On 2 Jun 2004, at 21:08, adam@thebowery.co.uk wrote:
You mentioned the nforce chipset, I don't know which revision you have but last year at work I was given an nforce 1 based board which wouldn't allow me to enable DMA whatever I tried. Which kernel version do you have? I note that the latest linux kernels 2.4.26 and 2.6.6 have an option under the IDE drivers menu for "AMD and nVidia IDE support" I would presume you need this driver enabled to get DMA working (unless of course you have a different IDE controller but then to find out what it is then you will need lspci and I don't know how you will get this with Gentoo)
I recommend trying out 2.6.6 (Okay, I'm incredibly insane when it comes to 2.6.. I like to be on the bleedin' edge of everything!!)
do: emerge sys-apps/pciutils to get lspci :)
Craig.