Here are the problems I had..some may be mandrake speciic, some may be because
of dumb user intervention ;)
Anyway I hope it'll help :)
I made a clean install from the 7.2 inst cd, and.....
>> My usb mouse was not properly initialized
(I had to:
insmod input
insmod hid
insmod mousedev
insmod usbmouse
to get it to work (/etc/init.d/usb was started, and I had selected usbmouse
during the install process)
>> I had issues with gnome:
-The icons on the desktop had a weird grey background (definetely not normal,
a
problem with gmc?)
-Programms had no window-manager (I used sawfish) border (only the titlebar)
unless I manually changed the frame style to another theme. When I tried to
access
the sawfish appearance tab in gnome configuration tool, it crashed
>> Problem with XFree
As I have a riva TNT card, I use the closed source nvidia drivers
I have been unable to get the latest release (0.9-5) to work with Mandrake's
latest XFree rpms (I guess some XFree patch included in the rpm is not
compatible
with nvidia's driver)
I understand that it is nvidia's problem and not mandrake's, but still...
Also I have been unable to get DGA to work, though it works fine with XFree's
stock binaries
>> licq
Licq with the qt-gui plugin is very unstable (it started being unstable with
the switch to qt 2.2)
For instance it crashes when I choose N/A mode and click on ok (but doesn't if
I choose cancel)
>> KDE
Right click on the desktop / Change background didn't work (but changing it
trough the KDE config tool worked)
>> Hackkernel
I have a weird problem with ftp transfers when using 2.4: the transfer starts
fine, but after a few seconds it stalls
In /var/log/messages, I get a "modprobe: Can't locate module net-pf-10". I
don't know whether there's a connection between the former and the latter
>> DHCP client
During the install, I was asked which dhcp client I wished to use. I clicked
on
"Dhcpd" (though the correct name is dhcpcd, chcpd is a dhcp server), and it
installed all the three dhcp client available though I had only clicked on one
(it
installed dhcpxd and dh-client)
>> SB Awe64
Try as I might, I have been unable to get my sb awe 64 to work using harddrake
Harddrake displayed "Sound Blaster AWE 64 detected" (good I thought), but asked
me to choose the IRQs and Ioports (hmm thought it had been autodetected), and
even after having selected the correct values it crashed when trying to play a
8bit sound.
I had to do it the good old way (pnpdump etc.)
>> Mc (console)
I have been unable to see the contents of some big rpms (like XFree or
hackkernel). It coredumped when I tried to see the cpio archive. It worked with some
smaller rpms though
I think I had other problems, but I don't have them in mind right now :)
