Thomas Spuhler wrote:
>
> I fully agree with you. I have the same problem, and it seems either nobody
> is interested to solve this old problem or there is no solution. The problem
> seems to be the S3Virge (86C325)
> Tom
>
Agreed, that card has been a problem since I first started using
Mandrake. It's a Mandrake problem, I've tried at least 6 distros and
this is the only one with it, but I happen to prefer Mandrake to RH,
Suse, TurboLinux... even three different Debian distros including
pure Debian. It took up to 7.2 to fix it before, why let the same
problem come up again, and how many releases before it's fixed? I'm
tired of being unable to do a clean install and risking all my data on
an upgrade even. Not that I don't have everything on my cooker partition
backed up, but it is rather a pin repairing and restoring every time.
That is a very common card, but maybe I should get an nVidea instead..
if a PCI version exists.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of L. A. Lawless
> Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2001 11:09 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [Cooker] install problems with DrakX?
>
> François Pons wrote:
> >
> > Juhan Leemet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
>
> >
> > > Pentium. It's currently running RedHat 6.1 very nicely. I would like to
> move
> > > my machines to a common code base, and Mandrake looks like the best for
> me.
> > > However, I cannot install 8.0 into that machine. I've tried cdrom,
> network,
> > > hd images, but they all fail. Generally, it looks like everything goes
> OK
> > > until "DrakX v1.510 built Wed Apr 18 08:14:11 2001" starts. It then
> "hangs",
> > > and the logs don't say anything useful. The Alt-F1 screen just says
> "install
> > > exited abnormally :-(" followed by shutdown messages and then "you may
> safely
> > > reboot your system". I have some of questions:
> >
> > What gives Alt-F2, Alt-F3 and Alt-F4 at least ?
> >
> > > If I've specified a text install, why is DrakX (graphic install?) even
> being
> > > used? I would have thought it would use newt for i/o?
> >
> > Yes, it should use newt, press F1 on very first boot, then enter text and
> press
> > ENTER key.
> >
>
> >
> > François.
>
> I'm bringing up a question or two on this because although it's not the
> same problem, there are similarities. P200MMX, 3.3GB HDD, 160MB RAM,
> S3Virge 86c325 graphics card with 4MB video RAM. X cannot be installed
> in 8 at all, any version. Even doing an expert text install, along comes
> the graphical DrakX and the whole machine freezes solid. At least a
> graceful crash is preferable to having to hit reset and use fsck in the
> hope of being able to rescue your data. By doing an upgrade from 7.2 I
> can get a working X server, but I still have the freeze and rest, and
> then the manual fsck before I can get X working.
> When is this going to be fixed? I've used every version of Mandrake
> since 7.0 and the only one that would install a working X server without
> freezing was 7.2. Could somebody maybe compare the code and produce a
> patch? This isn't only an installation problem, after installation the
> only way to change anything that would normally use drakx is by editing
> the conf file by hand, because drakx freezes the system any time it is
> used.
> I think this is my 6th time of bringing this up on cooker.
>
> --
> Anna
