Experiences with severn and 2.6 kernel on a dell laptop.
Alan Cox
alan at redhat.com
Tue Aug 5 11:48:20 UTC 2003
> decided to try again. this time with no probing devices. poof again in the
> same spot. Subsequently I tried the *extreme method*: let the initial image
> load and remove the firewire connection while starting the installer. ..and
> voila! it worked. Of course, it wouldn't load the sbp2 module (hang again),
> but I decided I could live without for the install time. So off I went with
> the network install...
(boot option "nofirewire" 8))
> The sound is OK. The sound applications are not. I understand that there are
> issues with licensing various codecs (mp3), but one should be provided with
> some lines: "we don't have it, but you can get it here and compile it
> yourself". IMHO, xmms is rather useless without mp3 support since most
Red Hat is a free software company. You can get mp3 modules from a variety
of locations but obviously remember to obey your local laws - this is
especially an issue in the USA
> - when I launched the battery applet (gnome), it crashed with no explanation.
> KDE would have displayed "battery/power info not available" and the crossed
> battery icon in the tray. Loaded the acpi modules, and got the applet running
> with the exclamation mark and red battery (unavailable). No big surprise here
Please bugzilla the applet crash
Alan
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