On Tue, Dec 15, 1998 at 09:11:44PM +1000, Peter Troff Petroff wrote: > Hi, > could anyone please help a relative newbie desperately trying to escape > the > Winborg empire? As soon as I can reliably switch all jobs to analogous > applications under Linux, I'm shifting my friends (and hopefully my office) to > Linux. And preferably Debian, I'm so trying to avoid RedHat... > > Machine description: > The machine is an AMD K6-233 with 128MB RAM, ISA (nonPnP) NE2000 > compatible > network card, an Ensoniq EAPCI; Winborg on hda1; dLinux2.02 with typically a > kernel 2.0.34 on hdb1, typically out of a boot floppy, no LILO. assuming: run this machine under Debian GNU/Linux will make no problem
> > The problems are: > > * Crucial: Disappearing kernel devices: > Under 2.0.34, I have full NE2000 and PPP. But: > - only 64MB RAM instead of 128 add a line in Your lilo.conf like append="mem=128M" e.g. below, note : do not yust copy this You almost have a other configuration place only the append-line at the same place # Start LILO global Section boot=/dev/sda2 install=/boot/boot.b map=/boot/map vga=normal prompt delay=120 read-only # End LILO global section image=/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda7 append="mem=128M" label=Linux > (I know about the >64MB support in 2.0.36) > - no sound support > (the EAPCI emulates SB, MPU401, AdLib, Ensoniq SoundScape.) sorry don't know this card, thanks for information that i could delete the append-line, ;) > > Under 2.0.36, I have the full 128MB RAM. But: > - I lose the NE2000 I had before. I have a old ISA NE2000 , which works fine under Kernel 2.0.36 maybe some other tools must be updated to run network correctly I know if using ISDN(I do) You must update isdnutils also. However, eventually there are equal dependencies between 2.0.36 and newer network tools. my base and almost of network are from the slink dated > 12/10/98 > - And I lose PPP too!! see above > - Still no sound support. also > - 'dmesg' gives me "Sound initialisation started Sound > initialisation complete" messages. It doesn't give anything > more than that with respect to sound. I also assume You have installed the modules and configured the modules correctly. If not, or not sure install teh new kernel with the kernel-package > > I'm assuming that there must be some problem with the sound card, > emulations > and assignments. /proc's pci listing does actually register an EAPCI on IRQ5, > correctly reading the BIOS. But the EAPCI emulates at least four different > kinds > of systems on DIFFERENT IRQs and IOs (e.g. IRQ7 not 5). And I don't know how > to > tell Linux what to assign where. irq 7 often is used for lp, see `/etc/conf.modules' for details > > > * Less importantly, I do a clean install, Apache works fine. After a few > days, > start up messages indicate "Attempting to start Apache... failed". At first, I > thought it was an installation of Netscape 4 without the deb (i.e. using the > ns-install script). So I did a complete reformat and install (the paranoid > approach to stability issues), then got the deb. Installed Netscape, Apache > stayed up. Worked great for a couple of days. Yesterday morning I boot and > "Apache... failed" again. No repeat NO significant changes in configuration in > between. I've also had this problem, please remove old lock-files under /var dam..., can't remember locality, sorry > there several books on linux, take time go to a library and read some pages in different books, than buy that one which is comfortable for You, maybe Linux the complete reference. I use this. -- Peter
