7.2beta rc1 Installation notes
From: Peter Ruskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Cooker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
This is the pre-KDE2.0 version - I'm still trying to rsync the latest
version, having diverted to Sweden since Norway closed. I did a clean expert
developer install, not that I'm an expert, but I like the choices.
1. Quadruplicated KDE menu items was a puzzle that mysteriously disappeared
all by itself.
2. NumLock still not working in X. /etc/X11/xinit.d/numlock should point to
/var/lock/subsys/numlock instead of /etc/sysconfig/numlock.
3. Alsa still doesn't support the internal AWE64 midi device
(AWE32-0.4.3 (RAM512k) when not using alsa.
4. Without alsa, system event sounds and primary multimedia work fine (after
the modification to startkde), but there is no sound in ClanBomber, for
instance. ClanBomber has sound if I install alsa, but LBreakout hasn't.
Anyway, as far as I'm concerned, alsa is dead until it supports AWE64.
5. KDE Control Centre is plain daft! When I adjust the time and date
formats, it doesn't allow all the changes. I can change "%l:%M:%S %p" to
"%H:%M:%S" and "%d/%m/%Y" to "%d/%m/%y", but not both at the same time.
I still haven't found where KDE stores this information. Hope this is
fixed in 2.0!
Overall impression - very good - and the install went very sweetly - I boot
SCSI and use Promise UDMA66, so I still have to remember, on every install,
to hand-amend lilo.conf at the end of install, else I'll never get in. I
would like the same opportunity to change the boot-floppy's lilo.conf
parameters. As it is, the boot-floppy is useless to me.
append=" ide2=0xd800,0xdc02 ide3=0xe000,0xe402" is quite a lot to type in at
bootup \:op
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Peter Ruskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Wrexham, UK KDE - the professionals' choice
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