I'm having a little trouble with an install of Linux. I have an old-ish PC that I recently installed Mandrake 9.1 on. My goal was to get a system with the ALSA sounds drivers pre-installed for me. Of course ALSA doesn't do too well with ISA soundcards, so my old ISA SB16 was out and I borrowed the SB Live that was in my PC. This was when the fun started.
The system I have in installed in has an Intel 440-LX (not the pov EX) based motherboard (MSI 6111) with a P2-233 and 128Mb ram. Graphics are provided by a dodgy old PCI S3 Trio32 and the only other card in the machine is a 3com 3c905 PCI ethernet card.
Now, depending on the position of the various cards, they either work or not. For example, if the graphics card is not the last card in (i.e. the furthest from the CPU), it only partially works. Various windows don't draw correctly, and Xwin is slowed to a crawl. Shuffling the video card around then makes other cards not work - the ethernet card is usually not recognised in certain slots. I know this works - I've had it working before. Currently I have both sound and video working fine, but the ethernet is dead.
Can anyone tell me what this might be? The only thing I can think is that the power supply is dodgy - it's a common-as-dirt Codegen.
The system I have in installed in has an Intel 440-LX (not the pov EX) based motherboard (MSI 6111) with a P2-233 and 128Mb ram. Graphics are provided by a dodgy old PCI S3 Trio32 and the only other card in the machine is a 3com 3c905 PCI ethernet card.
Now, depending on the position of the various cards, they either work or not. For example, if the graphics card is not the last card in (i.e. the furthest from the CPU), it only partially works. Various windows don't draw correctly, and Xwin is slowed to a crawl. Shuffling the video card around then makes other cards not work - the ethernet card is usually not recognised in certain slots. I know this works - I've had it working before. Currently I have both sound and video working fine, but the ethernet is dead.
Can anyone tell me what this might be? The only thing I can think is that the power supply is dodgy - it's a common-as-dirt Codegen.