Experiences with severn and 2.6 kernel on a dell laptop.

[Alan Cox]

> decided to try again. this time with no probing devices. poof again in the 
> same spot. Subsequently I tried the *extreme method*: let the initial image 
> load and remove the firewire connection while starting the installer. ..and 
> voila! it worked. Of course, it wouldn't load the sbp2 module (hang again), 
> but I decided I could live without for the install time. So off I went with 
> the network install...

(boot option "nofirewire" 8))

>  The sound is OK. The sound applications are not. I understand that there are 
> issues with licensing various codecs (mp3), but one should be provided with 
> some lines: "we don't have it, but you can get it here and compile it 
> yourself". IMHO, xmms is rather useless without mp3 support since most 

Red Hat is a free software company. You can get mp3 modules from a variety
of locations but obviously remember to obey your local laws - this is
especially an issue in the USA

>  - when I launched the battery applet (gnome), it crashed with no explanation. 
> KDE would have displayed "battery/power info not available" and the crossed 
> battery icon in the tray. Loaded the acpi modules, and got the applet running 
> with the exclamation mark and red battery (unavailable). No big surprise here 

Please bugzilla the applet crash

Alan