Cooker install report - Draxk v. 1.646 Good Day, this is a report on installing from cooker today. The most up-to-date package included was devfsd-1.3.23-4mdk; i.e. there have been 7 package updates since, as of 9:11 pm Japan time. (GMT +8)
Note: bugs or notes are preceeded by a line of numbers i.e. 1111111111111111 so they will be easier to pick out - I tried to make this bug report as thorough as possible but as a result it's long and long-winded. Cooker was mirrored to an ext2 partition, and installed using hd.img copied to a floppy. 111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 In stage 1, the following error was reported: (from stage1.log) * have to insmod sd_mod * needs scsi_mod * needs sd_mod * succeeded sd_mod * PCI: device 1000 008f is "Symbios|53c875J" (sym53c8xx) * have to insmod sym53c8xx * needs sym53c8xx * init_module: sym53c8xx: No such device * failed * warning, insmod failed (sym53c8xx (null)) (1) * unsetting automatic i.e. it had problems with the SCSI card. (no previous Mandrake I've tested has had this problem.) Install Steps: 1. The install went to graphical mode. I selected to use English for the install, and also selected Japanese to be available. 2. I chose expert mode, and the install option. 222222222222222222222222222222222222222222222222222222222222222222222222222222 3. Again, graphical install couln't configure the SCSI card. (from ddebug.log) * starting step `setupSCSI' * running: /usr/bin/insmod_ 2> /dev/tty5 -f /tmp/cdrom.o * running: /usr/bin/insmod_ 2> /dev/tty5 -f /tmp/ide-cd.o * running: /usr/bin/insmod_ 2> /dev/tty5 -f /tmp/sym53c8xx.o Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters * warning: insmod'ing module sym53c8xx failed at /usr/bin/perl-install/modules.pm line 615. * running: /usr/bin/insmod_ 2> /dev/tty5 -f /tmp/parport.o * running: /usr/bin/insmod_ 2> /dev/tty5 -f /tmp/parport_pc.o * running: /usr/bin/insmod_ 2> /dev/tty5 -f /tmp/imm.o Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters * warning: insmod'ing module imm failed at /usr/bin/perl-install/modules.pm line 615. * running: /usr/bin/insmod_ 2> /dev/tty5 -f /tmp/ppa.o Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters * warning: insmod'ing module ppa failed at /usr/bin/perl-install/modules.pm line 615. * step `setupSCSI' finished The graphical display also complained. Still, it claimed to have found the card, and asked for confirmation. 33333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333 4. I selected a generic PS2 wheel mouse, and testing went fine, though it behaved erraticaly for the initial two seconds or so. 5. I selected the Japanese keyboard. 6. I partitioned; linux is on hdc, and /, /home, /swap, and cooker are the only things on the disk. / and /home are ReiserFS. I had to reboot after partitioning, and got exactly the same set of error messages the second time through as I did the first. 7. Package selection: on initial screen I clicked game and multimedia station in addition to the defaults. Went to individual package selection. 8. Removed Aurora, drakfirsttime, netscape, and webmin from the list. 9. Added fluxbox, xawtv, xawtv_misc, and all xmames to the list. 10. gave the OK to start the freewnn server. (for Japanese) 11. Set the root password and to authenticate locally. 12. Added one user. 444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444 Some icons are duplicated, and clicking to change is confusing because the duplicates come up before the new icons - it's difficult to tell if you've cycled through all of them or not. 13. Said not to defualt logon one person. 14. Told it not to autodetect net settings.I selected LAN connection (I have a cable modem.) and it found the netcard, (RTL-8029). 15. Entered IP, netmask, selected no auto IP. Entered hostname, dns, and gatway. slected no proxies. At summary display, set timezone to tokyo, and not set to GMT or use auto-synchro. 16. Said not to look for updated packages. 17. Said ok to start the services (29 of 41.) 18. Selected text-mode lilo as the bootloader, 5 second delay, off /dev/hda. Set the windows partition to be the default option. 19. Created bootdisk. 20. Selected accelerated Xfree86 4.2.0 at 1024x768, 24 bit color. Tested (ok). 21. Said yes to start X on boot. (end install) 5555555555555555555555555555555555555555555555555555555555555555555555555 On boot, I get the following two-line message right before "starting kheader". I'm not sure if it's an error. /etc/rc5.d/S99devfsd line 30: syntax error near unexpected token '}' /etc/rc5.d/S99devfsd line 30: '}' Boot seems to complete with no problems. 666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666 I then log in as the user, into KDE, and get the following error message: "error init sound driver device /dev/dsp can't be opened (device or resource busy) will continue using null output 7777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777 I wanted to try tuxracer, but it would not load after not finding libSDL_mixer-1.2.so.0 - thus I couldn't test DRI. (At least, I'm not l33t enough to know another way.) 88888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888 xawtv only works if the ati.2 binaries from gatos.sourceforge.net are installed. It then works, but I think these should be installed automatically for those with the right cards. (as should the GATOS video capture kernel module and video viewer.) 9999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999 I can't figure out how to get Japanese support to work - I've tried installing yudit and changing my locale inside KDE. Pressing shift + alt does nothing. Also, selecting the Japanese locale in KDE results in ????????????????s rather than Kanji. 1010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010 An excellent addition to the wonderfully convenient mandrake config utilities would be one for joysticks - i still haven't gotten my sidewinder gamepad (non-USB) working, though I haven't exhausted all of things I can try yet. And to end on a good note, RPMdrake seems not to hang anymore when serching. Neat! ...And rest assured that if I didn't bitch about it above, it worked great. ;) Supplemental info: Hardware Config: Mobo: ABIT BH6 1.0 (Intel 440BX Chipset.) CPU: Intel PIII-800 (slot 1.) RAM: 128mb generic PC100. Video: Ati Radeon 64MB DDR VIVO. Sound: Creative SB128 (ens1370) SCSIcard: Diamond Fireport 20. Lancard: generic rtl-8029-compatible netcard. SCSI stuff: Plextor PX-32TS CD-ROM, Yamaha CRW4260TiPC 4x burner. IDE: zip drive, IBM 75GXP 30 gig drive as hda, Maxtor 8 gig drive as hdc. generic floppy. Eizo E55D monitor, generic Japanese 106-key keyboard, and Microsoft intellimouse. lsmod dump: Module Size Used by Tainted: P sg 30180 0 (autoclean) (unused) st 26996 0 (autoclean) (unused) sr_mod 15160 0 (autoclean) (unused) sd_mod 11644 0 (autoclean) (unused) scsi_mod 92552 4 (autoclean) [sg st sr_mod sd_mod] radeon 90488 0 agpgart 31552 1 (autoclean) snd-seq-midi 3424 0 (autoclean) (unused) snd-seq-oss 25600 0 (unused) snd-seq-midi-event 3184 0 [snd-seq-midi snd-seq-oss] snd-seq 40880 0 [snd-seq-midi snd-seq-oss snd-seq-midi-event] snd-pcm-oss 18816 0 snd-pcm-plugin 16080 0 [snd-pcm-oss] snd-mixer-oss 4704 0 [snd-pcm-oss] snd-card-ens1370 2112 0 snd-ens1370 7888 0 [snd-card-ens1370] snd-pcm 31616 0 [snd-pcm-oss snd-pcm-plugin snd-ens1370] snd-timer 8576 0 [snd-seq snd-pcm] snd-rawmidi 10112 0 [snd-seq-midi snd-ens1370] snd-seq-device 3964 0 [snd-seq-midi snd-seq-oss snd-seq snd-rawmidi]snd-ak4531-codec 14912 0 [snd-ens1370] snd-mixer 24328 0 [snd-mixer-oss snd-ens1370 snd-ak4531-codec] snd 34272 1 [snd-seq-midi snd-seq-oss snd-seq-midi-event snd-seq snd-pcm-oss snd-pcm-plugin snd-mixer-oss snd-card-ens1370 snd-ens1370 snd-pcm snd-timer snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device snd-ak4531-codec snd-mixer] soundcore 4068 7 [snd] af_packet 12488 0 (autoclean) ip_vs 65624 0 (autoclean) usb-uhci 21668 0 (unused) usbcore 51232 1 [usb-uhci] ne2k-pci 5120 1 (autoclean) 8390 6416 0 (autoclean) [ne2k-pci] nls_iso8859-1 2816 1 (autoclean) nls_cp850 3584 1 (autoclean) vfat 9820 1 (autoclean) fat 31864 0 (autoclean) [vfat] supermount 57572 2 (autoclean) rtc 5912 0 (autoclean) reiserfs 168832 2 modules.conf dump: alias usb-interface usb-uhci alias eth0 ne2k-pci alias scsi_hostadapter sym53c8xx above snd-card-ens1370 snd-pcm-oss alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-ens1370 ...and that's it. Please let me know if you need anymore debug data. If all of the issues I described above are fixed, I will _definitely_ be buying mandrake 8.2 - it'll be a perfect OS! Thanks, --Ian in Tokyo. _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp.
