I just tried to install sarge, using the pre-rc2 debian-installer, on an eMachines T1742 Celeron 1.7 GHz desktop system (82845G/GL [Brookdale-G] mainboard chipset). After installing the base system, the floppy drive, network card, and sound card do not work. Although they are supported hardware, there appear to be numerous irq conflicts (these devices sharing irq 1 with the keyboard) and possibly memory conflicts.
It's entirely possible for PCI devices to share IRQs but since the keyboard controller is normally on a vestigial ISA bus it can't share and this configuration doesn't make sense. It looks like the BIOS may be returning nonsensical results for ACPI queries by the kernel. Unfortunately there are a lot of broken ACPI implementations out there.
> I have included below some output showing the symptoms.
Note that I have the same problems when trying Knoppix 3.2 in this box. This seems to be a major compatibility failure. Any advice on where to go from here? (ie try to fix it, go to kernel or developer's mailing lists, give up and get a new computer?)
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Try putting "pci=noacpi" on the boot command line. If you do that then the kernel will use the older PCI BIOS interface to find out the PCI configuration and is more likely to get correct answers. I'm afraid I haven't used d-i yet so I don't know quite how you edit the boot command line.
Ben.
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