[linux-help] Re: Linux has errors on setup

[james <james@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday 23 September 2002 20:46, you wrote:
> Let me know where the trash can is that you will be throwing the hard
> drive into.  I could put it to good use and running RedHat 7.3 too.
>
> I have had intermitten problems with installing RedHat on larger hard
> drives (>40gb) and I am not sure as to why.  I have almost the same
> hardware that you have, but I am not doing a dual boot system.  I have
> reinstalled and have been able to get it straightened out.  Some of the
> techs at work have been running into simular problems.  We installed
> RedHat on a combo mobo and XWindows wouldn't load.   After the techs
> reinstalled a couple of times, they finally decided to choose another
> video chipset than RedHat 7.3 was saying that it was and it worked, they
> were able to launch Xwindows.
>

What chipset was it, and what was redhat saying it was?

> I was extremely happy that some of the techs at work have been doing
> linux installs and using linux for web surfing and using Pan, my
> favorite program.  We use Pan to download our favorite music and listen
> to music while we work.  Things are looking better all the time.
>
> Then they were trying to find the Device Mangler.  I couldn't find a
> device manager of some sort on linux either.  I was able to find System
> Information, but couldn't find details as to what video , sound, NIC,
> modem, scsii cards and what IRQ's they are using.  Any  ideas?  ~Anne
>

cat /proc/interrupts

should give something like:
           CPU0
  0:     318046          XT-PIC  timer
  1:       9619          XT-PIC  keyboard
  2:          0          XT-PIC  cascade
  8:          1          XT-PIC  rtc
  9:          0          XT-PIC  EMU10K1
 10:     281271          XT-PIC  usb-uhci, eth0
 11:     267635          XT-PIC  nvidia
 14:      33216          XT-PIC  ide0
 15:         31          XT-PIC  ide1
NMI:          0
ERR:          0

some of which are easy to figure out.

or lspci -v
which will give something like:
<snip>
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV6 [Vanta] (rev 15) 
(prog-if 00 [VGA])
        Subsystem: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 0001
        Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 248, IRQ 11
        Memory at fd000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
        Memory at f2000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=32M]
        Expansion ROM at fe9f0000 [disabled] [size=64K]
        Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 1
        Capabilities: [44] AGP version 2.0
<snip>

for all devices on the pci bus(es). (Generally more information here, than is 
available under windows, especially lspci -vv, which will give all of the 
capabilities the card reports via standard pci identification)


> Jami wrote:
> >That didn't work either.  I have tried on two different sets of RH 7.3,
> > and still getting different errors  I guess that means that it is
> > useless, and I need to get a new HD, and throw that one away?
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
>
> From: "bruce" <bbales@xxxxxxx>
>
> >To: <linux-help@xxxxxxxxx>
> >Sent: Sunday, September 22, 2002 7:18 PM
> >Subject: [linux-help] Re: Linux has errors on setup
> >
> >>When you start the install, you get a page of options.  I
> >>believe the first one is "Press enter for a graphic
> >>installation."  One of the other choices is to type in "expert"
> >>as I recall.  Don't do that.  Type "linux mem=256m" and hit
> >>enter.  By the way, you said in your first post you had 512k of
> >>DDR memory - I assume that is 512M.
> >>

Unless there is some problem with linux detecting memory, NEVER enter mem= I 
have heard that doing that will cause problems if linux is detecting the 
memory correctly.

Basically, just hit enter, don't worry about mem= or even typing linux, 
unless you know what you are doing, because the way redhat does it the expert 
option disables all sorts of auto-probing, so you (in terms of figuring out 
hardware) might as well be using Debian (at least one of the older ones, like 
last release, haven't tried woody)


> >>Later in the install, you will be offered the opportunity to
> >>partition the disk with disk druid or let RedHat do it.  I
> >>would suggest one or two GB of swap and split the remainder of
> >>the disk about equally between "/"  and "/home", for
> >>simplicity.   I would use ext3 filesystem, rather than the
> >>older ext2 for / and /home; the swap filesystem will be "swap."
> >>120gb will take a while to format.
> >>
> >>Write down your root password.
> >>
> >>Good luck,
> >>bruce

<snip>
 
James L
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