Ok, installed tonight's mirror of oxygen over a completely stock LM6.0.
The only changes I had made on the 6.0 were to start-up services.
1. No option for "Emulate 3-buttons" in the mouse setup? I realize it
went ahead with the emulation, just seems odd for the option not to be there
(maybe somebody actually disables it?).
2. Network card setup is a tad confusing when you've got 2 NIC's. My
PCI card was detected fine, and adding my ISA worked fine. But when I got to
configuring the network, it would have been nice if I didn't have to guess
which card I was setting up. I just got the same dialog twice in a row, filled
out the first like I wanted eth0, the second like I wanted eth1. Worked fine,
just would have been nice if it said "Adapter 1", etc. for each card (maybe for
7.1). Strangely, looking at the setup in linuxconf, the cards were setup on
Adapter 2 and 3, instead of 1 and 2.
3. Setup my parallel port zip drive during install, choosing ppa.
Seemed to work fine, but on the first reboot I got errors something like this:
/lib/modules/2.2.14-11mdk/scsi/ppa.o: unresolved symbol parport_enumerate_Rbc6d420a
/lib/modules/2.2.14-11mdk/scsi/ppa.o: unresolved symbol
parport_unregister_device_Rfa973b06
/lib/modules/2.2.14-11mdk/scsi/ppa.o: unresolved symbol parport_claim_R7d06c772
/lib/modules/2.2.14-11mdk/scsi/ppa.o: unresolved symbol
parport_register_device_R6b29a231
/lib/modules/2.2.14-11mdk/scsi/ppa.o: unresolved symbol parport_release_R9ea0a43b
This is actually the output of "insmod ppa", but the errors are the
same. This could be my fault; I've never bothered setting up the zip, so I'm
not sure.
4. Getting into KDE, had an ugly desktop :) There was no icon for the
new DOS_hda1 kdelink. Also, XKill and KPPP kdelnk's only had the kde "?" icon.
The other ugly bit was all the *.kdelnk.rpmorig files. I realize this is just
rpm trying not to overwrite anything important, but it in this case it'd be
nice to get rid of them.
5. Several startup services I hadn't wanted were added by the upgrade.
I didn't catch all of them during boot, but drakxservices showed:
apmd, inet, netfs, nfs, nfslock, pcmcia, postfix, routed, rstatd,
ruserd, rwhod, and ypbind all enabled when they shouldn't have been. Some added
by msec maybe? I used medium security. By the way, for 7.1 descriptions of the
daemons in drakxservices (like in the old text install services setup) would
be real nice.
6. Worst bug. Clicking on Mousedrake in DrakConf killed my mouse!
Really weird, first the pointer disappeared for a second, then skipped up and
off the screen. It was unresponsive. Switch to a virtual terminal and back to X
brought it back. Tried mousedrake again (for the hell of it) and this time it
did the same thing, but wouldn't come back. It actually locked KDE and I had
to ctrl-alt-bkspace X. Weird thing is that I'm using a real boring mouse! Just
a Logitech Mouseman serial that I'd configured during install. I do have an
unused PS/2 mouse port, if that helps.
7. The X server for voodoo banshee (which was cleanly detected in
install) seems to be an older version. It has some redrawing bugs which have
been fixed in the latest release. Had the same problems under LM6.1, so the
problem was real familiar (KDE taskbar having odd slices where an app had been
listed and then closed, etc.). The more recent (non-DRI) server from 3dfx fixes
it.
Otherwise, looking pretty good so far. DrakConf was correctly installed
this time through. You know, I don't think anyone on this list has mentioned
it, so I have to ask? What's the reason for the major version jump to 7.0?
Keep up the great work, everybody.
--
David Hart
Vincity Design
*Proudly sent from Linux Mandrake 6.1*
