PCI-PCMCIA adaptors

[bernd2]

After endless unsuccesfull search on google...


Has anyone an idea if PCI-PCMCIA adaptors are generally supported in ubuntu?

I have found a card that works with my PCMCIA soundcard (reviews) that was tested under windows but unfortunelly not under ubuntu, it has an Ricoh R5C485 chipset.


greetings and a happy new year!

[bernd2]

Re: PCI-PCMCIA adaptors

hello,

I have tested such a card and I suddenly have a problem. The problem is that my GUI doesn't start anymore. First I've got the message that kdm-kde4 isn't the default display manager and when I changed it to default, KDE won't start up and no fault message is displayed.

How can I discover the problem? Any idea's??

Thx in advance!

[dibl]

Re: PCI-PCMCIA adaptors

You might try booting a Kubuntu Live CD on that hardware, with the card installed, and see if it will run the GUI desktop.

If yes, then that means it should be possible to change or reinstall your video driver to work correctly. If no, you may have a hardware incompatibility that isn't going to run the X server correctly.

[bernd2]

Re: PCI-PCMCIA adaptors

lol,

Just tested it with livecd kubuntu 64 and worked perfect. Also with ubuntu live cd 32 it worked immediatly out of the box.

grtz

[dibl]

Re: PCI-PCMCIA adaptors

OK, well now you know it can work on that hardware. I personally have zero experience with your PCMCIA interface -- apparently you and Mr. Google are going to have to do some research and experimentation, probably with boot options. I'd start looking at the acpi, noapic, nomci, and so forth.

[bernd2]

Re: PCI-PCMCIA adaptors

I know when I boot from liveCd I have to add "all_generic_ide" because otherwise initframes starts. When I installed kubuntu from live cd I never had to add it in boot config. Could it be this?

Otherwise, if I reinstall, would it work then?

Grtz & allready big thx!!

[dibl]

Re: PCI-PCMCIA adaptors

If the "all_generic_ide" option lets it boot Live CD, then try that on your installed system, when you boot it. If you have a boot menu, then just press "e" when it comes up, then cursor down one line to the kernel boot line, and press "e" again, and add the option at the end of the boot line. Then press Enter, and highlight that line on the next screen, and press "b" to boot it. Nothing is changed by doing this -- it's only for the session that you are booting. If it works, then you can edit the file /boot/grub/menu.lst and put it in permanently.

[bernd2]

Re: PCI-PCMCIA adaptors

Ok checked it out, doesn't change anything. Though I became wiser: I've got the following on ttY1:

kinit: name_to_dev_t(/dev/disk/by uuuid/ {numbers} = sda2(8,2)
kinit: trying to resume from /dev/ {same}
kinit: No resume image, doing normal boot

I never noticed it before, but it's there on my laptop as well that works perfect.

for info, sda2 is my swap-partition.

When I did fdisk -l, i saw that my windows partition has a star with boot. I thougt that this is wierd?

Also, this kinit thing is apparently popular...

http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/inde...ic=3091025.new

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/103148

I'm going to check these thing out and see if it helps.

[bernd2]

Re: PCI-PCMCIA adaptors

Ok I think I know what the problem is.


When I startx, I've got some more info;

(WW) fglrx: no matching Dive section for instance (BusID PCI:8:0:0) found
(EE) No devices detected


For a reason, my grafic card isn't recognized anymore. With placing the PCI card, it thinks apparantly that this is my grafical card...

How do I let ubuntu find my graphical card again?

[dibl]

Re: PCI-PCMCIA adaptors

kinit: No resume image, doing normal boot

When I did fdisk -l, i saw that my windows partition has a star with boot.

Both of these are normal -- they have nothing to do with your problem. The first one is merely informing you that the computer was not "hibernated" previously, so it is doing a full boot process. The "boot" flag on the Windows partition is required by Windows to boot.

There is obviously confusion in the configuration of your fglrx driver -- it is trying to run your pcmcia card instead of your graphics card. I don't know fglrx, but possibly if you change the PCI bus ID in etc/X11/xorg.conf to the ID where your ATI card lives, it could work. Use

lspci

to see the bus IDs of devices on the PCI bus.

[bernd2]

Re: PCI-PCMCIA adaptors

It worked! Big thx!!!

For others that want to buy a PCI to PCMCIA convertor card;

-chipset Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c475
-with Soundblaster Audigy2 ZS notebook

works out of the box.