Colony 4 feedback

[Paul Sladen]

On Tue, 6 Sep 2005, john e wrote:
> "your network is problebly not using dhcp..... or slow..."
> 8139cp: pci device 000:02:02.0 id 10ec:8139rev10 is not 8139c+ compat chip 
> 8139cp: try the "8199too" driver instead

This is the ethernet chip, which probably explains why you have no network.

> fatal: error inserting fan (.../fan.ko)

Fan control probably won't apply unless this is a laptop/recent-desktop.
Perhaps the 'FATAL!!!' should be toned down.

> I hear the chime in just fine
> I now get no sound. At all.

Can you track down which places you get sound and which you don't;  is 'esd'
running?

> video is stuck at 800X600 (?) even though x11 has 1024x768 in it's
> config. so I added 1028X1024 and rebooted, but still 800X600

If it's shared memory, the default about of memory may not be enough for X
to believe it can manage the full resolution;  or X doesn't believe the
display can cope with the higher resolution.

Please file bugs!  :-)

  http://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/

	-Paul
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