On 4/20/05, Jim Wiggs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have to admit ignorance. What is the "DMA driver?"
I ment the driver that does activate DMA, which should be the driver for your specific IDE interface. The generic interface most likely does not enable DMA. So in your case, I would build amd74xx into the kernel. "IDE generic" should not be needed, although it does not hurt either. "Use DMA by default" is certainly a good choice. The only other option I can imagine is to check the BIOS, sometimes the BIOS can do things the drivers cannot (such as properly setting up DMA :-). > Another poster suggested adding amd74xx to the /etc/modules file > *before* ide-generic, but this doesn't seem to make any difference. I assume you boot of an initrd. So you may have to rebuild your initrd. It should usually use the order of /etc/modules, although that is not always guaranteed. > On the stock AMD64 Sid install, which file controls what's going on in > "module land:" /etc/modules or /etc/modprobe.d/aliases? They seem > to be redundant... /etc/modules are loaded at bootup, or under some circumstances already in initrd. /etc/modprobe.d/ is used to construct /etc/modprobe.conf, which resolves autoloading. So if a module is in /etc/modules, the autoloading is never used. Thomas
