Re: [cooker-amd64] Re: Sata and sensors for Tyan 2885

[Rui Pimenta]

The place where you can get TYAN's monitor utility file is :
ftp://ftp.tyan.com/software/lms/lms_s2885.tgz

You just need to load the modules that are described on 2885.sensors.conf 
file. Also I am running the 2.6.2 kernel and it still works fine.

About the amd64. If the SATA problem is sorted out on kernel 2.6.2 is it 
possible that I can create a ISO of the amd 9.2 RC1 with kernel 2.6.2 and 
being so it could detect my hard drives when doing a fresh installation? 
(sorry if the question sounds dumb)

cheers,
Pimenta


On Friday 06 February 2004 20:37, Duncan wrote:
> Rui Pimenta posted <200402061314.08997.rpimenta@runbox.com>, excerpted
>
> below,  on Fri, 06 Feb 2004 13:15:03 +0100:
> > I am sorry for this late reply especially to Duncan 'coz I had to sort
> > out lots here at the office.
>
> No prob!  I definitely understand, and have been keeping more than busy
> myself.  <g>
>
> > SATA:
> > Fortunately I managed to install mandrake on my SATA HD (which are the
> > only one that I have), Unfortunately I had to got with mdk 10 beta 1 (32
> > bit). This was the only version that could detect my SATA hard drives
> > when doing a fresh installation. I do know know if there is a planned
> > mdk 10 beta (amd64). If so can anyone tell me where because I would like
> > very much to install it. Because the last version of the cooker still is
> > the 9.2 I think.
>
> AFAIK and from what GB has said, there aren't any immediate plans for an
> AMD64 Mdk10 ISO, at least not until RC time, then maybe..
>
> However, thanks to the hard work of Stephan and others, most of the 10.0
> cooker stuff is available for AMD64 as well.  The packages that aren't..
> are having porting issues, which are being worked on with varying degrees
> of success and cooperation from the main Mdk i586 maintainers.  The
> biggest hole is KDE, as the person that is the Mdk KDE team simply doesn't
> seem to care very much about AMD64, and/or there's a cooperation problem
> between him and the folks working hardest on AMD64..  None of the newer
> KDE packages found in Cooker 10 have been ported, for the most part, save
> for some of the non-core stuff like K3B.
>
> Thus, with the exception of KDE (unfortunately for me, using it as my
> desktop) once AMD64 is INSTALLED, 9.2 or otherwise, it should be possible
> to upgrade to AMD64 10.0 Cooker, and stay /almost/ up with i586 cooker.
> (Last I checked, the other big catch was a single perl-GTK2 package and
> its prereqs holding up a number of the package updates such as harddrake,
> rpmdrake, etc. that make Mandrake uniquely Mandrake.  However, those are
> indeed being worked on, and in fact it's possible they've been fixed while
> I've been busy with other stuff as I haven't urpmified in 3-4 days or so.)
>
> However.. that does NOT take care of installation.
>
> What I'd suggest you do, if you are really interested in playing with
> the 64-bit stuff, is get a small/cheap 20-40 gig or so standard IDE drive,
> to do the initial install of the 9.2-rc1 ISO with.  Well, either that or
> try the release 9.2, either d/led when it becomes available or by
> purchasing it.
>
> I'm thinking of doing the reverse, installing a cheap/small SATA drive,
> that I can experiment with getting working.  Then at least I know it'll
> work.  As I've previously posted, I've been experimenting with the various
> 2.6 kernels, and I noticed some Silicon Image SATA changes listed in the
> 2.6.2 changelog.  Previously, I remember it marked as broken.  Now, that
> driver is no longer listed as broken, but appears with regular ATA drivers
> rather than under the SCSI support, SATA subsection, as the Promise and
> some other SATA drivers do.  If I just had a disk big enough to try..  I
> could see it would indeed work as I hope/expect, and what other issues I
> may have (such as what it shows up as under /dev and whether it appears as
> /dev/hda.. etc. pushing standard IDE down, or appears under them as
> /dev/hde and onward, or appears as /dev/sda etc, or just what...).
>
> I expect, once someone confirms it working, even if it takes some jerry
> rigging like installing to PATA then upgrading to kernel 2.6.2 to get SATA
> support, we might get a bit of company here, with the board.
>
> > LM_Sensors:
> > Duncan asked about the LM_Sensors. Well they are working on mdk10. and
> > what I did was just to install the LM_Sensors package and used the
> > sensors file provided by TYAN loaded the modules that they mention and
> > everything is working fine:
>
> COOL!  I'll be saving this to go over later.  Do you happen to have the
> URL to the Tyan info on this?  I can probably find it on the site, but if
> you have it handy, it'd save me the trouble of having to search.
>
> ..  I just installed the 2.6.2 vanilla kernel.org kernel, configured for
> my system for the most part, and was running the Mdk std and tmb
> 2.6.2-rc1 kernels, again specifically configured for my system before, but
> decided to go with the kernel.org kernel and deleted them.  I know the
> lmsensors docs say 2.6 is better for that, but haven't tried it since my
> last experiment with it failed under 2.4, so don't know if it works under
> 2.6 or not.
>
> Anyway, I now know it CAN work specifically on THIS board (tho don't know
> about 64-bit, yet), and have some idea of the modules I need, and that
> there's more info available from TYAN, so prospects are looking pretty
> good.  I'll just have to find the time to investigate them.  <g>
>
> THANKS!