on VMware the 3.0 build 1455 work fine on 8.2 beta2.(3 VM NT, 2000 and NT on a 512Mb)
Just reinstalled it on my Desktop recently. got a small complaint on the version of gcc but does compile fine. Only issue I have, is parport0... before I was able to use the bidirectional parport on the PC now with 8.2 beta 2 I have to use only the std parport wich is a bit slow... parport0 is either busy or not existing depending on how I try .. any idea on parport0 device ? Bernard Stephan Richter wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I have been a long time RedHat and SuSE user, but after I got frustrated > with these two and MDK 8.1 having Kernel Panics on my new laptop, I > tried MDK 8.2 b2, since it was the latest Linux release. And I must say > I have been sold. MDK is the only distribution so far that has the > necessary user-friendly and graphical elements that make Linux compete > with Windows. My favorite feature is the 1024x768 16bit framebuffer boot > screen. Very nice! > > However, I also found some buglets, which are all not crashing the > system, but they are bugs: > > 1. I have an internal as well as a wireless network card (PCMCIA). The > installer gets confused about that and gives me also the wireless > options for the regular network card, which in return causes wlan.c not > to be found for the regular card. In fact, it is so bad, that I cannot > even proceed with the install. If I start the install without the PCMCIA > card inserted, everything comes up fine. > > 2. My wireless network card (Linksys WPC11) cannot be activated. It also > shows me something at the start saying that some license does not exist > for the Kernel module or so. RedHat recognized and initialized this card > without any problems from the boot diskette. > > 3. It seems that the Aurora files are missing for 8.2 b2. After I > installed the 8.1 version of the packages, everything works just great. > > 4. The antialiasing support does not seem to work correctly. I know that > it worked just great on my old VAIO F390 and RedHat, but on this one it > just does not do the antialiasing effect correctly. Is there a laptop > option that I have to set somewhere? > > 5. The USB driver does not seem to work correctly with my Plextor > PlexWriter 24/10/40U CD-RW. It recognizes the drive but can never mount. > The DrakeConf also decided that this drive would be the standard drive > to load further components from the CD-ROM. Since I could not specify > which drive it should use, I had to create a symlink to the other device > to make it work. DrakeConf really should use /dev/cdrom and not /dev/scd1. > I have not even attempted to get my USB network card running. > > 6. I would like to see a nice touchpad driver, where I can define > scrolling, back-and-forth in the browser and so on, since I think that > makes the touchpad so attractive. To have this gone under Linux is a bit > of a pain. > > 7. Even though there are some problems with the NTFS driver for Linux, I > would still like to get to my Windows files from Linux, even though they > might be read-only. > > 8. When probing for SCSI during installation, my printer receives a > signal and prints three characters on a page. > > Other than that I am very happy and once my beta testing version of > VMWare arrives (and with some cool 512 MB RAM there will be no problem), > I might switch to Linux all the way. The high-quality Drake* tools are > definitely better than SuSE's YaST 2. > > Mandrake 8.2 is very suitable for the VAIO PCG-FXA49. It immediately > detected the right graphics card, soundblaster, printer (that never > worked before with my HP OfficeJet 720 - I used the 710 driver) and all > other gadgets. > > Regards, > Stephan > > -- > Stephan Richter > CBU - Physics and Chemistry Student > Web2k - Web Design/Development & Technical Project Management > > > >
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