Linux-Hardware Digest #709, Volume #14 Mon, 30 Apr 01 22:13:10 EDT
Contents:
Re: Install freezes on RH 7.1 and Mandrake 8.0 (John)
Re: Install freezes on RH 7.1 and Mandrake 8.0 ("Gerard H. Pille")
linux gpm - mouse ("alik blochin")
red hat7.1 ("alik blochin")
Re: SMP, RH7.1 and Intel -- Can't they all just get along? [Update = what I know so
far] (Hal Burgiss)
Re: red hat7.1 (Hal Burgiss)
mouse wheel ("E. Carrillo")
Re: Switchboxes for keyboard, mice, video? (Keith R. Williams)
WinTV BTTV driver with NO SOUND ("David Leblond")
Re: 386 weirdness :( (Jay Copeland)
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Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 22:20:25 +0100
From: John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Install freezes on RH 7.1 and Mandrake 8.0
You seem to have a partition table configured to use a 255 head geometry
on your boot drive, but not be using this translation in the BIOS. I've
seen a Red Hat installation freeze in these circumstances.
I doubt it's the corrent answer, but it might be :-)
John.
Steve Bradtke wrote:
>
> I have a problem installing either RH 7.1 or Mandrake 8.0.
>
> In either case, installation never really starts. I'm
> allowed to choose installation mode, after which the initial
> boot system is loaded from the CD ROM and the hardware
> system is checked over. However, when it comes time for the
> installation utility to come up, the system just hangs. For
> example, in Mandrake 8.0 installation, I finally get a
> message about drinking eggs and welcome to linux
> mandrake. Then the system completely freezes. Selection of
> any other installation mode, such as expert or rescue, all
> lead to a freeze up at the same point.
> hda: WDC WD102BA, 9779MB w/1961kB Cache, CHS=19870/16/63
> hda: [PTBL] [1027/255/63] hda1
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Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 23:32:59 +0200
From: "Gerard H. Pille" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Install freezes on RH 7.1 and Mandrake 8.0
Steve Bradtke wrote:
> I have a problem installing either RH 7.1 or Mandrake 8.0.
>
> In either case, installation never really starts. I'm
> allowed to choose installation mode, after which the initial
> boot system is loaded from the CD ROM and the hardware
> system is checked over. However, when it comes time for the
> installation utility to come up, the system just hangs. For
> example, in Mandrake 8.0 installation, I finally get a
> message about drinking eggs and welcome to linux
> mandrake. Then the system completely freezes. Selection of
> any other installation mode, such as expert or rescue, all
> lead to a freeze up at the same point.
>
> I had no problems at all installing RH 7.0 or Mandrake 8.0
> on the same system. I`m using an Abit VP6 dual processor
> motherboard, with 2 P-III 800`s, 3 HDD`s (windows installed
> on 1), a cdrom, and a cd-rw. Using an SB Live sound card,
> and an Asus AGP-7100 graphics card.
>
> On the theory that it might be useful, I've appended the dmesg
> log from a successful boot into Mandrake 7.2
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated!
>
> Thanks,
>
> Steve
>
> ====================================================
> Steven Bradtke [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> ====================================================
>
> Linux version 2.2.17-21mdksmp ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 2.95.3
>19991030 (prerelease)) #2 SMP Wed Mar 7 21:18:45 EST 2001
> Intel MultiProcessor Specification v1.1
> Virtual Wire compatibility mode.
> OEM ID: OEM00000 Product ID: PROD00000000 APIC at: 0xFEE00000
> Processor #0 Pentium(tm) Pro APIC version 17
> Processor #1 Pentium(tm) Pro APIC version 17
> I/O APIC #2 Version 17 at 0xFEC00000.
> Processors: 2
> mapped APIC to ffffe000 (fee00000)
> mapped IOAPIC to ffffd000 (fec00000)
> Detected 798691 kHz processor.
> Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
> Calibrating delay loop... 1592.52 BogoMIPS
> Memory: 256828k/262080k available (1252k kernel code, 424k reserved, 3064k data,
>140k init, 0k bigmem)
> Dentry hash table entries: 32768 (order 6, 256k)
> Buffer cache hash table entries: 262144 (order 8, 1024k)
> Page cache hash table entries: 65536 (order 6, 256k)
> VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_6.4.0 initialized
> CPU serial number disabled.
> Checking 386/387 coupling... OK, FPU using exception 16 error reporting.
> Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
> POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
> mtrr: v1.35a (19990819) Richard Gooch ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
> CPU serial number disabled.
> Intel machine check architecture supported.
> Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
> per-CPU timeslice cutoff: 49.97 usecs.
> CPU0: Intel Pentium III (Coppermine) stepping 06
> calibrating APIC timer ...
> ..... CPU clock speed is 798.6781 MHz.
> ..... system bus clock speed is 133.1128 MHz.
> Booting processor 1 eip 2000
> Calibrating delay loop... 1595.80 BogoMIPS
> CPU serial number disabled.
> Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#1.
> OK.
> CPU1: Intel Pentium III (Coppermine) stepping 06
> Total of 2 processors activated (3188.33 BogoMIPS).
> enabling symmetric IO mode... ...done.
> ENABLING IO-APIC IRQs
> init IO_APIC IRQs
> IO-APIC (apicid-pin) 2-0, 2-16, 2-17, 2-18, 2-19, 2-20, 2-21, 2-22, 2-23 not
>connected.
> number of MP IRQ sources: 16.
> number of IO-APIC #2 registers: 24.
> testing the IO APIC.......................
>
> IO APIC #2......
> .... register #00: 02000000
> ....... : physical APIC id: 02
> .... register #01: 00178011
> ....... : max redirection entries: 0017
> ....... : IO APIC version: 0011
> WARNING: unexpected IO-APIC, please mail
> to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> .... register #02: 00000000
> ....... : arbitration: 00
> .... IRQ redirection table:
> NR Log Phy Mask Trig IRR Pol Stat Dest Deli Vect:
> 00 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
> 01 000 00 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 59
> 02 0FF 0F 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 51
> 03 000 00 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 61
> 04 000 00 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 69
> 05 0FF 0F 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 71
> 06 000 00 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 79
> 07 000 00 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 81
> 08 000 00 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 89
> 09 000 00 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 91
> 0a 0FF 0F 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 99
> 0b 0FF 0F 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 A1
> 0c 000 00 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 A9
> 0d 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
> 0e 000 00 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 B1
> 0f 000 00 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 B9
> 10 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
> 11 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
> 12 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
> 13 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
> 14 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
> 15 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
> 16 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
> 17 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
> IRQ to pin mappings:
> IRQ0 -> 2
> IRQ1 -> 1
> IRQ3 -> 3
> IRQ4 -> 4
> IRQ5 -> 5
> IRQ6 -> 6
> IRQ7 -> 7
> IRQ8 -> 8
> IRQ9 -> 9
> IRQ10 -> 10
> IRQ11 -> 11
> IRQ12 -> 12
> IRQ13 -> 13
> IRQ14 -> 14
> IRQ15 -> 15
> .................................... done.
> checking TSC synchronization across CPUs: passed.
> mtrr: your CPUs had inconsistent variable MTRR settings
> mtrr: probably your BIOS does not setup all CPUs
> PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfb3a0, last bus=1
> PCI: Using configuration type 1
> PCI: Probing PCI hardware
> Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.2
> Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
> NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0 for Linux NET4.0.
> NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
> IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP
> TCP: Hash tables configured (ehash 262144 bhash 65536)
> Initializing RT netlink socket
> Starting kswapd v 1.5
> Detected PS/2 Mouse Port.
> Serial driver version 4.27 with MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ enabled
> ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
> ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
> pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
> apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x07 (Driver version 1.13)
> apm: disabled - APM is not SMP safe.
> Real Time Clock Driver v1.09
> RAM disk driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size
> Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.30
> ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
> VP_IDE: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39
> VP_IDE: chipset revision 6
> VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
> VT 82C691 Apollo Pro
>
> Split FIFO Configuration: 8 Primary buffers, threshold = 1/2
> 8 Second. buffers, threshold = 1/2
> ide0: BM-DMA at 0xc000-0xc007, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio
> ide0: VIA Bus-Master (U)DMA Timing Config Success
> ide1: BM-DMA at 0xc008-0xc00f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio
> ide1: VIA Bus-Master (U)DMA Timing Config Success
> HPT370: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 70
> HPT370: chipset revision 3
> HPT370: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
> ide2: BM-DMA at 0xe800-0xe807, BIOS settings: hde:DMA, hdf:pio
> ide3: BM-DMA at 0xe808-0xe80f, BIOS settings: hdg:pio, hdh:pio
> hda: WDC WD102BA, ATA DISK drive
> hdb: WDC AC35100L, ATA DISK drive
> hdc: CD-ROM 56X, ATAPI CDROM drive
> hdd: Hewlett-Packard CD-Writer Plus 9500, ATAPI CDROM drive
> hde: IBM-DTLA-307045, ATA DISK drive
> ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
> ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
> ide2 at 0xd800-0xd807,0xdc02 on irq 11
> hda: WDC WD102BA, 9779MB w/1961kB Cache, CHS=19870/16/63
> hdb: WDC AC35100L, 4924MB w/256kB Cache, CHS=10672/15/63
> hde: IBM-DTLA-307045, 43979MB w/1916kB Cache, CHS=89355/16/63, UDMA(100)
> hdc: ATAPI 56X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache
> Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.11
> hdd: ATAPI 32X CD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 4096kB Cache
> Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
> FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
> md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MAX_REAL=12
> raid5: measuring checksumming speed
> raid5: MMX detected, trying high-speed MMX checksum routines
> pII_mmx : 1807.083 MB/sec
> p5_mmx : 1842.135 MB/sec
> 8regs : 1387.602 MB/sec
> 32regs : 818.388 MB/sec
> using fastest function: p5_mmx (1842.135 MB/sec)
> scsi : 0 hosts.
> scsi : detected total.
> md.c: sizeof(mdp_super_t) = 4096
> Partition check:
> hda: [PTBL] [1027/255/63] hda1
> hdb: [PTBL] [627/255/63] hdb1 hdb2 < hdb5 hdb6 >
> hde: [PTBL] [1027/255/63] hde1
> RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
> autodetecting RAID arrays
> autorun ...
> ... autorun DONE.
> VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
> fa311.c:v1.51 Netgear FA311 Fast Ethernet Driver
> word0=200
> word1 =9e3
> word2 =6dc7
> eth0: bus=0 func=88 io=0xd400 irq=10 ver=3.2
> eth0: ethernet addr=00:02:e3:09:c7:6d
> autodetecting RAID arrays
> autorun ...
> ... autorun DONE.
> VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
> change_root: old root has d_count=1
> Trying to unmount old root ... okay
> Freeing unused kernel memory: 140k freed
> Adding Swap: 522072k swap-space (priority -1)
> scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices
> scsi : 1 host.
> eth0: speed=10 duplex=half link=up
Maybe they freeze when going into X for the rest of the installation. Check the IRQ's
on boot, no conflict between the HPT370 and your
graphics card, eg? I also see RAID5 mentioned. Did you do anything raidy with your
disks for which the installation kernels would not be
prepared?
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From: "alik blochin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: linux gpm - mouse
Date: Tue, 1 May 2001 00:33:46 +0200
hi,
recently i installed the latest linux mandrake 8.0
and had encountered some problems:
1) i can't use the mouse wheel (i have MS Intelli mouse)
although linux has identified my mouse as standard
PS2 mouse
i know there is some package gpm ,
but the package has been installed properly
i am not shure it has something to do with the problem
so how do i remedy this ?
in linux mandrake 7.2 it worked perfectly....
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From: "alik blochin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: red hat7.1
Date: Tue, 1 May 2001 00:36:44 +0200
by the way has somebody tried Red hat 7.1 ?
is it in some ways preferreble over mandrake 8.0 ?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hal Burgiss)
Subject: Re: SMP, RH7.1 and Intel -- Can't they all just get along? [Update = what I
know so far]
Reply-To: Hal Burgiss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 30 Apr 2001 17:46:55 -0400
On Mon, 30 Apr 2001 13:17:07 -0600, Steve Wolfe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Indeed
>>
>> append="noapic"
>> in /etc/lilo works.
>
> Interesting - I didn't have to do that. If I recall, doesn't that give
>you a performance hit? Maybe we should compare configs to see if you can
>get it to work without the "noapic".
I've run both ways, never benchmarked anything, but I could not tell the
difference on home desktop/small LAN type setup.
--
Hal B
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hal Burgiss)
Subject: Re: red hat7.1
Reply-To: Hal Burgiss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 30 Apr 2001 18:07:21 -0400
On Tue, 1 May 2001 00:36:44 +0200, alik blochin
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>by the way has somebody tried Red hat 7.1 ?
A few people have...
>is it in some ways preferreble over mandrake 8.0 ?
Not a clue. I guess it might depend on your specific needs and
interests. Roughly speaking, Mandrake is a little more desktop oriented.
RH more workstation/server oriented.
--
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From: "E. Carrillo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: mouse wheel
Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 16:08:35 -0700
I got a quick question, Is there a way to enable the mouse wheel to scroll
the windows in KDE 2 or linux in general? I'm using a standard PS/2 mouse
with a scrolling wheel and I really want to use it in linux. I got SuSe
7.1, if that's important to determine if the wheel will work or not.
Thanks.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Keith R. Williams)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips
Subject: Re: Switchboxes for keyboard, mice, video?
Date: Tue, 01 May 2001 00:46:52 GMT
On Sun, 29 Apr 2001 00:13:59, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jonadab
the Unsightly One) wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Keith R. Williams) wrote:
>
> > > I Use the keypad itself. The others are
> > > redundant and pointless. They keypad has everything
> > > you need, cursor-movement-wise, except a ctrl key,
> > > which would be nice to have, preferably where the
> > > thumb can hit it while your other four fingers are
> > > resting on left, center, right, and Enter. (Right
> > > about where the stupid non-keypad right arrow is.)
> >
> > The numeric keypad multiplies the problem with shift-lock
> > into the num-lock space.
>
> Numlock? Disable it. Who needs it? There are numbers
> on the keyboard itself. The only time I ever use Numlock
> is when I'm adding a column of numbers, and usually even
> then I don't bother with it.
..and how does one disable it, in all circumstances/OSs?
Actually, I find thhe numeric keypad right up there next to
useless. I do use the cursor board though. Habits and all.
> > The keyboard drawers at work are strange. In the new digs we
> > were allowed to cusomize our "ergonomics". The keyboard
> > drawer I picked for my main system has a riser for the mouse
> > that I thought I'd hate (so I added a mouse drawer beside
> > it). Actually I like both. The mouse riser sits above the
> > numeric keys and I rest my arm on the "mouse drawer".
> My keyboard sits on my bed or on my lap. My mousepad
> sits on a book, which sits on my bed. This, of course,
> is at home. At work I'm seldom at any one computer
> long enough at a time to worry about ergonomics.
Well, I do 10-12 hours a day, either here (home) or at work.
After 30 years of this stuff you will learn to appreciate
good posture, good environment, and fewer hassles. ...ok,
two out of three ain't bad! ;-)
>
> > > Come to think of it, if you took out those stupid
> > > redundant cursor keys and moved the keypad back
> > > adjascent to the rest of the keyboard where it
> > > belongs, Ctrl _is_ in that position. The XT
> > > keyboard actually has the 101-key layout beat
> > > in this respect.
> >
> > Wouldn't that be a PC keyboard?
>
> Pretty much.
I thoght so! ;-) I'd still rather they mover the PF keys
back where God intended them to be!
> > I'd prefer the F-keys back over where the numeric
> > keypad is now.
>
> Some keyboards come with separate keypads. The
> Avant Stellar has the function keys along the left
> edge, like on an XT keyboard:
>
> F1 F2
> F3 F4
> F5 F6
> F7 F8
> F9 F10
Ack! I *HATED* the PC PC/XT keyboard! Where is my PF12 key
when I need it!
> Some people claim this is where God Intended Them
> To Be, but I'm not adamant about that point.
No, God intended them to be where the numeric keypad is now.
A 3x4 matrix is right there in the Bible, though I'd think
about expanding this to a "New Testament".
> > it's my 3270 training.
>
> Is that 3270 as in TN3270? Wow, I haven't
> telnetted into one of those since college.
> I've never seen one in person. What OS do
> they run?
It's before your time. ;-) If you think an IBM PC
keyboards is heavy, you haven't a clue! ;-) A 3270
keyboard weighs as much as a small PC.
Yes, TN3270 is a 3270 terminal emulator (as in TelNet 3270).
----
Keith
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From: "David Leblond" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: WinTV BTTV driver with NO SOUND
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.mandrake
Date: Tue, 01 May 2001 01:28:59 GMT
I have tried everything I have seen in this newsgroup to get my WinTV to
have sound, but so far nothing has worked. I am not getting any sound
through my Line Out jack on my TV card, so it is not the mixer itself.
Here are my current settings.
(from info kernel log)
Apr 30 21:04:05 localhost kernel: tvaudio: TV audio decoder + audio/video mux driver
Apr 30 21:04:05 localhost kernel: tvaudio: known chips:
tda9840,tda9873h,tda9850,tda9855,tea6300,tea6420,tda8425,pic16c54 (PV951)
Apr 30 21:04:05 localhost kernel: bttv: driver version 0.7.57 loaded
Apr 30 21:04:05 localhost kernel: bttv: using 2 buffers with 2080k (4160k total) for
capture
Apr 30 21:04:05 localhost kernel: bttv: Host bridge needs ETBF enabled.
Apr 30 21:04:05 localhost kernel: bttv: Bt8xx card found (0).
Apr 30 21:04:05 localhost kernel: bttv0: Bt878 (rev 2) at 00:0d.0, irq: 10, latency:
64, memory: 0xeb002000
Apr 30 21:04:05 localhost kernel: bttv0: subsystem: 0070:13eb => Hauppauge WinTV =>
card=10
Apr 30 21:04:05 localhost kernel: bttv0: model: BT878(Hauppauge new (bt878)) [insmod
option]
Apr 30 21:04:05 localhost kernel: msp34xx: init: chip=MSP3430G-A1, has NICAM support
Apr 30 21:04:05 localhost kernel: bttv0: i2c: checking for MSP34xx @ 0x80... found
Apr 30 21:04:05 localhost kernel: bttv0: i2c: checking for TDA9875 @ 0xb0... not found
Apr 30 21:04:05 localhost kernel: bttv0: i2c: checking for TDA7432 @ 0x8a... not
found
My lsmod:
Module Size Used by
tvaudio 8272 0 (unused)
parport_pc 18736 0 (autoclean)
emu10k1 44064 1
tulip 37216 1 (autoclean)
usb-uhci 22048 0 (unused)
nls_iso8859-1 2864 6 (autoclean)
nls_cp850 3616 6 (autoclean)
bttv 54736 1
tvmixer 3680 1 (autoclean)
soundcore 4016 5 (autoclean) [emu10k1 tvmixer]
msp3400 13360 1 (autoclean)
tuner 4256 1 (autoclean)
i2c-algo-bit 7264 1 [bttv]
i2c-core 13424 0 [tvaudio bttv tvmixer msp3400 tuner i2c-algo-bit]
videodev 4800 2 [bttv]
ide-scsi 8016 0
scsi_mod 61136 1 [ide-scsi]
My modules.conf:
pre-install pcmcia_core CARDMGR_OPTS=-f /etc/rc.d/init.d/pcmcia start
alias usb-interface usb-uhci
alias sound-slot-0 emu10k1
alias scsi_hostadapter ide-scsi
alias eth0 tulip
alias char-major-81 bttv
pre-install bttv modprobe -k tuner; modprobe -k msp3400; modprobe -k tvaudio;
modprobe -k videodev
post-install tvaudio modprobe -k tvmixer
options bttv card=10
options tuner type=2
options tvaudio
That is all I can think to post, can anyone tell me why it doesn't work?
Oh yeah, just in case it helps, when the TV apps open they make a pop in the
speakers. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
I am running kernel 2.4.4. -David
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From: Jay Copeland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 386 weirdness :(
Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 21:49:46 -0400
don't know about your other problems, but when i was setting up novell
3.x servers i used 320 irq 10.
jay
Chris Howells wrote:
>
> I'm trying to set up a D-Link DE-220 ISA network card in my old 386, but
> am failing miserably...
>
> The card is configured using a DOS based program which can disable PnP,
> and manually set interrupts, I/O values, etc.
>
> I set about trying to find a I/O rang IRQ which was free under Linux. I
> tried several values in the 220-240 range, and when in Linux, I found
> that these all seemed to be in use.
>
> So I went back to the DOS utility, changed it to I/O 200 (I think), and
> seem to have totally messed up the system. I now can't get back into the
> setup.exe utility -- it complains that the card isn't found, or the base
> I/O is in use.
>
> It also seems to have messed up my hard disks -- rather than booting
> properly now, the machine simply goes past the POST, and sits beeping
> (at a rate of about 1Hz). If I disable the first HD in the BIOS (and
> only leave the second one enabled), then it no longer beeps. Is it
> possible that I could have somehow managed to mess up that hard disk
> (and 80MB Western Digital)? It seems highly unlikely...
>
> While trying to fix the problems with the HD, I have created another
> problem -- if the IDE CD-ROM cable is connected to the sound card (as it
> usually is), the screen doesn't turn on (it's an on board WD90c1 chip
> IIRC).
>
> Needless to say, I'm sure all power cables/IDE connectors are properly
> secured.
>
> All of this sounds totally unfeasible to me. Any ideas at all?
>
> Cheers,
>
> --
> Chris Howells
> E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> ICQ: 93699029
> Web: http://www.chowells.uklinux.net
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