A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > Here are the relevant (and not so relevant but interesting) > lines from a dmesg run, 'phro (and thanks for the reply). If there > are any other relevant lines or files, I'll spew those, too. During > the kernel config process, I found no driver clearly defined for this > chipset (not ALi 15xx, but only 14xx drivers), so I installed a > generic one. ...any ideas? > > --------------------------------------------- > Detected 451041303 Hz processor. > Calibrating delay loop... 901.12 BogoMIPS > CPU: AMD AMD-K6(tm) 3D processor stepping 0c
Not an error, just a diagnostic telling you what it found > > PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xf0560 > PCI: Using configuration type 1 > PCI: Probing PCI hardware Ditto + telling you what it's doing > > PCI_IDE: unknown IDE controller on PCI bus 00 device 78, VID=10b9, DID=5229 The PCI ID tables in the kernel doesn't recognize the IDE controller. Nothing to worry about. > PCI_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later Not a problem - one of my Pentium servers says that, and it has 40 day uptimes. > PCI_IDE: simplex device: DMA disabled > ide0: PCI_IDE Bus-Master DMA disabled (BIOS) > PCI_IDE: simplex device: DMA disabled > ide1: PCI_IDE Bus-Master DMA disabled (BIOS) The kernel doesn't know how to enable DMA on the IDE controller. You need to patch the kernel - check the linux-kernel archives for a patch relating to the ALi 1542. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Phil Brutsche [EMAIL PROTECTED] "There are two things that are infinite; Human stupidity and the universe. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
