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(Contributed by Hoyt, edited)
"I installed 7.1 and selected the option to use XFree86
version 4.0. The config part of the setup procedure barfed, so I wisely chose
NOT to boot into X by default. I finally made it configure, but it installed
the 3.3.6 version of XFree, not version 4. (I suspect that my dual head setup
caused it some confusion as it detected my second head as my primary display).
It seems the link at '/etc/X11/X' [ls -l /etc/X11/X]
points to the version 3 binary not the version 4 (/usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86),
so that is easily fixed.
[ln -sf /usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86 /etc/X11/X]
To generate a version 4 compatible config file:
XFree86 -configure
Read the instructions to test it and then copy the file
to '/etc/X11'
If you want to install version 4, there are two rpm
files on the first CD that are identified as version 4. Install them and
then follow the directions above."
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(Contributed by Andy Leese, edited)
I have 2 disks, the first disk containing Win98 and
Win2000 and /boot and the second more or less all for mandrake.
When I installed 7.1, it changed the partition type
of my Win98 Ext to Linux Extended and for some reason I couldn't then boot
Win2000 (not sure why? as this isn't my Win2k disk), anyway, using fdisk
[orcfdisk] in Linux changed the type back to Win98 Ext and Win2000
booted OK again.
[This is a known bug in LM 7.1. LM 7.1 Last Minute
Fixes has the details.]
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(Contributed by Gösta Ljungdahl, edited)
I've had some problems to get 'MandrakeUpdate' to work.
I'm sitting behind a firewall and used to believe that proxy-settings only
had to be done once in the KDE environment.
Just today I learned from the obscurely located help file that these settings
also had to be made for 'wget' (that update uses) in the file '/etc/wgetrc'
[...].
[The proxy layer in 'MandrakeUpdate' will be rewritten
for the next release.]
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(By Christopher Molnar, LM Developer. Edited)
"I think I figured out the pattern to the "divide by
zero" and "can't get square root" error [...] and I can repeat it.
If a partition is over 10 GB, I have been getting the 'divide by 0' errors.
It drove me nuts for a while this evening. If you pull the size of the drive
down to under 10 GB it seems to go away. (yes I know I have to much HD space
- I have 120 GB on my machine). I do not know if 10 is the magic number but
it seems to fix it."
[Problem is known and will be fixed in the next release.]
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Red Hat 7 uses RPM version 4 to build their packages.
All RPM versions prior to 3.05- which is included in LM 7.2 - will refuse
to install these packages. So if you are using a pre-LM 7.2 version and encounter
strange error message when trying to install new RPMs, consider upgrading
your RPM version to the one included in LM 7.2. Upgrading to RPM 4 won't
work, because the RPM 4 rpm itself has been built with RPM 4.
LM user Philip Wood shared this idea:
"A binary i386 version of RPM 4.0 can be found by installing
it from a Red Hat 7.0 distribution available on the Net."
Download the file, do a chmod 755 rpm to
make it executable and - having renamed it - put it into a directory in your
$PATH (e.g. '/usr/bin').
Attention! Although this does seem to work, I
don't know what this binary might do to a RPM 3 database in the long run.
You might end up with a screwed database. You've been warned ...
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