hi calvin,
did you download beta 1 or beta 1 refresh? which build? hopefully you
downloaded build 19, if not please try build 19.
Calvin Arndt wrote:
> tested today...
> downloaded from ftp.kando.hu--- MD5 checked correct--- wrote CD...
> verified track....
>
> then!!!
>
> Machine Cryix 333 64mg - WD 13.0g - 44XDelta CD - SOYO 5EH5 ver 1.1
> SIS 6236- made by Palit(PCI) - Creative SB16 - PCI winmodem (uggh!
> don't scream I know...) Microsoft serial 2 button mouse
>
> Rather a hard machine to installed any Linux distribution on
>
> Feelings....
>
> Have installed eDesktop 2.4 on this machine also. Lizard worked fairly
> well on both yet while monitoring the whole process Kernel kept
> screaming about ld.so not being page alinged "Please convert" it said
> crtl+alt+(f4 or f5 or f6[don't really remember])
>
> It was really interesting that lizard detected my USB ZIP250 w/a z100
> disk inserted but after install could'nt mount it... major or minor
> block # problem.... /dev/sda4
>
> As allways I used 16k color 8 by 6 w/this Palit video card. Kde2 looked
> great, sound worked but synthhsizer didn't... Caldera has problems with
> it too.
>
> Red hat 7.0 beta (pinstripe) has no trouble setting up the sound
> correctly on this oddball machine. However it didn't even notice my ZIP
> or my video card. This video card is a fun one let me tell ya.. Cheap!
>
> Don't really understand why but Lizard mouse dies if you probe the
> video card (both on Caldera install and Redmond) Testing 8 x 6 16k
> video mode will work fine but upon return to lizard say good by to
> video, you can see lizard is still alive alt+n gets the next lizard
> page but its unreadable....
>
> Haven't tied it but I have thought about popping in an AMD K6-2.....
>
> for some reason on redmond install lilo never wrote its boot code had
> to manually repair that....
>
> after a couple of hours genuinely playing w/KDE2 (I'm Impressed!) I
> made the sad mistake of using file find to find a few wav's to try and
> check out the media player (i knew synth wasn't workin for some reason)
> about half way thru the find machine locked up Hard drive led on but
> obviously not doing anything couldn't get to any of the other tty's to
> kill kde and shut down proper. Next boot fsck fails /dev/hda1....
>
> Oh well alotta fun anyway!!!!
>
> Keep up the good work guys!
>
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joe
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