Some bugs I noticed
After using 8.1 Release and upgrading to 8.2 Beta... System is Athlon 1200,
RTL 8139, WinTV-GO, Belkin firewire. SB AWE64.
I noticed I'm prompted for XF 4.1 although 4.2 is actually installed.
Harddrake seems to have a problem configuring my sound card.
It finds module isa-pnp not present. Sure enough it's not there.
(I had no idea it existed anyway but...)
I checked the BIOS settings to make sure everything is PNP (DMA
and IRQ), then decided to try the old way.
pnpdump > /etc/somefile
isapnp /etc/somefile
modprobe sb
so far so good.
The mixer appears, but I can't play anything. no sound comes out.
All the IRQs and DMAs seem right but no sound. I retried without artsd
and the same thing happens. Funny that the noise volume corresponds to
the mixer volume setting so something is happening.
I also started getting corruption of the characterset on boot (terminal in
graphics mode or something like that).
Unable to get grname for user $££%£%"£%£"$£"%$£^$^
(except the funny characters included graphic chars.).
This prevented me from using what I presume was the textmode sound config wizard.
Lastly, I got users who lost their group after the install,
and sure enough /etc/group reflected the fact that a few of the users suddenly no
longer belonged to any group. Wierd huh?
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