Bug#329011: Debian Installation Report
On Sun, Sep 18, 2005 at 09:52:40PM +0300, Antti Tyrv??inen wrote:
> Package: installation-reports
>
> Debian-installer-version: Debian Sarge 3.1 DVD, delivered by Linux Magazine
> uname -a: Linux antinlinux 2.4.27-2-386 #1 Mon May 16 16:47:51 JST 2005 i686 GNU/Linux
>
> Date: 30.08.2005
> Method: Empty and brand new computer, boot from distribution DVD.
>
> Machine: Custom,
> Processor: AMD Sempron 2800+
> Motherboard: K8Upgrade-1689
> Memory: 512MB
> Root Device: Unknown
> Root Size/partition table: Unknown, how to extract this information?
> /dev/hda1/ ext3 185.5GB
> tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs 252MB
>
> Output of lspci and lspci -n:
>
> antti@antinlinux:~$ lspci
> 0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: ALi Corporation: Unknown device 1689
> 0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: ALi Corporation: Unknown device 5246
> 0000:00:02.0 PCI bridge: ALi Corporation M5249 HTT to PCI Bridge
> 0000:00:03.0 ISA bridge: ALi Corporation M1563 HyperTransport South Bridge (rev 70)
> 0000:00:03.1 Bridge: ALi Corporation M7101 Power Management Controller [PMU]
> 0000:00:04.0 Multimedia audio controller: ALi Corporation M5455 PCI AC-Link Controller Audio Device (rev 20)
> 0000:00:0d.0 Ethernet controller: ALi Corporation: Unknown device 5263 (rev 40)
> 0000:00:0e.0 IDE interface: ALi Corporation M5229 IDE (rev c7)
> 0000:00:0e.1 Unknown mass storage controller: ALi Corporation: Unknown device 5289 (rev 10)
> 0000:00:0f.0 USB Controller: ALi Corporation USB 1.1 Controller (rev 03)
> 0000:00:0f.1 USB Controller: ALi Corporation USB 1.1 Controller (rev 03)
> 0000:00:0f.2 USB Controller: ALi Corporation USB 1.1 Controller (rev 03)
> 0000:00:0f.3 USB Controller: ALi Corporation USB 2.0 Controller (rev 01)
> 0000:00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 NorthBridge
> 0000:00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 NorthBridge
> 0000:00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 NorthBridge
> 0000:00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 NorthBridge
> 0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon RV100 QY [Radeon 7000/VE]
> 0000:02:05.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
Hmm, no idea what ALi is like for support in linux. I stick with VIA
for the most part, although I have a few nvidia boards working well too.
> Comments/Problems:
>
> Couldn't find integrated network adapter in motherboard.
> Problem solved by buying ethernet PCI board.
Not too unusual for many brand new boards.
> Custom harddrive partition failed. Then used default partition.
>
> Motherboard integrated sound card is not working.
Also common. Often a newer kernel is needed if the chipset is very new.
> <Description of the install, in prose, and any thoughts, comments
> and ideas you had during the initial install.>
>
> When selection window opened, where system purpose was
> selected, I didn't know I should use space bar to select
> desired system. I just pressed enter and Debian installed
> mail server as default without X. I was pretty confused.
>
> Debian distribution which came with Linux Magazine wasn't
> full distribution and I met quite nasty problems.
> I would be happy to hear, when ASRock K8Upgrade-1689 motherboard
> is fully supported.
Well I imagine it will be great when the next stable release of sarge
comes out in 2 or 3 years. :)
Or you can look for a backport of 2.6.12 for sarge and see if that
solves things for sound and networking. Often it does.
Another thing to try would be to boot the DVD with 'linux26' option to
get the 2.6.8 kernel instead of 2.4.27 since I just noticed you booted
with the much older default kernel.
Len Sorensen
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