I've had a lot of problems installin Linux Mandrake 7.2 at my friends computer. Sent a mail earlier about a problem with the system being terribly slow, and got a lot of good help on this, but encountered another problem (with might be related?) afterwards. I'll try to get this as specific as I possibly can. Please read on. The first problem I had was that the system was terribly slow, especially when starting X and other stuff that takes up more memory than just bash. I got two suggestions on how to deal with this; the first being to add "append="mem=128M"" in lilo, something that helped cause the kernel seemed to only see 64M. The second was that I should run hdparm to get the disk in 32bit mode and to use dma, I checked and the disk was running in 16bit and with dma turned off. So I fixed both of these problems and everything seemed to run a lot faster(16/no-dma=64M in 17seconds, 32/dma=64M in 3seconds). Then when I tried to install a big rpm from disk2 (hadn't started X yet) the system freezed. I could not do anything at all and the harddisk-light light constantly without the harddisk doing anything (it spinned down and got quiet). After rebooting the disk wasn't detected in the bios, I had to turn off again and then it was detected. I booted up again and tried to start X and kde2, but halfway into starting kde2 it locked again. It seemed after more tests that when there was a lot of activitiy on the disk it locked. I now shut off 32bit and dma on the disk believing that this was the problem, after more tests I found out it wasn't. To make sure this wasn't a hardware problem we afterwards installed first Windows2k (yuck, yeah I know) and then Windows98(even more yuck) and ran extencive tests on both, without getting the same problem. After these tests I decided to try again and installed linux once more but still get the same problem. The specifications on the machine is(it's 2 weeks old btw.): Mainboard: MSI K7T-Pro (http://www.msi-computer.nl/product/mainboard/k7tpro.htm) Processor: AMD Duron 700 MHz Display adapter: ATI Xpert 2000 32MB AGP Memory: 128MB original SDRAM pc100 Harddrive: Fujitsu 20.5GB UDMA/66 I also noticed just before I left that the kernel told me that the bus-speed was set to 33, and that I could override it with idebus= in lilo, could this have anything to do with this? I really appreciate any help that I could get on this, and if you feel that you need some more info, just let me know and I will email it... Ps. when installing mandrake it always gives me the text-install, never the fancy graphical one, is there some problem with the chipset on the display adapter? -- \ Christian A Str�mmen / \ Number1/NumeroUno @ Undernet - Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] / \ Web: www.realityx.net - Cell: +47 911 43 948 / Live your life by your dreams, not by the limits of reality...
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