On Fri, 22 Feb 2002, Mich�l Alexandre Salim wrote:
> Hello, > > Tried beta1 last night and there are a couple (or > more) of observations I would like to share: > > 1. The partitioner in the installer does not accept > manually typing the partition size > I belive this is normal, I'll check. You are supposed to be able to fine tune the values with the arrow keys. > 2. DON'T INSTALL MySQL from the installer! This > screwed up the installer - when prompted for the > second CD, it would keep ejecting it back after I > press OK. Jumping to a terminal and using lsof > revealed that a mysqld process is locking some RPMs on > the 1st CD (which has been ejected, bizarre). > > Killing the process solved everything, apart from most > of the services being turned off on the service menu. > Reported, thanks - problem with the MySQL package, which has since been fixed, but of course won't help the ISO's. > 3. My iBook2 was detected as a Powerbook > In the monitor list? That machine does 1024x768 right? That should be acceptable settings if so. > 4. *Missing GNOME libraries*. Cannot even get to the > GNOME desktop. libpanel-applet missing, libguile > missing too. > Reported - my bad creations of rpmslist - now updated, as well a rebuild of librep which was broken. > 5. Most items in Mandrake Control Center not > functioning properly. draknet, for instance. rpmdrake > does not display package info. > Hmm, this shouldn't be any different than x86, unless I left another package out that it needs. Can you launch from an xterm and see if you getting anything on the console? Bootloader setup is known to not be right for PPC from MCC. > 6. What's with DevFS support? I had to manually load > macserial to get /dev/tts/[0,1] and /dev/ttyS[0,1], > and still could not get my modem working with kPPP. > (Does anyone know if the XFS file system can be used > without devfs?) > An alias should have been added in modules.conf, if you setup odem in install, for: alias serial macserial Which should then load the driver. XFS can be used. devfs shouldn't make any difference for that. > 7. Speaking of XFS, libattr is missing as well. Found > that out trying to install samba. > Thanks, will add. > That's roughly it. Neat hardware support, but slightly > below the usability levels of x86 betas generally. Was > a bit disappointed to miss out on GNOME's new > translucent panel :( > Criticism accepted. You guys/gals are essentially my QA, since there just aren't enough hours in the day to actually build all this stuff and use it, along with my other responsibilities. I'll try to respond and fix everything reported to improve on the next one. The big miss on my part was the libs left out of the ISO's. Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft OH/TN, USA http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~sbenedict/ PPC FAQ: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/demos/PPC/FAQ/
