Hi,
I installed the Oxygen-2 ISO a couple days ago on my
g/f's computer in place of Debian (2.1) this is how it
has gone:
The initial from-cd installation went fine. Chose
"developer system", no X at startup, and X resolution
800x600x16bpp.
Hardware is:
S3 Trio3d
Asus P5A
AMD K6
Creative Labs Ensoniq AudioPCI
Hauppauge WinTV 401
HP 500C inkjet printer
Buslogic (/Mylex) Multimaster (BT-958) U/W SCSI
Plextor 40x CD-ROM
Yamaha 4416S CD-RW
Tatung 17" monitor
Day 1:
On the first boot, I booted w/ the Linux entry, logged
in as root, and started kdm, which produced foul output.
Second boot, tried running XFdrake. Chose S3Trio 3d and
Non-Interlaced SVGA (like Debian with my
manually-installed XF86_SVGA binary from xfree86 3.3.5).
Console freeze.
Third boot, tried hitting enter at LILO to run Linux
FB. This runs kdm ok.
Intermission: Sleep. Work.
Day Two:
During the intermission, g/f booting Windows via LILO,
which failed (just hung). I checked /etc/lilo.conf and
noticed that there is a device swap of 0x80 -> 0x81 in
the windows entry. Comment out that part, rerun LILO,
and Windows boots and runs again.
Once in KDE, I noticed that the desktop link to KPPP is
broken. It started OK from the start menu, though.
Tried establishing a dialup connection to ASU (her
college) via PPP. Chose CHAP as the authentication
method (I chose wrong actually wrong - it should be
PAP), and "pppd died unexpectedly".
Tried editing the PPP connection because this particular
PPP server requires both console and pap login. How to
do this with kppp isn't readily apparent. Tried viewing
PPP help (by accessing the Help pulldown from the main
PPP window) with the kppp connection editor open, but
apparently it doesn't want to work like that. Went to
close the excess kppp windows, and for some reason, X
hung. No dice w/ ctrl-alt-backspace (didn't try
alt-sysrq - is it compiled in there?)
Tried to get to the bottom of the X deal. I get the
impression that linuxfb is not compatible with native
video access. Booting to "linux" running XFdrake
repeatedly with different options,
resulting in hangs both times.
Boot, decide to rtfm some and get ppp working "the old
fashioned way". Set up ppp by creating an
/etc/ppp/peers/asu file, w/ /etc/chatscripts/asu chat
script. Test it with pppd call asu. Success. So, I
slap together pon and poff scripts to mimic the way
Debian was set up and reduce typing. Then, get into X,
click the doc link on the desktop to get the Mandrake
docs. Only the TOC page shows up. All of the chapter
links are dead.
I try running the Mandrake Update app using the
Linuxberg mirror, which doesn't find any updates. Since
time is limited and local docs are borken, I can't find
out how exactly Mandrake Update works to see if I should
configure it somewhere to request updates to the
oxygen-2 branch.
I don't see any Oxygen docs online, and searching the
cooker archives doesn't yield any information on the
framebuffer stuff. Can someone fill me in? Also, how
does the update program work? Can it a) be run from
console b) upgrade between versions (eg., 7.1 -> 7.2)
c) be configured like Debian's apt-get to choose whether
to track updates to the stable release or updates to an
unstable release?
-pete
