I have an S3 Virge generic video card (86c325) and the ONLY Mdk distro
that has allowed me to complete installation without problems was 7.2,
and that only worked using Expert. I've had no problems with other
distros (Red Hat, Definite, Caldera, Storm, Corel, Debian). This seems
to be a very big problem with Mandrake as it took from my first ever
Linux distro of 7.0 'till 7.2 to fix the problem. Mdk 8 beta 1 could
complete X installation, but sometimes I got an unusable display (three
copies of everything, very jagged). From beta 2 onwards the only way
I've been able to test is by reinstalling 7.2 and doing an upgrade.
I've ben reading of this problem in the Mandrake newsgroup ever since I
first started using it. I have sent bug reports and posted to this
group, but have never had a reply. Is anyone going to fix this problem,
and the one that freezes the install in anything but expert when it
trues to detect scsi (I have none)?
Thank you for the reply I hope to get.
Lesley Lawless
Mohammad DAMT wrote:
>
> Hello,
> tried to install mdk8 this afternoon, results:
> - install freezed when I tried to look at hardware info at eth install
> (autodetect on, eth card detected --> RTL-8029)
> no mouse no keyboard, even sysreq magic was dead
> I pushed reset button, update installation, and didn't have guts to look at the
>hardware info
> - install freezed when started to initiate X configuration
> reset again (no mouse/kbd/dead again)
> repeated install procedures until X, and freezed AGAIN
> reset again, I took the CD out
> boot to installed system, but couldn't login,
> guess what ?? /etc/pam.d/passwd is corrupted as binary file,
> /bin/login corrupted also,
> so I reinstall those files with rpm from CDROM
> so I can login...
> then I ran drakexconf, freeze again, no mouse no keybd sysreq dead
> reset
> then I ran Xconfigurator, it called drakexconf too, dead again
> reset
> ran XFree86 -configure, goes perfecto...
>
> my video card is S3 Trio 3D/2x
>
> --
> Mohammad DAMT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.mdamt.net
> "nyai dasime ngeglundung, glundang glundung, nyemplung ke kali ciliwung", Nyai
>Dasime Kembang Pejambon, Benjamin S.
