I started testing back a 8.2b1 but had to stop because of time
constraints. Finally got some time last night so did a clean install of
8.2b2 and updated XFree with Dave's reworked X4.2.0.
System:
G4 tower DP/450 (Gigabit Enet model)
ATI 128 Rage Pro AGP
Apple Studio Display 17" (Graphite CRT with ADC connector)
384 ram
Drive 0: 20 gig IDE, OS9/OSX separate partitions
Drive 1: 10 gig IDE, Mandrake
This video card/monitor seems to be either very picky or just screwed up
because I had a hell of a time getting X to start. I still have to
start it manually but I am now happily running X at 1024x768x16. I'll
do another post on the video issues because I have to sort them out and
remember what I did. :)
There are a few sound issues but I will mess with them when I have time.
For the record, 8-bit sound works in KDE as I get the start up
tune. Sound is not a priority for me on this box.
By the way, this beast is dual processor, how do I check to see if both
are being used? It is speedy enough, but figured I should check.
As for the rest of my hardware, everything works:
(IDE) CDRom/DVD. At first, I was getting all kinds of odd errors trying
to access this through the desktop or manually mounting. I linked the
devices (ln -s /dev/hdc /dev/cdrom), made a new icon and the problems
went away. I never really understood the supermount stuff so don't
know if that will break something else, but for now, it is working fine.
(USB) Epson Stylus 740i. Works well. It didn't autodetect in control
center but when I manually picked it from the list, it showed right up.
Did a photo test print and it worked perfectly with the colors just a
tweak or two away from dead-on. Just wonderful!
(USB) Zip 250 autodetected and mounted as /dev/sda4 on /mnt/zip. I made
a desktop short-cut, and one click opens the drive in Konqueror. I'm
pretty sure the disk in there was formatted on a PC but I can read/write
to it just fine. This really made my day.
(USB) Logitech Optical Trackman Wheel. Works as advertised.
(SCSI) Adaptec 2906 - never had a problem, always recognized.
(SCSI) Mustek MFS-6000CX Flatbed 3-pass scanner hanging off the 2906.
Will wonders never cease!?! This scanner was my main reason for trying
Mandrake on this box as it is unsupported in OSX. Not only was this old
workhorse auto detected by name at boot, it worked in Kooka the first
time I tried it!
Some little oddities here and there, but I haven't really spent enough
time on it to troubleshoot or go through the archives here for known
fixes. As it is, I got my scanner, got my GIMP and got my Zip so I'm
very happy.
Stew, you da man! Thanks.
sharon
