I hit something like this before: I solved it by pulling one card and
removing all the config settings, and then carefully reinstalling it with
kudzu. Lazy, I know, but why worry if it works?
What's happening is that the sound card was not correctly identified as
such; I used get these messages dropping out of X telling me that this weird
card had been found, and please e-mail some guy in Mandrake. Do you have them?
I did, e-mail him & he talked me into installing some rpms, which
brought out a lovely problem with rpm, as it didn't recognize my AMD '586. This
was only a '486 at heart, I'm now told, so rpm said it was a '486. It
nevertheless ran '586 code very well :-}. Just like the K6 is a i586 at heart,
and runs i686 code quite happily, except for kernels. I then solved the 300 or
so dependency problems, and was asked for the readout of the pnpdump program I
had just put in. That was all he wanted.
Mandrake has gone the road of making Linux configuration automatic -
and brougt in many of the problems of this nature. I would prefer an advice
centre saying where to look your problem up, or how to hack it, A course on
Perl by e-mail, and train us all to be capable of hacking our own systems from
a console. If people can master a system, they'll stay with it. But many
windoze users try linux, find it as inscrutable as the Oracle at Delphi, and
get fed up; they are lost to linux for the foreseeable future.
--
Regards,
Declan Moriarty
Applied Researches - Ireland's Foremost Electronic Hardware Genius
A Slightly Serious(TM) Company
Good judgement comes from experience; experience comes from bad judgement.
On Mon, 02 Apr 2001, stuart simpson wrote:
>
> ok in windows, you goto the control panel and change the irq's if there is a
>conflict. Since there doesn't seem to be a similar way to do this in mandrake, what
>configuration files do I change? Can I change this with configuration files?
>
> using mandrake 8.0 beta 1
>
> my apparent problem:
>
> according to: cat /proc/pci
>
> my sndblaster live uses irq 10
> my matrox g400 uses irq 11
>
> when I install mandrake, I can't get the hpt 366 on board udma "card" ( on
>motherboard )
> to work -- computer crashes upon bootup. It also uses Irq 11
>
> so I turned off the hpt 366 card in the bios temporarily, and then installed
>mandrake, worked ok
> then I was hoping to be able to enable the hpt 366 in the kernel 2.4.2 in order for
>it to work. ( i assumed this was the reason for the crashing )
>
> I went to check the kernel settings, and hpt 366 in the newer kernel is enabled by
>default, and it is shown as detected in the bootup, but after detection, it crashes.
>
> so I am assuming the fact that the video card (agp) uses irq 11, and the hpt
>channels use irq 11 ( 2 of them ) is the conflict that crashes my computer upon
>booting.
>
> what I'd like to do:
>
> move snd card to irq 5
> move video card to irq 10
>
> then the hpt366 can work ok on irq 11
>
> or simply move the hpt 366 to irq 5?
>
>
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