Guest mad_penguin Posted November 12, 2002 Report Share Posted November 12, 2002 what's the difference between mdk kernel 2.4.19 and generic kernel 2.4.19 which you can download from somewhere ? would it be fine if I replace mdk kernel with generic kernel ? My computer with intel 845E/ICH4 chipset is having problem with mdk. (I didn't have the same problem when I installed redhat 8.0.) Installing PCI EIDE card causes kernel panic because mdk kernel can't find my hard drive which is installed on IDE port on board. Without pci card it's fine except for the one error message, "pci:device00:1f.1 not available because of resource collisions". Any help on this ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fuzzylizard Posted November 12, 2002 Report Share Posted November 12, 2002 As far as I know, the differences lie in some of the patches that have been applied to the Mandrake Kernel. As far as I know, you can build your system with the generic kernel and things should work out fine. However, I have never done this, so don't take my word for it. I am not completely familiar with all the patches Mandrake applies to the kernel they ship with their distro. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted November 12, 2002 Report Share Posted November 12, 2002 what's the difference between mdk kernel 2.4.19 and generic kernel 2.4.19 which you can download from somewhere ? Lots and lots of patches. So much so that it's usually hard to apply a patch yourself, depending on the patch and what related patches have already been applied. Where? http://kernel.org/ I'd suggest doing a lot of reading to be sure of what you're doing, then use this http://www.mandrakeusers.org/viewtopic.php?t=967 (except if you have a lot of resources I'd use make xconfig, it's gui in X, menuconfig is console, but just my preference when it comes to kernel compile)with a stock/vanilla kernel from kernel.org, and see how it does. Worry about patches after you got a feel for HOWTO and then patch yourself out. It's really not that hard, IMO. I think people sometimes just aren't patient enough to do the reading and research for their sys. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest 969696 Posted December 5, 2002 Report Share Posted December 5, 2002 Motherboard MSI 845 Max Chipset i845E CPU Pentium 4 à 2.4Ghz I also get ICH4: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev f9 PCI: Device 00:1f.1 not available because of resource collisions ICH4: (ide_setup_pci_device:) Could not enable device. Because of that i also get very low hard drives results. Did you find a solution ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest _Max_ Posted December 13, 2002 Report Share Posted December 13, 2002 Hi, I have an Intel 845G Chipset and have a similar problem. I did a little research on the Intel website, and found this: http://support.intel.com/support/graphics/.../linux/udma.htm Note that it says: ICH4 (used by 845G and 845E) requires kernel 2.5.12 or later to enable any DMA mode 2.5 is an unstable release. I read recently that the stable 2.6 version is supposed to be released in June next year (touch wood). My guess would be that means we have to wait until then before we can use faster transfer modes, although I would prefer to be wrong about this... _Max_ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest 969696 Posted December 15, 2002 Report Share Posted December 15, 2002 i compiled kernel 2.4.20 and it solved all my problems. now my drives are very fast. The warning about the pci troubles remains but everything else is ok Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest _Max_ Posted December 16, 2002 Report Share Posted December 16, 2002 Thanks! 2.4.20 seems to work for me, too - but I also still get error messages. Rumour has it it's some sort of Bios thing. There is a similar sort of discussion going on here, btw: http://www.mandrakeusers.org/viewtopic.php...ighlight=#11048 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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