Changing the Bios setting from 1 MB to 8 MB as suggested by Miguel Figueiredo is
sufficient in itself to solve this problem on my old (2006) Dell Dimension 1100,
which has integrated Intel "Extreme" Graphics 2.
I'm using debian-wheezy-DI-rc1-i386-DVD-1
Mike Thomas
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On 25/12/12 22:04, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
R.M. Thomas (25/12/2012):
(2) there was no usable command-line prompt on the first reboot,
because the firmware required for the Radeon card was not present
and the X-server did not release me from the garbled GUI.
Ben fixed that by disabling KMS
On 25/12/12 21:04, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
Do we consider it as an expected (as in: “need firmware”) situation?
Or is there anything we could be doing on the d-i level to smooth
things up?
The installer left the machine in an apparently unusable state where
(1) there was no internet connection,
On 03/12/12 13:28, Ben Hutchings wrote:
On Mon, 2012-12-03 at 13:19 +, R.M. Thomas wrote:
[...]
Okay, that makes sense now. In my case the ethernet controller is the
RTL8111/8168B
for which the driver is r8169. Even though the package firmware-linux-nonfree
has
been installed, I am
On 03/12/12 11:33, Brian Potkin wrote:
On Sun 02 Dec 2012 at 17:00:40 +, R.M. Thomas wrote:
On 02/12/12 15:30, Brian Potkin wrote:
Please look at #694582 and see if it helps.
In my case, the stall at "Detect network hardware" may not to be a firmware
issue. After I had
On 02/12/12 15:30, Brian Potkin wrote:
On Sun 02 Dec 2012 at 12:22:50 +, R.M. Thomas wrote:
Comments/Problems:
I chose:
Advanced options>
Alternative desktop environments>
Xfce>
Advanced options>
Expert install
and answered questions about langua
Package: installation-reports
Boot method: From DVD image
Image version: debian-wheezy-DI-b4-amd64-DVD-1.iso
Date: 2012-12-01
Machine: Self-build around Asrock X58 motherboard
Processor: Intel i7-920
Memory: 6GB DDR3
Partitions: see attachment df_Tl.out
Output of lspci: see attachment lspci_knn.
Yesterday I tried a direct installation of FreeBSD (not using the Debian
installer)
from this CD:
FreeBSD-8.1-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso
It completes successfully, so it seems there are no intrinsic hardware problems
with
the machine.
I'd prefer Debian/kFreeBSD, though, if possible.
Mike
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I tried to install again this morning, encountered the same problem
with partitioning, continued with 2GB free space and no swap. On the
first reboot, presentation of the login dialogue box was delayed by
about 20 seconds. When the password was entered, the box became greyed
and the system hung
Package: installation-reports
Boot method: Netinst CD
Image version: debian-squeeze-di-beta1-kfreebsd-i386-netinst.iso
Date: 2010-11-01 17:00 UTC
Machine: Dell Vostro A860 laptop
Processor: Celeron 2.13 GHz Single Core
Memory: 1 GB, 800 MHz
Partitions: see below
Output of lspci -knn (or lspci -
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