mandrakeexpert incident 30779 forwarded to cooker.
tester's email address is: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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jenglish : 02/09 10:25 : Incident created
Hardware: Gateway 500SE, with an Intel i845 graphics chipset
which is giving me no end of difficulties :-)
The 9.0 RC1 release does a little bit better than betas 3 and
4 --
previously the X server wouldn't even start without manually
tweaking the XF86Config-4 file, this time the automatic
configuration produces an almost-working configuration.
However, the display will still only start up at 640x480 in
16bpp, or 800x600 with 8bpp, there are some really bad
display glitches, and the X server occasionally crashes with
this message in the log file:
pgetbl_ctl: 0xffe0001 pgetbl_err: 0x0
ipeir: 0 iphdr: 0
LP ring tail: 1e0 head: 3a0 len: f001 start
10c000
eir: 0 esr: 0 emr: ff7b
instdone: ffc1 instpm: 0
memmode: 0 instps: 20
hwstam: ffff ier: 0 imr: ffff iir: 0
Fatal server error:
Active ring not flushed
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I can supply more details if you need them; my MandrakeOnline
user ID is 'jenglish'.
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A few other problems: 'lspcidrake' segfaults, the 'HardDrake'
menu entry won't start, and /etc/init.d/harddrake also
crashes (these are possibly related). Also, although I can
play .wav files, the GNOME cd player doesn't
seem to work.
Will try again when RC2 comes out...
jenglish : 06/09 08:16 : More info provided
Manuel Chakravarty has posted some more information (and
patches)
for the i845 chipset:
http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~chak/linux/c400.html#xfree86
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Alan
