Bug#273327: installation-reports: screen(in text mode) / keyboard problems
Package: installation-reports
Version: ISODVD downloaded in 1-8-2004, uname -a: Linux marcbcn 2.4.26-1-386 #2 Sat May 1 16:31:24 EST 2004 i686 GNU/Linux
Severity: important
Machine: Intelx86
Processor:Pentium IV
Memory:512Mb
Root Device: SATA
Root Size/partition table:
marc@marcbcn:~$ df
S. fitxers Blocs 1K Usats Lliures %Ús Muntat en
/dev/hde5 20161172 3601056 15535976 19% /
tmpfs 257792 0 257792 0% /dev/shm
/dev/hde8 10317828 1368856 8424856 14% /agnula
/dev/hde9 60890824 50275596 7471712 88% /home
/dev/hde7 10153420 3614260 6015044 38% /mandrake
/dev/hde2 30701264 25361168 5340096 83% /winsegur
/dev/hde1 20472816 12068448 8404368 59% /winxp
/dev/sda2 9468652 7855100 1124776 88% /home/marc
/dev/sda1 9765960 9123296 642664 94% /marc
Output of lspci and lspci -n:
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82865G/PE/P DRAM
Controller/Host-Hub Interface (rev 02)
0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82865G/PE/P PCI to AGP Controller
(rev 02)
0000:00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB
UHCI #1 (rev 02)
0000:00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB
UHCI #2 (rev 02)
0000:00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB
UHCI #3 (rev 02)
0000:00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB
UHCI #4 (rev 02)
0000:00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB2
EHCI Controller (rev 02)
0000:00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801 PCI Bridge (rev c2)
0000:00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) LPC Bridge
(rev 02)
0000:00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) Ultra
ATA 100 Storage Controller (rev 02)
0000:00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801EB (ICH5) Serial ATA 150
Storage Controller (rev 02)
0000:00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) SMBus Controller
(rev 02)
0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV280
[Radeon 9200 SE] (rev 01)
0000:01:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV280 [Radeon 9200
SE] (Secondary) (rev 01)
0000:02:03.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): VIA Technologies, Inc. IEEE 1394 Host
Controller (rev 80)
0000:02:04.0 RAID bus controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6410 ATA133
RAID controller (rev 06)
0000:02:05.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c940
10/100/1000Base-T [Marvell] (rev 12)
0000:02:09.0 Communication controller: Conexant HSF 56k HSFi Modem (rev
01)
0000:02:0c.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Audigy (rev
03)
0000:02:0c.1 Input device controller: Creative Labs SB Audigy MIDI/Game
port (rev 03)
0000:02:0c.2 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Creative Labs SB Audigy FireWire Port
(rev 01)
Base System Installation Checklist:
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (describalo a continuación), [ ] = didn't try it
Initial boot worked: [O]
Configure network HW: [ ]
Config network: [ ]
Detect CD: [O]
Load installer modules: [O]
Detect hard drives: [O]
Partition hard drives: [O]
Create file systems: [ ]
Mount partitions: [ ]
Install base system: [ ]
Install boot loader: [ ]
Reboot: [O]
first problem: Screen in text mode:
I've got a TFT Princeton 17''.
After the first step of the installation process, when restarting and
entering the second step of the installation, my
screen in text mode goes yellow!! and also the letters are faint so it's
impossible to go through dselect and install what I want, I can only
hit "enter"... the other options are more o less legible but dselect,
with colors, is totally illegible.
I already installed mandrake, live cds like knoppix and I didn't have
this problem.
My graphics card is an ATI radeon 9200SE.
second problem: keyboard map
during the installation I select Catalan language and
Spanish keyboard but the installation finishes configuring the American
keyboard map. For me this is a serious problem, it also affects other
debian-based distributions like agnula.
To repair it i must run xf86cfg -textmode and change to Spanish
keyboard.
other comments:
I've got some things I would like to see on the installer but maybe
aren't a good idea. I simply state them hoping to be usefulfor sbdy:
I think that the documentation should be integrated in the installer
with :
a help button with some possibilities like:
additional tools that can be loaded in the console after typing alt-F1,
the possibily of aborting X with alt-backspace when it hangs and other
similar things. it took a long time for me to learn them and they are
EASY!
a "report" bug button enabling the possibility of an automatic
bugreport when installing and saving the report to a floppy disk which
could be used to send it through the internet in different OS (many
people cannot report a bug until they finish installing Linux, and then
they are not interested in reporting it)
and a text screen displayed at the beginning of the installation asking
the user what kind of information he will have to know to answer the
installer questions.
i.e: network configuration: IP, net, gw, DNS servers
screen configuration: vert, horitz. frequencies in non classified
monitors
graphic card model
etc
otherwise a newbie must run many times the installer resuming it each
time that he doesn't know how to answer one of these questions.
finally other installers like the debian-based knoppix have automatic
detection of screen, graphics, etc. I think it will be extremely useful
for newbies to have the possibility to run in each stage an
"automatic-configuration-tool". (I hate stating vert. and horitz.
freq in the screen configuration....)
that's all folks,
thanks for your work!
>From Barcelona,
MarC
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (600, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.26-1-386
Locale: LANG=ca_ES@euro, LC_CTYPE=ca_ES@euro
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