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From: Ryan Sims <rwsims@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] JMicron confusion
Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2006 15:26:12
Message-Id: 64e8d2f20609300820r443d9046ndcad1959ec26d55b@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] JMicron confusion by Duane Griffin
1 On 9/30/06, Duane Griffin <duaneg@×××××.com> wrote:
2 > On 29/09/06, Ryan Sims <rwsims@×××××.com> wrote:
3 > > I'm looking at upgrading to a Core 2 Duo system, and looking at the
4 > > Asus P5B series of motherboards. I've found a couple forum posts
5 > > (http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-494387-highlight-p965.html and
6 > > http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-498160-highlight-p965.html) that
7 > > seem to indicate troubles with JMicron support in kernels. Is this
8 > > something I should be concerned about? The forum discussions seem to
9 > > indicate that the problem is unresolved, indicating to me that I
10 > > should look elsewhere for motherboards.
11 >
12 > I'm running gentoo on exactly this setup. There was some trouble with
13 > support for the controller prior to 2.6.18, however it all works just
14 > fine if you use the "all-generic-ide irqpoll" boot parameters.
15
16 Did you pass those parameters to the amd64 installcd? Or did you use
17 kernelOfTruth's livecd?
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Re: [gentoo-user] JMicron confusion Duane Griffin <duaneg@×××××.com>