I never got any messages from Bugzilla letting me in, and I'm not sure what modules I'd "blame" for this anyway... but I've gotten some fairly new hardware to turn into a new system and run into a few problems. I'm hoping that by the final release of 9.2 these problems might not exist anymore - this is from a post I made to a private newsgroup:
I didn't believe I could do it, but it appears that I may have finally stepped just beyond the bleeding edge of current Linux capabilities with this sytem. It all comes down to device drivers of course, and the apparent inability of hardware manufacturers to write ones for Linux for their current hardware. I found 3rd party drivers for my ATI 9600 Pro that appear to work.The ones out of the RC1 (or 9.1) distro did not - simply didn't even load X, even though it did recognize the card as some form of Radeon. http://www.schneider-digital.de/html/download_ati.html,get the glx1_linux_X4.3.zip package. Those worked. The 9.2RC1 of Mandrake Linux contains support for the Serial ATA (so did 9.1, sort of, but it didn't work very well) on my Gigabyte GA-7NNXP (Athlon XP) board.I haven't tried the hardware RAID under 9.2, but I'm not especially hopeful - it wasn't recognized under 9.1 at all. The Intel-based gigabit ethernet controller was recognized... The nVidia nForce2 Ultra400 based 10/100 network port is recognized by the LAN automatic sensing thing in 9.2...but the install program gets all weird and doesn't seem to be doing anything.,It see's it, asks if it's the only one (at that point, yes), and then asks what you'd like to install... Dialup, DSL, Cable or LAN... endless loop time. It doesn't offer a "cancel" option either. Three-fingered salute appeared to be the only option. This was after the install, when I deactivated the Gigabit controller in hopes that Harddrake would look beyond it to find the 10/100 controller. The nForce2 stuff seems to be making it's way onto a lot of boards, so I'm hoping that drivers for it show up. Frustrating for me, but I hope it gives Mandrake some things to look at to make their very good distro the best, most comprehensive one out there.
