Re: [expert] Mandrake 9.1 on Dell Inspiron 5150

Rolf Pedersen Thu, 31 Jul 2003 07:22:18 -0700

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Eric Fesler wrote:

On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 23:38, Thomas Backlund wrote:

Viestiss� Keskiviikko 30 Hein�kuu 2003 23:23, Eric Fesler kirjoitti:

Hi,

I just installed Mandrake 9.1 on a Dell Inspiron 9.1 and I've got
several issues:

I'm using the kernel linux-2.4.21-0.13mdkenterprise

1�) The harddisk is really slow : hdparm shows a transfer rate of
3.5Mb/s

I tried to activate the dma using the command:
hdparm -c1d1 /dev/hdc

and I got the following output:
/dev/hdc:
setting 32-bit IO_support flag to 1
setting using_dma to 1 (on)
HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted
IO_support   =  1 (32-bit)
using_dma    =  0 (off)

2�) If I switch ACPI on in lilo.conf, the PC just freeze after having
loaded the kernel
I trued to recompile without APM and without APIC but then the PC reboot
after having loaded the kernel

Any ideas how I can solve those issues. Issue 1 is the most important up
to now.


get the latest security update kernel:
linux-2.4.21-0.25mdkenterprise

and try again ;-)

Thomas

______________________________________________________________________

I did it already and I've got the same message.

I try with a 2.4.20 kernel (from kernel.org) and there it works !! (but
I have some hardware issues).

Is there an issue with DMA in 2.4.21?

--Eric


One thing that occurs to me is that some hard drives, Western Digital,
for instance, are flagged in the kernel wrt some issues.  For example:

$ rpm -q --changelog kernel-2.4.21.0.17mdk | grep -i wd
  * put another WD disk in the ide-dma black list.

Some rationale:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=mandrake-cooker&m=101648329727381&w=2

You might try a search on your problem, specifying your hardware, at
http://www.groups.google.com

Rolf

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Re: [expert] Mandrake 9.1 on Dell Inspiron 5150

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