I have been tinkering around with Caldera for some time.. And at the time all of my hardware was about 2 years old so I had no problem with anything being autodetected.. now I have just put together a new system and was wondering on how I should set things up.. I was planning on setting up gentoo on my new system... I have had limited success with gentoo on my other computers (mainly the fact it takes forever to compile on a cel 466)
New system
http://www.giga-byte.com/products/8ihxp.htm
Gigabyte 8ihxp
Onboard Rtl 8100BL chipset (LAN)
Onboard Realtek ALC650 (sound)
Onboard Promise PDC20276
p4 2.53 533
512 pc1066
West Digi 120 8 Meg
ASUS V9280/TS TI4200 (runnig dual monitors - 17 and 21 inch both mag)
My weak point in linux is the hardware setup and config... So I figure up messing around with gentoo on this system would be very informative... Any help would be apretiated... I am not currrently using the Onboard Raid but I will in the future... My cheep easy workaround for the main problem esp needing a nic for gentoo to build.. Was just to disable the sound and lan pop in a SB live and a 8139 nic and go to town.. But I would like to maybe do a dual boot and still there is the hurdle of the video card and the RAID coltrola! :O)
Also I have a Epson c82 and a visioneer onetouch 7600.. IF you have tinkered with those in linux any help would be apretiated!
Once again any help would be greatly apretiated.
Tony
I was searching the posts.. And I found this....
Can ya help me make sense of it??
With the assistance of other user posts, I was able to overcome the lack of detection of my board's (Gigabyte 8IHXP, Intel 850e chipset) built-in Realtek 8139 Lan card when installing Gentoo 1.4. As others have noted, the Realtek 8139 is not detected correctly during the CD-ROM boot. As another user pointed out, the work around seems to be adding ACPI=off to the gentoo boot options.
For some reason, the on-board Realtek 8139 is detected by Gentoo 1.4 as an 8390, and there is no network connection.
I was able to overcome this by manualy running ismod and installing the 8139too driver. (I know this is the correct driver because I have Xandros running, which is kernel 2.4.19, and it loads the 8139too module for the Realtek). With the 8139 module loaded, ADSL networking was up and running.
Hope this helps someone during the install process.
Gigabyte 8IHXP MOBO ASUS TI4200 DUAL MON
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Gigabyte 8IHXP MOBO ASUS TI4200 DUAL MON
Last edited by tony4818 on Mon Mar 24, 2003 2:27 am, edited 2 times in total.
Re: Gigabyte 8IHXP MOBO ASUS TI4200 DUAL MON
Hardware setup in Linux is mostly setting up the kernel correctly (configure most things as modules unless they're needed at bootup).
You then need to specify which modules need to be loaded, in Gentoo you do this in /etc/modules.autoload. Add the names of the modules to load without the .o extension. If you don't know the name of a module check /lib/modules/<kernel version/kernel/drivers
That's about it really, if you're lucky the drivers will work fine. Onboard stuff can be a pain in the rear.
You then need to specify which modules need to be loaded, in Gentoo you do this in /etc/modules.autoload. Add the names of the modules to load without the .o extension. If you don't know the name of a module check /lib/modules/<kernel version/kernel/drivers
That's about it really, if you're lucky the drivers will work fine. Onboard stuff can be a pain in the rear.
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G. Jones
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the promise controller pdc20276 is supported by the linux-kernel since version 2.4.19. read this changelog.
in my kernel configuration it looks like this:
the sound card is AC97 compatible and can be easy activated in/with alsa.
for the network: i can't help you with this one.
cheers
SteveB
in my kernel configuration it looks like this:
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IDE, ATA and ATAPI Block devices
PROMISE PDC202{68|69|70|71|75|76|77} supportfor the network: i can't help you with this one.
cheers
SteveB