Re: Unable to enable IDE harddisc DMA on VIA KT 880, VIA VT 8237 chipset

[Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>]

"J. Grant" <jg@jguk.org> writes:

> [Please include my email address in any replies]
> So is the solution to load via82cxxx and then ide-generic? it would seem
> so.. I revised my /etc/modules to be like this:
>
> floppy
> ide-disk
> via82cxxx
> ide-generic
> ide-cd
> psmouse
> #sd_mod
> nvidia
>
> Now everything works fine! :) Thanks for the help.  I wonder if this
> could be detected by debian-installer and configured correctly by
> default..? (My install is not latest.. so this might have been fixed)
>
> Kind regards
> JG

It seems to be very module dependent if you need ide-generic or not
and if you want to load it before or after the specific module. Seems
to be a big mess. So there isn't a simple solution like always load
ide-generic last or so.

MfG
        Goswin