On Sat, Apr 24, 2004 at 15:43 -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > > But it is updated, I see "Starting PC card services" when I run > > hw-detect. Is db_progress fully synchronous? > > The display update could easily have a race.
Then I suspect that this is the case. > > Yes, you're right, I thought he meant whether it was possible to use > > to option on non-i386 machines. I know that there are problems with > > the resource ranges on other archs, but I don't think it causes any > > freezes. > > It's interesting to see that the resource range has been a known problem > since the woody release at least, with nothing done about it. Yeah, I just remembered about the powerpc problem, where the default resource ranges are way off, and I've now sent a mail to debian-powerpc asking about this. Nobody has sent a bug report about it until recently. Or are you talking about the i386 problems? I don't really know what to do about these. In the PCMCIA HOWTO, there is a long [1]list of computers where you have to tweak the resource ranges. Interesting to note, however, is that Redhat by default excludes 0x800-0x8ff (the Dell Inspiron range), 0x380-0x3ff and IRQ 12. Perhaps we should do something similar. The old maintainer's opinion was that we shouldn't modify the upstream defaults. I don't know what consequences there are when you exclude resource ranges. [1] http://pcmcia-cs.sourceforge.net/ftp/doc/PCMCIA-HOWTO-2.html#ss2.5 -- Pelle -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
