[TriLUG] Install Redhat 8.0 mouse problem

[Hite, Danny]

At any rate the ide=nodma didn't work either. Thanks for the tips everyone. 

-----Original Message-----
From: Ken Wahl [mailto:ken at kenwahl.org] 
Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2003 8:22 PM
To: TriLUG List
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Install Redhat 8.0 mouse problem

On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 01:13:33PM -0500, Jeremy Portzer wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-03-13 at 09:31, Ken Wahl wrote:
> > 
> > Nice board.  I'm running a Soyo K7VTA-Pro with the same Via KT-133A
> > chipset and I didn't have that problem with RH 8 on install (although I
> > am having problems with gdm crashing but that's another story).  I did
have
> > that problem with 7.x series though but it wasn't the mouse, it was DMA
> > and CD-ROM drive.  It's a long shot since 7.x loaded OK for you but if
> > you're trying to eliminate causes try passing the following parameter to
> > the kernel
> > 
> > ide=nodma
> > 
> 
> I've had good luck with the ide=nodma option when installing RHL 8 on an
> certain server, too.  Of course this does disable DMA compeletely, which
> you may or not want to do.  You could try re-enabling it after the
> install.  (My recollection is that kernel parameters passed at the
> install will automatically be added to /etc/modules.conf to be used on
> future boots, but I'm not positive about that.)
> 

I don't recall the ide=nodma option being added to /etc/modules.conf.
It wasn't added in my current RH 8 installation nor in 7.x  IIRC what I
ended up doing was using ide=nodma for install and then once setup had
to disable DMA for the cdrom drive only using hdparm.  That last part
only applies to 7.x though.  I haven't had any problems with DMA locking
up RH 8 when the cdrom was in use post-installation.
-- 
Ken Wahl  ken at kenwahl.org  http://www.kenwahl.org
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