Tobias wrote: > Hello, > > i have new hardware in my pc. Therefore exists new problems. The > graphiccard will not work correctly. > > HW: > CPU:AMD Athlon64 4000+ > Mainboard:Asus A8R-MVP > HDD: 160GB SATA > graficcard: Sapphire Radeon X1900GT (ATI) PCIe > > OS: Debian/Sarge > actually using kernel 2.6.18.2-amd64 > want to use kernel 2.6.20 > Xserver: Xfree86-4.3.0 > > For using this hw with Debian/Sarge, i have to use a Sarge-costum-BootCD, > which is using the kernel 2.6.18-2-amd64. > Other Debian/Sarge products wouldn't work with the SATA controller on > board. > > After installing Debian/Sarge with kernel 2.6.18-2 i want to use KDE, > but the graficcard is unknown for this version. > Therefore, i want to use the actually ati driver 8.33.6. > But it is not able to install this driver on this operating system. > During in the installation, it stopps without any hints. > > I think, it could be the wrong kernel, which i am now using. > Downloading the new kernel from kernel.org, compiling and installing are > without any errors. Now, if i use this kernel after restart the system > can't be running. Systemboot stopps on using RAMDISK. > Change in the /etc/mkinitrd/mkinitrd.conf the MKIMAGE from CRAMFS to > genromfs. New installing, same error: > RAMDISK: romfs filesystem found at block 0 > RAMDISK: loading 13428KiB [1 disk] into ram disk... done. > No filesystem could mount root, tried: cramfs > kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on > unknown-block(0,0) > > 1. How can i compile and install the new kernel? > 2. it is possible to use the ati driver for the old kernel and how does it > fit? > > br > Tobias Hi Tobias, You might want to think about installing Etch rather than Sarge or even Sid. You can find the ATI drivers for the Radeon X1900 series here: http://ati.amd.com/support/drivers/linux64/linux64-radeon.html This should run with the 2.6.18 kernel. Cheers, Jonathan
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