Configuration: chico#20:36:39 chico$ lspcidrake unknown : VIA Technologies|VT8363/8365 [KT133/KM133] unknown : VIA Technologies|VT8363/8365 [KT133/KM133 AGP] unknown : VIA Technologies|VT82C686 [Apollo Super] unknown : VIA Technologies|VT82C586 IDE [Apollo] usb-uhci : VIA Technologies|VT82C586B USB usb-uhci : VIA Technologies|VT82C586B USB unknown : VIA Technologies|VT82C686 [Apollo Super ACPI] 8139too : Realtek|RTL-8139 emu10k1 : Creative Labs|SB Live! (audio) ns558 : Creative Labs|SB Live! (joystick) bttv : Brooktree Corporation|Bt878 btaudio : Brooktree Corporation|Bt878 unknown : Triones|HPT366 Card:NVIDIA GeForce2 DDR (generic): nVidia Corporation|NV11 (Geforce2 MX) unknown : Virtual|Hub [] Mouse:USB|Wheel : Microsoft Corp.|IntelliMouse Optical [Human Interface Devices|Boot Interface Subclass|Mouse] unknown : Virtual|Hub [] unknown : Hewlett-Packard|DeskJet 840c[Printer|Printer|Unidirectional]
Instalation: Everything went smooth. I did the expert instalation, with the portuguese language selection. That gave some wierd results because just some of the strings in the installer are in portuguese, but no major problem. In the screen that ask's for the partitions to format, if i choose advanced i get some fonts with very bad colors (same problem of lilo). One thing that i find strange is that in the package selection, tree view, some packages are repeated, for example, the Xfree packages under the diferente desktops. For me this is not correct, it just makes the tree bigger. With almost all options (in the type of machine, i can't remember the exact name of the screen) enabled for packages instalation some basic packages aren't selected, like joe, jed, gkrell. Printer was detected and installed, mouse, sound card (Live!), network, and tvcard also. X was also installed and configured fine. After instalation: IMHO that the new look of the boot process is quite ugly. I didn't found an option in drakboot for changing it, but i didn't search much. (is it in the kernel?) Did someone saw the boot process in a 19" monitor? the colors are too bright, it hurts the eyes. Same with lilo. The old scheme (8.1) was nicer. The scheme sould darker (like XP), bright colors at low resolution look terrible. I miss the login penguin, it's one of things that identifies mandrake linux, it should be instaled by default, IMHO. I instaled the nvidia drivers, they work fine, but the kernel module has to be loaded by hand at every boot. Some line in /etc/modules.conf? Opengl is ok. Kde didn't start at first try. I had to delete the .Dcop* links, after that worked ok. I did the .ISO-8859-15 trick in /etc/sysconfig/i18n and i got the euro working fine in kde. No such luck with gnome, something about the fonts i think. The icons in the kde desktop are a little bit out of order. The menus are ok. In gnome, the gtk theme selector, the them preview sometimes stops working if i browse through the themes, but i couldn't reproduce the problem. Now two things that didn't work: -Network browsing: shouldn't this be working out of box? lisa and relisa aren't started at boot. I started them manually and still didn't work, i could see the samba folders on the local machine but not the folders of my laptop connected throught a simple lan connection. -Sharing folders: i enabled the sharing in control center, then tried to share a folder with konqueror, but it just freezed, after some time (minutes i think) it come back to life, but the sharing didn't work (wasn't visible from my laptop, and yes, the network connection is working fine). If someone need more information on this 2 problems please let me know. PS: the instaler didn't recognise my 8.1 instalation, i had to change lilo.conf by hand to make it boot. -- Francisco Castanheiro EMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: go.to/cdtracker "A pessimist is never disappointed"
