I am having s strange time on this thing. Linux seems to have
problems with DMA, which makes setting up something like sound a pain.
Have a look at this bit from boot.msg
<6>Intel Pentium with F0 0F bug - workaround enabled.
<4>PCI_IDE: unknown IDE controller on PCI bus 00 device 11, VID=10b9, DID=5219
<4>PCI_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
<4>PCI_IDE: simplex device: DMA disabled
<4>ide0: PCI_IDE Bus-Master DMA disabled (BIOS)
<4>PCI_IDE: simplex device: DMA disabled
<4>ide1: PCI_IDE Bus-Master DMA disabled (BIOS)
<4>hda: IBM-DMCA-21440, ATA DISK drive
<4>hdc: UJDCD6700, ATAPI CDROM drive
<4>ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
<4>ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
Not inspiring, is it? It's running SuSE 6.1 with a 2.2.5 kernel. Now
the BIOS are like nothing I've ever seen. You get the following pages
Time/disks (Normal setup)
Power Management ("Advanced" setup)y
Security setup (Passwords, Boot order etc)
There are no options to shadow the Rom (although it's done), no pci
options, and the BIOS are big enough to have been written by Microsoft!
I did build one kernel with DMA as the default, and it disabled it
altogether in an absolute panic.
BUT WINDOZE HAS NO PROBLEMS WITH DMA
Any ideas?
TIA
Declan Moriarty
