* Derek Broughton <derek_broughton@hotmail.com>, 2002-05-13 07:22 -0400: > From: "Andre Berger" <uzscd5@uni-bonn.de> Hi Derek! > > installing potato (don't want woody yet) on it. The stock kernel > > Why not? There's no good reason to avoid woody. Potato is way too old, > now. I'm a stability freak :) > > 2.2.19 hangs at the initialization of the md (raid) driver, so I > > installed 2.2.19-idepci. > > Absolutely correct. And this is the only good reason for using potato at > all - the 2.2.19-idepci kernel is the one I had the least trouble with. > 2.4.16-586 in Woody worked ok, too. Everything else has had to be majorly > tweaked by me. > > > Which boots, but doesn't seem to have i810 or ipx/ncpfs support... > > I don't know about ipx/ncpfs, since I haven't tried them (though I have > compiled kernels with ipx built in, so the support is there), but i810 is > only fully supported (using agpgart) on the 2.4 kernels. Which is probably true. However, I've compiled my own kernel now (w/o SCSI, md, raid, w/ ipx, ncpfs, agpgart, i810 support) and it works for me. > > Is it possible to pass a kernel option or something so > > that md does not load with the stock kernel 2.2.19? > > Possibly, but it isn't going to fix your i810. It's fortunately working now. > > Has anyone a working configuration for XFree < 4 for this machine? It > > would be xserver-svga then, wouldn't it? > > There is no such beast. You can get vga mode on XFree 3.x, but save > yourself the hassle and install woody. Good advice, but too late. Xfree 3.3.x is theoretically possible using the "i810gtt" kernel AGP timimg patch from Intel (i810gtt-0.1-6.src.rpm) in conjunction with Intel's "XFcom_810" server. Did not do that to myself though but installed XFree86 4.1 for potato... :) Thanks! -Andre
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