Re: Hardware woes - Cry for help from a Linux noob !
From: Vlad (miles123_at_gmx.de)
Date: 05/27/04
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Date: 27 May 2004 04:09:01 -0700
Hi,
> First of all, both SUSE and Mandrake won't work with the Raid controller.
> Suse tells me that it is a Softraid and not supported by 2.6 Kernel. Well,
> I would be willing to swap out the Fasttrak for a hardware raid controller
> if this would help. Any ideas anyone?
How was the RAID created ? Is it a SW RAID ? Well either you find
Linux drivers that support Soft RAID created by Win or better,
take a HW RAID Controller.
> Second, Sound, won't work right in both distros. No sound at all in
> Mandrake, erratic workinga and scratch sounding in Suse (Card is detected
> as Audigy but not Audigy 2 ZS)
SuSE: Did you check the Volume Setting?? It may be that the volume
is simply *muted* !!!!
Mandrake: This can be a conflict between the KDE Mixer and the ALSA
Mixer. I suggest you to take a look on follwing Link for possible fix:
http://groups.google.com/groups?dq=&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&threadm=ca4ebee9.0405260603.5e2b620e%40posting.google.com&prev=/groups%3Fdq%3D%26num%3D25%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26group%3Dalt.os.linux.suse%26start%3D50
It's in this mailing List. Tread called: 9.1 upgrade loud piercing
noise at boot
Last replay dated 26 of May 2004.
> Third, my ATI Radeon 9800XT. I run it with 2 monitors attached in windows,
> and really need that in Linux too. So I went to ATI's website and
> downloaded their Linux drivers. After some trying around (and installing
> additional packegs) I could install the driver successfully in SUSE (At
> least the install routine told me so). After running the fglrxconfig
> utility and rebooting the system is running very slow. The Ati
> configuration utility that comes with the driver won't start. Also, looking
> into JAST (also tried to redetect the card) my card is always found to be a
> "ATI R960 NJ (radeon)" and not a 9800XT. Also can't select a 9800 manually
> (no such option). Has anyone a 9800XT running sucessfully under ether SUSE
> 9.1 or Manrake 10.0. Any Ideas what I might have done wrong? BTW, JAST also
> tells me that I don't have two monitors attached. Obviously this is untrue.
> Now that the driver is installed, I can move the mouse pointer from one
> screen to the other, but both screens display the exactly the same desktop
> icons etc. (can only click on them on the first monitor though)....
Well ATI R960NJ is *not* the Video Card but it's the Chipset of the
card.
Nothing wrong with that. The most importnat thing for the driver is
the Chipset and not the Card Type. Many card types usually use same
chipsets.
SuSE:
You can configure multiple Display devices but *not* with YAST.
Use *instead* sax2 So start in SuSE sax2 (so type in a console window:
sax2).
Then it's self explaining.
I *strongly* suggest that you deinstall the ATI drivers !!
I had have had a *LOT* of problems with the original ATI Driver and
SuSE!!!
Check following site for possible updates:
http://www.suse.de/us/private/download/x11/index.html
> My Agfa Snapscan Touch Scanner works in Mandrake, but not in Suse. Suse
> hasen't a Snapscan touch listed in the avaliable scanner drivers to choose
> from :-(
>
> Printer works fine in both distros.
>
> My two external HD's are both formatted with NTFS at the moment. Mandrake
> detects them, but can't mount them. In Suse I can mount them, but for Suse
> they are both empty. I thought NTFS read was supported? Is this not the
> case, or am I doing something wrong? I would format them with EXT3 or
> Reiser later, but I would need to at least read them in Linux to transfer
> my data.
Is the ntfs driver compiled into the kernel or is it a module ?
If it is a loadable module check if the module is loaded ?
You can mount a ntfs drive manually by:
mount /dev/hdXY -t ntfs /mnt/windowsX
Here X is the diskdrive on which the NTFS partition resides
(In Linux they are annotated as hda, hdb) and Y is the
partition on the particular disk.
fdisk -l is very usefull to find those informations, mentioned above.
By the way: How are those drives attached. Via USB ?
Do you have the USB modules uhcu/ohci or ehci loaded.
How do you mount those drives ???
> So, that's about the worst of my problems at the moment. I really want to
> love Linux, and enjoy working with KDE and Gnome, both seem nice and
> logical to me. I also like the Linux Software I have tried so far, and
> would really like to make the switch. I am prebard to relearn stuff and als
> sacrifice some old comforts for the sake of getting into Linux but I won't
> buy all new hardware. I probably would switch one or two items, but not all
> of them.
>
> So any help anyone could give me would be very much apricciated,
Since you are new in Linux I suggest you take a look on follwing sites
and lists. They are very good.
For SuSE
http://portal.suse.com/sdb/en/index.html
http://portal.suse.com/sdb/en/history/index.html
http://portal.suse.com/PM/page/search.pm
http://portal.suse.com/sdb/en/categories/index.html
http://www.suse.com/us/private/support/online_help/mailinglists/index.html
For Mandrake:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=30
General:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=8
Hope this helps,
Vlad!
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