hi tim,
comments below...
On Sun, 8 Jul 2001, Tim Wunder wrote:
> Hi,
> AMD K6-2-550, 256 MB, SCSI CDRW, ATAPI CDROM, 3 HDDs (13.5 IBM, 20.5 Maxtor,
> 2.5 WD), Matrox G400 w/ 32 MB, SB Live!
>
> Just downloaded and installed build 35 and have some problems.
> Number 1: RL did not identify my ethernet card (SMC Ultra) properly (it's
> got it at 0x200 and it's at 0x250, at least it is when I'm booted into
> Caldera eD2.4). This is a problem I had with Caldera's Sybil beta that was
> fixed when I enable PnP in my BIOS. With RL, that has had no effect. The
> ethernet card works fine under Caldera's eDesktop 2.4 and, IIRC, worked on a
> previous beta of RL. I figgered I could remove it and re-add it and fix the
> problem, but I can't figger out how to add an ethernet card after rmoving it.
afaik ISAPNP probing is functional in build 35... what's in
/etc/modules/default and /etc/modules.conf?
to add/remove modules, Go > System Management > Configure Redmond Linux
System > Startup > Kernel Modules
> Number 2: RL installed Xfree86 3.3.6. I have 4.0.3 on my Caldera installation
> and Mandrake 8.0 installed 4.0.3. I was really hoping that RL would install
> 4.1.0. How do I get it to install 4.1.0?
hmm, i have a G450 and build 35 installed X 4.1.0 for me. what does
"rpm -qa | grep X" show? it should show [with devtools installed]:
XFree86-4.1.0-35rl
XFree86-3DLabs-3.3.6-13
XFree86-AGX-3.3.6-13
XFree86-FBDev-3.3.6-13
XFree86-I128-3.3.6-13
XFree86-IBM8514-3.3.6-13
XFree86-Mach32-3.3.6-13
XFree86-Mach64-3.3.6-13
XFree86-Mach8-3.3.6-13
XFree86-Mono-3.3.6-13
XFree86-P9000-3.3.6-13
XFree86-S3-3.3.6-13
XFree86-S3V-3.3.6-13
XFree86-SVGA-3.3.6-13
XFree86-VGA16-3.3.6-13
XFree86-W32-3.3.6-13
XFree86-addons-4.1.0-35rl
XFree86-config-4.0.2-29rl
XFree86-fonts-4.1.0-35rl
XFree86-fonts-100dpi-4.1.0-35rl
XFree86-fonts-75dpi-4.1.0-35rl
XFree86-fonts-scale-4.1.0-35rl
XFree86-libs-4.1.0-35rl
XFree86-server-4.1.0-35rl
XFree86-twm-4.1.0-35rl
XFree86-xterm-4.1.0-35rl
Xaw3d-1.5-6
tclX-8.0.4-6
XFree86-devel-4.1.0-35rl
XFree86-devel-prof-4.1.0-35rl
XFree86-devel-static-4.1.0-35rl
XFree86-imake-4.1.0-35rl
XFree86-setup-4.1.0-35rl
Xaw3d-devel-1.5-6
Xaw3d-devel-static-1.5-6
tclX-devel-8.0.4-6
tclX-devel-static-8.0.4-6
teTeX-1.0.7-11
can you send me [privately] /var/log/lizard.log? perhaps you got a bad
burn or download... did you verify md5sums?
> A couple of bugs:
> When I moved the mouse around during Lizard (when just the "X" is the mouse
> pointer), the mouse was not identified properly.
what type of mouse do you have?
> I could still navigate the screens by press <Tab> and <Space>. However, when
> I <Tab>'d to the mouse selection and pressed the <Down> arrow, Lizard
> crashed. When I <Tab>'d to the mouse selection and pressed <Space> then
> <Down>, it worked.
> Once I got passed the mouse problem, the installed crapped out on me, anyway.
> I got an error message that not all packages could be installed and the
> installer stopped at 49%.
> My next attempt at install seemed to work out OK. I waited until the mouse
> pointer was an arrow before moving it and the mouse got identified correctly.
> The install appeared to go smoothly from then on (execpt for the X problem
> and the ethernet card problem ;-) )
>
> Oh, one more thing. It does not appear that testing screen resolutions during
> install works.
these all indicate a bad download/burn...
>
> Insight into fixing my ethernet and/or X problems is welcome.
>
> Regards,
> Tim Wunder
> Potential RL user
> (Sure wish it had "normal" program names on the KDE menu)
wait for RL Pro... it will have standard names. but it's still in
planning stages.
> BTW, anybody know where I should send the hwinfo.txt file?
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thanks!
joe
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