I had a problem last week when I upgraded from LM 6.0 to LM 6.1 on my
laptop. The problem I had was with the pcmcia support. The solution I came
with is to boot from a floppy, remove the
/etc/rc.d/rc5.d/S??pcmcia file and upgraded the kernel to 2.2.13-22 and
initscripts RPMS from an updates directory in a Madrake mirror site.
Also, during the installation of X, the configuration does not allow me to
select other resolution different to 640x480. To fix this I have the
following in my XF86Config (note the DefaultColorDepth and Modes entries):
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Section "Screen"
Driver "svga"
# Use Device "Generic VGA" for Standard VGA 320x200x256
#Device "Generic VGA"
Device "My Video Card"
Monitor "LCD Panel 800x600"
DefaultColorDepth 16
Subsection "Display"
Depth 16
# Omit the Modes line for the "Generic VGA" device
Modes "800x600"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
EndSection
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: ibi [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2000 11:39 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [expert] Mandrake on laptop
>
> Hi Wayne,
>
> I'm running a dual boot too. Happily I can say that my worst day with
> Linux is a 100x better than my best day with Windoze. :-)
>
> Pj
> **
> Stout, Wayne wrote:
> >
> > Greetings, all.
> >
> > I'm attempting to install Mandrake on my laptop, and have run into a few
> > snags. Let me start off by saying that yes, I have read the Laptop
> howto.
> >
> > Here's what I have. Acer TravelMate 512DX, Celeron 366, 32 meg, 4.3 gig
> > drive, cd, Neomagic video chipset with 2.5 meg, builtin 56k winmodem,
> ESS
> > SOLO-1 sound integrated.
> >
> > The install procedure goes pretty smoothly, aside from X wanting to only
> > work in 640x480 256 color. But when I reboot the system, I get a GPF
> when it
> > tried to load the APM stuff. I remembered someone mentioning that, and
> > created a boot disk on my desktop (that doesn't have APM in the kernel)
> and
> > booted from it.
> >
> > When I reboot, I get a screen full of stuff like this:
> >
> > 03:05: rw=0, want=16, limit=0
> > dev 03:05 blksize=1024 blocknr=15 sector=30 size=1024 count=1
> > attempt to access beyond end of device
> >
> > Then I get a Reading super block failed
> > Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:05
> >
> > This is a dual boot with win98, and I've been able to install Caldera
> 2.3
> > and SuSe 6.2 on this same partition. (Didn't like the way they behaved
> and
> > installed over them)
> >
> > Any suggestions?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Wayne
