Hardware I am using: Dell Latitude Cpi laptop 400MHz Pentium II, 128MB RAM video: neomagic 2360, 4MB sound: neomagic 256ZX realtek 8139 cardbus ethernet controller D-Link 802.11b Prism II wireless lan card
I did a ftp install from my own ftp server. Install debug log: http://icdweb.cc.purdue.edu/~ljfisher/ddebug.log Problems I have installing 9.0 beta 4: - During install I am never asked to configure my wireless card. I would guess this is because I did an ftp install, and since I already configured my land line ethernet controller the installer assumes the network is configured. When I did a cd install of beta 3 it did ask me to configure the wireless card. - When I get to the X windows configuration section, I get an error about not being able to find the package "XFree86-". I can get around this by clicking the cancel button on the "select your monitor" screen. Then an X summary screen appears where I can manually select my video driver, monitor, X options, and resolution. See line 2343 in ddebug.log. This definitely needs fixing. - The following problem was reported for 8.2, but was seemingly dismissed. See http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg63717.html. I'm not sure if Mandrake can fix it or not. The hotplug support is causing a couple problems. It loads a bunch of modules that do not support my hardware. This result is in a bunch of annoying insmod errors on boot up. The "problem" seems to lie with /usr/bin/pcimodules. This is used by the hotplug scripts to get a list of modules to load. It returns the following modules for my system in this order: 8139too, 8139cp, snd-nm256, nm256_audio, usb-uhci, uhci, yenta_socket. The modules that actually support my hardware are 8139too, either of snd-nm256 or nm256_audio, usb-uhci, and yenta_socket. Thus, when it loads the unsupported modules, I get ugly insmod errors. The only functional problem I see this as causing is with sound. The hotplug scripts are probably getting called early during start-up. Since the alsa sound driver is first in the list returned by pcimodules, that driver gets loaded. This is a problem because the mandrake installer configures the system to use the kernel oss driver and not the alsa driver. Lucas
