on Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 03:04:59PM -0600, James Copland (magus1011@hotmail.com) wrote: > I'm having problems installing Debian on my system. I have the Promise > UDMA66 card, a SiS 6326 video card and an Aureal Vortex 2 AU8830 sound card. > None of these install, nor does my /dev/lp0 even though I know it is ECP, at > 0x378-0x37F and 0x778-0x774 on IRQ 7 and DMA 3. > > I finally worked out how to install. Instead of using floppies and then > typing some, undocumented in the install manual, parameters, I downloaded > the install from hard disk files in the udma66 directory. Once I duplicated > the way they were setup, I could boot to Debian and start the install > process. > > I need to know what drivers to add to my kernel for the above devices. I am > aware that there is no support for the AU8830 other than that at > SourceForge. The Aureal package there says it works on RedHat (6.0 - 6.2 > kernel 2.2.16 and 2.4) and Slackware (7.0 kernel 2.2.16 and 2.4). What are > the chances it will work on Debian? No specific experience with Aureal, but in general, kernal module support is entirely distro *in*dependent. Shouldna matter, guv. > TIA for your help, > James. > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe debian-user-request@lists.debian.org < /dev/null > -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://www.netcom.com/~kmself Evangelist, Zelerate, Inc. http://www.zelerate.org What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org
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