[NTLUG:Discuss] Promise Ultra100 TX2 on linux?

[Greg Edwards]

Brett Grayson (Bitwerks) wrote:
> 
>  I'm a newb... But I'm assuming when a driver is labeled for a specific 
> version of linux (ie, rh8)... They mean that the driver is just for the 
> stock kernel that came with it, right? I have a promise sx6000 in that 
> system, and I think they just have 'redhat 8' drivers for it... would 
> that kernel support the tx2?
> 

Not meaning to be snide, but Linus is not Windows.

The distribution version, or distributor, is not generally related to 
driver support, it's the kernel.  If a 2.4.21 kernel supports a driver 
then all distributions using a 2.4.21 kernel support it.  There are 
exceptions or course.

Best example I can give is my recent issues with the nforce2 chipset on 
an ASUS A7N8X MB.  The 2.4.19 kernel did not support the chipset but 
2.4.21 does.  Now that I've upgraded to a distribution that has 2.4.21 I 
can get this board to work.

OBTW, I may have forgotten to followup on the A7N8X problems, sorry. 
I've found the issue to be the Nvidia graphics driver combined with this 
MB.  When I switched from the nvidia driver to the nv XFree86 driver my 
problems vanished.  I like the nvidia driver and I think it is a good 
solution but I'd really like to see them stop playing these games with 
ASUS (and others like ATI) compatibility.  They're acting a little too 
much like M$!!

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