Just went through a few installs, mirror current as of this early
morning. Bunch of things to report, so I'll give a real system description:
K6-2 350, 128 MB RAM, Logitech FirstMouse on ttyS0, unused ps/2 port and
unused USB
VIA MVP3 MB chipset
Installed from hda6 to hdb1 and 5
Gus Pnp soundcard, Voodoo Banshee video
NE2000 PCI nic
NE2000 compat. ISA nic
generic 40x cdrom, HP7110i cd-rw
Expert-Normal-Medium security
All groups checked, size slider pushed all the way up
- First off, and most annoying when going through many installs, the
source partition (hda6) for my hd install is still not cleanly unmounting after
install. Get an fsck on it first boot, every time.
- Got 2 floppy icons on root KDE desk ("Floppy" and "floppy"). Do
exactly the same thing.
- Parport zip drive not working, even though it's correctly set up
during install and referenced in conf.modules:
alias eth0 ne2k-pci
alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
pre-install pcmcia_core /etc/rc.d/init.d/pcmcia start
alias scsi_hostadapter ppa
alias eth1 ne
options ne io=0x300 irq=12
pre-install plip modprobe parport_pc ; echo 7 > /proc/parport/0/irq
Manual modprobe works fine. Maybe this is fixed in SysVinit 2.77-5mdk?
Seems to be the only significant change on changelog since the installs.
- No 3-button mouse emulation? Thought it was supposed to be on by
default, since there's no option during install? And mousedrake is still doing
wacky stuff. Pointer skips upward 1, 2, 3 times, then disappears. Switching to a
vt brings it back, but mousedrake never seems to do anything. In messages, I
get:
Jan 4 07:08:41 sithframe DrakX: error opening /modules/modules.dep: No such file or
directory
Jan 4 07:08:41 sithframe DrakX: running: insmod serial
Jan 4 07:08:45 sithframe DrakX: probing /dev/ttyS0 find class:
Jan 4 07:08:55 sithframe DrakX: probing /dev/ttyS1 find class:
Jan 4 07:08:56 sithframe DrakX: running: insmod usb-uhci
Jan 4 07:08:56 sithframe kernel: USB HID boot protocol mouse registered.
Jan 4 07:08:56 sithframe kernel: uhci_control_thread at c8087f30
Jan 4 07:08:56 sithframe kernel: usb_hub_thread at c808a4e8
Jan 4 07:08:56 sithframe kernel: uhci_connect_change: called for 0
Jan 4 07:08:56 sithframe kernel: uhci_connect_change: called for 1
Jan 4 07:08:57 sithframe DrakX: running: rmmod usb-uhci
-Security stuff: with medium security, it doesn't seem that ANYONE can
shutdown the system without creating a /etc/shutdown.allow and calling "shutdown
-a". Is this security or a bug? Seems a bit much to me for "medium". At least
CTRL-ALT-DEL could be defined to use the -a in inittab.
Couldn't run rpmdrake "as user". Again, security or bug? I've always
liked being able to browse the rpm database (in Kpackage) without su'ing.
-DrakX stuff: when the installer hits a generic error, shouldn't it
drop back to the last "yellow light" step? Noticed this when screwing around
with package selection. I could jump back to diskdrake and remind myself
exactly how much space I had on root, but jumping back to choosing packages and
starting to install would error out. Couldn't write to the drive; eventually, I
noticed that the "format partitions" light was yellow, jumped back to it, and
let it mount root (I think that's what it did, it didn't format anything).
Maybe this is something for 7.1.
I've given up on getting my network setup correctly during install :( I
need to get my ne ISA on eth0 with DHCP, and my ne2k-pci on eth1 with manual
configuration (masquerading a cable modem connection). Just can't do it, since
the pci is detected first and given to eth0. Don't ask me why my setup has to go
in this order, but it's what always works :) Anyway, after eth1 (tried it
knowing it wouldn't work) fails to get an IP through DHCP, the
hostname-gateway-etc dialog is skipped. Goes straight to crypto, even though
I've got eth0 up. Seems kind of silly to have to say no to crypto, when I got
to it early BECAUSE the internet connection failed to come up.
Oh, one more goofy one: playing around with X configuration during
install (nice to have 3dfx server automagically :), I tried 1027x768, said yes
to the test message and yes to start x at boot. Then, instead of exiting
install, I went through the x config step again and changed to 800x600 (yes to
test, yes to start at boot). Exited install normally, got to my desktop, and
had really huge colorful KDE icons (1027 size, I'm guessing)! Tried it a second
time to make sure that's what caused it. I guess I was thinking of the x config
step as being just like Xconfigurator (no changes to anything but
XF86Config). Nice to know it does more, if you don't screw with it too much :)
--
David Hart
Vincity Design
*Proudly sent from Linux Mandrake 6.1*
