kernel panic

[Huw in Nice]

Installed ADSL to give Gentoo a crack and I must admit I am impressed installing has dragged me away from being totally idle as with other distros. The problem I have is I bought an MSI KT333 with APIC + ACPI with a VIA VT8233 I can get X KDM partial audio but keep on getting kernel panics when trying to add other hardware like my TV card.
Have the 3com 3c905 & Nvidia it is a dual boot system so I am guessing there are no hardware conflicts.

On emerging xawtv & Kwintv I could not find the device. I have seached for pointers but cannot find any.

By the way is there a way of re mounting and install from the install cd as re-building although a cathargic experience takes a day especially getting to KDE. Been playing with Linux for 5 years approx and all the other distros I have tried have had simillar problems with this mother board and set up so I guess I might have to be patient. This is the 1st posting I have ever done so if it contains all the wrong info put it down to lack of experience. Any pointers would be great. Thanks in advance.

[lx]

Well I had a lot of trouble with the ACPI patch used in ACPI 0404 (patch used in 2.4.19-r5). Have you tried a newer kernel (r7 has ACPI 0503), my tv-card well slot 3 ain't detected with the old patch (0404) I'm now using the latest patch (0517) and it works fine.

Hope it helps, lX.
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[Huw in Nice]

Thanks for the prompt advice, I quickly installed RH 7.3 to see if they had fixed in their latest release. But alas no, which leads me to believe support in the kernel is not there yet.

I re installed Gentoo - it gets quicker each time 1.2 with the latest patched kernel, got to the same stage KDM with the Alsa driver running I had installed xawtv by modprobing the bttv module. devfs is really cool. Xawtv ran - the quickest I have ever seen for loading etc. I got over confident and added bttv to the modules.autoload. On shutting down kernel panic Interrupt handler not syncing. The same result on re-booting.

Are there some adjustments I can make in the compiled kernel to help me get it to be more stable?

Also is there an easy way to recover otherwise I am rebuilding tonight again

Getting there - but that is the fun - I think

[Guest]

Recovered the Gentoo the Q&D solution to APIC & APM is turn them off in the bios and hey presto . Just need to re-install XP as that will not boot now.

Thanks for your help - it is a great distro the best I have tried so far I am sticking with it or buying a Mac.

Ciao

[474]

[Huw in Nice]

I have left APIC & reinstalled this time with the Redhat sources & found that the order in which I modprobe enables it to work if I modprobe bttv first & then snd-via8233 - hey presto

I will try with the gentoo sources again.

Thanks again for all your help persistance & patience