Re: [Cooker] MDK 8.0 impressions
> "francisco" == Francisco Alcaraz Ariza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: francisco> Juan, francisco> Thank for your interest, I don't remember if I explain what is my pcmcia francisco> model; Is a Ovislink Fast Ethernet 10/100 Base-TX Ethernet PC CARD P/N: francisco> LNR-100N francisco> The laptop is a Toshiba with two toPIC95-B pcmcia slot. francisco> Harddrake detect a Realtek Semiconducor RT8139 (B/C) Cardbus Fast Ethernet francisco> mod: rtl8139 francisco> lsmod: pcmcia-core 41920 0 [ds i82365] francisco> lspci -vvv gives me: francisco> pcilib: Cannot open /proc/bus/pci/15/00.0 francisco> lspci: Unable to read 64 bytes of configuration space Are you running the lspci as root?. Later, Juan. -- In theory, practice and theory are the same, but in practice they are different -- Larry McVoy
[Cooker] MDK 8.0 impressions
Installation type: expert install from hd.img
System: Gigabyte GA-6BXE ATX motherboard
Intel 440BX chipset
PIIX4 onboard IDE controller: no drives - disabled in BIOS
Intel PII-400
384MB 100 MHz SDRAM
PDC20267 Promise UDMA100 PCI IDE controller: 4 Maxtor drives
PDC20262 Promise UDMA66 PCI IDE controller: no drives yet
Adaptec AHA-2940AU with 1 IBM drive, DVD-ROM, writer, Umax 2400S scanner
Matrox G400 32MB
Microsoft IntelliMouse Optical - PS/2 connection (USB possible)
CTX-1792UA 17-inch monitor
SB AWE64 (isapnp)
HP-Colorado Travan T1000 floppy tape drive
USR 56K external Message Modem on ttyS01
3 1/2 inch floppy drive
HP DeskJet 720C
1. Installation trouble-free, except:
Mouse detection still difficult to capture mouse in dialog.
Have to select network config twice - LAN and modem (after completing
one the damn thing *still* thinks you've finished - how about a
"done" button?).
2. Throughout install, drives recognised as hd{e,f,g,h}. hde goes up to
hde21. However, on first boot, kernel panic! Can't find hdf5 to boot
from. Of course, with this accursed "CONFIG_BLK_DEV_OFFBOARD=y"
kernel config, the drives are now hd{a,b,c,d}. OK, I passed boot
param "root=/dev/hdb5" to get in, but then I had to do file system
repair to correct fstab hd values. First I had to remount / rw. Then
after `vim /etc/fstab`, exit and reboot, I had to do file system
repair *again* to do `mknod /dev/hda{17-21} b 3 {17-21}`. The
installer had already created /dev/hde{17-21}, which are now not
needed.
This should not be necessary. I don't mind your crackpot idea of
using the "CONFIG_BLK_DEV_OFFBOARD=y" kernel config, as long as you
clean up afterwards.
3. For the first time I see anti-aliased fonts - but they're *horrible* -
I'll have to do some work on those. That terrible A D MONO font (all
caps) must have been at the top of the list somewhere, because until I
rebooted again, that was the KDE task bar font! - imagine!
Overall, there is pleasing evidence of a lot of good work done, but, as
with 7.2, it is spoilt by the lack of attention to "first impressions". I
think the freeze/fix/release period should be doubled in future to try to
avoid the half-finished appearance of what gets to market.
--
Linux Mandrake release 7.2 (Odyssey) for i586
KDE 2.1
Linux 2.2.17-27mdkWin4Lin, Uptime 4 hours 41 minutes
Re: [Cooker] MDK 8.0 impressions
Juan, Thank for your interest, I don't remember if I explain what is my pcmcia model; Is a Ovislink Fast Ethernet 10/100 Base-TX Ethernet PC CARD P/N: LNR-100N The laptop is a Toshiba with two toPIC95-B pcmcia slot. Harddrake detect a Realtek Semiconducor RT8139 (B/C) Cardbus Fast Ethernet mod: rtl8139 lsmod: pcmcia-core 41920 0 [ds i82365] lspci -vvv gives me: pcilib: Cannot open /proc/bus/pci/15/00.0 lspci: Unable to read 64 bytes of configuration space The problem is that the 15 directory doen't exist, you can find /proc/bus/pci/00 and inside the files: 00.0 02.0 02.1..0c.0 A grave sound shows that the card is not well recognized I don't know if this could help you to find what the problem is. El Mar 24 Abr 2001 12:19, escribiste: > > "francisco" == Francisco Alcaraz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Hi > > francisco> My PCMCIA fast ethernet card is a hardware problem; I will > francisco> try to consult specializated PCMCIA pages to search a > francisco> solution, if it exists. If sombody of these list (cooker > francisco> and crashtesters) or of the Mandrake Team have any idea, > francisco> please, tell me; thanks :-) > > Could you send the output of lspci -vvv please? > > Later, Juan. -- Francisco Alcaraz Murcia (Spain)
Re: [Cooker] MDK 8.0 impressions
> "francisco" == Francisco Alcaraz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Hi francisco> My PCMCIA fast ethernet card is a hardware problem; I will francisco> try to consult specializated PCMCIA pages to search a francisco> solution, if it exists. If sombody of these list (cooker francisco> and crashtesters) or of the Mandrake Team have any idea, francisco> please, tell me; thanks :-) Could you send the output of lspci -vvv please? Later, Juan. -- In theory, practice and theory are the same, but in practice they are different -- Larry McVoy
[Cooker] MDK 8.0 impressions
Installation in two systems: 1) Main linux box: Pentium III 800, 128 Mb Ram, hda: 30 Gb (ATA 66) with two windows partitions; hdb 20 Gb (ATA 100) with several linux partitions, one of them running beta 3; the rest for MDK 8.0; Epson perfection 1200 USB scanner; Epson Stylus Color 760 printer, two ethernet card, one for internet conexion via Cable Modem SURFBoard and the other to conect my laptop using IP masking to share my internet conexion. Sony CRX160 Cdrwriter (hdc) and Hitachi DVD (hdd). Creative lab 128 PCI sound card; Voodoo3 3000 video-card; Avermedia TV Capture 98 TV card. 2 USB ports. 2) Toshiba satellite 4090XCDT laptop, 64 Mb RAm, hda 4 Gb, 1/2 with windows and 1/2 with linux, maestro sound card, two pcmcia slots, winmodem, 1 usb port, Teach cdrom-driver. Xawtv: I have the same problem I had mentioned before in various messages; blue window, not sound; I had to substitute the version with MDK 8 with the version of MDK 7.2 and now it runs fine. :-) Cabletv: I can watch all the cable tv channels even the PPV (pay per view) ones; on Sunday I can watch the footbal (soocer for american people) of the Spanish first league. That runed also with MDK 7.2. :-) Xcdroast (not in MDK 8, but present in betas 2 and 3) crashes when trying to write a previously created image. Using command line mkisofs and cdrecord this can be done. I had similar problems with Gtoaster an Gcombust; the last write the cd, but was unreadable. Epson perfection 1200 USB scanner detected, but the link wasn't created. Anyway, is so much better than MDK 7.2 the USB support. :-). Now runing fine with xsane or directly with gimp and sane plugin activated. Cups seems work fine, by first of all it installated the printer in draft quality and very small page margins. Fortunately it was easy to change all these later. :-). My epson stylus color 760 runs fine. In my laptop also run a HP LaserJet 4L. Genius Netscroll mouse, was installed as generic wheel mouse and not problems. Voodo3 3dfx: DRI (acceleration) runing. It seems there is a problem wit xvideo; I can't run xine in full screen. The problem seems to be with the kernel 2.4.3, I am trying to ask in the xine channel. ?:-O >From beta 2 I had problems to run games in full screen, they crashes X. That didn't happened with MDK 7.2. Unfortunately I don't know how to make pinguis and clambomber run in a window, so I can't play these wonderfull games :-( snif. Has anyone the same problem with a Voodoo3 3000 or similar under kernel 2.4.2 or 2.4.3 I did an expert install, but some packages weren't in the selection list, for example Nedit. Cable Modem: just giving the Host name it was installed at the first sight :-) it was the first time, with MDK 7.2 and 8 betas 2 and 3 it was very difficult, the installation didn't allow to select cable modem, and dhcp files weren't installed. I had to do the installation of dhcp files by hand and after that it wasn't difficult to activate my internet conexion. So final 8.0 is very well to do that; ||mm Vey good job MDK team! :-)) IP masquering, was made using MDK Control Center and my laptop runing windows was conected to the second ethernet card and now I am capable of runing my internet cable modem conexion from both, the main linux box and the laptop runing windows98 (I have problems with my PCMCIA ethernet card and in linux is not working :-( ). So it runs very well, :-)) DVD, xine and videolan runs generally fine dvd movies (xine a little beet better). I just have to create a dvd-cdrom link according with the xine howto. Not frames skiped neither lost (is the udf improved capabalities of kernel 2.4). :-)). Tetex: in my main linux box it was installed without problems, but in my laptop there was an error with one of the files. I reached to install in the laptop the last version from 7.2 withou problems ?:-O. Konqueror: the plugins file wasn't installed. I did that by command line and it runs fine. In the laptop everything run fine except my PCMCIA fast ethernet Ovislink 10/100 Base-TX Ethernet PC CARD. Ovislink support said me that the module isn't still avalaible. They said me the same 6 month ago. Is anyone using the same ethernet card or similar?, I would like have more hd space in my laptop for linux but if I can't run internet in linux I must have window also :-(. Well, enought for the first time, isn't it? I think the problems with front/ends to copy cd and cd-images could easily solved by the experts (I have not idea, the command line could be a solution; if you are interesting on, read my previous crashtesters message). My PCMCIA fast ethernet card is a hardware problem; I will try to consult specializated PCMCIA pages to search a solution, if it exists. If sombody of these list (cooker and crashtesters) or of the Mandrake Team have any idea, please, tell me; thanks :-) See you soon _ Francisco Alcaraz Murcia (Spain)
