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 -- http://info.comodo.priv.at/ | gpg key ID: 0x00F3CFE4 infos zur usenet-hierarchie at.*: http://www.usenet.at/ member of https://www.vibe.at/ | how to reply: http://got.to/quote/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
