Dude... put this on the fisher-list
not to rag you, but while this info is of great use to the users on this
list, the people on [EMAIL PROTECTED] would probably find this info
even more useful.
so please send this to fisher-list, and maybe even subscribe to that list,
so that your experiences can help out others who are testing this beta.
cheers
On 13 Feb 2001, Tonko de Rooy wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> I installed the Fisher beta on 2 systems, my home system and a notebook
> (ThinkPad 770X).
>
> The installation on my home system was very smooth, and every piece of
> hardware in it looks to be working (P3 with SiS chipset, G400DH, SBlive,
> 3c905c, aic7880, avermedia tvcam98).
>
> The installation on the ThinkPad was also smooth, but it had a lot of
> problems with PCMCIA after installation, and video still needed to be
> configured with some care, although it was much easier then any previous
> version of RedHat.
>
> The PCMCIA problems where listed in the releasenotes as being
> problemetic, so I will not go into the problems to much. The main
> problem I had was that the PCMCIA TokenRing adapter was giving
> "ibmtr_cs: MapMemPage: Bad offset" errors. I have had these errors in
> the past with 2.0/2.2 kernels, but in the latest 2.2 kernels with
> current pcmcia-cs package they had been solved.
>
> The video problems looks to be an issue with the trident_drv module. For
> some reason it correctly detects 8MB of video memory, and then proceeds
> in telling it is only going to use 4 of it. With this the screen got
> totally messed up, adding the videoram 8192 setting to the adapters
> device settings in the XF86Config-4 file solved the problem for me.
>
> Another issue with the video install was that the installer correctly
> identified the Trident Cyber9397DVD videochip and amount of videomemory,
> but was unable to detect the type of LCD panel, and came back with plain
> VGA sync ranges. And even after selecting 'Generic LCD panel with
> 1280x1024 resolution' it suggested as a default resolution a resolution
> that was to high for the LCD. The thing is that if I look through the
> /var/log/XFree86.0.log file I can see that it managed to detect I have a
> 1280x1024 resolution LCD panel.
>
> (--) TRIDENT(0): TFT Panel 1280x1024 found
>
> Would it not be possible for the installer to also detect this?
>
> Because of the problems with PCMCIA I did not test the beta really on
> the ThinkPad, so I don't know if there where other problems.
>
>
> Some other issues I came across on both machines where:
> - graphical installer uses XFree86 3.3.6. Why not 4.0.2?
> - release notes say Netscape 4.x is depricated, yet it is still the
> default (I had to manually select to install Mozilla).
> - shipped versions of libpcap and tcpdump are very old, much newer ones
> are available from www.tcpdump.org
> - default gnome desktop look is not as nice as Helix.
>
> In general the new installer was very smooth. Now that framebuffer is
> finally used for the installation, graphical install finally works on
> several machines (mainly mobiles) where it never worked before.
>
>
>
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