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Bug#242986: marked as done ([i386] [beta3] [netinst] success, comments, xserver does not start for sis 745gx video chipset)

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has caused the Debian Bug report #242986,
regarding [i386] [beta3] [netinst] success, comments, xserver does not start for sis 745gx video chipset
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Package: installation-reports
Version: beta 3
Severity: normal

Debian-installer-version: 
30 March 2004
http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/sarge_d-i/i386/beta3/sarge-i386-netinst.iso

uname -a: Linux ada 2.4.25-1-k7 #1 Tue Feb 24 14:24:28 EST 2004 i686 GNU/Linux

(But I have upgraded to the k7 kernel image after installation, initially it
was just i386.)

Date: 30 March 2004 22:00
Method: Booted from burnt CD.

Machine: White box PC Chips M863G mainboard
Processor: Athlon XP 2400+
Memory: 512 MB
Root Device: IDE Western Digital 80 GB
Root Size/partition table: 

Before: Single partition + swap potato debian.
After: Single root partition + swap.

Disk /dev/hda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
 
   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   *           1        9483    76172166   83  Linux
/dev/hda2            9484        9729     1975995    f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda5            9484        9729     1975963+  82  Linux swap

(I'm not sure how /dev/hda2 ended up in there.)

Output of lspci:

$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]: Unknown device 0741 (rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]: Unknown device 0003
00:02.0 ISA bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 85C503/5513 (rev 25)
00:02.5 IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5513 [IDE]
00:02.7 Multimedia audio controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] Sound Controller (rev a0)
00:03.0 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 Controller (rev 0f)
00:03.1 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 Controller (rev 0f)
00:03.3 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 2.0 Controller
00:04.0 Ethernet controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS900 10/100 Ethernet (rev 90)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV10DDR [GeForce 256 DDR] (rev 10)

$ cat /proc/pci
PCI devices found:
  Bus  0, device   0, function  0:
    Host bridge: PCI device 1039:0741 (Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]) (rev 3).
      Master Capable.  Latency=32.
      Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xd0000000 [0xd3ffffff].
  Bus  0, device   1, function  0:
    PCI bridge: PCI device 1039:0003 (Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]) (rev 0).      Master Capable.  Latency=64.  Min Gnt=10.
  Bus  0, device   2, function  0:
    ISA bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 85C503/5513 (rev 37).
  Bus  0, device   2, function  5:
    IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5513 [IDE] (rev 0).
      Master Capable.  Latency=128.
      I/O at 0xffa0 [0xffaf].
  Bus  0, device   2, function  7:
    Multimedia audio controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] Sound Controller (rev 160).
      IRQ 10.
      Master Capable.  Latency=64.  Min Gnt=52.Max Lat=11.
      I/O at 0xe800 [0xe8ff].
      I/O at 0xec00 [0xec7f].
  Bus  0, device   3, function  1:
    USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 Controller (#2) (rev 15).
      IRQ 3.
      Master Capable.  Latency=64.  Max Lat=80.
      Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xcfffe000 [0xcfffefff].
  Bus  0, device   3, function  0:
    USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 Controller (rev 15).
      IRQ 7.
      Master Capable.  Latency=64.  Max Lat=80.
      Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xcfffd000 [0xcfffdfff].
  Bus  0, device   3, function  3:
    USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 2.0 Controller (rev 0).      IRQ 5.
      Master Capable.  Latency=64.  Max Lat=80.
      Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xcffff000 [0xcfffffff].
  Bus  0, device   4, function  0:
    Ethernet controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS900 10/100 Ethernet (rev 144).
      IRQ 10.
      Master Capable.  Latency=64.  Min Gnt=52.Max Lat=11.
      I/O at 0xe400 [0xe4ff].
      Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xcfffc000 [0xcfffcfff].
  Bus  1, device   0, function  0:
    VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV10DDR [GeForce 256 DDR] (rev 16).
      IRQ 11.
      Master Capable.  Latency=248.  Min Gnt=5.Max Lat=1.
      Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xce000000 [0xceffffff].
      Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xc0000000 [0xc7ffffff].

$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor       : 0
vendor_id       : AuthenticAMD
cpu family      : 6
model           : 8
model name      : AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2400+
stepping        : 1
cpu MHz         : 2000.090
cache size      : 256 KB
fdiv_bug        : no
hlt_bug         : no
f00f_bug        : no
coma_bug        : no
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 1
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr sse syscall mmxext 3dnowext 3dnow
bogomips        : 3984.58

Base System Installation Checklist:

Initial boot worked:    [O]
Configure network HW:   [O]
Config network:         [O]
Detect CD:              [O]
Load installer modules: [O]
Detect hard drives:     [O]
Partition hard drives:  [O]
Create file systems:    [O]
Mount partitions:       [O]
Install base system:    [O]
Install boot loader:    [O]
Reboot:                 [O]
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it

Comments/Problems:

Generally the install impressed me. It's gotten much better since
potato! I loved how my mouse and network (DHCP) just worked! The system
I ended up with was pretty slick too.

Some specific comments:

* I found the partitioning step confusing. I'd like to make more
detailed comments but I don't have time now to go back through it and
take notes. I think I remember bouncing around between various automatic
and manual options trying to figure out how to resize a partition before
realising I had to delete it and create a new one.

* My sis video chipset got detected but unfortunately XFree86 4.3.x does
not have support for the my sis 741gx. I was stuck at the text console.
>From using knoppix I knew that the vesa driver does work, so I switched
it to that and X came up beautifully. Later I downloaded Thomas
Winschofer's sis driver, but it has been crashing for me whenever X
starts a 2nd time after reboot (e.g. on first logout from GNOME). I've
been working with Thomas to identify that bug.

* You mention in the errata that there is no /etc/fstab entry for /cdrom. This
is a little annoying but understandable in a beta. I set it up manually, but I
can't figure out how to override silly Rock Ridge accidents in burning the CD.
My user is in the group cdrom and so is /dev/hdc. I have the user option in
/etc/fstab for /cdrom. But when I mount (without sudo) some Unix CDs /cdrom
becomes owned by root and has permissions rwx------. I thought in the old days
that user mounts changed the ownership of /cdrom to match the user who mounted
it?

I hope this feedback is helpful.

Thanks and cheers,
Matthew.



-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.25-1-k7
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C

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We are closing this installation report for one of the following
reasons:
- it was reported with a pre-lenny version of Debian
  Installer.
- indications in the installation report give the feeling that
  the reported problem waslying in another software, unrelated to
  D-I, which we can't easily identify.
- indications in the installation report suggest that it may have been
  fixed in a more recent version of a D-I component
- it was successful and we forgot closing it..:-)
- it has no information we consider useful


The D-I team is currently in the process of cleaning out the old spool
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In case you think that the problem you reported has chances to be
still present, please reiterate your installation test with
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