Re: Installing Sarge on Dell Inspiron 9400
Hi,
Thank you. It seems libata is compiled as a module in Kenshi Muto's
custom installer (he is using a stock debian kernel from unstable).
I confirm this by "find /lib/modules/2.6.15-1-686-smp/ -name *ata* -print"
which shows :
/lib/modules/2.6.15-1-686-smp/kernel/drivers/scsi/libata.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.15-1-686-smp/kernel/drivers/scsi/ata_piix.ko
among others. Also the kernel config file in /boot shows
CONFIG_SCSI_SATA=m
CONFIG_SCSI_ATA_PIIX=m
So I did create a file /etc/modutils/libata with content :
add options libata atapi_enabled=1
and ran update-modules.modutils which did add the required
line :
add options libata atapi_enabled=1
to /etc/modules.conf
However on rebooting the problem persists. Your identification
of the problem seems to be right on target (thank you) as dmesg
shows me :
ide0: I/O resource 0x1F0-0x1F7 not free.
ide0: ports already in use, skipping probe
ide1: I/O resource 0x170-0x177 not free.
ide1: ports already in use, skipping probe
Does this mean I have to prevent ide-core, ide-disk, ide-cd modules
form loading. Can I use modutils for this ? Could you kindly point
me to any docs on how it is done ? (I can recompile my kernel only
after I have a reasonable debian install with kpkg). In general
what must one read to understand all the details about modules,
initrd images etc ?
I did try looking in the bios if there was any option to turn of
ide compatibility mode for the cd/dvd. I could find none. The bios
seems to be very minimalistic compared to those I was familiar with
from a few years ago. There are very few things that can be changed.
regards
b thomas
On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 03:48:09PM -0600, Stefan Srdic wrote:
> Cool, yesterday there was a user who basically had the same problem that
> you now face. Read the following post:
>
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-laptop/2006/05/msg00007.html
>
> It should cover most of your questions ;)
>
> Post back here if you need more help.
>
> Stefan
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