Adding the list back in this reply ....
At 11:56 AM 6/4/00 -0400, S�amus Mag Uiginn wrote [in part]:
>>Important hint: a setserial probe of a device will ALWAYS return an irq and
>>io port, whether or not there is a real port there (as long as your kernel
>>has serial-device support running). But unless you have explicitly defined a
>>UART type for the device, a probe will return an actual UART type only if it
>>finds a real, physical port associated with that device's irq and IO base.
>
>Ok, having said that....when I do it on ttyS2 where my serial card is (or
>should be considering that the on-board comm ports are ttyS0 and ttys1) it
>reports back finding a 16550 instead of the 16750 thats on the board.
Well ... unless something is adding that setting during boot/init (check for
this with "grep setserial /wherever_Mandrake_puts_init_scripts/*"), the
device is really there but setserial is detecting the wrong UART type. In
that case, you can certainly try setting the UART type by hand and seeing if
it works; you have nothing to lose. (Did you verify that setserial finds
UARTS on S0 and S1. BTW? If not, how do you know for sure that the onboard
comm ports are there?)
>>(There is no intrinsic reason why a 486DX4-100 can't run a GUI, BTW -- does
>>yours suffer from memory limitations or odd video?)
>
>I was going by what the Mandrake 7 box said....it says it requires a
>Pentium to run the gui. THe old 486DX4-100 box I have has an older #9
>graphics card (4MB I think) and I forget how much ram....probably not more
>than 16 or 32MB
This may be a limitation specific to Mandrake. I seem to recall that
Mandrake has a lot of Pentium optimization in it -- some of its packages may
be compiled to use Pentium-specific calls.
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