tommiy wrote:
>
> To get UDMA working you need to patch the kernel. I've been running the
> patches on an ASUS board for over 6 months with no problems. The patches
> should be folded into 2.4 hopefully. Get them at your local kernel.org
> mirror under
>
> kernel/people/hedrick
>
Thank for the advice! In the Linux Mandrake 6.0 distribution I also got
the UDMA to work fine on my ASUS board. With the new MAndrake 6.1
distribution this particular kernel module is no longer available in the
kernel source and the kernel 2.2.13 is apperently not a standard version
so I haven't succeed in finding a pathc yet.
> Grab those specific for your kernel that you are running. Here they work
> fine.
>
> bay56 wrote:
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Alan Shoemaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Saturday, October 02, 1999 5:17 AM
> > Subject: Re: [newbie] UDMA don't work in 6.1 with Ali Chipset
> >
> > > Ian....oh come on! There's no reason to get this morose over a problem
> > > that has a simple workaround. It was just the removal of a -p option
> > > from one init file that disabled auto-shutdown that solved the problem
> > > being discussed, wasn't it? That seems a paltry item to be so upset
> > > over. As I said before -- sheesh!!!
> >
> > Well if that were the way of it I would agree, but this is not how it
> > happened - I tried the fix (by the letter) and it caused it to fail to get
> > that far. So no, it did not solve it as such. It may be paltry in your view,
> > but it is significant enough to prevent the overall machine from working in
> > it's intended manner.
> >
> > I have learned that if you have a TMC TI5VG+ motherboard with it's MVP3,
> > with an AMD K6-2 CPU then you may expect to have some difficulties which
> > would prevent linux from running properly. Not many can afford to go out and
> > replace motherboard, cpu, videocard, soundcard, and modem, maybe the mouse,
> > and possibly the keyboard and monitor too, purely to run linux - especially
> > when all of those are average modern day contemporary components - it adds a
> > hidden cost to linux, and tends to head it towards eliteist. There is
> > nothing particularly wrong in that, but it may not have the kind of wider
> > appeal the OS may really deserve. It may be quite able, and it may require
> > quite a bit of effort, but it's not reasonable to then suggest an owner
> > might like to start by trashing an entire system. (A system which lets face
> > it can work if the correct functions are within the cabability of a given
> > OS.) This is something which could do with pointing up more strongly that it
> > currently is.
> >
> > So, as a practical approach I will come back to linux either when it can
> > support the hardware I have, or when I can afford to build (and want to own)
> > the kind of all intel machine it seems linux would be happier with. But
> > that's just a practical approach for a given set of circumstances. I can see
> > no other ways forward - that is just practical - do you really see it as
> > morose? Disappointed perhaps.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Ian
> >
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > http://www.zap.to/atelier
> > Or when that server is down go direct to http://www.btinternet.com/~bay56/
