The kind of hardware wrangling mentioned below reminded me of an article I read this morning in Information Week
http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=18901660&pgno=1 -Steve ----- Original Message ----- From: "Roy Vestal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2004 10:59 AM Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Speaking of weird hardware problems > 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 > -- 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
