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I had some issues which I would like to air on cooker before I file
bugzilla reports. I installed on my 600X which had a dualboot
win2k/Mandrake 9.0 on it before.
1)Screenshots did not work, console errors were something like
fb2png relocation error (some png function) in libpng
(also, buxybox did not seem to be very busy, no working ls, df etc)
2)I did not see the authentication dialog (ldap,winbind etc). Did I just
miss it (I actually wanted to test winbind :-().
3)When I got to summary, I changed locale-related features, then hit OK
(X was shown as not configured, but I wanted to see if it would prompt
me). It asked me if I was sure I wanted no X, left the default No
enabled, click next, and the installation died there.
I rebooted, and having used ext2 on my root (want to see if the disk
suspends more with a non-journally fs), got fsck on boot with no questions.
I logged in on the console, ran XFdrake and
4)My display card (Neomagic MagicMedia (laptop/notebook) was not
recgnised though it was on 9.0. Neither was the Thinkpads 1024x768 LCD
panel (also detected on 9.0 IIRC). Also, I think 24bit was chosen by
default, whereas 16bit was chosen in 9.0 by default (which is better,
the card has artifacts at 24bit).
I then did
service dm start and
5)kdm did not start
It turned out there were a whole bunch of missing files. 'rpm -Va|grep
^missing' gave me 67 packages which were missing files. Reinstalling
those all fixed most issues.
6)The machines hostname remains localhost, even though I set it in both
fields in drakconnect (in installation). The correct name is registered
in tmdns, but samba starts up with the hostname (set to localhost), and
thus trying to search for the name that was entered in drakconnect from
windows does not work. Searching for localhost does work (out-the-box).
After running drakconnect after install, and on a network with dhcp, it
seems to work correctly.
7)The network starts up on boot, with a lo and eth0, but eth0 has no IP.
I was connected over crossover to a win2k machine configured for
Automatic IP configuration. Doing 'ifup eth0' afterwards, brought up an
eth0.9 device, with an ip in the same subnet as the win2ks
autoconfiguration address. Is there any reason why this should not occur
without my interaction? Note that eth0 does not work with ifplugd, so
this might be the cause. If it did work without interaction, I would be
configent sending users home with Mandrake laptops.
8)Defatult KDE settings
- -I find the icon size too big, almost as bad as using Gnome on Redhat. I
paid extra for 1024x768 on some machines, I dont want to feel as if I am
using 800x600 when I first log in.
- -Fonts in konsole are horrid. They look much better to me set as large.
THe size has to be reset after change the font also.
9)kio_smb seems to not work, and the configuration modules from KDE
Control Center are not listed in the menu. Can we have a KDE Control
Center entry somewhere (and why not GNOME too, if I want to change the
font size for a GNOME app while in KDE??) in Configuration? The lisa
configuration is also missing.
10)kacpi path settings were wrong. I had to change:
/proc/acpi/ac_adapter/ACAD/state tp /proc/acpi/ac_adapter/AC/state
/proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THRM/temperature to
/proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THM0/temperature, but enabling the thermal zone
does not seem to be of any value at present.
kacpi to segfaults when using the proc viewer.
11)Looking to compile the thinkpad drivers, I get:
/usr/include/linux/version.h:3:2: #error "You should not include
/usr/include/{linux,asm}/ header"
/usr/include/linux/version.h:4:2: #error "files directly for the
compilation of kernel modules."
/usr/include/linux/version.h:5:2: #error ""
/usr/include/linux/version.h:6:2: #error "glibc now uses kernel header
files from a well-defined"
/usr/include/linux/version.h:7:2: #error "working kernel version (as
recommended by Linus Torvalds)"
/usr/include/linux/version.h:8:2: #error "These files are glibc internal
and may not match the"
/usr/include/linux/version.h:9:2: #error "currently running kernel. They
should only be"
/usr/include/linux/version.h:10:2: #error "included via other system
header files - user space"
/usr/include/linux/version.h:11:2: #error "programs should not directly
include <linux/*.h> or"
/usr/include/linux/version.h:12:2: #error "<asm/*.h> as well."
/usr/include/linux/version.h:13:2: #error ""
/usr/include/linux/version.h:14:2: #error "To build kernel modules
please do the following:"
/usr/include/linux/version.h:15:2: #error ""
/usr/include/linux/version.h:16:2: #error " o Have the kernel sources
installed"
/usr/include/linux/version.h:17:2: #error ""
/usr/include/linux/version.h:18:2: #error " o Make sure that the
symbolic link"
/usr/include/linux/version.h:19:2: #error " /lib/modules/`uname
- -r`/build exists and points to"
/usr/include/linux/version.h:20:2: #error " the matching kernel source
directory"
/usr/include/linux/version.h:21:2: #error ""
/usr/include/linux/version.h:22:2: #error " o Now copy
/boot/vmlinuz.version.h to"
/usr/include/linux/version.h:23:2: #error " /lib/modules/`uname
- -r`/build/include/linux/version.h"
/usr/include/linux/version.h:24:2: #error ""
/usr/include/linux/version.h:25:2: #error " o When compiling, make sure
to use the following"
/usr/include/linux/version.h:26:2: #error " compiler option to use the
correct include files:"
/usr/include/linux/version.h:27:2: #error ""
/usr/include/linux/version.h:28:2: #error " -I/lib/modules/`uname
- -r`/build/include"
/usr/include/linux/version.h:29:2: #error ""
/usr/include/linux/version.h:30:2: #error " instead of"
/usr/include/linux/version.h:31:2: #error ""
/usr/include/linux/version.h:32:2: #error " -I/usr/include/linux"
/usr/include/linux/version.h:33:2: #error ""
/usr/include/linux/version.h:34:2: #error " Please adjust the Makefile
accordingly."
/usr/include/linux/version.h:35:2: #error
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But:
[bgmilne@bgmilne-thinkpad bgmilne]$ rpm -q kernel-source
kernel-source-2.4.21-0.pre4.6mdk
[bgmilne@bgmilne-thinkpad bgmilne]$ ls /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build
ls: /lib/modules/2.4.21pre4-6mdk/build: No such file or directory
(this rpm that I was building builds just fine on 9.0 with 2.4.19-16mdk
and 2.4.19-24mdk).
Can the kernel-team fix the kernel-source, or provide docs on how to
compile kernel modules, or even better, integrate the thinkpad driver.
I think that is about it.
Debugging info on request.
Buchan
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