Hi Stefani (and Mandrake Team),
> Bug fixes:
> ----------
>
> netscape has no access to the global mime.types and mailcap entrys in /usr/lib,
> because netscape looks in the directory /usr/local/lib/netscape for this file.
I don't have this problem on my system. All netscape files are in /usr/lib
(use the rpms of netscape). I think this is all configurable with the src
rpm of netscape (hint: by setting prefix).
> The glide modul is only for the mosix kernel available in the 7.1 distribution,
> please install the next time the correct version. In the kernel-upgrade to
> 2.2.16 it is completle missing.
Probably this is fixed with the cooker kernel ? Have you tried that one ?
> kmix has some trouble with my soundblaster live card, it save not with
> channel is split and should show.
This highly depends on the sound driver you are using. If this is alsa,
the settings should be saved on shutdown. You can also execute this
script by hand as root (/etc/rc.d/init.d/alsa stop, but this won't work
if you have tools running using the driver). Then you can check /etc/asound
if all was correctly saved. Also also has its own mixer, if the one from
kde does not work well with it (I use gnome, so I don't know that, but the
gnome mixer also does not behave very well concerning the saving of settings).
> I will alwas get trouble with missing fonts using gimp, because some
> script-fu depend on the freefonts-0.10.tar.gz and sharefonts-0.10.tar.gz
> found on ftp://ftp.gimp.org/pub/gimp/fonts/.
Are they available anywhere as rpm ?
> I miss the follwing mode lines for mpeg1 video in /etc/X11/XF86Config:
> #Modes for mpeg1 fullscreen
> Modeline "320x240" 15.750 320 336 384 400 240 244 246 262 Doublescan
> Modeline "352x240" 15.750 352 368 416 432 240 244 246 262 Doublescan
> Modeline "352x280" 15.750 352 368 416 432 280 284 286 302 Doublescan
> Modeline "352x288" 15.750 352 368 416 432 288 292 294 310 Doublescan
>
> XF86Setup will always crash on any computer i have tried.
Well I don't need this low resolutions so make it optional with one of
those drak tools which configure X. XF86Setup: Maybe you are using it
with XFree 4.0 ? I remember reading about problems with that. Try to
use a newer version of XFree4 then.
> Optimizing cdrom access by setting the dma and 32bit IO:
> /sbin/hdparm -q -c1 -q -d1 /dev/cdrom
No, don't to this (at least not generally). Suppose you have a SCSI CDROM...
You can add such things to /etc/rc.local as a quick fix.
> Do not install static .a library, use an extra rpm file for this. Static
> library normaly not needed by the a programmer, and on my notebook
> installation there tooked about 50 MB (20 MB for libc.a).
This is from glibc-devel, and it is a Devel package after all.
So if you're not developing on it, remove gcc and glibc-devel.
Of course for big packages like glibc a glibc-static package might
be not that bad idea.
> TV support is in mandrake 7.1 still very poor, there is a no assistant for
> installing a tv card nor a programm to watching tv (xawtv, kwintv, gtv),
> listening radio (kradio, gradio), grabbing video or videotext. tv: kwintv
Agreed, though I have no problems with that :-). Also consider adding
basic support for digital tv card (aka DVB, www.linuxtv.org). I have an
rpm spec for the dvb driver in case you're interested.
> A more intelligent scanner support would be also very nice, f.e. automaticly
> detection of scanner devices. There is also no ocr application available (do
> u know a free one?)
I have read about that one. Don't know much about sane though at the moment.
I think you should ask the automatic detection question to those people
there.
> ISDN support is still missing in the current 7.1 version of mandrake. This is
> a very important feature in germany.
I think I saw severel packages for that in mandrake cooker.
> Support cable and dsl modens which use the ppp over ethernet protocoll (ppoe).
Also in mandrake cooker already...
> The cdfs (http://www.elis.rug.ac.be/~ronsse/cdfs/) is a very nice kernel
> modul with gives u access to all track on a cdrom. So u have access the the
> boot part or the sound tracks on a cdrom.
No, don't use this. It is a bad hack. See the linux kernel mailing list why.
> missing packages:
> -----------------
>
> There are some package missed in the gpl version, with are very important:
[deleted]
Many of them are not GPLish, i.e. no source code available. So if they
are included, they should only on an extra commercial cd (my suggestion).
> A good .wav editor would bo also needed.
Isn't one include with gnome/kde ?
> Install only the language files and directorys that are necessary, to save
> disk space. I think the best way is to install english always and the choosen
> language as the prefered.
That would be nice indeed, but I think the locales itself do not take that
much disk space as for every package to include tons of extra language
rpms. As the rpm system is package and not language oriented I see no
easy way to accomplish this. Anyone ?
> Clean up lib and include directory. there are to many files in this
> directory, bring the gnome-libs to usr/lib/gnome, librarys requiered by kde to
> /usr/lib/kde, libs only used by xmms to /usr/lib/xmms and so on.
Generally not a bad idea (for gnome/kde) but has the big disadvantage
that you have a very bis /etc/ld.so.config file and probably ldconfig
may slow down. Also Mandrake should not go it's own way here, this is
something for the linux standard base. Similar is the problem with
the bin directories containing too many program. /opt/gnome and
/opt/kde directory (and similar) might be an option but I don't know
if its the best one. Maybe /opt/sound, /opt/graphics, /opt/desktop
is better (or /usr/sound/bin etc.). Up to the standard base to diskuss.
> Remove from all executale binaries programm the special segemnents with
> sstrip, a tool found at
> http://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/software/elfkickers.html this will bring
> back some MB.
Are you saying stripped down binaries ? This is already done with the
current rpm version, no one still includes debugging code (OTOH this
makes it harder for debugging, as you always need to create an
debug executable).
Best regards,
Reinhard Katzmann
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