Some problems: WartyRC1 - HW Detection

Fri Oct 15 08:03:19 UTC 2004

What follows is some problems I encounted installing Ubuntu from the
Warty RC1 installer cd and on subsequent boots into Ubuntu.

While in my debian install(to give an overview of my hardware)

[root at Yogi:~]# lspci -v
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8375 [KM266/KL266]
Host Bridge
        Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8375 [KM266/KL266] Host Bridge
        Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 8
        Memory at d0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M]
        Capabilities: [a0] AGP version 2.0
        Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2

0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8633 [Apollo Pro266
AGP] (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
        Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 0
        Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=0
        Memory behind bridge: dc000000-ddffffff
        Prefetchable memory behind bridge: d4000000-dbffffff
        Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2

0000:00:06.0 Multimedia controller: Philips Semiconductors SAA7134 (rev 01)
        Subsystem: Animation Technologies Inc.: Unknown device 0138
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 17
        Memory at de000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K]
        Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 1

0000:00:07.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
        Subsystem: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RT8139
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 18
        I/O ports at a000 [size=256]
        Memory at de001000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
        Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2

0000:00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233A ISA Bridge
        Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 3074
        Flags: bus master, stepping, medium devsel, latency 0
        Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2

0000:00:11.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc.
VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
(prog-if 8a [Master SecP PriP])
        Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc.
VT82C586/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT8233/A/C/VT8235 PIPC Bus Master IDE
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 27
        I/O ports at a400 [size=16]
        Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2

0000:00:11.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB
1.1 Controller (rev 23) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
        Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. (Wrong ID) USB Controller
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 21
        I/O ports at a800 [size=32]
        Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2

0000:00:11.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB
1.1 Controller (rev 23) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
        Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. (Wrong ID) USB Controller
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 21
        I/O ports at ac00 [size=32]
        Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2

0000:00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc.
VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 40)
        Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd.: Unknown device 3900
        Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 22
        I/O ports at b000 [size=256]
        Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2

0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV17
[GeForce4 MX 420] (rev a3) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
        Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd.: Unknown device 8600
        Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 248, IRQ 16
        Memory at dc000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
        Memory at d4000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M]
        Memory at d8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=512K]
        Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 2
        Capabilities: [44] AGP version 2.0

[root at Yogi:~]#

HW detection failed to correctly identify the NIC, it should use the
8139too module (Nearest I could find in an lsmod was 8139cp)
Unloading 8139cp and modprobing 8139too failed to get a network
connection with /etc/networking/interfaces setup correctly, compared
to known working one.

The sound was mis-configured, once some sound was sent to the card it
keept repeating the same 2 seconds, not stopping until I logged out. -
This is the same problem knoppix 3.4 has(forget how 3.6 handles it, I
think the same way)

Noticed during all boots into Ubuntu errors along the lines of:
modprobe: FATAL: Error inserting pciehn.ko Operation not permitted
modprobe: FATAL: Error inserting shpchp.ko Operation not permitted

Odd thing, when I first logged into the gui and changed to 800x720(I
think that's it, 800x something anyway) and made the refresh rate 72hz
it worked fine, but on next reboot it wouldn't work properly - the
screen went fuzzy and I had to revert to a lower refresh rate of 60hz.

USB did not appear to work either, plugged in a usb-mass-storage
device(read mp3 player:D ) and it was not automounted as I thought it
was supposed to from the reviews I've read, nor any /dev/sda1 .

There were an absurd amount of modules loaded, 'ipv6','fan' and
'thermal' plus many I havn't a clue about and appered to be unrelated
to my HW. I noticed more than a few modules for my tvcard loaded
however I only tried to load tvtime which was not present, forgot to
test if there was xawtv and don't know the names of other viewers.

Mandrake 9.1 (or was it 9.0?) the network card and sound worked out of
the box when I tried it over a year or so ago , all the installs of
debian(woody/sarge) I've done detected and setup at least the network
card fine.

Other than that I found the installer fairly simple, quick and nifty.
:D Now if only it liked my machine... I still want to try Ubuntu, I
have heard good things about once it's all working so if this reads as
a rant you've got the wrong idea.