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----quoted text below---- bseddon : 12/09 12:17 : Incident created Problem installing 9.0RC1 because of Graphic card recognition issue Network setup issue MDK 8.2 installs like a dream on my "mongrel" machine so named because it is an amalgam of a recently purchased AMD 1.2MHz Duron CPU and motherboard but older ATI Mach 32 graphics card and SCR-1213 CD-ROM. However I have real problems installing MDK 9.0 RC1 on the same machine. 1) Graphics This problem relates to XConfig. It doesn't recognise my ATI card and insists it is a Mach 64. The 8.2 install also made this mistake but DrakConf could be pursuaded to accept that the card is really a Mach32. However under 9.0RC1, although the installer allows the me to select the correct graphic card and appears to install the X RPMs for Mach32, it fails to record the selection. The result is that no X software can be setup leaving only a text installation. 2) Network The machine has a Linksys 10/100 Etherfast network card and so correctly installs the Tulip driver. Installation is successful if I specify an IP address during network setup. However if I select DHCP, the network card will not work after installation. Although ifconfig up/down work, the card does not obtain an IP address. Manually setting the IP address during installation then using DrakConf to change the setup to use DHCP seems to be the only reliable way to ensure a successful network setup. By way of background, I have an MSc Computer Science and am an expert with Windows at all levels of the OS. Used Unix at college but not used since. Now coming up to speed with Linux. -----end quoted text----- -- Alan
