[NTLUG:Discuss] Die hard SuSE fan... err... Mandrake 8.0!

[Chris Cox]

Seems that Mandrake 8 is somewhat particular about
hardware.  Rats!  I really thought they had fixed
a lot of their problems.

I would think you could reintall LILO without the
graphic option.  There may be a way to get into
it without doing that though...

Bug Hunter wrote:
> 
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>   Mandrake 8.0 sometimes allows me to use serial port com1 (/dev/ttyS0),
> sometimes not, on my laptop.  It is very frustrating.  There are no error
> messages.  It just works or fails to work.  If I power off an boot into
> windows, no problem.
> 
>   If I reboot from Linux into Windows 98, A20 line is hung, and Windows 98
> will not restart.  I listed it as a bug at mandrake, and they closed it
> saying it was a windows bug.  I had no such problem with kernel 2.2, so I
> know there is a code difference that is doing this.  It may be a "windows"
> bug, but it can be fixed in the kernel.  Does anyone know how to report
> this to the kernel writers?
> 
>   The sound card was not set up properly.  I had to do it manually.
> 
>   Does anyone know how to get into the command line mode in LILO when it
> is a graphic screen?
> 
> bug
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