for the Intel 845 IDE chipset... | > ( meaning (U)DMA support ...) | | I have a machine which still hasn't recovered from your nForce patch. (-: | | I'd foolishly assumed that it would make stuff like network and sound work out | of the box, and consequently was left with a Mandrake 9.0 machine sans the | correct kernel sources and which would not boot into the old kernel (because | it does something to the ext3 partitions which dismays the old kernel). |
As I stated in my patch message it was built for nforce2 IDE support... no more ... no less ... As for kernel changing the ext3... I haven't tested it on a mdk 90 install... since it was not my intention to build it for 9.0 ... And the latest Cooker kernel supports nforce2 IDE, nforce2 network (the one that uses 3Com920 header), nforce2 sound (through i810_audio) And Quel Qun has made a patch for alsa support for the nforce2... | | Now I have a machine with working network and video, but which locks up as | soon as you play a sound. I use no special kernel parameters on boot, | modules.conf says: | Well it works on Cooker, so... maybe I'll try to build a working 9.0 kernel later... but for now I dont have the time... | | The nvaudio driver now builds with missing symbols (__wake_up, dont build it... it only tries to patch the i810_audio with the nforce2 audio id:s, and renaming it to nvaudio... but since that is in the latest kernel, there is no need... Thomas
