Here's a complete shot in the dark for more suggestions. I'd play with
the IDE BIOS settings. I think you have options like having the
IDE/SATA drives combined or having them separate. I don't have an Intel
mobo on hand to see exactly what the settings are called or possible
values, but somewhere under the IDE chipset settings, I think the
options are IDE, SATA, and IDE/SATA. Play with the different values and
see if you can make it work. As I understand the theory, SATA CDROM
drives aren't supported very well in Linux, and if the mobo chipset
reports to Linux that it's acting as a SATA CDROM drive, it won't work.
I came across a similar problem this spring building a D930 system on a
975X chipset.
As for the video settings, I'd assume that if you can get the proper ATI
drivers (assuming there are linux drivers available for that model), you
should be able to get a decent resolution. The last time I tried
building a linux box with an ATI video card, it wasn't supported yet so
I turned around and bought an nVidia card.
Good luck.
--Ron
Charles Fischer wrote:
No questions here, just a warning or admitting I do not know what I am
doing.
On Wednesday of this week I went to Intrex in Chapel Hill and bought
all the parts I needed for a shinny new Intel Core 2 Duo box. The
mother board is an Intel DG965wh, with a 2.13 GHz Core 2 Duo (E6400),
two GB no name DDR2 RAM, 320 GB Seagate SATAII hard drive, NEC DVD
burner, case, keyboard and mouse. I have a Sharp LCD monitor and an
old ATI Radon X800 based video card to use in the new machine. This
is the first Intel Inside box I have built in a long time. I have
been using AMD products from when Intel came out with the Pentium 4.
I burned a copy of Ubuntu 6.06.1 LTS (Dapper Drake) and started to do
an install. The system would hang on uncompressing the Linux kernel.
So I grabbed my Fedora Core 5 DVD and it hung as well. Now it is time
for a sanity check. I loaded a copy of Windows XP Pro, without
problems. I also loaded a copy of Windows Vista RC1. Vista also
loaded (what a -- never mind).
Now I know the computer works, but Linux is giving me problems. I
downloaded and burned Fedora Core 6 test 3 (version 5.92) and tried an
install. Same problem as Core 5 had. The next step was praying to
Google. I loaded the newest mother board BIOS and tried Ubuntu and
Fedora 5.92 again. There was no change in the Ubuntu install. I got
past the hang using Fedore 5.92 (I have not tried 5 again), but the
install could not find the DVD. I thought this was odd being it
booted off of the DVD. After more Google praying, I bought a
USB/Firewire external DVD drive. Booting from the USB DVD got me
through the 5.92 install after a couple of tries (if I selected the
options I wanted, the install would hang). I now have Linux up and
running, but I cannot use the DVD that is connected to the mother
board's IDE port, and X is only working in 640x480.
If somebody has better luck please let me know. If somebody needs
help to get this far, let me know.
Later
Charles Fischer
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