On Sun, 2 Jan 2000, Ricky Ng-Adam wrote:
> Hello!
>
> this is the report on my 4th (successful) attempt at installing
> Oxygen on my dual celeron.
>
> I finally realized after installing RH6.1, Mandrake6.1, Stormix and
> Oxygen (twice) that the new BIOS (bp6_pw.bin) from Abit left the board
> incompatible with Linux! This manifested itself by seemingly random
> errors at boot. Once I reverted to bp6_nj.bin, everything went well.
I just saw the warning on bp6.com about it this morning :/
[..]
>
> While it was installing, I was wondering if Mandrake wasn't pushing
> quantity instead of quality in terms of bundled software. I mean,
> there seems to be a lots of redundancy or stuff that should be
> installed afterwards. A sort of "minimal handpick software" would be
> nice. How about having the possibility of filling a questionnaire for
> new users and use that to select the packages? (Do you want to publish
> web pages? Do you want to edit documents for the office? Do you want to
> play games?)
will never make it for 7.0, and it will require a fourth selection added
Normal/Developer/Server/"Hold my hand"
> I also had some questions in my head such as "Why do I get enlighment
> and x others window managers?" Why do I get the "mandrake-doc-de?"
because you didn't slide the "install extras" slider back down to the
bottom.
Pixel, maybe better to default to no fuzzy packages?
[..]
> At the boot, I got "Binding to the NIS domain" with [FAILED] in red.
> A simple warning would suffice I think.
That is a simple warning. Those either FAIL, or are OK.
> The only resolution that I could get was 800x600. At that
> resolution, KDE kfm title bar is hidden under the task bar. I wasted
> 15 mn trying to get it at higher resolution using Xconfigurator... I
> was luckier with Lothar which configuration tool which is in all ways
> the same to Xconfigurator except for the "Show all" in the resolution
> selection. Now, where do I change the refresh rate?
XFdrake pulls it direct from the monitor if it's capable. You'll have to
resort to manual editing untill after the freeze, unless QA OKs pixel to
add a toggle for pnp monitor detection and a place to tweak.
> The nice color penguin logo in the console at login is cut in two
> because one of the description line is too long ("Two 368mhz Intel
> Celeron (Mendocino) Processors, 128M RAM"). Putting the 128M RAM text
> on another line would make everything fit.
Yep, didn't popup here because i only have 2 digit ram :(
> I then configured the sound card using sndconfig (Lothar doesn't
> seems to have anything for this). Why are the mp3 coming out mono on
> my speakers?
Which card?
