On Thursday 03 October 2002 10:13, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: > Charles A Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Thu, 03 Oct 2002 19:46:26 +1000 > > > > Ron Stodden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > What is really disturbing to me is that the installer installs both. > > > This means that the installer installs RPMs blind, just ignoring any > > > errors. > > > > > > No such error was recorded in the /root install logs. That is not a > > > good recipe for a sound installation and customer confidence in the > > > product. > > > > Unlike RH the Mandrake installer does not check for conflicts only for > > Requires. > > I think that's not really true. When generating the hdlists, we > check for conflicts, provides etc. This is the first step. Second > step, during install, we suppose conflicts have been checked, so > we prefer installing with a few conflictsm rather than refusing > to install anything.
Bottom line for the customer is how does he get midi sound without rebuilding his system or going back to version 8.1 I have a Soundeblaster Live. In 8.1. the system worked, although i had to install the modules and edit /etc/modules.conf myself as neither harddrake nor sndconfig would work. In 8.2 the sound would not work even with a manual install and I actually went back to 8.1 for a while until someone pointed out that I had to open a mixer and run the Pcm and Digital sliders to max. Then I had sound except midi until someone else told me to retrieve the TiMidity an instruments from 8.1. I still had to use modprobe and edit /etc/modules.conf manually. In 9.0, the installer installed alsa for the emu10k1 and I get sound but no midi. Aha! says I wiIl just first try the current timidity and if it does not work I will go back and fetch the one from 8.1 But now a new problem. When I try to install timidity, I get an error message to the effect that I must first remove kdemultimedia-3.0.3-7mdk. I would cheerfully delete kdemultimedia-3.0.3-7mdk if I was sure that it would not impair the performance of some other part of the system but as I have no way of knowing, I am now sitting here wondering if I should simply revert version 8.1. How is a new user who has a Soundblaster Live (a commonly sold card) to react when he comes across this situation.
