Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Drivers *dropped* between releases? (sis5513.c) | From | Roland Mas <> | Date | Sun, 04 Apr 2004 17:51:37 +0200 |
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Lionel Bouton, 2004-04-03 10:50:08 +0200 :
> Roland Mas wrote the following on 04/03/2004 10:19 AM : > >>[...] >> More relevant info (maybe): I got an old version of the Debian >>installer, which uses an older kernel, and the process goes on >>normally (well, it halts later because the built-in NIC has a stupid >>MAC address, but that's another problem). > > If you can find the time, please check that this old installer > doesn't use the sis5513 driver or DMA transfers. If it does both, > I'd be really interested by the exact kernel version used.
uname -a reports "2.4.22-1-386", although I suppose it's been patched by the debian-installer team. After hardware detection has run and worked (as in, no hangs), sis5513 does indeed appear in lsmod, and "dmesg | grep -i dma" tells me hda and hdc do use DMA.
> If it doesn't, you'd probably found yourself a workaround by > disabling dma at boot time.
I couldn't find out how to do that. I tried booting with a long "linux nodma hda=nodma hdc=nodma ide=nodma idebus=nodma" command-line, but that didn't seem to change much. I also tried disabling everything that looked like DMA in the BIOS setup, to no avail. dmesg still tells me the kernel uses DMA (or maybe I don't understand what dmesg tells me, which is of course entirely possible).
Roland. -- Roland Mas
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