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taurus321

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Registered: 2006-08-11

Posts: 23

new pc driver problem and disk problem

hi everyone
     this week i brough a new PC, i try to install archlinux.but i am not master how to find the driver for the mainboard .so ,i came here for some help.

    this is the lspci command's output

00:00.0 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Host Bridge (rev a2)
00:00.1 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 0 (rev a2)
00:00.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 1 (rev a2)
00:00.3 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 5 (rev a2)
00:00.4 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 4 (rev a2)
00:00.5 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Host Bridge (rev a2)
00:00.6 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 3 (rev a2)
00:00.7 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 2 (rev a2)
00:02.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation C51 PCI Express Bridge (rev a1)
00:03.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation C51 PCI Express Bridge (rev a1)
00:04.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation C51 PCI Express Bridge (rev a1)
00:05.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation C51 PCI Express Bridge (rev a2)
00:09.0 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Host Bridge (rev a2)
00:0a.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP51 LPC Bridge (rev a3)
00:0a.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation MCP51 SMBus (rev a3)
00:0a.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Memory Controller 0 (rev a3)
00:0b.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP51 USB Controller (rev a3)
00:0b.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP51 USB Controller (rev a3)
00:0d.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP51 IDE (rev a1)
00:0e.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Serial ATA Controller (rev a1)
00:0f.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Serial ATA Controller (rev a1)
00:10.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP51 PCI Bridge (rev a2)
00:10.1 Class 0403: nVidia Corporation MCP51 High Definition Audio (rev a2)
00:14.0 Bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Ethernet Controller (rev a3)
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
01:0e.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB43AB23 IEEE-1394a-2000 Controller (PHY/Link)

       i have another question . my new pc's disk is seagate 10  250G  sata .  when i install the arch , i edit the /boot/grub/menu.lst file ,
i add  this

title windows xp
root (hd0,0)
chainloader +1

but it can't to load the windows xp.  while my old pc is ok,my old pc's disk is seagate 40G ata.
could you help me?

Bitbucket

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Registered: 2006-08-07

Posts: 10

Re: new pc driver problem and disk problem

try this for booting windows xp with grub

title Windows XP
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1

your drivers will be
network card= forcedeth
video=nv or nvidia
sound= snd-intel8x0

that should do it
as for the firewire ports i am not sure.

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taurus321

Member

Registered: 2006-08-11

Posts: 23

Re: new pc driver problem and disk problem

hi 
    the disk problem is resolved now.
but the graphic driver is no. because when i do "pacman -S nvidia " ,then pacman auto to download and install the nvidia driver ,then i edit the /etc/rc.conf ,i am add the "nvidia" to the DEAMON. but when i shutdown the computer ,i saw the tips "/etc/rc.shutdown can't found the nvidia " ,please help me .

Jarsto

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From: Groningen, The Netherlands

Registered: 2005-11-18

Posts: 35

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Re: new pc driver problem and disk problem

Nvidia is a module, not a daemon. So you should add nvidia to your MODULES array, not to the DAEMONS. Udev might load it automatically, so this may not be necessary, but adding it to MODULES can't hurt. Also, if you want to use the nvidia driver for X11 you'll have to edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf as well. Also check the wiki on the subject:
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/How … DIA_driver

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Jarsto