Hi
1) Installing with Grub on a dedicated /boot partition does not work
(cannot boot)
Installing with Lilo (graphical) on the same dedicated /boot works
perfectly fine
2) Supermount is sloooooowwwwwwww.
plus every ~5s it feels the need to access the floppy drive...
also only root has access to the floppy...
I wish supermount was dropped from the distro. It's never been
working properly on any machines I've installed Mandrake (and this
goes back several distro releases). Anyway that's always the 1st
thing I get rid of after installing Mandrake...
3) Missing KDE programs (eg Konsole)
4) From the MDK login manager, I cannot reboot... only halt the machine
I'm not gonna start again with the login manager and it has been
discussed before I believe but why not use a properly themed GDM or
KDM?!?!
5) In KDE, starting Kate for the 1st time shows only a small window and
the "show terminal" is ticked by default. Why? It's an editor.
6) Mandrake
from lilo prompt to MDK login manager (110 seconds)
from MDK login manager to KDE (fully logged) ( 20 seconds)
Gentoo
from Grub prompt to GDM login manager ( 63 seconds)
from GDM login manager to KDE (fully logged) ( 16 seconds)
Measured on the same box (dual P3 733MHz, 512Mb Ram, HDs with
similar perf according to hdparm)
7) Trying to format my USB HD (6Gb) using:
"mkfs.vfat -v -c -F 32 /dev/sda"
I get:
Aug 16 11:04:50 wallaby kernel: MSDOS FS: Using codepage 850
Aug 16 11:04:50 wallaby kernel: MSDOS FS: IO charset iso8859-15
Aug 16 11:04:50 wallaby kernel: FAT: bogus logical sector size 41488
Aug 16 11:04:50 wallaby kernel: VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem
on dev 08:01.
Aug 16 11:04:50 wallaby kernel: FAT: freeing iocharset=iso8859-15
Aug 16 11:05:00 wallaby CROND[3295]: (mail) CMD (/usr/bin/python -S
/var/lib/mailman/cron/gate_news)
Aug 16 11:10:00 wallaby CROND[3316]: (mail) CMD (/usr/bin/python -S
/var/lib/mailman/cron/gate_news)
Aug 16 11:10:57 wallaby kernel: usb-uhci.c: interrupt, status 3, frame#
654
Aug 16 11:10:57 wallaby kernel: SCSI disk error : host 3 channel 0 id 0
lun 0 return code = 70000
Aug 16 11:10:57 wallaby kernel: I/O error: dev 08:01, sector 429615
Aug 16 11:10:57 wallaby kernel: SCSI disk error : host 3 channel 0 id 0
lun 0 return code = 70000
Aug 16 11:10:57 wallaby kernel: I/O error: dev 08:01, sector 429616
Aug 16 11:10:57 wallaby kernel: SCSI disk error : host 3 channel 0 id 0
lun 0 return code = 70000
Aug 16 11:10:57 wallaby kernel: I/O error: dev 08:01, sector 429617
Aug 16 11:10:57 wallaby kernel: SCSI disk error : host 3 channel 0 id 0
lun 0 return code = 70000
Aug 16 11:10:57 wallaby kernel: I/O error: dev 08:01, sector 429618
Aug 16 11:10:57 wallaby kernel: SCSI disk error : host 3 channel 0 id 0
lun 0 return code = 70000
Aug 16 11:10:57 wallaby kernel: I/O error: dev 08:01, sector 429619
Aug 16 11:10:57 wallaby kernel: SCSI disk error : host 3 channel 0 id 0
lun 0 return code = 70000
Aug 16 11:10:57 wallaby kernel: I/O error: dev 08:01, sector 429620
Aug 16 11:10:57 wallaby kernel: SCSI disk error : host 3 channel 0 id 0
lun 0 return code = 70000
Aug 16 11:10:57 wallaby kernel: I/O error: dev 08:01, sector 429621
....
(about 28Mb of this crap...)
8) My USB HD is correctly recognized as /dev/sda1 but when I switched on
my firewire HD enclosure I get:
Aug 16 10:50:01 wallaby kernel: ieee1394: sbp2: Logged into SBP-2 device
Aug 16 10:50:01 wallaby kernel: ieee1394: sbp2: Node 0-00:1023: Max
speed [S400] - Max payload [2048]
Aug 16 10:50:01 wallaby /etc/hotplug/ieee1394.agent: Setup sbp2 for
IEEE1394 product 0x000000/0x00609e/0x010483
but cat /proc/scsi/scsi does show anything and ls -la /dev/sd* still
shows only sda1 (I expect sdb1 and sdb2 as I have 2 partitions on the HD
in the firewire enclosure).
[EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# lspcidrake
agpgart : Intel Corporation|82840 840 (Carmel) Chipset Host
Bridge (Hub A) [BRIDGE_HOST]
unknown : Intel Corporation|82840 840 (Carmel) Chipset AGP
Bridge [BRIDGE_PCI]
unknown : Intel Corporation|82840 840 (Carmel) Chipset PCI
Bridge (Hub B) [BRIDGE_PCI]
i810_rng : Intel Corporation|82801AA 810 Chipset Hub to PCI
Bridge [BRIDGE_PCI]
i810-tco : Intel Corporation|82801AA 810 Chipset LPC Interface
Bridge [BRIDGE_ISA]
unknown : Intel Corporation|82801AA 810 Chipset IDE Controller
[STORAGE_IDE]
usb-uhci : Intel Corporation|82801AA 810 Chipset USB Controller
[SERIAL_USB]
unknown : Intel Corporation|82801AA 810 Chipset SMBus Controller
[SERIAL_SMBUS]
Card:NVIDIA GeForce4 (generic): NVidia|GeForce4 Ti 4200 with AGP8X
[DISPLAY_VGA]
unknown : Intel Corporation|82806AA PCI64 Hub PCI Bridge
[BRIDGE_PCI]
unknown : Intel Corporation|82806AA PCI64 Hub Advanced
Programmable Interrupt Controller [SYSTEM_PIC]
aic7xxx : Adaptec|7892A [STORAGE_SCSI]
unknown : Texas Instruments|PCI2250 PCI-to-PCI Bridge
[BRIDGE_PCI]
unknown : Promise Technology, Inc.|20268 [STORAGE_OTHER]
snd-emu10k1 : Creative Labs|SB Live! (audio) [MULTIMEDIA_AUDIO]
emu10k1-gp : Creative Labs|SB Live! (joystick) [INPUT_OTHER]
eepro100 : Intel Corporation|82559 [Ethernet Pro 100]
[NETWORK_ETHERNET]
ohci1394 : NEC Corporation|uPD72874 IEEE1394 OHCI 1.1 3-port
PHY-Link Ctrlr [SERIAL_FIREWIRE]
usb-ohci : NEC|USB [SERIAL_USB]
usb-ohci : NEC|USB [SERIAL_USB]
ehci-hcd : NEC Corporation|PCI to USB Enhanced Host Controller
[SERIAL_USB]
unknown : Linux 2.4.22-0.5mdksmp ehci_hcd|NEC Corporation USB
2.0 [Hub|Root Hub]
unknown : Unknown|USB OHCI Root Hub [Hub|Root Hub]
unknown : Unknown|USB OHCI Root Hub [Hub|Root Hub]
unknown : Unknown|USB UHCI Root Hub [Hub|Root Hub]
unknown : Texas Instruments|TUSB2046 Hub [Hub|Root Hub]
cpia_usb : VLSI Vision Ltd.|CPiA WebCam []
unknown : Texas Instruments|TUSB2040 Hub [Hub|Root Hub]
unknown : Addonics Technologies Inc. USA|USB storage cable type
II [Mass Storage|SCSI|Bulk (Zip)]
unknown : Epson Corp.|USB Printer
[Printer|Printer|Bidirectional]
9) I still cannot print anything (like printing test pages) when the
printer is setup. Everything seems to be configured correctly. The
printer prints perfectly fine from Windows and has been printing fine
before from Linux. (Epson Stylus Photo 870)
10) Still missing packages during install like linuxconf, gatos, etc...
about 5 or 6.
--
Frederic Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
