Michael Erskine writes:
> For the desktop machine I booted from the CD (my BIOS allows this) and
> initially went for the proffered upgrade path but had trouble squeezing the
> packages I need onto the 2Gb HDD due to some annoying package dependencies
> (such as 10mb of Kanji fonts required by a font rendering library (I forget
Wow. I have *all source code* as well as binaries in about 2Gigs.
> 3rd Question: Redhat 7.1 attempts to do hardware detection each boot - is
> common on all distros?.
Yes. Its a feature of the linux kernel, not the distribution.
Unfortunately, if I remember correctly, pnp negotiations happen
before linux gets a look in, and may be impossible for linux to
change later.
> [...] It has gotten confused about my SCSI card and my
> soundcard (SoundBlaster 16) somewhere along the line but I guess it is just
> responding to pnp info from somewhere. I'd like to fix this but my old
> method of adding module options in modules.conf seems to be complicated by
> this new feature. Sound is nadged right now - my usual technique of running
> the console app "sndconfig" and supplying the IRQ/DMA/IO vals didn't do the
Do you get pnpdump/isapnp in your distribution?
It can tell you the values of IRQ/DMA/IO that the BIOS agreed with
your pnp cards at bootup and (in conjunction with modules.conf)
ensure that linux uses the same values.
> trick although it played the samples correctly.
Do you mean the soundcard played some sound samples correctly?
If so, what exactly isn't working?
> I haven't touched the server yet - since its in constant use - I'm waiting
> until I find a simpler distro. Any suggestions?
I've not seen anyone suggest Slakware yet, as a good distribution
for minimal/hand-crafted setups. It certainly used to be a year or
two ago.
Ted.
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