Hi, I just installed Mandrake 8.2 Beta last night, and I had a few comments/bugs to report. According to MandrakeForum, it sounds like the best, err, forum for these comments is here, but please let me know if it would be better to address them elsewhere.
1.) There seems to be a problem in the way HardDrake configures SB Live! soundcards during installation. While the result works alright, because it uses OSS/Lite rather than ALSA it is not possible to use MIDI-Synth, AFAIK. By rerunning HardDrake through DrakeConf after installation, the SB Live! is setup with ALSA and all is well. This problem also occurs in Mandrake 8.1. Would it be possible to make the installation use ALSA to begin with? 2.) DrakeConf seems to have a few problems in as far as drawing it's window. For example, when it starts it seems to be in the "boot" section, but it does not show "boot" as selected. After a while, I also noticed some icons started to be drawn on top of each other. 3.) Rpmdrake seems to crash when I click the button to download a list of security update mirrors (i.e. after it prompts one to do such). I do not have any more information on this right now, but I'd be happy to try to get the output that it sends to the console about this if you would like. 4.) I'm not sure if this was just because there weren't any security updates or not, but I did not receive a prompt to check for upgrades during the install process. Now, a few opinions: 1.) I'm not sure if you are planning this or not, but have you considered delaying the distro until the release of KDE 3.0? While you might still want to keep KDE 2.2.2 the default desktop, you could either have an option to install KDE 3.0 instead, or a way to install them side-by-side (i.e. perhaps install KDE 3 to /opt/kde or vise versa). SuSE did something like this in SuSE Linux 7.1. 2.) May I suggest that the LILO boot screen design be moved back to the 8.1-style? It match Aurora's style very nicely, and looked a little more modern, IMO. 3.) Finally, this is probably more for a post-8.2 release, but what about using KDE's XPart embedding to embed the various DrakeConf applets (such as DrakeX) into KDE's Control Center (like SuSE/YaST and Caldera/Lizard does)? This is rather convenient in that all of the system settings are in one place. Oh, and on a different topic, I was wondering if it is too late to suggest an RPM for inclusion for Mandrake 8.2? We at the Bochs Project are highly interested in getting Bochs included in Mandrake (particularly since Mandrake was the company that made it open source and owns the copyright). We have a non-distro specific RPM for Bochs 1.3, including man pages and a DLX-Linux image available at http://bochs.sf.net. I would be happy to make this RPM MDK specific if you are interested. Keep up the great work, I'm really glad I switched to Mandrake! Best, Tim -- ---------------------------------------------------------------- Timothy R. Butler | Universal Networks | http://www.uninet.info [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 12495932 AIM: Uninettm Christian Portal and Search Tool: http://www.faithtree.com Open Source Migration Guide: http://www.ofb.biz ============= "Christian Web Services Since 1996" ==============
