pcdoc2t Posted March 18, 2004 Report Share Posted March 18, 2004 :P Installed on Toshiba Tecra 8100 750 Mhz Pentium III 20Gb HD 3Com PCMCIA LAN cardbus 100 mb card S3 Savage MX video with 8MB Yamaha sound I must say this product looks really good. I was running 9.2 on this machine previously and could see increased performance immediately. On the initial installation I tried an upgrade from 9.2 and when completed had errors reported on the LAN and X windows would not launch. I then decided to do a clean install. The only item on auto configured by the installation was the video system. The installation detected S3 Savage generic which would not run at 1024X768 15 bit. When manually selected the Savage MX would not run either, Savage generic, sw cursor was the driver which worked. Once the install completed and the system was up the clock was not configured properly, even though I had selected the time zone. This required manual setting. Mandrake update would not connect to the default mirrors but I was able to add a mirror to the media list and begin checking for updates. After a reboot, X windows failed to initialize. I went to failsafe and used MC to check the Xfree86config-4 file. It was still set to Savage generic. This shows the changes made during installation configuration were not written to the file. I launched XFdrake and reconfigured for the Savage generic/ sw cursor and backed up the file. This corrected the problem and allowed for reboots with no problems. Shutdown doesnt power of the laptop but I haven't had time to check this out. Nice upgrade! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aRTee Posted March 18, 2004 Report Share Posted March 18, 2004 1) thank you for this report 2) could you check http://qa.mandrakesoft.com and see if the problems you have come across have been reported? If so, please vote for those bugreports, that increases their priority. If not, please take the time to report the bugs yourself. 3) please keep us updated on the functionality of the various hardware in your laptop, acpi, hibernate, suspend, etcetc. 4) welcome to this board! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frosterrj Posted March 18, 2004 Report Share Posted March 18, 2004 My install went a little better on my Dell PII, but the suspend function (by closing the lid) causes all my externals to die - keyboard(ps/2) and mouse (usb) when I lift the lid back up, but, the built-in keyboard and touch pad work! They never would in 9.1 and 9.2 without editing the Xf86 config file. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pcdoc2t Posted March 20, 2004 Author Report Share Posted March 20, 2004 :P Just a little update on my installation. Equipment clarification: Network card is a 3c575 Sound is Yamaha 744 The laptop is running in a port replicator with an external Logitech TrakMan and the trackpoint both working. I used urpmi to setup and download all available updates from the mirrors (104). Used the configuration tool to turn on power management and the shutdown problem was solved. Change the bootloader to the Linux entry for default instead of Linux-smp. This resulted in much inproved application performance and reduced delay on launch. Thats is for now. Seems very stable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zeno Cosini Posted April 5, 2004 Report Share Posted April 5, 2004 Hi, which is the difference among this distro and the normal one? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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