Civileme (and everyone),
> I would love to know what dmesg says... That CD problem is NOT a common report, and
> they have a lot of trouble fixing what they cannot duplicate.
I beg to differ - I had posted the problem here a couple weeks ago, and this was
followed by two other people reporting the same thing. I read a review of Mandrake
7.1 which stated this. It obviously happens on enough computers that it is a major
problem.
If the MDK developers don't have a system that repeats the bug, someone email me
directly - I'll send them a system!
I have had exactly the same problems the gentleman that started this thread said:
1. CD locks when asking for disk #2 on install.
2. Graphics display in X doesn't come up the same way.
3. Network cards not properly found and installed.
After closing out X (I had to go to run level 3, it was too messy starting X and
getting all the error boxes), I see a number of messages of stuff not found, being
reset, but it keeps doing it every time.
I have no 75dpi or 100dpi fonts, yet something is looking for them. How do I install
them so it won't give me the errors?
I had my system in 800x600 at one point, but now it won't go back there.
One of the major problems I see in X is that if setup can't get you going in 800x600,
you're stuck in 640x480; yet a lot of the programs somehow default to a 800x600 type
of desktop, leaving major parts of the windows (like where OK and CANCEL are) off the
screen.
I finally got IP Masquerading to work, but with no help from the graphical firewall
program.
Again, not trying to shoot down MDK, but trying to offer constructive criticism.
NOW, for my questions of the day:
I was getting a ton of "conf.modules is more recent than ..." messages. I found
someone's suggestion of simply changing the date/time on the referenced file, and it
went away. But why was this check done? It filled my logs with TONS of these
messages.
Why is my hard drive accessed every couple seconds, when there is no activity?
(Nothing recorded in the logs)
Bob
