On Wed, 18 Oct 2000 20:36:53 +0400
prosa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Well the move was a big risk. We have here one RedHat fan who sparked
> Hell while RH 7 was being readied. So personally it was a big surprise
> to see 2.96 on cooker...
>
> Anyway I compiled and started rebuilding every package I need. There are
> some serious problems but the ratio fails/successes proves that 2.96
> came to stay. My congratulations to the madman who did this move...
>
>
> I should note that graphics, games and several other multimedia stuff
> are working generally faster and more stable. There only problem was
> that I had to turn sound back to Alsa. OSS drivers went completely crazy
> on the GUS MAX (it outputs pure noise). In the rest my kernel is working
> perfectly with the TV tuner, network and my highly overclocked dual-SMP
> motherboard. OpenGL stuff has shown higher rates of ~5 fps more than
> before. Not too much but some slowdowns have gone :)
>
> Only one critical factor may shadow the turn to 2.96. Netscape is dead.
> Seriously dead. This mostly concerns mail & news. For some time I've
> been noting more and more crashes while reading mail or news. Right now
> things have gone so bad that, even by having the mailer on foreground,
> the thing may freeze the whole machine. Btw a similar situation has been
> seen on other machines here, but less frequently. So I had to turn to
> other systems like mozilla. Meanwhile no other programs have shown such
> behaviour. Nearly 95% of the latest machine freezes are due to Netscape
> (~5% due to my personal RAM leaks) It seems it is time to say R.I.P.
> Netscape 4...
>
> Ektanoor
Netscape works fine on my machine. I have some problems with fonts
But this is old. Everytime I have updated XFree86-4xx, xfs cannot start. "xfs status"
reports that the process is dead.
Only one time I have found the right package sequence of XFree86 rpm update, but using
the same procedure have not worked anymore
Bye
