On Monday 10 November 2003 02:01 am, Buchan Milne wrote:
> Well, the only additional issue you have mentioned (besides the LG
> issue) is totally out of our hands. No distro can currently support the
> latest Radeon cards without free software. So, users should either bite
> the bullet and install the ATI drivers manually, buy the release, or
> join the club and use the packages there (and hope they have been
> updated for the new kernel too).
they have been I grabed them from the club.
However this does not solve the menu issue. Which is the only ligitimate thing
I have found.
Having said that what about all the other things that mandrake does right.
1) This is the first time i have had autodetection of hardware work correctly
on boot. Never ever has it worked correctly before. It would hang or not
remove old hardware correctly or simply not set up the new hardware
correctly.
I added a new dvd burner after install and guess what it installed it more or
less correctly and it was working perfectly. That did not work even with 9.1.
Now I will admit I had to edit lilo a bit to get my original cd burner
running in ide-scsi again but that was minor. and could be handled easily
enough.
2) The networking now works better to use this as a firewall. The built in
firewall scripts for 9.1 on every machine I tried on would simply not set it
up correctly. On 9.2 it's better but not perfect yet.
I do understand though that this has to do with the kernel handeling dma or
irq differently and so multiple nic cards are not always detected properly.
At any rate with 9.2 it works better. Now if I could just figure out why it
has not worked with my macs since 8.2.
There are quite a few other small things that I cant think of right now but
all in all 9.2 is much better than anything previously.
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