I have one PCI card, the NIC. The SCSI is an AHA-1520 ISA PnP card. I've got a 2940 around here somewhere, I just didn't want to waist it on a CD tower. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marty Ferguson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2004 10:40 AM Subject: RE: [TriLUG] Speaking of weird hardware problems
> Roy, > > Did you try just swapping around PCI cards into different slots? > The enumeration of the IO space is kind of arbitrary. There are > more sophisticated ways to eliminate these problems, if indeed these > problems are due to PCI bus mastering and priority. But the wrote > approach of just trying different slots untill you get a combination > that works properly is the conventional wisdom. > > Marty > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Behalf Of Roy Vestal > Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2004 9:22 AM > To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list > Subject: [TriLUG] Speaking of weird hardware problems > > > Ok, here's a weird one. > > The LVM machine that I mentioned earilier this week, well, yeah, they gave > me another old box to replace it. So I moved my nic and good drives and scsi > card. I loaded FC1 AND WBEL on this thing. Whenever I went graphical, I'd > loose the mouse and keyboard. > > After many hours/days of pulling hair, rebuilding the os, removing modules, > unloading services, I started trying hardware. I removed the SCSI card > (AHA-1520) that I hang a CD tower off and it worked! I now have graphical > keyboard and mouse! > > Any suggestions? BTW, I'm tossing the card. > > -- > TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ > TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ > TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc > > -- > TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ > TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ > TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc > > -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
