Help redhat 7.3 on IBM t40

gerade · 05-30-2004, 09:13 AM

Hi guys,

I bought a brand new IBM t40 and tried times to install redhat 7.2 7.3 8.0 on it, but failed?

for 7.2 7.3, I can install but Xwindows cannot work!!
I thought the problem is because of the graphic card. ATI Mobility Radeon 9000.

for redhat 8.0, after booting from the CD, message " cannot find harddisk" showed

any solution to this?

thanks and regards!

(the reason for install 7.3 or 8.0 is that some EDA tools only support 7.3 or 8.0, no higher version)

gerade · 06-01-2004, 10:19 PM

nobody has same or similar problem before????

please, give me some advices!

bball · 06-02-2004, 08:06 AM

http://gatos.sf.net/

in the above site,you may find ATI linux driver.

I have installed redhat7.3 and slackeare9.1 in my IBM T40-72U.

because the version of XFree is 4.2.0,I have to install linux driver or update XFree86 to
4.3.0 in order to support my graphics card.(ATI radeon 7500 mobility)

PS: Are you IC designers?

bball · 06-02-2004, 08:18 AM

http://www.ati.com/support/drivers/l....y=4&submit=GO!

in the above site,you can download driver for MOBILITY™ RADEON™ 9000

gerade · 06-10-2004, 10:33 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by bball
http://gatos.sf.net/

in the above site,you may find ATI linux driver.

I have installed redhat7.3 and slackeare9.1 in my IBM T40-72U.

because the version of XFree is 4.2.0,I have to install linux driver or update XFree86 to
4.3.0 in order to support my graphics card.(ATI radeon 7500 mobility)

PS: Are you IC designers?

thank you very much,

I will install 7.3 again next week. these infomation will be very helpful

to you question, yes, I am a IC designer for Front end, but starting with back end.

regards

bball · 06-12-2004, 11:10 AM

Redhat7.3 can not enable DMA on (kernel 2.4.18-3) , so when you copy files,it is very slow.

however,slackware9.1 can enable DMA on (kernel 2.4.20)

slackware9.1 can surport many eda tools that work in redhat7.3 sucessfully!

gerade · 06-13-2004, 06:45 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by bball
Redhat7.3 can not enable DMA on (kernel 2.4.18-3) , so when you copy files,it is very slow.

however,slackware9.1 can enable DMA on (kernel 2.4.20)

slackware9.1 can surport many eda tools that work in redhat7.3 sucessfully!

thank you very much, this will be extremely fabulous

did you try magm@, this is one of my concern, because I tried knoppix before, but fail because the compatible lib problem with Red hat 7.3

I will try slackware out on my laptop.