Via Epia-M10000

Forum: User Feedback
Topic: Via Epia-M10000
started by: Del

Posted by Del on Jan. 31 2004,05:35

Well, I just got my new Via Epia M10000. Put everything together, and tried booting from the latest Knoppix CD. Nothing worked... cloop errors like crazy.

Pulled the CD, and let it boot from hd0, which had a previously hdinstall-ed DSL (0.5.2 I think), and it worked just dandy. Everything came up the first time, though I haven't tried audio, I think it won't work anyway.

Thanks again John for a groovy little distro

Posted by libretto on Feb. 05 2004,10:01

BTW have you tried the TV out on a proper TV? (I tried it on my tv card composite in and the picture was not that good.)

Posted by Del on Feb. 06 2004,03:47

I have not yet tried it on a TV. Mostly working on getting sound to work right with (a modified) DSL. Gonna play with the kernel and X too before I do too much else.

It didn't want to play nice with my cd-rw/dvd-rom combodrive either. Sill have to figure that one out too. Just using a normal cdrw for now.

Once I get an OS I'm happy with, then I'll plug it into the TV (trying both RCA and S-Video)

Posted by libretto on Feb. 07 2004,22:11

Fair enough,

my slim-line CD-RW drive mounts and uses normal cds no problems, but I havent got it to write CDs or erase CDRWs. The bashburn script seems to pickup the write part of the drive, but I dont have any more clues. What are you using as you normal CD-RW and does it work under DSL?

Posted by cbagger01 on Feb. 07 2004,22:16

Try using Gcombust instead of Bash Burn. It may give you more detailed error messages. The install script is located here:

< http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin....combust >

Posted by Del on Feb. 07 2004,22:53

My cdrw is a TDK 5200B, whatever that's worth

I actually haven't had reason to try to burn a cd yet in DSL though. The 'not playing nice' with the dvdrom/cdrw was an extra 45seconds to 1 minute in bootup time (unacceptable). Could have been something to do with one HDD on primary ide channel, and two cd drives on the secondary ide (?). I dunno. I just moved the dvdrom to my big machine (currently redhat 8) and it worked fine.

I've given up on GUI frontends, and just use the command line. Too much goofiness for me. Good old 'cdrecord dev=0,0,0 -v -speed=X -pad -eject blah.iso' works for me

For blanking, 'cdrecord dev=0,0,0 speed=X blank=fast -v -eject'