All, First let me say that when you claimed you had improved i81x support for Intell chips you weren't joking. The difference on this box between the 8.2 install and the 9.0 install is unbelievable. 9.0 is as rock steady as ever. Shaping up to be the best release since 7.0 (That one was such a remarkable improvement over 6.2 it wasn't funny.)
Now on the bugs side. Creative SBLive audio card. Even with all mixer settings (that apply) maxed out the sound is still barely audible. In 8.2 it rocks the house. Same Modules are installed. Same everything else since it's one box 5 distros. Only 9.0 is silent so to speak. No errors, no complaints from the OS just no sound volume. (emu10k used with alsa on all installs.) Problem carry over from 8.0 to 8.1 8.2 and now 9.0 It only recognizes part of my video ram. Using the onboard i815 chipset on an ASUS TUSL2 motherboard. Bios is set to 64megs for the video aperture. RH 7.3 and SuSe 8.0 on the same box see all 64 megs 8.1 sees only 4096k and 9.0 sees only 16384k of video ram. Attempts to manually edit the XF86Config-4 file yield a non working X. As a result I can't do more than 16 bit color and 3D acceleration bites. If you go Into MCC and chose Hardware it comes up with a window that says Monitor Resolution Display....Monitor and Display mean the same thing to me. Resolution is handled under Display so not needed really.How about Choose Monitor .... Change Screen Size .... Configure X for the titles instead? If you chose (In MCC) Hardware --> Display --> one button is gone from the past. See Settings. Useful as heck to know where you are before you go changing things... would it be possible to put this button back? The one thing it doesn't tell me is how much video ram Mandrake thinks I have.... I now have to read XF86Config to find out. Personal choice. I liked the old way software manager came up.this one is a tad more confusing and very very slow compared with 8.2 All in all I'm happy with the distro on a whole. Now if I can just get keramik and Mosfet's liquid to compile I'll be in hog heaven. (Get this keramik want's me to DOWNGRADE my autoconf .... Isn't gonna happen.) James Hardware Breakdown CPU ---- Intell Celeron 950mhz Ram ---- 512 Megs 64 megs shared. BIOS ---- Latest from ASUS MotherBoard - ASUS TUSL2 Video --- Onboard i815 Chipset Audio --- Onboard Disabled using SBLive. Ethernet -- 3c905b HDD --- 80G Maxtor CDRW --- ASUS 8x16x40 Power Supply --- Antec model unknown. OS --- Mandrake 9.0Beta 4 Mandrake 8.2 Red Hat 7.3 Suse 8.0 Redmond Linux (8.2 running Win4Lin)
