Hello,

i have new hardware in my pc. Therefore exists new problems. The graphiccard will not work correctly.

HW:
CPU:AMD Athlon64 4000+
Mainboard:Asus A8R-MVP
HDD: 160GB SATA
graficcard: Sapphire Radeon X1900GT (ATI) PCIe

OS: Debian/Sarge
actually using kernel 2.6.18.2-amd64
want to use kernel 2.6.20
Xserver: Xfree86-4.3.0

For using this hw with Debian/Sarge, i have to use a Sarge-costum-BootCD, which is using the kernel 2.6.18-2-amd64
Other Debian/Sarge products wouldn't work with the SATA controller on board.

After installing Debian/Sarge with kernel 2.6.18-2 i want to use KDE, but the graficcard is unknown for this version.
Therefore, i want to use the actually ati driver 8.33.6. But it is not able to install this driver on this operating system.
During in the installation, it stopps without any hints.

I think, it could be the wrong kernel, which i am now using. Downloading the new kernel from kernel.org, compiling and installing are without any errors.
Now, if i use this kernel after restart the system can't be running. Systemboot stopps on using RAMDISK. Change in the /etc/mkinitrd/mkinitrd.conf the MKIMAGE from CRAMFS to genromfs.
New installing, same error:
RAMDISK: romfs filesystem found at block 0
RAMDISK: loading 13428KiB [1 disk] into ram disk... done.
No filesystem could mount root, tried: cramfs
kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0)

1. How can i compile and install the new kernel?
2. it is possible to use the ati driver for the old kernel and how does it fit?

br
Tobias


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On Feb 18, 11:16 pm, "Tobias Manthei" <herr.for...@gmx.de> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> i have new hardware in my pc. Therefore exists new problems. The graphiccard will not work correctly.
>
> HW:
> CPU:AMD Athlon64 4000+
> Mainboard:Asus A8R-MVP
> HDD: 160GB SATA
> graficcard: Sapphire Radeon X1900GT (ATI) PCIe
>
> OS: Debian/Sarge
> actually using kernel 2.6.18.2-amd64
> want to use kernel 2.6.20
> Xserver: Xfree86-4.3.0
>
> For using this hw with Debian/Sarge, i have to use a Sarge-costum-BootCD, which is using the kernel 2.6.18-2-amd64
> Other Debian/Sarge products wouldn't work with the SATA controller on board.
>
> After installing Debian/Sarge with kernel 2.6.18-2 i want to use KDE, but the graficcard is unknown for this version.
> Therefore, i want to use the actually ati driver 8.33.6. But it is not able to install this driver on this operating system.
> During in the installation, it stopps without any hints.
>
> I think, it could be the wrong kernel, which i am now using. Downloading the new kernel from kernel.org, compiling and installing are without any errors.
> Now, if i use this kernel after restart the system can't be running. Systemboot stopps on using RAMDISK. Change in the /etc/mkinitrd/mkinitrd.conf the MKIMAGE from CRAMFS to genromfs.
> New installing, same error:
> RAMDISK: romfs filesystem found at block 0
> RAMDISK: loading 13428KiB [1 disk] into ram disk... done.
> No filesystem could mount root, tried: cramfs
> kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0)
>
> 1. How can i compile and install the new kernel?
> 2. it is possible to use the ati driver for the old kernel and how does it fit?
>
> br
> Tobias

Hello

Which debian did you use? If you installed architecture i386, you
can't use amd64-kernel to run your binary driver (what I know of, any
way. Same problem as you). You need to install amd64 architecture of
Debian for that. No, you don't need to download prestine linux
kernel, you should be able to use the one in Debian. 2.6.18 is really
quite new. But here you can finde some information about building your
own kernel: http://kernel-handbook.alioth.debian.org/

Any wawy, search at wiki.debian.org for nVidia and you will get a
realy good wiki page on different ways to install nVidia X11 driver.
*searching* Here you have: http://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphic...t=%28nVidia%29

And you should really use Debian/Etch instead of Debian/Sarge, Etch
has suport for SATA disks. Sarge is getting soooo old and Etch sooooo
close to release.

/Jxn