Hi, thanks for the suggestions I booted from a USB stick with 2.6.21 and it worked, but it's really, really slow, the install took more than a hour for just putting the kernel, it has taken hours on a dual core 2 duo of 2ghz, Could it be due to the framebuffer? I will continue with the install, what should I look at to see if the performance can be improved. Thanks :) Rob> On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 05:01:06PM +0000, Jack Malmostoso wrote: Rob> > > Have anyone succesfully used this hardware? Any hints on booting the Rob> > > installation or maybe testing the hardware to see if something is Rob> > > broken? Maybe software to test if everything is right? Rob> > Rob> > You should probably go with one of the latest daily builds of the Rob> > installer with kernel 2.6.22. Alternatively, check that in the BIOS the Rob> > SATA channels are set in "compatibility mode" as opposed to "AHCI" mode. Rob> > In "compatibility mode" you should be able to install Etch without Rob> > problems. On first boot, add the backports repository and then install a Rob> > newer kernel (2.6.22 will do). Go back to the BIOS and put the hard Rob> > drives back in "AHCI" and you should not have any problems. Rob> Rob> > Still applies if you have an infamous jmicron controller. Rob> Rob> The compat mode won't work to solve this issue. The DVD is connected to Rob> a Marvell controller unsupported by 2.6.18. To top things off, 2.6.18 Rob> won't talk to the on-board ethernet. Rob> Rob> Follow the first suggestion - use a newer installer. I ended up doing a Rob> network boot installation, which let me replace the kernel more Rob> trivially than building my own installer image (nothing newer than Rob> 2.6.18 was available at the time). Rob> Rob> I had to use the i810-modesetting driver to get video to work, but I Rob> think that may have just been obsoleted in unstable. Rob> -- Rob> Rob -- Recomiendo SLEC, la comunidad del software de libre redistribución y educación en Colombia http://www.slec.net
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