From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686) Gecko/20030807 Galeon/1.3.5 Description of problem: There are major problems when installing RH 9 on a nx9010 Compaq Laptop. I have identified a few of those problems on this wiki website and explained a workaround the problems: http://freax.be/wiki/index.php/Installing%20RH9%20on%20a%20Compaq%20nx9010%20laptop It's possible for a real real real RH geek (like me) to get RH9 installed on such a laptop, but not for a normal person. Steps to get RH installed: Disable all probing of any kind and disable usb and firewire support and probing at the "boot:"-prompt. First time you startup you will have to disable the firewire-module bypassing kudzu, I did this using init=/bin/sh and then remounting root read-write and removing the last line from modules.conf. Then I booted in Interactive-mode to make sure that kudzu will not start, first time I booted I disabled kudzu in the services. The Radeon was not detected so I choosed the standard VGA-driver, the flatpane was also not detected but again the standard one worked... The problems are, of course, when you plugin any USB device. However, plugging in a (USB) mouse does work (and the mouse works too, also in the console)! (I tried a logitech-one) but when I pull it out, everything hangs. Plugging in a memory-stick makes everything hang, pulling it out doesn't help (only a hard reboot fixes the problem). All these sound like major USB and Firewire problems for this laptop! Also the Radeon "Mobile" GPU was not recognised. The network device and sound where recognised and do work perfectly. Same for the DVD-rom and the CdWriter device (cdrecord -scanbus displays a DVD with cdwriting capabilities). I have not tested the firewire-ports Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Standard RH 9 version How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: ... Additional info:
More bugs about the PCMCIA-adapter and kudzu-bugs (kudzu makes the system hang) have been explained on the website (workarounds).
Joao Mendes reported on the same Wiki that if the modules.conf contains these lines, stuff like firewire USB and PCMCIA works: pre-install usb-uhci modprobe yenta_socket pre-install ehci-hcd modprobe yenta_socket alias ieee1394-controller ohci1394 I have not yet tested this
Also note that I have the radeon with accel and dualhead working. This is also explained on the wiki. It would be nice if RedHat could detect this laptop at install-time and perform all patches as explained on the wiki automatically ;-).
It looks like #2 fixes a large amount of problems with this laptop. Both the PCMCIA and USB subsystems are now working correctly, also hotswapping devices with these busses appears to be working correctly. I suggest checking the wiki frequently as people are submitting fixes for problems with this laptop at that location. After #2 has been applied, you can reenable the kudzu service and remove the "nofirewire" option from the kernel-line in grub.conf. Rebooting will make stuff like USB and PCMCIA work.
It looks like these USB and PCMCIA fixes only work with a patched kernel. How to patch and which patch (ACPI Support) is, again, described on the wiki.
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