Installing debian on a DG33TL G33 system

Someone commented rightfully that I should explain how I got debian installed on the DG33TL.

There are 4 problems:

1. The standard kernel hangs at boot. This is because of a mmconfig related problem. To fix this use "pci=nommconf" as kernel boot option which will ignore the mmconfig information but still enable acpi so you still have a SMP machine.
   
2. The CD/DVD chipset is not yet supported. It is a "Marvell Technology Group Ltd. Unknown device 6101" which not even 2.6.23.9 seems to want to talk to. To solve this I booted from CD, but then continued to install from a USB stick.
3. The standard kernel uses the experimental firewire driver, which gives me an oops. The older firewire driver works perfectly.
   
4. The ethernet card is not recognised. It is a "Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation Unknown device 294c" which works with the 7.6.12-NAPI version e1000 driver.

So to install I used the CD image from Kenshi Muto to install. Afterwards the standard kernel needs the newer e1000 driver. At the moment I'm running 2.6.23.9.

Note to self: direct rendering on G33

If you cannot find out why oh why the Xorg server refuses to play nice and enable direct rendering, remember to check if libgl1-mesa-dri is installed...

So I'm almost there, installing debian on the G33 motherboard (an intel DG33TL) was non-trivial (I'll file a di bug soon), but now the advantages are becoming clear: the video is quite fast, very clear (DVI output) and the Q6600 cpu is just too fast.

Now to restore my backups and I'm back in the game!