Guest arise Posted March 27, 2003 Report Share Posted March 27, 2003 Install worked ok until the XFree setup portion...i couldn't get it to work, so i choose to boot to prompt instead of kdm. I can't seem to get ADSL to work, i had no problems with it before...i use a Realtek8139B for DSL and onboard LAN (Asus P4PE) for internal networking. I choose NOT to bring the onboard interface up at boot, so i only use the Realtek card.....and yes, the cable is plugged in the right one :P I rebuilt the Nvidia drivers for my Leadtek Geforce 4 Ti, edited the XFree86-4 file (just changed nv to nvidia, cos Load "glx" is already there), but i cannot get X to start...something with "NVIDIA (EE) cannot find an available display on 0,0...." or something. Other than that, install worked OK proving my DVD drive read the CDs (duhh), and the onboard sound was detected (dunno if it plays sound yet). Printer HP Deskjet950C USB was detected, so was the MS Intellimouse USB...and the keyboard. Will pound more this distro from behind, later on today, cos i really think it can do better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fuzzylizard Posted March 27, 2003 Report Share Posted March 27, 2003 Worked great. Fastest, easiest install I have ever done. For a full review, check out my website... http://www.fuzzylizard.com/news/news.cfm?id=183 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hugerobot Posted March 27, 2003 Report Share Posted March 27, 2003 I expected 9.1 to fix a lot of the problems I was having... Instead, not only do I have the same problems as with 9.0, but new sound problems. What a mess. Anyway, I have said goodbye to Mandrake... Redhat 7.3 is the best version of any distro IMHO... I'm downloading it now. Here is my farewell post, if anyone cares: http://www.mandrakeusers.org/viewtopic.php...3912&highlight= Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnnyv Posted March 27, 2003 Report Share Posted March 27, 2003 I expected 9.1 to fix a lot of the problems I was having... Instead, not only do I have the same problems as with 9.0, but new sound problems. What a mess. Anyway, I have said goodbye to Mandrake... Redhat 7.3 is the best version of any distro IMHO... I'm downloading it now. Here is my farewell post, if anyone cares:http://www.mandrakeusers.org/viewtopic.php?t=3912&highlight= Don't go yet! I will check out dvd playing tonight with mplayer. my sound blaster live 5.1 was given the audigy drivers on install, simple change to the right ones and working nice for me. 9.1 with kde 3.1 seems really responsive too me. I am very happy with this release. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onurb Posted March 27, 2003 Report Share Posted March 27, 2003 Found this on Tiny minds for sound problems in 9.1: chkconfig --level 35 alsa on Bruno Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willisoften Posted March 27, 2003 Report Share Posted March 27, 2003 I haven't installed on desktop yet. Just on laptop. I hate that installer it's awfull individual package selection took so long I gave up. Install went OK but slow. 3 hours! It's a slow machine but I installed 9.0 in about 1hr 15. It took 15 minutes for post install configuration to cease being a blank gray box on screen. ADSL is working, sound isn't. Open office takes a good 5 minutes to load and characters take a few seconds to appear on the screen. It might be ok on a desktop. But I can't live with that on my laptop. I couldn't work like that. Back to Slackware for Will's laptop. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ndeb Posted March 27, 2003 Report Share Posted March 27, 2003 I have had really bad problems with 9.1 installation (see http://www.mandrakeusers.org/viewtopic.php?t=3863 ). Even though I eventually succeeded, I notice that there are lots of bugs that have been there in the RC1 and RC2 which have not been fixed. In fact, many of the bugs which they claim to have fixed have actually not been fixed. I find 9.0 with texstar's KDE-3.1 better and stabler than the 9.1 release. In fact, 9.1 has some serious kernel bugs that 9.0 never had. For example, the 9.1 kernel cannot mount an ext3 root (/) partition as ext3. It can only mount it as ext2 which defeats the purpose of having / as ext3. Other problems are there too: http://www.mandrakeusers.org/viewtopic.php?t=3892 http://www.mandrakeusers.org/viewtopic.php?t=3894 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnnyv Posted March 28, 2003 Report Share Posted March 28, 2003 I have had really bad problems with 9.1 installation (see http://www.mandrakeusers.org/viewtopic.php?t=3863 ). Even though I eventually succeeded, I notice that there are lots of bugs that have been there in the RC1 and RC2 which have not been fixed. In fact, many of the bugs which they claim to have fixed have actually not been fixed. I find 9.0 with texstar's KDE-3.1 better and stabler than the 9.1 release. In fact, 9.1 has some serious kernel bugs that 9.0 never had. For example, the 9.1 kernel cannot mount an ext3 root (/) partition as ext3. It can only mount it as ext2 which defeats the purpose of having / as ext3. Other problems are there too:http://www.mandrakeusers.org/viewtopic.php?t=3892http://www.mandrakeusers.org/viewtopic.php?t=3894 I will have to check on this when i get home. I install 2 computers with ext3 as the / partition Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willisoften Posted March 28, 2003 Report Share Posted March 28, 2003 I reinstalled, and it's a lot better this time. I forgot to set the BIOS to handle PnP Sound still not working though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phunni Posted March 28, 2003 Author Report Share Posted March 28, 2003 Well - my first impressions aren't great. The installer nuked my /home even though I asked it not to As to useability ete, apart from saying that MCC looks MUCH better, it's toot early to say Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest joehill Posted March 28, 2003 Report Share Posted March 28, 2003 Well - my first impressions aren't great. The installer nuked my /home even though I asked it not to OMFG, please tell me you had it backed up... I would be homicidal otherwise. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phunni Posted March 28, 2003 Author Report Share Posted March 28, 2003 I'm afraid that, because I am stupid, I did not back up. However, due to a similar incident recently (note that I stil ldidn't back up - how dumb am I ?) the only unrebuildable thing in /home was my saved wolfenstein game. I guess that's rebuildable by playing to that point again though! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aRTee Posted March 28, 2003 Report Share Posted March 28, 2003 I`m going to put a configuration page on my site, just so next time I`ll know what to do.... Anyway, install went fine, sort of skipped my mouse setting/selection (mx700) but worked fine throughout the install (no scrolling after though). First boot: lilo offers: linux-enterpris linux inux-nonfb failsafe windows floppy What is with this enterprise version? Which one is better suited for what?? BTW I`m using that one now anyway. I don`t consider myself a trekkie, but it does sound ok :wink: Next, I try to type the normal ' (apostrophe) but can't (it`s below ¨ which does work..), it won't come out. I had to copy the ones in that last sentence from somewhere.... For now I work around it like that, or use the ` one left of the 1 key on most keyboards... The font on evolution and bluefish looks very bad, don`t know what to do about that; the rest looks ok, somehow opera has slightly smaller fonts, but still ok. ndeb, don`t know what your problem with / is in terms of ext3 or 2, mine gets mounted as ext3 fine; just when it is mounted as read-only it is mounted as ext2, which is perfectly alright imho.... Installing nvidia drivers was easy, noticed that even before that the display setting was quite acceptable, didn`t have the fbdev but nv driver, which worked fine at 1600x1200@75Hz (fbdev wouldn`t give me that res and only do 60Hz; that was in rc1). I installed the necessary things for dvd playback, on rc1 I had trouble since I was trying to use the d5d plugin for xine, but now I just did urpmi libdvdcss2 and all was well, both in mplayer and xine.. I only have some problems with audio surround playback; kmix is gigantic, and I have no way to get audio from the rear channels. Also in aumix or alsamixergui I have no clue what to do to get sound out of the rear channels.... bummer .... Maybe I should go back to OSS? Or can anyone tell me how to do it with ALSA and sblive51..? urpmi is great, installed/configged stuff according to http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/ and it rocks; just added SDLcam (so I can take pics with my webcam etc), octave (using matlab a lot at work since one week, some more practise won`t hurt..), k3b works fine, etcetcetc, so for the rest, quite smooth sailing, so tonight my girlfriends pc will get some new bits to process. I don`t mind having renewed my subscription! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ndeb Posted March 28, 2003 Report Share Posted March 28, 2003 ndeb, don`t know what your problem with / is in terms of ext3 or 2, mine gets mounted as ext3 fine; just when it is mounted as read-only it is mounted as ext2, which is perfectly alright imho....What does cat /proc/mounts | grep root show on ur system? I think we have the same situation because, in my case df -T shows / to be ext3 but cat /proc/mounts shows / mounted as ext2. Actually, I have found the solution and described it in http://www.mandrakeusers.org/viewtopic.php?t=3892 . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aRTee Posted March 28, 2003 Report Share Posted March 28, 2003 Here we go: [robert@zurich robert]$ cat /proc/mounts | grep root rootfs / rootfs rw 0 0 /dev/root / ext3 rw 0 0 [robert@zurich robert]$ df -T Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda6 ext3 7.6G 2.9G 4.3G 40% / /dev/hda9 ext3 6.0G 4.5G 1.2G 80% /alt /dev/hda10 ext3 2.1G 461M 1.5G 24% /download /dev/hda8 ext3 22G 21G 1.1G 95% /home /dev/hda1 vfat 3.8G 3.6G 302M 93% /mnt/win_c /dev/hda5 vfat 1.9G 1.8G 191M 91% /mnt/win_d /dev/hda11 vfat 12G 8.7G 2.8G 77% /mnt/win_e [robert@zurich robert]$ cat /proc/mounts rootfs / rootfs rw 0 0 /dev/root / ext3 rw 0 0 none /dev devfs rw 0 0 none /proc proc rw 0 0 none /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs rw 0 0 /dev/hda9 /alt ext3 rw 0 0 none /dev/pts devpts rw 0 0 /dev/hda10 /download ext3 rw 0 0 /dev/hda8 /home ext3 rw 0 0 none /mnt/floppy supermount rw,sync 0 0 /dev/hda1 /mnt/win_c vfat rw 0 0 /dev/hda5 /mnt/win_d vfat rw 0 0 /dev/hda11 /mnt/win_e vfat rw 0 0 /dev/loop0 /mnt/cdrom iso9660 ro 0 0 So I think you have a problem with your root partition..?? BTW I just managed to fix my mouse, so the extra thumb buttons do forward and backward in browsers etc. Still not sure on how to fix this keyboard issue.. loadkeys -d doesn`t even work... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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