paul Posted April 29, 2003 Report Share Posted April 29, 2003 has anyone had experience with one of these? GIGBYTE GA-8SIMLH http://tw.giga-byte.com/MotherBoard/Produc...s_GA-8SIMLH.htm I've been trying for days to get any sort of linux on it but nothing works I read here that it works with the 2.2 kernel :unsure: whats up with that? can anyone help? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aru Posted April 29, 2003 Report Share Posted April 29, 2003 It seems that it might work with kernels prior to 2.4.18 I'm sure you've already seen these links: http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/linux/linux-kern...03-08/0904.html http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kern...04753309548&w=2 since they are aware of it, they'll solve the problem (soon?) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul Posted April 29, 2003 Author Report Share Posted April 29, 2003 yep I have read those :-( it seems that it will work with 2.5.x kernels too :huh: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest anon Posted April 29, 2003 Report Share Posted April 29, 2003 :huh: Your right, i am getting old, what on earth does that emoticon "huh" mean :?: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DragonMage Posted April 29, 2003 Report Share Posted April 29, 2003 :huh: Your right, i am getting old, what on earth does that emoticon "huh" mean :?: Hey, we have new emoticons and nobody told me about it? That's not fair. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul Posted April 29, 2003 Author Report Share Posted April 29, 2003 damn it ... 2 new posts to my thread ... I thought somebody might have solved my problem :blush: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ramfree17 Posted April 30, 2003 Report Share Posted April 30, 2003 Hey, we have new emoticons and nobody told me about it? That's not fair. you could have clicked the more emoticons link whenever you post a reply or compose a new post. :P but i also did not know it until this thread. and i posted here to heckle paul one more time. its too good to let it pass. ciao! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DragonMage Posted April 30, 2003 Report Share Posted April 30, 2003 Anyway, Paul, what is exactly the problem? You cannot get it to install or just a problem with some particular hardware? I know I cannot get my NForce2 MB to install in SuSE 8.2 unless I use the safe mode of installation (which passes noapic and nodma line into the boot). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul Posted April 30, 2003 Author Report Share Posted April 30, 2003 it seems to be a problem with APIC acpi or both :-( linux boots ... installs, but none of the pci cards works (including onboard lan) ... the onboard lan is Realtek 8100L but is detected as 8139too if I disable the onboard lan and put in a network card (I've tried a davicom tulip based card and a proven 8139 realtek) the cards in the pci bus don't work either :unsure: infact ifconfig reports the mac address as 00:00:00:00 :shock: very spooky :!: I cannot figure out how to turn off acpi or APIC in the bios, and altho' I pass pci=noacpi APIC=no .. the kernel still loads acpi and apic stuff I really don't want to resort to winblows :-( I'm a windows free home so far :wub: and would like to stay that way Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest fubar::chi Posted April 30, 2003 Report Share Posted April 30, 2003 I pass pci=noacpi APIC=no .. the kernel still loads acpi and apic stuff isn't it supposed to be noapic and acpi=no :?: remember ACPI and acpi aren't the same (CAPS, no caps) :mystismiles: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul Posted April 30, 2003 Author Report Share Posted April 30, 2003 :blush: :blush: shut you lot !!!! no no just shut up now !!!!! .... :blush: :blush: as paul reads the manual for his motherboard, and fixes his problem Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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