Linus Drouhard wrote: >Hi all, > I have following this list for some 8 or 9 months now and have obtained a >lot of useful advice and tips. I'm now operating what is close to becoming a >boat anchor. I have an AMD K6-2 running at 420 MHz in an ASUS P5A >motherboard. Most everything else is standard, SB16, Nvidia TNT2, 160MB Ram, >two 20 Gig Maxtor drives, Ricoh CD-RW and generic CD-reader. I have been >fighting a weird problem the last couple of weeks. I loaded MD 8.2 and >really liked it, but could not get a printer installed. Whenever I ran >PrinterDrake, it asked me for Disc 1 and tried to install something. My >computer would freeze solid during install, responding only to the reset >button. I tried a fresh reinstall of MD 8.2. Same. Tried a fresh install >of 8.1. Froze during the install. Civileme suggested a bad CD. I burned a >new one. Same. I tried installing from a different CD-drive. Same. I >pulled my soundcard and every other "non-essential" card and disk drive. I >was able to reinstall MD 8.2. I ran PrinterDrake. It wanted to install some >package again (CUPS and Foomatic, I believe). Out of frustration, I just hit >"cancel" and you guessed it, it worked! I now have a printer. I thought I >was home free. Remember the soundcard I pulled? I reinstalled the card and >tried to run "soundcfg". Not there. I ran software manager. Froze. Solid. > > >At this point, I'm at a loss, other than tying it to a boat. Any >suggestions? Has anyone had good experiences with an ECS K7S5A motherboard? > >Thanks for bearing with my rantings and ramblings. Even if I don't figure it >out... I feel better. > >Linus > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > The ECS K7S5A is high performance, but before 8.2 was little better than a boat anchor itself.
With 8.2 you need to do some tweaks: 1. edit /etc/modules.conf and find the line that starts alias sound-slot-0 pcm-snd-i8x0.... and delete it and the line following it. then put in this line alias sound i810_audio and save the file. Don't bother with your SB 16 card for this machine. The onboard sound is good once you get past the misconfiguration for/by ALSA. The SiS 900 should set up properly from the beginning, so you will have networking. Even a Duron 750 will make this look like a speed demon, along with all the RAM you can cram (use either SDRAM _XOR_ DDR, but not both), and it is neat if you have two IDE drives and RAID0 most of your partitions except /boot and /--very blindingly fast with 8.2. Civileme
Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
