I just installed cooker, download with rsync current to this morning. I had
four problems:
1) The expert install failed after selecting packages with the following
error saying something to the effect of package header missing (sorry I am
not sure exactly what the phrasing of the message was) It installed after
changing to custom install, I did not download the locale related packages
or any theme related packages, I do not know if maybe that missing those
packages caused the problem.
2) When the machine booted it was unable to go into run level 5 because of
a missing library (libjpeg), running ldconfig solved this.
3) When in X the backspace and delete keys both functioned as the delete key
(like the olden days). When in a console they functioned correctly. I use
the Dvorak keyboard and I know there are two Dvorak X keymaps one of which
is not very functional. I loaded the GKB International Keyboard applet and
used it to select the Dvorak keyboard, this fixed the problem. It seems
that the Dvorak keymap that is selected when you choose Dvorak during the
install is the non-functional one, and the keymap selected by the GKB
International Keyboard applet is the functional one; you might want to
change the install program to select the more functional keymap.
4) I have been unable to get my sound card to work. It is an ALS-110 and
worked fine in RedHat 5-6 and Mandrake 6-7.0 . When I installed 7.0 I just
ran Lothar and hit the "Run Configuration Tool" button, then just said yes
to the defaults and it worked. With Cooker HardDrake also detected the card
correctly, but the card did not work. I tried running
`/etc/rc.d/init.d/sound start` after running HardDrake but the produced no
output (I am pretty sure that in 7.0 it said either [OK] or [FAILED] to
give you some indication what was going on, but with cooker it just came
right back up with a prompt and no message at all.
5) The installation program asked me for PPP information, but after booting
I could not find any way to activate PPP, i tried ppp-on, ppp-up, ip-up,
and numerous other commands I had seen in various other distributions but
none of them existed. So I set up ppp-on myself and while setting it up I
found that it had not even written the DNS numbers to resolve.conf, is the
PPP setup part of the install not doing anything or am I missing something?
(I may very well be missing something since I also didn't download the
manual.)
Those things aside (which I was able to fix except the sound card) 7.1
looks great. If anyone can tell me how to get my sound card working please
do, I am going into music withdrawal here.
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Harry Henry Gebel, Senior Developer, Landon House SBS
West Dover Hundred, Delaware
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