FC2T2 installation report

[Bruno De Wolf]

Dear,

Installation report of FC2T2.
Hardware:
Nec versa P700 (laptop)

Installation method:
* Upgrade via yum (just add a mirror as a download repository) and 'yum 
update'
 
* Upgrade problems & solutions
- yum complained that the redhat-config-* packages needed 
/usr/bin/python2.2, which is not available in the new release
- after removing the redhat-config-* packages, there was still a 
complaint about xfree86-lib (or something else xfree86- related). So I 
switched to runlevel 3, removed xfree86 and did the upgrade
- After removing xfree, yum update went fine
- Afterwards, had to install a couple of xorg packags and gdm (which 
does not seem very logical). BTW: if you start with xdm (and without 
gdm), the login manager still shows an 'xfree' logo - isn't that 
supposed to be 'x.org'  -> raised some confusion with me about xfree/xorg

* Remaining problems
1. Kudzu crashes
Kudzu wants do display something about new hardware (keyboard???). A 
readable screen appears for about 1 second, and then a blue screen with 
strange white characters (nothing readable). System did not seem to 
react any further. I continued without kudzu.

2. Somehow, X crashes with the 2.6 kernel. Strange, when using the FC1 
2.4.22-1.2174 kernel on the same system, everything goes fine.
The following appears in the xfree.log of the 2.6 kernel which does not 
happen in 2.4:
 > (EE) VESA(0): vm86() syscall generated signal 11.
 > (II) VESA(0): EAX=0x00000000, EBX=0x0000009b, ECX=0x00001360, 
EDX=0x00000000
 > (II) VESA(0): ESP=0x00000fe8, EBP=0x00000000, ESI=0x00000000, 
EDI=0x00003000
 > (II) VESA(0): CS=0xc000, SS=0x0100, DS=0x0040, ES=0x0000, FS=0x0000, 
GS=0x0000> (II) VESA(0): EIP=0x000050db, EFLAGS=0x00033246
 > (II) VESA(0): code at 0x000c50db:
 >  f3 ab 61 50 b4 1c e8 a4 cc 58 f6 c1 08 74 28 0a
 >  c0 75 06 81 c3 8c 00 eb 1e fe c8 75 16 57 33 ff
 > (II) stack at 0x00001fe8:
 >  00 20 00 00 00 00 f8 0f 00 30 01 00 0f 00 01 30
 >  54 12 00 06 00 00 00 32
2288,2291c2304,2308
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And also:
 > (EE) xf86OpenSerial: Cannot open device /dev/psaux
 >       No such device.
 > (EE) Mouse0: cannot open input device
 > (EE) PreInit failed for input device "Mouse0"
 > (II) UnloadModule: "mouse"
2302a2320
 > (WW) No core pointer registered
2304,2309d2321
 (I suppose this is not dramatic).

Graphics card is a ATI readeon mobility 7500, driver in xfconfig is "vesa".
Should I open a bugzilla for some of these items?

Kernel is 2.6.3-2.1.253.2.1. Is this the most recent one? If not, where 
can I find it?

Thanks and kind regards,

Bruno