Bug#250677: more info needed
On Sat, Jun 12, 2004 at 12:42:59PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> Finn-Arne Johansen wrote:
> > I found the bastard :)
> > It's the triflex driver. loading everything else except the triflex
> > solves the problem.
> > My next question is, would it be possible to do a lspci , and by
> > default only load the drivers that are found (like it does on scsi),
> > and then if things still fails, load the others. leaving out triflex
> > from beeing autoloaded will sure hurt some people.
>
> I don't know if lspci has enough info to tell what ide chipset drivers
> are needed, or not. The failure modes if they're loaded are generally
> things like disk read/write errors or hangs though, and the inability to
> load more of them after the ide-probe module is loaded makes it harder
> too.
I dont either, but I'm thinking maybe it would be a better approach to
preload the needed, and if that fails, give the user a choice of loading
the needed herself. I know a lot of people would have given up the
process I went through. The reason i continued, was that i found that
it worked with woody, but I rely needed a thin-client server in my
Skolelinux test lab.
> Especially because you seem to have a triflex controller.. Of course
> maybe the triflex driver is not needed to avoid problems like thse I
> described, and only turns on DMA or something else, and does a bad job
> of it. If so we could just skip it.
Yes I have a triflex controller. But the triflex module is not listed
in the modules.pcimap. SO meybe we should leave the triflex out ?
> One other problem is that AFAIK the standard debian initrd (in sarge,
> maybe you're doing skolelinux/woody stuff though) loads all of
> these drivers unconditionally, just like d-i does, so even if it's fixed
> in d-i the installed system may be unable to boot.
I'll test a sarge CD on the box later. I think I did an upgrade on the
box the other week, but maybe i didn't make a new initrd. BUt the
initrd from skolelinux loads the module. I have not tested if it works
with the module loaded. I'll check download 686-smp, and restart and
check .
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Finn-Arne Johansen
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http://bzz.no/
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