Well they are certainly known to me. Winbond crap wasn't actually a
problem at least in my case although I ask you if you can go into init 5
on cold boot and log in on X and use sound successfully?
I have a feeling that your scsiness isn't the problem there. Just fix
the typo on the kdelnk, it was just a typo (assuming you supermounted to
/mnt/zip and that was right). Are all of these problems in the second
and third betas? Some were at one point fixed in betas 2 & 3.
According to recent chitter chatter the automatic installation of 3.3.6
as opposed to 4.0.3 is due to detection of your hardware config (i.e.
tnt card, monitor type) and parity checking which determined 3.3.6 was
best. BTW enter would also clear the winbond crap. Tell me how accurate
I am, I'm usually not but I'm strangely familiar with these issues.
Blue Lizard
The poor bastard w/ the 233Mhz
The small hd
No cd burner
and a cable modem.
Oh and my speakers died.
As did my old motherboard
the new one which wasn't really new
couldn't hold as much ram.
On 03 Apr 2001 18:27:30 -0400, Peter Bradley wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've installed all three betas and I've noticed a few problems. I'm unsure if
> these are Mandrake specific or kernel related.
>
> 1) Immediately after the login prompt (I don't boot into X), I get the
> following messages:
>
> Winbond Super-IO detection, now testing ports 3F0, 370, 250, 4E, 2E...
> SMSC Super-IO detection, now testing ports 2F0, 370...
>
> After that it just remains there until I hit Ctrl-C, which returns me to the
> login prompt. This has been the case for all three betas.
>
> 2) On the KDE desktop, the install process places a ZIP drive icon. This is
> correct. However, the link is dead. Under 'properties', the URL is given as
> "/mnt.zip". Shouldn't this be "/mnt/zip"?
>
> 3) Under KDE, clicking on "DrakConf --> Hardware --> Display" it
> automatically installs XFree86 3.3.6 without asking permission. I didn't want
> XFree86 3.3.6 installed. X crashed hard moments later.
>
> 4) I sometimes get SCSI errors during the shutdown process; it seems it can't
> umount some file systems (might be USB Zip drive related)
>
> My systems is as follows:
>
> PIII 450
> 128 MB RAM
> TNT 16 MB graphics card
> USB Zip 100 drive
>
> I'm not sure if these are known issues, but I thought I let you know just in
> case. LM 8.0 is coming along very nicely, I can't wait until the final
> release.
>
> --PCB
>
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