On Sat, Jun 12, 2004 at 12:42:59PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Finn-Arne Johansen wrote: > > I found the bastard :) > > It's the triflex driver. loading everything else except the triflex > > solves the problem. > > My next question is, would it be possible to do a lspci , and by > > default only load the drivers that are found (like it does on scsi), > > and then if things still fails, load the others. leaving out triflex > > from beeing autoloaded will sure hurt some people. > > I don't know if lspci has enough info to tell what ide chipset drivers > are needed, or not. The failure modes if they're loaded are generally > things like disk read/write errors or hangs though, and the inability to > load more of them after the ide-probe module is loaded makes it harder > too.
I dont either, but I'm thinking maybe it would be a better approach to preload the needed, and if that fails, give the user a choice of loading the needed herself. I know a lot of people would have given up the process I went through. The reason i continued, was that i found that it worked with woody, but I rely needed a thin-client server in my Skolelinux test lab. > Especially because you seem to have a triflex controller.. Of course > maybe the triflex driver is not needed to avoid problems like thse I > described, and only turns on DMA or something else, and does a bad job > of it. If so we could just skip it. Yes I have a triflex controller. But the triflex module is not listed in the modules.pcimap. SO meybe we should leave the triflex out ? > One other problem is that AFAIK the standard debian initrd (in sarge, > maybe you're doing skolelinux/woody stuff though) loads all of > these drivers unconditionally, just like d-i does, so even if it's fixed > in d-i the installed system may be unable to boot. I'll test a sarge CD on the box later. I think I did an upgrade on the box the other week, but maybe i didn't make a new initrd. BUt the initrd from skolelinux loads the module. I have not tested if it works with the module loaded. I'll check download 686-smp, and restart and check . -- Finn-Arne Johansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bzz.no/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
