Hello all,
I've recently decided to upgrade my laptop (IBM ThinkPad 390E, for
that matter) from RH6.0 to Mandrake9.0. The reason: Laziness
i.e. urpmi instead of figuring out rpm dependencies by hand and/or
the "gtar; configure; gmake" mantra
Anyway, so far I have some problems w/ it, some serious, some not
1) Not serious: Frame buffer fscked at boot up
If I decide to boot up using linux-nofb (I'm a bitter old man, I hate
change and flashy stuff), after starting S12syslog in run level 3 (but
God knows what causes it) the screen changes in some weird text mode. That
per-se is not such a huge problem. However, there is a problem w/ the
framebuffer that makes it keep a white rectangle in top left corner of
screen. Really ugly. Any hit wrt the where/whats w/ the text mode fubars?
2) (VERY) Serious: Devfs problems ?
I have a 256MB CF card (digital camera mem) and a CF->PCMCIA adaptor. When I pop it in
the free PCMCIA slot:
- First, automount doesn't do its job and mount /dev/hde<whatever>.
- Much more serious: When manually trying to mount the card via
e.g. via:
root:~# mount /dev/hde1 /compactflash
(or /dev/hde for that matter)
the system goes beserk: The mount hangs, system dogged slow, doesn't
shutdown except dropped from 2m high (i.e. power off).
The relevant syslog excerpt:
[...]
Sep 27 10:47:17 begonia netconf: Checking kernel configuration
Sep 27 10:47:17 begonia linuxconf: Running Linuxconf hooks: succeeded
Sep 27 10:52:56 begonia kernel: cs: memory probe 0xa0000000-0xa0ffffff: clean.
Sep 27 10:52:58 begonia kernel: hde: 256MB CHH, ATA DISK drive
Sep 27 10:52:58 begonia kernel: ide2 at 0x100-0x107,0x10e on irq 3
Sep 27 10:52:58 begonia kernel: hde: 500640 sectors (256 MB) w/16KiB Cache,
CHS=1043/15/32
Sep 27 10:52:58 begonia kernel: /dev/ide/host2/bus0/target0/lun0: p1
Sep 27 10:52:58 begonia kernel: devfs_do_symlink(disc0): could not append to parent,
err: -17
Sep 27 10:52:58 begonia kernel: ide_cs: hde: Vcc = 3.3, Vpp = 0.0
Sep 27 10:53:00 begonia kernel: VFS: Disk change detected on device 21:00
Sep 27 10:53:00 begonia kernel: /dev/ide/host2/bus0/target0/lun0: p1
Sep 27 10:53:00 begonia kernel: devfs_do_symlink(disc0): could not append to parent,
err: -17
Sep 27 10:53:02 begonia kernel: VFS: Disk change detected on device 21:00
Sep 27 10:53:02 begonia kernel: /dev/ide/host2/bus0/target0/lun0: p1
Sep 27 10:53:02 begonia kernel: devfs_do_symlink(disc0): could not append to parent,
err: -17
Sep 27 10:53:03 begonia kernel: VFS: Disk change detected on device 21:00
Sep 27 10:53:03 begonia kernel: /dev/ide/host2/bus0/target0/lun0: p1
Sep 27 10:53:03 begonia kernel: devfs_do_symlink(disc0): could not append to parent,
err: -17
Sep 27 10:53:05 begonia kernel: VFS: Disk change detected on device 21:00
Sep 27 10:53:05 begonia kernel: /dev/ide/host2/bus0/target0/lun0: p1
Sep 27 10:53:05 begonia kernel: devfs_do_symlink(disc0): could not append to parent,
err: -17
[... wash, rinse, repeat...]
Needless to say, the operation (including the autmount ;)) works like
a charm in other distros e.g. the Knoppix Linux-on-a-CD distro.
Any ideas ?
TIA,
Florian
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