Bug#288974: Debian installer report: i386, d-i RC2, 2004-12-29
On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 11:13:53PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote:
Thx for your answer.
No problem with closing the 'bug' since it was only a report. Anyway
I'd like to make a few remarks.
> > * During the installation various messages where shown that several
> > modules could not be loaded. I guess they were loaded at a later
> > stage or were not needed anyway. So again no problem but a little
> Well, I can only say: don't use expert mode ;-)
Well, I don't want to use something else :-)
> You may want to try booting the installer with 'debconf/priority=medium'
> boot parameter next time.
Ok, if I find another machine needing Debian ...
> > * Sound: After the base install and with the shipped kernel sound
> > didn't work. After compiling a custom kernel with ALSA and without
> > OSS everything is fine.
> Alsa currently never works after the first reboot. Some alsa package needs
> to be installed that includes blacklisting the OSS modules.
> You should have been able to get thinks working without compiling your own
> kernel as well.
At this time we installed 2 machines with Debian. Sound didn't work
on both of them. The 2 'solutions' were
* the new kerne lwith alsa and without oss (my machine)
* disabling oss modules somehow (my friend's machine)
Both attempts needed some knowledge and action ....
> > * RAM: I was a little surprised that the shipped kernel included
> > about each and everything but no HIGHMEM support so I initially had
> > only 896MB of my 1GB RAM available. (And I didn't know that 1GB is
> > already HIGHMEM ;-))
> I'm not sure why this choice has been made. There probably is a good
> reason for it. If you want to find out I suggest asking the kernel
> mailing list. Anyway, it is not a debian installer issue.
Pooh - I don't think I want to participate in LKML (yet :-))
Anyway: Isn't it possible to activate this option in the Debian
default install kernel?
Gregor
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