[TriLUG] Speaking of weird hardware problems

[Marty Ferguson]

Roy,

Did you try just swapping around PCI cards into different slots?
The enumeration of the IO space is kind of arbitrary.  There are
more sophisticated ways to eliminate these problems, if indeed these
problems are due to PCI bus mastering and priority. But the wrote
approach of just trying different slots untill you get a combination
that works properly is the conventional wisdom.

Marty

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From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org]On
Behalf Of Roy Vestal
Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2004 9:22 AM
To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list
Subject: [TriLUG] Speaking of weird hardware problems


Ok, here's a weird one.

The LVM machine that I mentioned earilier this week, well, yeah, they gave
me another old box to replace it. So I moved my nic and good drives and scsi
card. I loaded FC1 AND WBEL on this thing. Whenever I went graphical, I'd
loose the mouse and keyboard.

After many hours/days of pulling hair, rebuilding the os, removing modules,
unloading services, I started trying hardware. I removed the SCSI card
(AHA-1520) that I hang a CD tower off and it worked!  I now have graphical
keyboard and mouse!

Any suggestions?  BTW, I'm tossing the card.

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