Re: GinGin64 Refuse to install

[Matt Wilson <msw@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, May 19, 2003 at 09:22:41AM -0700, GamePlayerStation.Com wrote:
> 
> The one w/ SATA I got nothing to say because promise
> didn't make any drivers for it... but the SCSI one,
> GinGin 64 Do have drivers for AIC7xxx adapters but for
> some reason it just "won't load" no matter what. but
> when I use the Redhat9(2.4.20kernel) and
> Redhat8(2.4.18) everything works out like a champ.

This might be an APIC or interrupt routing problem.  Can you try
booting the machine with "linux noapic" to see if things work?
 
Do you get a specific error message when the aic7xxx driver is loaded?
Are there messages on Ctrl+Alt+F3 or Ctrl+Alt+F4?  Need more to go on
than "won't load".

Cheers,

Matt
msw@xxxxxxxxxx
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Matt Wilson
Manager, Base Operating Systems
Red Hat, Inc.