Re: OT: Hardware upgrades
On Thursday 15 November 2001 06:40 pm, Erik Steffl wrote:
> that should not matter. the point is that the LILO doesn't even start
> - the bios thinks that you have no bootable disk which can have
> following causes:
I guessed that much. But BIOS sees the partition and LILO is installed in MBR
( boot=/dev/hda ) . What is happening is that for some wierd reason BIOS
doesn't recognize LILO enabled MBR as bootable.
> if it still does not work post your /etc/lilo.conf
That will be the next step, although it is a default one from installation.
> > > > 2. What driver should I use for the sound card?
> > >
> > > what soundcard do you have? Is it the onboard one? ac97 or something
> > > like that is often found on via motherboards, there's a driver for that
> > > chipset for linux (at least alsa), but the sound quality is quite poor
> > > (at least that's my observation and also confirmed by other people on
> > > this list)
> >
> > Yes, I was talking about the internal one.
>
> you can probably use bios to make it look as what it is, as
> soundblaster or disable it. Make sure that you enable it and then use
> lspci to figure out what it is. then check kernel sound modules or alsa
> to see whether the chip is supported. or post output of lspci to this
> list.
Thanx for the tip, lspci makes more readable output than cat /proc/pci
I will see what has to be done as soon as I get home :)
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