[Cooker] Kernel bug report: SiS 5513 IDE hang

2002-10-04 Thread Nick Murtagh
Hi When installing Mandrake 9, the installer hangs during package installation. The motherboard has an SiS 730S chipset, including the 5513 IDE controller. Booting with ide=nodma allows installation to succeed. After installation, ide=nodma is needed to prevent further hangs. This is

Re: [Cooker] Windows XP, NT file system not detected

2002-03-21 Thread Nick Murtagh
On Thursday 21 March 2002 12:36, Liam R. E. Quin wrote: A couple of WIn XP users have said to me they installed Mandrake Linux (both 8.1 and 8.2) and /mnt/windows wasn't there. NTFS support for linux isn't really finished yet, as far as I know, there have been legal problems with Microsoft and

[Cooker] 8.2 won't install on a Promise 20268

2002-03-30 Thread Nick Murtagh
Hi I tried installing 8.2 on my shiny new Promise Ultra100 TX2 card, which uses the PDC20268 chip. It hangs at the detecting partitions stage. I think this may have been fixed in the -ac series, with patches from Promise themselves. So my question is, how do I go about installing 8.2 on my

[Cooker] 8.2 install, incorrect X settings, gnome crash

2002-04-02 Thread Nick Murtagh
Hi all Just installed 8.2, a few problems came up. 1) I set my color depth to 32bpp during the install - when I rebooted the display was set to 8bpp. Not a big problem really. 2) Does 8.2 contain the NVIDIA drivers? If so, it didn't configure them for my card (TNT2 Ultra). 3) Round 1:

[Cooker] background-properties-capplet goes insane!

2002-04-03 Thread Nick Murtagh
Hi I posted yesterday about a problem I was having with gnome. I've got a bit more information about the problem. If I try to change the background in gnome after I su to root and run background-properties-capplet, everything is ok. If I don't run it as root, after I click the Browse button