VT8235 Sound, UDMA

Drunken · 01-21-2003, 06:47 AM

Hi Everybody!

I have got a problem with MS9147c motherpoard and VT8235 southbridge!
I hear the voices but it's noisy and crackle !
I can not set the UDMA mode on the MAXTOR 40 GB 7200 RPM winchester?

Could you send me some information about the patch (where,
what, how)

Aussie · 01-21-2003, 08:01 PM

What distro and kernel version do you use?

Drunken · 01-22-2003, 12:24 AM

Hi,

I have got the Suse 8.0 distribution with 4.18-64GB kernel!
Thanks your answer!
Laszlo

Aussie · 01-22-2003, 12:34 AM

You most likely have a 2.4.18 kernel, do "uname -a" to see exactly what kernel version you have.

Drunken · 01-22-2003, 12:57 AM

Hello,

My kernel version is 2.4.18!
(my mistake)

Laszlo

Aussie · 01-22-2003, 01:14 AM

Ok, your southbridge is not fully supported in 2.4.18, you might want to see if Suse have an update to 2.4.20 but you'll probably have to wait for 2.4.21 for full support.

Drunken · 01-22-2003, 01:35 AM

Could you help me that what is download and read because of I can upgrade my kernel!
I found this link ftp://ftp.suselinux.hu/update-8.1/rpm/i586/ what contain the 4.2.19 kernel (kernel-source.rpm)! Is it good?

Thanks

Aussie · 01-22-2003, 01:52 AM

That kernel is for Suse-8.1 and you have Suse-8.0.
The Suse update page for 8.0 is here.

Drunken · 01-22-2003, 03:43 AM

Hi,

I found this update (mirror ftp://ftp.suselinux.hu/pub/suse/i386/8.0/suse/zq1/) but the kernel version is 2.4.18.suse-91.no and It is about 8 MB!

Therefore:
I found the linux-2.4.20.tar.bz2 (source code) kernel and downloaded it from other site Is it about 26 MB!
other site? Do you think will working with it?

Thanks for your help!

Aussie · 01-22-2003, 08:39 PM

Have a look at the Kernel How-To before you build your own kernel, it's not as hard as it sounds if you prepare correctly.

Drunken · 01-23-2003, 12:19 AM

Hello,

I configured the 2.4.20 kernel and build a disk with 'make bzdisk' command! I restarted the system on the floppy.
The computer wrote:
'Not decompressing Kernel! System halted'
Why?
Other:
I wrote 'make xconfig' and I can't found VT8235 chipset on the IDE config! I found VT82CXXX and I picked it! Is it good!
Thanks&Regards
Laszlo

Aussie · 01-23-2003, 12:41 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Drunken
Hello,

I configured the 2.4.20 kernel and build a disk with 'make bzdisk' command! I restarted the system on the floppy.
The computer wrote:
'Not decompressing Kernel! System halted'
Why?

Is that all it wrote?

Quote:

Originally posted by Drunken
Other:
I wrote 'make xconfig' and I can't found VT8235 chipset on the IDE config! I found VT82CXXX and I picked it! Is it good!
Thanks&Regards
Laszlo

VT82CXXX is correct.
So, does this mean that things are working now?

Drunken · 01-23-2003, 12:53 AM

"Is that all it wrote?"
Yes!

"So, does this mean that things are working now?"
The computer isn't working now with 2.4.20 Kernel!

Drunken · 01-23-2003, 01:10 AM

Hi,

I tried the patch ("patch.linux-2.4.18.SuSE") on the KERNEL 2.4.18!
I maked a boot disk with new kernel (make bzdisk)!
Phenomenon:

The computer freezed the boot process with this error message:
"Kernel Panic VFS:Unable to mount root FS on 03:07"
What is your opinion?

Aussie · 01-23-2003, 01:11 AM

Then I think you've missed a step, don't worry, I missed lots of steps when I started building my first custom kernels.
Tell my what steps you did to build the 2.4.20 kernel?
For reference, you can see the method I use here.