[ltp] Fedora Core 1 on Antique 760 series

[Tino Keitel]

On Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 19:31:11 -0500, Richard Griffith wrote:
> While evaluating Fedora Core 1, I tried to install it on a 760XL. 
> Although the install went smooth, the results had a few problems. The 
> display was the first obvious defect, X only worked in 640x480 mode, not 
> in 800x600. This display has been problematic with all the XFree86 4.x 
> lines, so in some ways this was an improvement, since there at least was 
> a display. After a long round of tinkering, with no improvement, I moved 
> on. The next serious problem, and a real show stopper, is PCMCIA won't 
> work. The only error reported is a pair of the familiar 'No IRQ known 
> for interrupt pin A of device 00:0n.n. Please try using pci=biosirq.' 
> messages. Attempting to follow the advice and pass pci=biosirq to the 
> kernel results in kernel panic.
> 
> After some unfruitful tinkering, I moved the drive to a 760XD. X worked 
> fine in 1024x768, but still no PCMCIA. The pcmcia_core module loads, but 
> yenta_socket fails.  Worth noting this is not a hardware or bios 
> problem, as I am using that same XD with Mandrake 9.1 to send this note. 
> Mandrake also shows the irq error line on startup, but then everthing 
> goes ahead and works fine. Red Hat 7.2, 7.3 and 8.0 have been used on 
> the same hardware.
> 
> After some research, it appears very unlikely that pcmcia will work 
> correctly on these models with the supplied kernel. The TI PCI1130 
> Cardbus Bridge appears to be mishandled.
> 
> With this obstacle, I did not seriously investigate any further. If 
> anyone has overcome this, I'd like to know how, but I thought a note of 
> caution might spare some frustration to anyone who doesn't really just 
> want a challenge.

Do you use kernel pcmcia support (yenta.o) or the drivers from
pcmcia-cs (i82365.o)? Dave Hinds told me that the former won't work on
a 76x model with a Cardbus card, since the Cardbus bridge in these
models uses ISA IRQs. While the kernel driver requires PCI IRQs, the
pcmcia-cs driver has a fallback for ISA IRQs.

Regards,
Tino