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sud_crow

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From: Argentina

Registered: 2003-06-30

Posts: 546

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Some issues (southbridge, agpgart and clean screen at boot)

Hi,

I have this issues,

1) The southbridge is having some kind of problem, it says something like:
IDE SPEED NOT SUPPORTED, GOING TO 33Mhz
This i assume has to do with ATA33/66, my HDs are ATA66, but for what i understand this is measured in MB/s not in Mhz, anyway, if this is the case, i know the cause (dont have an 80pin IDE cable) but if it isnt, i dont know what it means.

2) agp_gart: says unsupported or unkown, try agp_unsupported=1 or something similar, where should i try that line? (file)

3) The screen is cleaned when the system finishes booting, i dont like that.
I removed the clean "command" at top of the /etc/issue file, but it keeps doing it, and i cant do "Rev Page"  becouse it "cuts" the last screen, making it usless -also i know there is a log where i could look, but i dont know where it is.

Any help appreciated. thanks.

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Leonardo Andrés Gallego
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farphel

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From: New Hampshire - USA

Registered: 2003-09-18

Posts: 250

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Re: Some issues (southbridge, agpgart and clean screen at boot)

Here's a few things to try:

2) agp_gart: says unsupported or unkown, try agp_unsupported=1 or something similar, where should i try that line? (file)

I'm guessing that you should put something like "alias /dev/agp* agp_gart agp_unsupported=1" in your /etc/modules.conf file.  I'm not sure of the name of the actual module.  I'm assuming agp_gart since that is what you referred to.

3) The screen is cleaned when the system finishes booting, i dont like that.
I removed the clean "command" at top of the /etc/issue file, but it keeps doing it, and i cant do "Rev Page"  becouse it "cuts" the last screen, making it usless -also i know there is a log where i could look, but i dont know where it is.

After it boots, try doing a SHFT-PageUP and see if that scrolls back at all.  You can use the dmesg command to get the log of hardware detection/initialization during boot, but it won't contain entries for starting services/daemons.

Good luck,
farphel

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Xentac

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From: Victoria, BC

Registered: 2003-01-17

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Re: Some issues (southbridge, agpgart and clean screen at boot)

You actually want something more like "options agp_gart agp_unsupported=1" in /etc/modules.conf (if agp_gart is the module)

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sud_crow

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From: Argentina

Registered: 2003-06-30

Posts: 546

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Re: Some issues (southbridge, agpgart and clean screen at boot)

hi,

i will check about agp_gart and post back.
about the "clean at (finish) boot time", the problem is that when i do Av-Pag or Rev-Pag as i sayd before, cleans up the last part, the modules loading and such... i want to see that. thats why i dont want the "clean at (finish) boot time".

thanks.

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Leonardo Andrés Gallego
www.archlinux-es.org || Comunidad Hispana de Arch Linux