I haven't noticed anyone mention these so far...
I tried to use ext3 as my root partition (diskdrake is quite happy to let you set this up). However the system was unusable on booting as it appears to be unable to mount the root partition (it will load the initrd and get part way into the boot sequence, but if I try booting without the initrd it kernal panics). KDE is pretty much unusable for me. Within about five minutes, kmail will crash either killing any ability to create a network connection (no ioslaves work) or taking X down entirely. Clicking on a link within an email seems guarenteed to do this instantly, but it seems to happen at other times (possibly on checking mail). I haven't been able to find any reason behind this. If I run kmail under gnome, it appears to have no problems at all. Deleting the .kde directory does not seem to make any difference. I have plenty of memory/swap available, so it's not that. X (4.2.0) also shows a significant number of visual artifacts. (I believe this is due to the drivers for the i810 chipset, as I've had this before and it was only solved by manually upgrading the drivers using a hand built X and kernel). I've upgraded KDE to the latest version from Cooker and it did not help at all (if anything it was worse). Anyone got any ideas? -- "The avalanche has already started. It is too late for the pebbles to vote." - Ambassador Kosh, Babylon 5. <<------------------------------------------------------------------>> << This email is monitored by the US government under the auspice >> << of the USA act. For private communication, ask me for my PGP key >> << ----- PGP: envelopes for email - www.pgp.com www.gnupg.org ----- >>
