Package: debian-installer Severity: normal
Boot method: netinst CD Image version: d-i b3 from link in d-i b3 availability announcement Date: August 15, 2006 Machine: Dell Latitude D810 Processor: P4 2 GHz Memory: 1GB Partitions: fdisk -l: /dev/sda1 1 7 56196 de Dell Utility /dev/sda2 * 8 13 48195 83 Linux /dev/sda3 14 987 7823655 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sda4 988 7296 50677042+ 5 Extended /dev/sda5 988 6143 41415538+ 8e Linux LVM /dev/sda6 6144 7047 7261348+ b W95 FAT32 /dev/sda7 7048 7296 2000061 82 Linux swap / Solaris lvscan: ACTIVE '/dev/vg1/u1' [6.00 GB] inherit ACTIVE '/dev/vg1/home' [6.00 GB] inherit ACTIVE '/dev/vg1/etch-root' [6.00 GB] inherit ACTIVE '/dev/vg1/vmware' [12.00 GB] inherit mount: /dev/mapper/vg1-etch--root on / type xfs (rw) proc on /proc type proc (rw) sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw) usbfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw) tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw) devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620) /dev/sda2 on /boot type ext3 (rw) /dev/mapper/vg1-home on /home type xfs (rw) /dev/mapper/vg1-u1 on /u1 type xfs (rw) /dev/mapper/vg1-vmware on /vg1/vmware type xfs (rw) tmpfs on /dev type tmpfs (rw,size=10M,mode=0755) nfsd on /proc/fs/nfsd type nfsd (rw) Output of lspci and lspci -n: ----- lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/PM/GMS/910GML Express Processor to DRAM Controller (rev 03) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/PM Express PCI Express Root Port (rev 03) 00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 03) 00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #1 (rev 03) 00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #2 (rev 03) 00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #3 (rev 03) 00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #4 (rev 03) 00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 03) 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev d3) 00:1e.2 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 03) 00:1e.3 Modem: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 03) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801FBM (ICH6M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 03) 00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801FBM (ICH6M) SATA Controller (rev 03) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc M22 [Radeon Mobility M300] 02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5751 Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express (rev 01) 03:01.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI6515 Cardbus Controller 03:01.5 Communication controller: Texas Instruments PCI6515 SmartCard Controller 03:03.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 2915ABG Network Connection (rev 05) ------ lspci -n 00:00.0 0600: 8086:2590 (rev 03) 00:01.0 0604: 8086:2591 (rev 03) 00:1c.0 0604: 8086:2660 (rev 03) 00:1d.0 0c03: 8086:2658 (rev 03) 00:1d.1 0c03: 8086:2659 (rev 03) 00:1d.2 0c03: 8086:265a (rev 03) 00:1d.3 0c03: 8086:265b (rev 03) 00:1d.7 0c03: 8086:265c (rev 03) 00:1e.0 0604: 8086:2448 (rev d3) 00:1e.2 0401: 8086:266e (rev 03) 00:1e.3 0703: 8086:266d (rev 03) 00:1f.0 0601: 8086:2641 (rev 03) 00:1f.2 0101: 8086:2653 (rev 03) 01:00.0 0300: 1002:5460 02:00.0 0200: 14e4:1677 (rev 01) 03:01.0 0607: 104c:8036 03:01.5 0780: 104c:8038 03:03.0 0280: 8086:4223 (rev 05) Base System Installation Checklist: [O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it 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] Comments/Problems: Some of these comments go beyond the scope of debian-installer, but many of them don't. I'm being more inclusive here toward the goal that I should have a fully operational system after the initial boot after running debian-installer. Some of the problems have to do with non-free firmware, etc., but these can be mitigated with documentation if nothing else. I needed to pass "vga=771 libata.atapi_enabled=1" as additional boot arguments. vga=771 was listed in the special machines section of the help, but libata.atapi_enabled=1 was pointed out to me only in a response to a previous installation report. If this isn't fixed, I would recommend adding this to the notes that the user sees when hitting F3 from the main boot screen. This laptop has builtin wireless (ipw2200) and a built-in ethernet card. The wired LAN card worked, but the wireless did not, probably because of the lack of non-free firmware and possibly also because the kernel has an old version of the ipw2200 driver. It took a google search to figure out about the firmware (though I am quite aware of the non-free firmware issue in debian). Once I downloaded and installed the firmware, the wireless worked, but it worked poorly. (In contrast, it works perfectly with dapper.) I manually installed the latest ipw2200 driver from sourceforge, and now wireless seems to be working as well as on dapper. Sound was not configured at all when I first booted and logged in, so I had to run alsaconf. Once I did this, sound worked perfectly. I had to manually append pcspkr to /etc/modules to get the PC speaker to work. This laptop has the eraser-head mouse and a touchpad. With the xorg.conf that was generated by dexconf, the eraser-head mouse worked well, but the touchpad was so slow that moving your finger all the way across the pad resulted in moving the cursor only about 50 pixels. I'm not much of a mouse user and don't care about all the fancy stuff with the synaptics touchpad. If I simply commented out the synaptics stuff from xorg.conf, the behavior of the eraser and touchpad were both fine. So, there are still a few rough edges to be smoothed out for this machine to install and work perfectly out of the box, but it was really close. Now everything works, which means I can finally run debian instead of Ubuntu on my laptop like I've wanted to for some time. (Yes, I probably could have gotten it to work before, but it would have a lot more trouble.) One caution about dapper vs. etch: there was a regression in dapper about X performance on this machine. Breezy and etch both have X configurations that work well, but on dapper, the display performance is very poor. I hope that this isn't the result of dapper having newer drivers such that I can look forward to a degradation of performance on etch too.... -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-2-686 Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
