Afternoon:
I have an HP Netserver LH3 at home. It has a Pentium II 350 Mhz
processor, and a 128 MB of RAM. The Netserver comes with a built-in video
board and, although not bad, I want to use a Matrox Mystique PCI card that
I have. I also bought a new PCI 512 SoundBlaster sound card and I want to
see if I can get that working too. Finally, as this is my router and
connection to the Internet, I have 2 3Com Etherlink 10/100 Ethernet cards
in the machine.
I've been working on this for the past couple of days, reading and trying
to fine tune and get working everything in the machine. The first thing I
did was go to the BIOS on the machine and make sure that I hard-coded the
IRQ's for the actual cards I have in the machine. I have the 4 PCI cards
mentioned above, and set them as:
Ethernet 0 - IRQ 5
Ethernet 1 - IRQ 11
Matrox Video - IRQ 9
SoundBlaster - IRQ 10
The machine also comes with 2 embedded SCSI controllers, and I only have
one active at the moment, SCSI B. This I hard-coded to IRQ 15. Finally,
there is an IDE CD-ROM drive, the IDE device in the system, and it sits on
IRQ 14.
Well, I installed Linux on the machine with no difficulty. I'm using Red
Hat 6.1, and all of the latest updates have been applied. After booting
up the machine, I looked at 3 files in /proc:
Results from cat /proc/interrupts:
CPU0
0: 17060 XT-PIC timer
1: 113 XT-PIC keyboard
2: 0 XT-PIC cascade
5: 93 XT-PIC eth0
8: 1 XT-PIC rtc
10: 21 XT-PIC megaraid
11: 0 XT-PIC eth1
12: 0 XT-PIC PS/2 Mouse
13: 1 XT-PIC fpu
14: 4 XT-PIC ide0
15: 16083 XT-PIC sym53c8xx
NMI: 0
Results from cat /proc/pci:
PCI devices found:
Bus 0, device 0, function 0:
Host bridge: Intel 440BX - 82443BX Host (no AGP) (rev 2).
Medium devsel. Master Capable. Latency=64.
Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0x0 [0x8].
Bus 0, device 4, function 0:
ISA bridge: Intel 82371AB PIIX4 ISA (rev 2).
Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. Master Capable.
No bursts.
Bus 0, device 4, function 1:
IDE interface: Intel 82371AB PIIX4 IDE (rev 1).
Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. Master Capable.
Latency=32.
I/O at 0xfcb0 [0xfcb1].
Bus 0, device 4, function 2:
USB Controller: Intel 82371AB PIIX4 USB (rev 1).
Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. IRQ 11. Master
Capable. Latency=32.
I/O at 0xfce0 [0xfce1].
Bus 0, device 4, function 3:
Bridge: Intel 82371AB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 2).
Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable.
Bus 0, device 7, function 0:
PCI bridge: Intel i960 (rev 3).
Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. Master
Capable. Latency=56. Min Gnt=7.Max Lat=2.
Bus 0, device 7, function 1:
Unknown class: Intel Unknown device (rev 3).
Vendor id=8086. Device id=1960.
Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. BIST
capable. IRQ 10. Master Capable. Latency=32.
Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xfc000000 [0xfc000008].
Bus 0, device 8, function 0:
PCI bridge: DEC DC21152 (rev 2).
Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. Master
Capable. Latency=57. Min Gnt=7.Max Lat=2.
Bus 0, device 9, function 0:
VGA compatible controller: Matrox Mystique (rev 3).
Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. IRQ 9.
Master Capable. Latency=32.
Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xfd000000 [0xfd000008].
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xfedf0000 [0xfedf0000].
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xfe000000 [0xfe000000].
Bus 0, device 10, function 0:
Multimedia audio controller: Unknown vendor Unknown
device (rev 5).
Vendor id=1102. Device id=2.
Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. IRQ 10. Master
Capable. Latency=32. Min Gnt=2.Max Lat=20.
I/O at 0xfcc0 [0xfcc1].
Bus 0, device 10, function 1:
Input device controller: Unknown vendor Unknown
device (rev 5).
Vendor id=1102. Device id=7002.
Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. Master Capable.
Latency=32.
I/O at 0xfca8 [0xfca9].
Bus 0, device 11, function 0:
System peripheral: Hewlett Packard Unknown device (rev 160).
Vendor id=103c. Device id=10c1.
Slow devsel.
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xfedf8000 [0xfedf8000].
Bus 0, device 13, function 0:
VGA compatible controller: Cirrus Logic GD 5446 (rev 69).
Medium devsel.
Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xfa000000 [0xfa000008].
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xfedf7000 [0xfedf7000].
Bus 1, device 4, function 0:
Ethernet controller: 3Com Unknown device (rev 116).
Vendor id=10b7. Device id=9200.
Medium devsel. IRQ 5. Master Capable. Latency=80. Min
Gnt=10.Max Lat=10.
I/O at 0xec00 [0xec01].
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xfdfff800 [0xfdfff800].
Bus 2, device 2, function 0:
Ethernet controller: 3Com Unknown device (rev 116).
Vendor id=10b7. Device id=9200.
Medium devsel. IRQ 11. Master Capable. Latency=80. Min
Gnt=10.Max Lat=10.
I/O at 0xdc00 [0xdc01].
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xfdeff800 [0xfdeff800].
Bus 1, device 7, function 0:
SCSI storage controller: NCR 53c895 (rev 1).
Medium devsel. IRQ 15. Master Capable. Latency=247. Min
Gnt=30.Max Lat=64.
I/O at 0xe800 [0xe801].
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xfdfff400 [0xfdfff400].
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xfdffe000 [0xfdffe000].
Results from cat /proc/ioports:
0000-001f : dma1
0020-003f : pic1
0040-005f : timer
0060-006f : keyboard
0070-007f : rtc
0080-008f : dma page reg
00a0-00bf : pic2
00c0-00df : dma2
00f0-00ff : fpu
01f0-01f7 : ide0
02e8-02ef : serial(auto)
02f8-02ff : serial(auto)
03c0-03df : vga+
03f6-03f6 : ide0
03f8-03ff : serial(auto)
dc00-dc7f : 3Com EtherLink PCI NIC
e800-e87f : sym53c8xx
ec00-ec7f : 3Com EtherLink PCI NIC
fcb0-fcb7 : ide0
Ok. The first thing I saw in here was something about a USB controller,
or something to that effect. Well, I looked on the back of my machine,
and I do not have any USB ports.
The next thing I wanted to do was to get the Video card working with X.
So, I ran Xconfigurator to try and create my settings, and it sees the
built-in controller, not the Video Card I have installed. I talked to the
folks at HP, and they said that there were no jumpers to change or
anything for using an alternate video source than the bult-in controller.
Further, there is nothing in the BIOS that refers to disabling or turning
off the on-board controller. The technician from HP simply said for me to
put the new controller in, and it would work. How do I get X configured
for my new card? I'm afraid to start up X, for fear that I might do some
damamge to either the card or my monitor.
Next, I see the sound card listed, so I ran sndconfig. After all was said
and done, sndconfig said that my card wasn't supported. Anyone else have
any luck getting this card to work?
Both my Ethernet cards appear to be working just fine. I have an Internet
connection, and my internal network works. I show no reported problem
with errors or collisions.
Any help that can be offered would really be appreciated. If I've left
anything out, or more information is needed, please ask.
- Mike
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