On 10/8/07, Nathaniel Dube <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sunday 07 October 2007 21:40, Muhammad Rivai wrote: > > On 10/8/07, Nathaniel Dube <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > It would seem I'm not the only one having the same problem. > > > > > > http://www.suseforums.net/index.php?act=ST&f=20&t=39625 > > > http://www.suseforums.net/index.php?act=ST&f=20&t=39621 > > > > I've trying with another computer with SATA harddisk and OpenSUSE 10.3 > > installed very well. It looks like that sata_sis driver has broken, > > and the problem occured with this driver only. > > > > Vavai > That's what I figured. If this was Windows I would just download a driver > that worked.
Not always the case. If the vendor or MS do not release a driver for your hardware, (think Vista about 6 or 7 months ago) then you are S.O.L. until one gets released. > Because the driver's in Linux are modules of the kernel I have > no idea how to fix something like this. You would think the kernel > developers would find an easier way so us simple users could easily upgrade > or replace broken drivers. But noOoo! Adding additional modules to kernel to support your hardware is not that difficult. If you were able to follow instruction on how to find registry settings and tweak dword's in windows, then you should be fine with kernel moldules. plus, it's much more fun! :-) Check some posts online, google ng's, there are many really handy HOWTO's on kernel compiling. -- cheers, dg <a href="http://opensuse.org";><img style="border: 0px solid ; width: 80px; height: 15px;" alt="openSUSE.org" title="openSUSE.org" src="http://files.opensuse.org/opensuse/en/6/6e/Suselinux-green.png"; /></a> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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