Tran Posted January 24, 2004 Share Posted January 24, 2004 Well I'm back again with some problems (no not mentally or physically) having to do with Gentoo (kernel 2.6.1) but this time with my hardware too. OK then, let's get down to it: Only 882MB RAM recognized from 1.5GB - I enabled High Ram support in menuconfig to 4GB hoping that it would read my 1.5GB of RAM. Guess that didn't work. If someone can help there that'd be great. Enabling DMA - I typed into the terminal to enable DMA but this what I get: root # hdparm -d1 /dev/hda /dev/hda: setting using_dma to 1 (on) HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted using_dma = 0 (off) root # Setting up printer - This probably a newbish question (newb talking here) but how do you set up a printer? :blush: I hope someone can help with these problems because I'm really enjoying Gentoo. Well off to bed I go, hopefully have some replies by tomorrow morning. :sleep: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrStaticVoid Posted January 24, 2004 Share Posted January 24, 2004 That is strange. I also have 1.5 GB of memory. I enabled the 4 GB high mem option and everything worked fine. I did, however, enable Allocate 3rd-level pagetables from highmem, maybe that's the difference. DMA should be enabled by default if you compiled in the correct chipset driver into your kernel. See if your's is supported in Device Drivers -> ATA/ATAPI/MFM/RLL support in menuconfig. If you must use a generic module and it still doesn't work, maybe it just isn't enabled in your BIOS. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/printing-howto.xml <-- A very good guide to setup printing. If you can't get it working after reading that, you should be shot on site. I hope that solves at least one of you problems and continue to enjoy Gentoo (spread the word!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MG-Cloud Posted January 24, 2004 Share Posted January 24, 2004 Hi, In order to enable dma, you're going to have to recompile your kernel. Under device drivers, ata/api/... etc support, make sure DMA support is enabled, and also that your motherboard's chipset is selected. For your printer problems, gentoo has a great Printing Howto. It's really step by step, like its install guide :) Hope this helps.. as for the ram problem, I remember reading something about this, but I can't locate it at the moment. Good luck ! :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JadeWolf324 Posted January 24, 2004 Share Posted January 24, 2004 see things like this may be little...but this is what hindered my experiences in gentoo...the little problems added up too big ones for me...still love gentoo tho!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tran Posted January 24, 2004 Author Share Posted January 24, 2004 OK I did what you guys told me but it still doesn't work. Here the two screenshots of what has been ticked and not been ticked in the "menuconfig". Screenshot #1: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tran Posted January 24, 2004 Author Share Posted January 24, 2004 And here's screenshot #2: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrStaticVoid Posted January 24, 2004 Share Posted January 24, 2004 ...and what is your exact motherboard chipset? Your second screenshot looks almost exactly like mine. Immediately after you boot your comp, run "dmesg > ~/dmesg.txt" and attach ~/dmesg.txt to your next post. That will help a lot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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