I'm using Linux several years now. (2-3) I just bought me a new
mainboard and with this new mainboard, my X11 won't start up any
more!
I have 3 PCI Cards, 1 ELSA Winner 1000 Trio64, 1 AHA2940W, 1 NCR825S.
They all worked together nicely in my *old* 100 MHz AMD 486 board
from Gigabyte. So I was VERY astonished, that after swapping the
boards, X11 won't run any longer. (Though everything else seems
to run fine. - Even M$-DO$ and WinDow$. :((( )
This *old* Board has a green-AWARD-BIOS, but without PnP.
First I tried the Gigabyte GA-5486AL Board. But I thought, it was the
ALi-Chipset, which was causing the troubles. So I went back to my
dealer and got a SOYO-Mainboard. - The same problem !!! :-((((
Now I thought, that it may be the new CPU (AMD 5x86-P75-S, 133 MHz),
so I plugged in my old CPU. -> The result hit me like a Hammer:
I still didn't work. - It wasn't the Chipset (Tha SOYO-Board has a SiS),
It wasn't the CPU, it even couldn't relly be the board, so what
had they in common ????
The only thing both new boards have in common is:
The new AWARD PnP-BIOS ! :-(((((
So please, tell me anybody, if there's a mailing list, which has this problem
as theme, or someone who tries to help those poor fellows with PnP-BIOSes...
I feel like being severely PnP impaired ! :-(
Any help appreciated !!!
Yours,
Herby
BTW: I use Linux 1.2.8 with AHA2940-Patches and currently 1.3.59 both with
the smae problem. So it's not a fault of Linux ! :-))))))))
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