"Timothy R. Butler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 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? Since we're in the process to substitute harddrake by the so-called "harddrake2", and that original author of harddrake doesn't work for us anymore, I don't know if this would be done for the final... Thierry, WDYT ? > 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. Strange, in every install I've done so far, it asked for it. Can you send the file /root/report.bug ? > 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. Unless what's generally perceived, we mostly never plan release date according to third party software release dates (the mostly is here because for 7.2 we could have kde-1.99 in), because doing a distro involves many things which are not widely known such as scheduled development cycle, bugfixing cycle, etc. All our releases are 6-month away from each other, with a maximum of 1-month delay according to various things including layout of bugfixing. As of kde-3.0, I may be wrong but it seems that there is only little to hope from the user side, between kde-2.2.2 and kde-3.0, isn't it? > 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. Actually we're trying hard to look "more professional" and the design team decided that this more "traditional" and "less eye-candy" design looks more professional. > 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. Is it functional? Last time (that was rather long ago) I talked with Kevin P. Lawton, he said that the design of Bochs made it practically unusable for real-life emulation since it doesn't execute native code, and that was why he worked on the plex project afterwards. -- Guillaume Cottenceau - http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~gc/
