BobGuy© Posted April 6, 2003 Report Share Posted April 6, 2003 I installed 9.1 the other day and it went very well, no problems during the install, and I have the 3 downloaded CDs. It found and properly installed my soundblaster live card modules, instead of the audigy modules. Why others are having problems with this I couldn't say. What it didn't install was kppp and ppp for dial-up, which I'm stuck with for now. New users probably wouldn't even know where to look for these packages to install. Mandrake put them in the 3rd CD. Not a big deal but users stuck with only dial-up need those packages, so for them getting the 3rd CD would be worth the effort. I removed my 9.0 hard drive and installed a spare hard drive just incase the install b0rked. :D All I want now is X-Chat 1.8.11 only version 2.0 is on the CDs and from what I have heard that newer version is not ready for prime time, other than that and a lack of mandrake docs like 9.0 has, the install was very smooth and rather effortless. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manly Posted April 6, 2003 Report Share Posted April 6, 2003 Here are the few niggling problems I'm having. I click on Home in the kicker, and I get a blank Konsole window. Desktop icons work fine. I was having similar problems with texstar's kde rpm's under 9.0, but I hoped that my reformat would fix them. It turns out that there was a directory, ~/.menu/, that was causing my problems. I rm -rfv'd it, and everything works properly! I installed Quake 3. It loads properly, but only mouse clicks, and not movements, are passed to the program. It doesn't appear to be a mouse sensitivity problem. Upgrading to 1.32b fixed that problem. Now I can feed my killing addiction. Overall, this has been the best Mandrake eXPerience for me yet! By 9.2, I think we will have one ultra-sweet OS. :D --Andrew Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
polemicz Posted April 6, 2003 Report Share Posted April 6, 2003 Installations all went smoothly; I did a clean install on my regular system and an update from 9.0 on my laptop, which has no important data. The update actually worked! I did have to do some tweaking, though. The fresh install went smoothly. The only problem was it did not configure my usb epson scanner correctly. It detected it ok, but I had to edit the epson.conf file manually. Also I had to go to localhost:631 to get my printer, which is on a WinXp box to work, manually setting the samba url, but I have the same problem with 9.0. These last two problems would have driven me nuts when I first started with Linux a year and a half ago. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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