Comments on: Ubuntu Lucid on the Viglen MPC-L http://tonywhitmore.co.uk/blog/2010/07/04/ubuntu-lucid-on-the-viglen-mpc-l/ Tony Whitmore's blog Sun, 05 Feb 2012 17:08:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: DigitialDon http://tonywhitmore.co.uk/blog/2010/07/04/ubuntu-lucid-on-the-viglen-mpc-l/comment-page-1/#comment-3722 DigitialDon Tue, 01 Mar 2011 16:13:50 +0000 http://tonywhitmore.co.uk/blog/?p=675#comment-3722 Brilliant guide, dont think I would have ever got this working without it. Also, a headsup for anyone else following the guide, support for this cpu has now ended so if you try to use any version above 10.04, it wont work, as far as I know anyway but I am no expert. Brilliant guide, dont think I would have ever got this working without it. Also, a headsup for anyone else following the guide, support for this cpu has now ended so if you try to use any version above 10.04, it wont work, as far as I know anyway but I am no expert.

]]> By: Simon Reap http://tonywhitmore.co.uk/blog/2010/07/04/ubuntu-lucid-on-the-viglen-mpc-l/comment-page-1/#comment-3330 Simon Reap Wed, 06 Oct 2010 20:20:33 +0000 http://tonywhitmore.co.uk/blog/?p=675#comment-3330 I installed Ubuntu Server 10.04.1 on my MPC-L and both of the above problems seem to have been sorted out - the kernel worked fine (once I'd added the "pnnpbios=off nolapic noapic apci=off" to the grub lines) and it found the PATA driver OK. I did initially try to upgrade from 8.04 through the update manager GUI, but there were endless problems - the one I remember was the use of an old attribute name in the udev control files which would be lost in the next release. I ended up copying all of my user data to another disk and installing server from scratch ("Server" because I didn't want, and as said above could barely use, the GUI). Also gave me a chance to partition the disk (changing from the MPC's default single partition) to make future installs easier. I installed Ubuntu Server 10.04.1 on my MPC-L and both of the above problems seem to have been sorted out – the kernel worked fine (once I’d added the “pnnpbios=off nolapic noapic apci=off” to the grub lines) and it found the PATA driver OK.

I did initially try to upgrade from 8.04 through the update manager GUI, but there were endless problems – the one I remember was the use of an old attribute name in the udev control files which would be lost in the next release. I ended up copying all of my user data to another disk and installing server from scratch (“Server” because I didn’t want, and as said above could barely use, the GUI). Also gave me a chance to partition the disk (changing from the MPC’s default single partition) to make future installs easier.

]]> By: Kevin Grumball http://tonywhitmore.co.uk/blog/2010/07/04/ubuntu-lucid-on-the-viglen-mpc-l/comment-page-1/#comment-3137 Kevin Grumball Fri, 13 Aug 2010 10:08:08 +0000 http://tonywhitmore.co.uk/blog/?p=675#comment-3137 The current build seems to have omitted the PATA drivers again in Ubuntu Server 10.4. The installer for Ubuntu will therefore claim it can't find any disks (or will offer to partition your USB drive) So you need the following steps to install the driver: 1. When it complains it can't find a a disk, go back until you get the long list of things to do. 2. Scroll down to get a terminal session and type the following: wget http://popey.com/~alan/viglen/2.6.28-11-generic_pata_cs5535.ko mv 2.6.28-11-generic_pata_cs5535.ko pata_cs5535.ko insmod pata_cs5535.ko 3. Exit the terminal session and carry on from "detect disks". The current build seems to have omitted the PATA drivers again in Ubuntu Server 10.4. The installer for Ubuntu will therefore claim it can’t find any disks (or will offer to partition your USB drive)
So you need the following steps to install the driver:

1. When it complains it can’t find a a disk, go back until you get the long list of things to do.
2. Scroll down to get a terminal session and type the following:

wget http://popey.com/~alan/viglen/2.6.28-11-generic_pata_cs5535.ko
mv 2.6.28-11-generic_pata_cs5535.ko pata_cs5535.ko
insmod pata_cs5535.ko

3. Exit the terminal session and carry on from “detect disks”.

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