Howdy, Just installed 8.2 beta 2 tonight from cd's. I ran into a few problems:
1) Near the end of installation, when the summary of input devices, language, locale, printer, etc is displayed, I click on Printer to try and add a CUPS printer. Whereas this worked fine in previous versions, I had some trouble in this version. After installing most of the packages, it gave me an error that the 'qtcups' package was not found. I assume this is a qt frontend for CUPS. In any case, I was not able to set up a printer because of this. 2) When I boot up in graphical login mode, the KDM screen is still butt-ugly/messed up as in previous releases. I'm assuming this is a problem that is the responsibility of KDE developers? 3) GNOME seems to have lots of problems. It starts up somewhat okay, but I get errors related to 'bonobo-moniker-archiver' when I do various things, such as opening up capplets in the Control Center. Specifically, it's telling me that 'bonobo-moniker-archiver' has segfaulted, and that /usr/bin/background-properties-control has segfaulted. Are there some new bonobo/gnome packages that I can urpmi? 4) Network detection during install doesn't seem foolproof, and this is more of a general Mandrake issue than a PPC-specific one. But nonetheless, here it is: I've got gmac ethernet built in on my Pismo, as well as an airport card. When the network detecter runs, it only detects my gmac. I then must tell it that I have another interface, and select the Apple Airport driver, which it will then load. Obviously, this is something I understand, but the novice user may not know what to do. I'm not sure how to make it easier for a novice user, but we would definitely want the airport module to be detected. Ideally, it should be detected along with the gmac interface, and presented to them in a list of interfaces which can be chosen radio-button style. I.E. pick either gmac or airport, and give an option for advanced users to choose both if they want to. Most novice users, however, would not understand the concept of having two network interfaces operating simultaneously. I dunno. Just rambling about this a bit, so if it seems inane, please ignore. :-) Thanks, Peter p.s. This is on a PowerBook G3 Pismo w/320 megs ram, airport, bunches of USB devices. -- Peter R. Wood - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://prwdot.org/
