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Re: Installation report -> works with a few problems



Hi,

On Sun, Jun 27, 2004 at 09:53:00PM +0200, Tobias Spranger wrote:
> This box has an Athlon64 3000+ on an Asus A7V600 motherboard and a 
> GeForce FX 5200. One SATA disk is connected to the VIA VT6420 
> contoller. I've a LCD-Display and a monitor ... and 'd like them to 
> work twinhead ;-) 
  
sounds like an evil configuration at least for X11 =)

> - vga=794 (framebuffer) didn't work -> my shiny new LCD flickerd a 
> lot -> I hat to use the old monitor :-/ 
  
This is a known bug and present in the i386 installer aswell. 

> - My SATA disk is attached as /dev/hde (Kanotix attaced it 
> as /dev/sda) -> Does it matter? 
  
This is a problem with the kernel too - there are 2 drivers for sata
disks: the "normal" ide one and scsi based one. I personally run my
sata disk as scsi disk too, but was told running it as ide drive has
some advantages (smart works and you can have a lot more partitions).

> First I updated the package list and (almost) all 
> base/important/standard packages were installed/updated ... till 
> debsig-verify was installed. By now all new packages were rejected. 
> Is this because AMD64 is not an official port? Or because I used 
> "deb http://debian.inode.at/pure64 sid main" instead of alioth? Why 
> is debsig-verify in standard, if it reject's  
> everything? 

No and no. This is because no official (as in "in the debian keyring")
gnupg keys where used to sign uploads of packages. this is a known 
problem and wil be fixed as soon as pure64 enters sid and the packages
will be signed either by maintainers keys or by buildd keys in the
keyring.
  
> X and KDE worked only on my LCD if I used the "fbdev" driver istead 
> of "nv".  

Your gfx card is too new to be supported by DFSG-free xfree86. Use the
non-free nvidia drivers to get everything out of your card. This
problem exists on i386 too.

> The next ugly thing was (and is), that my "Alt-Gr"-key don't work 

Know problem too: your /etc/X11/xkb is (nearly) empty, install xlibs 
and you should be done.

> Nevertheless I tried to install the nvida driver. But: 
>  
> 1. /usr/src/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-1.0-5332-pkg0.run asked for headers 
> of my kernel (vmlinuz-2.6.7-1-k), but they depend on 
> kernel-kbuild-2.6-3 (>= 2.6.7) 
> which is only at 2.6.6-1. 

I was told about this today, fixed packages are in the upload queue.
  
> 2. I tried to build my own kernel (debian 2.6.7 source) with 
> a .config (from 2.6.6) that worked with Kanotix on my box. But 
> root=/dev/hde1 and root=/dev/sda1 resulted in kernel panic - unable 
> to mount root :-( 
  
Sounds like a devfs problem. Either add devfs to your self-compiled 
kernel or setup your fstab/lilo/grub to boot correctly... (devfsd may
help)

> 3. I  installed an older debian-kernel (uname -r  ->  2.6.6-4-k8) 
> with  
> headers, but /usr/src/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-1.0-5332-pkg0.run sayed 
> "/usr/src/linux/include/linux/modversions.h not found -- perhaps 
> kernel sources are not configured" 
>  
> Can anybody give me a hint how to fix this? 

modversions.h is not present in 2.6 kernels, but the nvidia installer
should have detected this: try running the installer with 

 --kernel-source-path=/usr/src/kernel-headers-2.6.6
  
but since the dependency on kernel-kbuild-2.6.7 is broken, you might
want to wait for the corrected packages to be uploaded, or use dpkg
--force.

> I'd also complain about synaptic -> The description is truncated 
> e.g.: 
> Debian base system configurator 
> tting up the Debian base system. It contains the 
> ou see when you install Debian for the first time 
> bian system. 
>  no ill effects -- once your Debian system is 
> 's only useful function is to allow you to 
 
this looks like to be a real bug. please file it against the package.


> about nedit -> Segmentaiton fault and about sim -> Crashes while 
> logging in (I saw something like this in the list) 

these are real bugs too, please file them on the respective packages.
  
> Finally i'd like to thank all porters who have done a great 
> work :-). I expected much more trouble -- ;-) -- really! 

Thanks for your aid =)

Greetings
Frederik Schueler

-- 
ENOSIG



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