Hiyer everybody Gentoo is beginning to look great on my cube, I managed to download all the required sources, I have X with nvidia drivers working, nforce drivers working too. I do have a slight problem with disks though. When I boot the machine dma is turned off, and attempts to turn it back on are dissallowed thus:
hdparm -d 1 /dev/hda
/dev/hda: setting using_dma to 1 (on) HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted using_dma = 0 (off)
Any ideas? is my IDE driver not quite right? Incidentally anybody know what I have to emerger to get lspci?
Cheers for the help
Charles
On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 08:33:37PM +0100, Charles Garcia-Tobin wrote:
Gentoo is beginning to look great on my cube, I managed to download all the required sources, I have X with nvidia drivers working, nforce drivers working too. I do have a slight problem with disks though. When I boot the
Any ideas? is my IDE driver not quite right? Incidentally anybody know what I have to emerger to get lspci?
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)
Adam
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.
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)
Adam
Cheer's Adam, that worked a treat, dma is now on!
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