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It might be useful for next release to doublecheck these. +(One of them says: Mageia hopes... we hope you like it) +7. the transparency with the "arrows" is still odd +... +8. after completing the install, I chose no updates. +9. during first boot, i got message: [drm] nouveau: GPU lockup switching +to fbcon +10. after that, the cauldron appeared. +11. after that, i got a weird screen, which i took a pic of, harddisk +seemed to be doing nothing, so after a few minutes, i tried moving mouse, +or pressing CTRL+ALT+Fx or pressing ESC. all which didn't help, allthough +numlock was still reacting. + +after some more time, i pinged the original ip address, thinking that i +had a static lease for this PC, but knowing i had firewall enabled and ssh +not yet set up, i knew ping wasn't gonna work. I tcpdumped to see what the +arp traffic was, then pinged it. + +Sure enough, there was an arp reply for that ip address, making me think +that it's likely working, but GPU made me unable to see what was going on. + +I decided to try to blindly log in in a tty. + +things i tried weren't really successful, maybe the keyboard didn't work +too. after, i used the sysrqkeys S+U+B and that did work. + +next, i tried failsafe mode + +i saw it saying "Welcome to rescue mode.... etc." + +then "Started single.service" but nothing after that, (not able to login), +and trying CTRL+ALT+Fx didn't show anyhing either. + +but then i noticed that i saw a prompt inbetween the messages. so pressing +enter, showed me a nice prompt. + +since i had GPU lockup, i thought the best way is to get nvidia drivers +installed. + +if upped the interface, did a dhclient on it. then removed my sources ( i +hadn't chosen updates, so i only had the cdrom ) and added new ones. + +i removed the ignore line from tainted + nonfree and updated sources. then +did urpmi --auto-select. (27 packages) + +after that, i did the XFdrake trick of selecting the same card again. it +installed the dkms stuff (oddly enough, since the binary prebuild packages +should've been enough?) + +after the dkms was completed, the monitor suddenly jumped to much smaller +fonts (alot more lines) + +and after that, the nvidia prebuilt packages were installed anyway. + +after that, i got "your screen is too small for this app, restart it and +continue" + +then "this program cannot be run in console mode" + +then "the program XFdrake crashed: can't call method "attron" on undefined +value... in curses/ui/checkbox.pm" (i took a picture) (maybe it crashed, +due to the urpmi output) + +I also noticed that kernel-server was chosen... + +thus, i restarted the XFdrake and this time it worked perfectly. i chose +to disable CTRL+ALT+backspace and saved the configuration. + +then i rebooted and chose the normal (non-failsafe) and it worked. + +12. i had the printer connect and powered on at install time, but printer +wasn't installed. I went to MCC and went to device info, nothing extra was +shown or installed. i went to the printer thing and it asked me to install +task-printing and such. after it was installed, it said: + +"printing service not available" + +with button "start service" (greyed out) and "connect" + +i chose connect and localhost and it worked... (odd) + +i clicked add printer, and it shows me my HP printer, then i press next +and now it needs to install a bunch of other printing packages. + +printing test page worked. + +then i tried pressing the scanning button on the printer, which doesn't +work. (maybe this doesn't work with linux) + +then i went to the scanning in MCC, expecting it to tell me that i should +follow printing setup. + +it told me that my scanner isn't in the database, configure manually? i +said yes and chose "most HP PSC's" and then it told me it was via printing +setup. + +after, it showed 3 scanners: a TVcard, a webcam and my printer + + +13. then i clicked the UPS thingie in MCC, being curious (i have an APC +connected via USB on this machine) + +first it asked me to install nut-server, then to search, and it worked. + +after this it mentioned that "write support for user was incomplete" + +so that seemed to work, no app to actually see the results of it though, +i'm left to find out if there's some kind of monitoring application for +it. + +12b. back to the scanning: + +i started xsane, it gave me a list of those 3 scanners, so that seemed good. + +the first one was the scanner, so i clicked ok, but it seemed to hang on +the OK button or something. + +i checked dmesg | less and saw that : +A. nepomukservices had segfaulted +B. WARNING at drivers/usb/host/ehci-hcd.c @ ehci_reset_endpoint with pid +xsane + +this is strange, because the laptop with mga2 on it (well, rc updated) did +work with scanning. + +i looked at systemd failed services and had 3: +A. fedora-loadmodules +B. lm_sensors +C. microcode_ctl + +thinking about the kernel being server flavored and that ehci thing, i +decided to switch to desktop flavor and reboot + +first, i installed openssh-server and then in mcc i set the firewall to +accept ssh and ping, then i installed kernel-desktop-latest and removed +the kernel-devel and dkms stuff while i was at it. + +rebooting + +and indeed, kernel-desktop seemed to make a difference, scanning now works +well. (strangely enough, the ups stopped being detected) + +14. NFS mounts + +i had to restart nfs-common and rpcbind, for some reason, maybe related to +statd. + +15. next is the webcam + +i had troubles getting ekiga to work nicely with my firewall (and siproxd) +and the ekiga service, so i guess this is for another time. +</PRE> + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="015904.html">[Mageia-dev] Strange problem reported +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="015909.html">[Mageia-dev] telepathy and audio/video +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#15906">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#15906">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#15906">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#15906">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + +<hr> +<a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">More information about the Mageia-dev +mailing list</a><br> +</body></html> |