Hi all,
Just got Mandrake 9.0 working satisfactorily (sort of)
on a GR370. Hope some of the info below be of use to
somebody:
First of, out of the box, Mandrake was installed
decently:
- Video card detected, HW3d enabled on radeon
driver
- CD/CDRW/DVD ok
- detected my USB archos jukebox
- jog-dial worked with sjog (merged w/ the
backbtn hack somebody posted here before)
- Ethernet card detected and was able to connect
to my internet bband provider.
But with some problems:
- sound (i810_audio) is choppy (cracks a lot)
- could not detect the memory stick ( this is
important to me since I backed up some important
docs in a memory stick)
Plan B:
Grabbed the vanilla 2.4.19 kernel, and applied the
latest acpi patch. Enabled ACPI, disabled APM.
compiled and install as another vmlinuz.
Booted this, and memory stick was found and Sound
stopped being choppy. Only problem at this point is
Mandrake specific features such as supermount didn't
work. Personally I don't have much user for
supermount but I don't know if there are any other
Mandrake specific features. So, might as well try plan
C.
Plan C:
Made a copy of the Mandrake kernel source and applied
the acpi patch. Patch fails. Oh well, it was wishful
thinking anyway. But before going back to the vanilla
kernel, must try Plan D.
Plan D:
Made a copy of the Mandrake kernel source. Grabbed and
untarred vanilla 2.4.19. Replaced Mandrake's
drivers/acpi directory with vanilla's drivers/acpi.
Applied the latest acpi patch on the modified Mandrake
kernel. Patch succeeds. make xconfig and enabled
acpi. Compiled and install as another vmlinuz.
Booted, memory stick was found and could be mounted.
Sound is not choppy. Supermount works. USB jukebox
still works. Downloaded, compiled and installed
MPlayer (a nice app, btw), and was able to view a new
DVD (Heavenly Creatures). Loaded some mp3s from my
jukebox, xmms works fine. Tried CD-burning -- works.
Tried TuxRacer, still smooth with 3D acceleration.
Still can connect to the internet thru the ethernet
card.
So, all in all, it's usable now, PCMCIA card services
was started without complaints, but I couldn't test it
since I don't have any such card. The same with
Firewire. Haven't tested the modem yet (but I
definitely will!) since I use broadband right now, but
I'm sure it will work with hsflinmodem, which worked
before.
But still have much work to do:
- CD audio does not work -- even
"xmms /dev/<cd device>" doesn't work anymore
(That used to work on my old SuSE 7.3 install)
Any suggestions, please (need this a lot)?
- Switching from X to VT and back to X freezes the
whole machine. Applied the latest radeon driver
from http://dri.sourceforge.net, but that only
rendered me blind. That is, when X started, the
monitor just went blank. I had to go to VT which
was also blanked, and groped in the dark.
logging,
typing reboot all without seeing what ur typing.
Did I miss something here? should I have applied
ALL drivers instead of only the radeon?
- With ACPI up instead of APM, the was Power
monitor in KDE doesn't work. It's complaining
that ACPI is inclomplete and I must enable at
least the AC adapter and battery ...but I have!
Tried to install ksensors with no success.
Anybody know any other tool to monitor the
hardware?
- IrDA fails, I have no idea why and what to do
with it.
Out of topic:
- Anybody have the keramik style for MDK 9?
PS: The truth is I'm not very familiar with Mandrake,
since this is the first MDK I installed. Personally, I
prefer SuSE (no real good reason except I just like it
better), but I can't wait till Oct. 7 to have a
working installation. (and they don't provide ISOs)
Thanks and hope this helps. If not, oh well.
Nick
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