Cant boot off gentoo Live CD RS480M2-IL

onlybui · n00b Joined: 25 May 2005 Posts: 40

So I was having problem trying to compile xorg on 32bit with my old system. Upgraded the video card and still wasn't what I wanted so I returned it and then upgraded my system to this

RS480M2-IL
onboard xpress 200
ATI Chipset
3000 AMD 64Bit 512MB

Ok SO I put it in and try to boot into XP no deals safe mode no deals(alright whatever ill reinstall probably need to reinstall anyways)
SO I tried to boot into gentoo (Boots ok) working out a problem emerge xorg-x11, ok so I try again with new processor and it comipled without any errors... so im like YES almost about to give up on gentoo...

so now I upgraded to AMD 64bit do you think I should install gentoo 64, already did Windows x64 but having problems finding a driver that support 1600 1024

please tell me the benfits on doing this.....

or if there is linux drivers 64bit?

sybille · Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2005 7:48 pm Post subject:

People have been having problems with that board, specifically with the ATI chipset.

You might want to read this: http://scottstuff.net/scott/archives/000391.html

kiel.wells · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 10 Sep 2004 Posts: 97

I have the exact same setup, but 2x the RAM, and if you get it in good working order somehow, please post your solutions.

thanks

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420W Enermax ATX 2.0

onlybui · n00b Joined: 25 May 2005 Posts: 40

http://www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/linux_8.13.3.html

This says its support xpress 200

but these drivers are in rpm format

http://www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/fglrx64_6_8_0-8.13.3-1.x86_64.rpm
http://www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/fglrx64_4_3_0-8.13.3-1.x86_64.rpm

http://www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/fglrx_6_8_0-8.13.3-1.i386.rpm
http://www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/fglrx_4_3_0-8.13.3-1.i386.rpm

Found drivers for the video card... and I have gentoo x86 working with network support but gonna try the gentoo 64 bit

bneuman · n00b Joined: 27 Jan 2004 Posts: 7

You can emerge the ATI 8.13.3 driver. It's masked of course. But is working for me (3d accelleration finally!). Will happily provide more info if needed.

onlybui · n00b Joined: 25 May 2005 Posts: 40

RS480M2-IL

Ok I cant seem to get past autodectect when I try to boot of the gentoo Live CD.... I see that it finds the SATA drive I have but just sits there on the autodect and if I hit ESC goes another line and then goes green and stays there

I tried the options such as gentoo -noacpi

Please I really want to get gentoo working....

kiel.wells · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 10 Sep 2004 Posts: 97

don't put the '-' in front of noapic

just this "gentoo noapic" w/o the quotes.

that should get 'er started for ya.
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AMD Athlon64 3000+ Winchester Core @ 1.813 GHz
Asus A8N5X
2GB RAM (4x512) PC3200 400MHz
1 200 GB HDD (SATA), 1 250GB HDD (SATA)
1 NEC DVD-RW, 1 DVD-R/CD-RW
420W Enermax ATX 2.0

kiel.wells · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 10 Sep 2004 Posts: 97

I couldn't remember how to mask the packages so that that driver version installed, so I direct-path installed it. Anyone else do something similar?

Why does this one work and not 8.14.13 or whatever that seems later? Does ATI just have a wierd numbering scheme or am I missing something?

TIA.
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AMD Athlon64 3000+ Winchester Core @ 1.813 GHz
Asus A8N5X
2GB RAM (4x512) PC3200 400MHz
1 200 GB HDD (SATA), 1 250GB HDD (SATA)
1 NEC DVD-RW, 1 DVD-R/CD-RW
420W Enermax ATX 2.0

bneuman · n00b Joined: 27 Jan 2004 Posts: 7

onlybui,

I had the same problem with livecd-boot stalling on autodetect. It magically fixed itself one day and I wish I could tell you why. The only thing I can think of is that I did download and burn a new gentoo universal live-cd for amd64. I seem to recall a message somewhere indicating that the image on the mirrors was temporarily bad.

Also, I was able to get past the initial problem by passing a parameter at bootup- I think it was something like "nohotplug".

Ben

bneuman · n00b Joined: 27 Jan 2004 Posts: 7

kiel.wells,
If I am not mistaken, this will unmask the correct driver for you...
echo "=media-video/ati-drivers-8.13.3 ~amd64" >> /etc/portage/package.keywords

Ignore the ati-drivers-extra. Not needed and not sure what it offers.

You do want v.8.13.3. It seems that ATI has two series of drivers- one for the run-of-the-mill ATI card, and another for our integrated video chip.

ben

onlybui · n00b Joined: 25 May 2005 Posts: 40

ok can anyone tell me if they got gentoo working on this board?

I try gentoo noapic and is taking forever...

I mean has anyone succesfully boot of the gentoo live cd with this board cause I see that people are running suse and madrake are able to install there distro for this board.....

ok so i dont need to run gentoo noapic... cause I have gentoo 32 bit and gentoo 64 and they both do the same thing locks up/tries to autodect

kiel.wells · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 10 Sep 2004 Posts: 97

part of the problem with this board is that the same bug that affects APIC, IO-APIC, and LAPIC affects the USB and SATA stuff as well. They seem to be somewhat intertwined, from all i've read.

If you don't have a USB keyboard, try disabling USB at boot, along with noapic, and possibly nolapic.

here is a link to another thread dealing with this MB/chipset. it might help you out some.
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AMD Athlon64 3000+ Winchester Core @ 1.813 GHz
Asus A8N5X
2GB RAM (4x512) PC3200 400MHz
1 200 GB HDD (SATA), 1 250GB HDD (SATA)
1 NEC DVD-RW, 1 DVD-R/CD-RW
420W Enermax ATX 2.0