Henning Haaland Kulander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
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>
> Selecting individual packages:
> I must confess that I didn't understand much of what to do here, and the
> lack of a "back" button made it even scarrier.
>
but why did you choose `expert' in that case :ppp
> After experimenting with it for a while I sortof got the understanding
> that marking a package selected it for installation. Unmarking unselected
> that package and all packages depending on this package. OK, when I
> understood this it got easier, but how can I find information about a
> package marked for installation without unmarking it?
right button
>
> The list window is also very buggy. Sometimes it won't refresh correctly.
> I think this happens when I expand a node in the tree.
>
> My idea of a package selector would be a tree of groups with all the
> individual packages represented by checkboxes. Don't know if this is
> possible in GTK...
well, no stock widget allow this...
>
> Network configuration:
> I installed Oxygen on a laptop with a PCMCIA card. Earlier in the
> installation I got a question asking if I wanted to search for PCI
> adapters, and then another asking the same question for PCMCIA.
>
> When I wanted to search for a network card the only question was for PCI,
> I got very confused by this, and chose cancel. This was a mistake,
> because no PCMCIA adapters was in this list. I fixed it by going back and
> scan for PCI cards. It found my PCMCIA card. This dialog should
> ask: "Search for PCI/PCMCIA cards?" instead of just PCI.
francois?
>
> Crypto packages:
> This didn't work because the network configuration didn't initialize
> things correctly. I got these messages in one of the tty's:
>
> + Can't open /var/run/pcmcia-scheme (Does not exist)
> + ./network: /sbin/ifconfig: not found
> + sed: not found
>
i'll try
> Sound configuration:
> Nonexistant... This is one of the things allways pointed out in
> distribution reviews.
>
> I tried to configure the soundcard in Lothar. It's a OPL3/SA2 card (I
> know it sux). It was detected as a SoundBlaster compatible. This didn't
> work. I got a "Resouce bussy" error. I tried configuring it as a opl3sax
> card, but I got an insmod error saying something about "dma16 does not
> exist". Configuring things in sndconfig worked fine.
alex?
>
>
> I think this distribution has the potential of being one of the best.
hope so!
> Is there a shipdate for 7.0?
>
not far from now :)
