Chmouel Boudjnah wrote: > Pierre Fortin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>5. Installation of LinModem support was more troublesome than in 8.2 -- >>while not delivered in a Mandrake distro, at least ensuring that a new >>distro does not make installation of LinModem s/w more difficult is >>important to winning new users. > > this is something that are out of our hands. >
Bad answer. Mandrake 9.0 Workstation DVD has Rockwell HCF and HSF winmodem drivers, but no Lucent Technologies Winmodem drivers. There are rpms availble on the net, and the sources (weird script to build only binary RPM for some reason) which works just fine out the box. Pierre, I don't know if you still have a Mandrakeclub account or ever did, but you may want to vote for the ltmodem (assuming that's the one you have) entry that I made for 9.0/i586. > >>6. CD filesystem got confused (displaying "??????" for each filename and >>permission denied) requiring a reboot (there's that fscking word again) > Easier fix is to eject and reinsert media ... > that supermount suckness, try disable it. When Andrei has posted patches that fix these issues, and Danny has a 2.4.16-19.6mdk which uses these patches, which fixes all the issues for me? Please, if Mandrake is going to have supermount enabled by default, it *must* work reliably on every machine anyone can test on for every device it's used for. RH has a working solution (automount), and they're not supposed to be a desktop distro (or weren't). BTW, 700MB ISOs and stuffed supermount on iffy drives (such as a 3-year-old 2x2x6 CD-RW and a 4-year-old 24x CDROM that works fine for most other things) really cripples a Mandrake installation. There's no way you can install RPMs from the discs, you have to copy the ones you can access to disk, and install them there. Installation would *not* have complete if I didn't have a full 9.0 tree on my laptop so I could do a network install on the affected machine. Please, consider going to 4*650MB instead of 3*700MB. Otherwise Mandrake 9.1 will cost me R300 extra (half a club membership!) per old single machine I support. > >>7. Sound stopped working (lsof showed several apps accessing sound) -- >>rebooted to fix. > > > which sound card. > And via which sound API (OSS/Alsa) and via which sound daemon (arts, esnd) and how were they launched? My thinkpad 600X seems fine ... (oss/arts AFAIK). Buchan -- |--------------Another happy Mandrake Club member--------------| Buchan Milne Mechanical Engineer, Network Manager Cellphone * Work +27 82 472 2231 * +27 21 8828820x121 Stellenbosch Automotive Engineering http://www.cae.co.za GPG Key http://ranger.dnsalias.com/bgmilne.asc 1024D/60D204A7 2919 E232 5610 A038 87B1 72D6 AC92 BA50 60D2 04A7
