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I don't think you would be helped by upgrading right now. Most of the additional package sites are not at 9.2 yet. A lot of bugs are still in the final release, so expect lots of updates to the main packages in the next 1-2 months. If you're already running newer versions of the major software tools (mozilla/ooffice, etc) the main advantage would be a kernel upgrade or easier 2.6 kernel testing. If you like tweaking, but not re-tweaking, just leave the mandrake path and gradually run your own stuff. It's probably more stable and if not, you learn a lot more about how stuff works. As for upgrading, it's mostly stable, but you need to add some kde packages (if you use kde) to fix some problems introduced by the splitting of the kde stuff into more rpms. (kdebase-konsole) I haven't worked much with 9.2 yet, but I did a few installs/upgrades for testing purpose... I could change my opinion later ;-) Cheers Simon

I've done a lot of mandrake 9.1 installs here in timezone CEST and I always have problems with the timezone. Usually machines we use here at work are set to localtime (instead of UTC/GMT) and I don't bother changing that, however that may also cause these problems. The thing is, during install, the time settings are almost always f*ckd up by drakx (the defaults aren't right and when selecting a country, the timezone isn't adjusted or even set) so you have to remember to set them all manually. After rebooting the time is nearly always 2 hours ahead (the difference between UTC and localtime in summer). usually this can be adjusted by selecting the timezone and setting the right time (note that you have to select the TZ again!). I usually do this from KDE by right clicking on the clock in the panel and selecting adjust date and time. I've also seen a laptop that is not fixed by this, it just keeps adjusting the time by 2 hours everytime it boots. (no windows installed). A solution would be to show the time on the hwclock to decide which timezone is in there. (Debian does this, never gives me problems, but then again, you don't want debian stable on a desktop ;-) Nobody's perfect, but I hope this bug is fixed in 9.2 when it comes out. Cheers Simon

I ran make in /var/yp several times since I changed the option in /etc/pam.d/system-auth the actual line I changed is: password sufficient /lib/security/pam_unix.so nullok use_authtok crypt shadow remember=3 (the default is s/crypt/md5/)

Well, that was not it... other suggestions? Cheers Simon

Yes, but the maps just store the exported information.... so I don't think it helps, but you've given me an idea. Maybe this can be set in the makefile (/var/yp/Makefile)? Cheers Simon

Hi I'm running a small office network with NIS authentication and both linux and solaris clients. The solaris 8 clients need crypt encrypted passwords, since they don't understand md5 ones. I tried setting this in the pam.d/system-auth file, which worked for localy changing passwords, but yppasswd still uses md5 encrryption. Is there any way to make these two ways of changing passwords use the same setting or do I need to find the source for yppasswd and recompile it with crypt as default (if this is possible). TIA Simon

By not allowing arts to grab the sound device (playing sound while kde is starting up), I was able to keep the use of /dev/dsp possible, so it might be unrelated to nvidia (except that I didn't have the problem with the nv driver.

Hi I'm having a lot of trouble getting my laptop to do nvidia XFree86 (+ twinview) and sound. This is not working since I tried installing mandrake 9.1 on the thing... To give you an idea of the hardware I'm working on, see http://margo.student.utwente.nl/simon/ongo...ng/jade8060.php. Strangely enough, I had everything working with mandrake 9.0 + kde 3.1 and kernel 2.4.21-pre4-ac4. I'm not sure anymore if alsa was very important in this, but I had that configured as well at some point. I tried the pre4-ac4 kernel with mdk-9.1, other kernels (rc1/2/3), nvidia 4191 and 4363. The latter nvidia driver simply disabled both console and X, so I tried 4191, which works fine, but no sound. Desperate I went back to mandrake 9.0 (clean install, updates, kde3.1). tried the same stuff, pre4-ac4, rc6 and rc6 with laptop patches https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/laptopkernel/ same problem :-( Sound (ac97/i810) is working fine until I start X, then it says /dev/dsp is busy and this doesn't auto-repair when you kill X. Somehow mandrake doesn't make it easy to switch drivers (kernel/alsa/oss) for devices and I haven't figured how to do this yet (use alsa instead of kernel driver), except by going to read a lot of documentation and I'm not even sure if this is the real problem. I don't really know what to do now, both mandrake 9.0 and 9.1 don't work anymore (including the features I want working). nVidia seems to be the problem, but I need that driver to view stuff on my TV. Any tips? Cheers Simon