I have installed 8.2 firstofall in my laptop and then in my main
computer; thesse are the first results




LAPTOP TOHSIBA SATELLITE 4090XCDT
CPU: Celeron 400MHz
RAM: 191Mb
Screen LCD 15 inch
hda: IBM-DBCA-204860, 4.1 Gb
hdc: Teac CD-224-E CDROM 24X
1 Floppy 1.44 Mb
USB: 1 port
eth0: PCMCIA ActionTec FastNet card (NE2000 Compatible)
Sound card: ESS maestro 2E
Video: Trident Cyber 9525
Conection to my maincomputer and IPmasquering fine!!!!
Remote CUPS runing fine
Supermount fine
Partitions: all XFS file system (except swap)
Problems:
1) �detected 2 usb-uhci.c ports!!!!
2) /mnt/floppy and /mnt/floppy2!!! what's the meaning of the second
 innacessible floppy?????
 I mark it in fstab and now just appear floppy one

3) Trident driver the same problems with full games that in 8.1; I
change the tdrv driver for one I downloaded from internet for 8.1 and
now it is runing almost fine.
4) Xdos is still crashing if you use a real Ms-Dos system.
I wrote several times that the md8 packages of dosemu and xdos were
bad, but nobody in the mandrake team seemed to hear me :-(.

PENTIUM III 800MHz, 256Mb Ram
Philips 107S monitor
Voodoo3 3000
Creativelab 128 PCI
hda: Quantum fireballp Lm30 (2 vfat16 partitions, with windows98)
hdb:WDC WD200BB-32CLB0 (several XFS partions and the swap partition)
hdc:Sony CD-RW CRX160E
hdd:Hitachi DVD-Rom GD-7000
1 floppy 1.44 Mb
Epson Stylus Color 760 usb printer
Hp LaserJet 4L parallel printer
Scanner Epson Perfection 1200Usb
AvermediaTVCapture98
eth0:Digital DS21143 (for laptop conection)
eth1:3c900 Boomerang 10baseT (cable modem conected)
2 usb ports
Internet conection fine; ipmasquering fine; ssh fine, ftp fine.
Scannerdrake fine, installing xsame and xsane-gimp automatically.
Xine almost fine; with css libs I reach even to watch encripted dvds.
kwintv fine
xawtv: fine (but the icon created in the desktop of kde was very
difficult to delete).


Problems:
1) Start floppy: a warning when preparing it: due to XFS root
partition perhaps to big to make a start floppy. Finally: error.!!!!

2) Xdos: crashes if you use a real MS-DOS system

3) Xcdroast: don't read any audio nor data disk. Simply doesn't work.
I mentioned the problem in beta 4 and rc1; solved installing cdrecord,
mkisofts and xcdroast from 8.1, but It should be resolved.

4) Rpminst fine, even changing cds, but not with Openoffice; again it
can't find the libs in the cd1. I install previously the libs from cd1
and then openoffice.

5) Kylix: error, don't run. I will test it late, but perhaps need and
older version of a lib????



Preliminary conclusions:
The best linux for desktop I ever seen, but some of the problems
(xcdroast and xdos) should be solved; more than a month we show them
in crashtesters and cooker list.


Francisco Alcaraz
Murcia (Spain)



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