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| ====== Radeon kernel panic ====== | ====== Mageia 1 - Gotchas ====== |
| While installation succeeded, kernel panicked on the first boot on my workstation equipped with Biostar TA790GX A3+ motherboard containing on-board Radeon HD3300 graphic card: | "[[http://www.mageia.org|Mageia]] is a fork of Mandriva Linux, supported by a not-for-profit organisation of recognized and elected contributors." |
| | ===== ATI Radeon kernel panic ===== |
| | While installation went just fine, kernel panicked on the first boot on my workstation equipped with Biostar TA790GX A3+ motherboard containing on-board Radeon HD3300 graphic card: |
| <code> | <code> |
| Oct 9 12:53:24 tio-linux kernel: fa00cc76c>] ? radeon_gem_object_create+0x8c/0x120 [radeon] | Oct 9 12:53:24 tio-linux kernel: fa00cc76c>] ? radeon_gem_object_create+0x8c/0x120 [radeon] |
| </code> | </code> |
| It turned out it's a [[https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1471|known issue]] (Radeon firmware missing in initrd). | It turned out it's a [[https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1471|known issue]] (Radeon firmware missing in initrd). |
| ===== Workaround ===== | ==== Workaround ==== |
| * Boot with Radeon KMS temporarily disabled - add following parameter to kernel line in GRUB: | * Boot with Radeon KMS temporarily disabled - add following parameter to kernel line in GRUB: |
| <code> | <code> |
| * reboot | * reboot |
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| ====== Virtual Box ====== | ===== Installation of Virtual Box ===== |
| While Mageia repositories provide **virtualbox** package, it does not keep pace with the latest version available on official [[https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads|site]]. | Mageia package repository provides **virtualbox** package, but it does not keep pace with the latest version available on official [[https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads|site]]. Mandriva packages are pre-built against older bits (Python 2.6, openssl 0.9.8), but [[http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/4.1.4/VirtualBox-4.1-4.1.4_74291_openSUSE114-1.x86_64.rpm|openSUSE 11.4]] package seems to fit in Mageia's environment (Python 2.7, openssl 1.0.0). |
| openSUSE 11.4 package seems to be able to cope with Mageia's environment | |
| (Mandriva versions require older bits - Python 2.6, openssl 0.9.8). | |
