2.6.15rc kernel packages for FC4. (Dave Jones)
William John Murray
W.J.Murray at rl.ac.uk
Sat Dec 17 22:45:59 UTC 2005
>
> On Sat, Dec 17, 2005 at 10:06:57AM +0000, William John Murray wrote:
>
> > Hello there. was hoping this would mean I could enable DMA support
> > on the DVD, but no luck with 2.6.14-1.1768_FC4 or 2.6.14-1.1767_FC4.
> > I have
> > options ide hdc=noprobe
> > options libata atapi_enabled=1
> > in /etc/modprobe.conf
> > and have re-made the initrd as thinkwiki suggest, but the drive remains
> > as /dev/hdc (I THINK it should move, am I correct?) and no DMA
>
> it will stay as hdc if your bios is set to 'legacy' or 'combined' mode.
>
> both those options should be unnecessary (the 2nd one is also pointless
> as libata isn't a module, and that option is on by default in this kernel).
>
> file a bug, with the contents of your dmesg.
>
> Dave
>
>
Ah! I don't know if bugzilla is really the right place. Because as you
say it is not compiled as modules, I looked at kernel options. Adding
hdc=noprobe as a boot option on the kernel fixes it.
Should I file something on that?
Bill
Ps I'm a happy customer, but maybe 1 is not enough?
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