Well, for whatever reason, after using 7.1 since it's onset, the move to 7.2 has been a disaster. After the upgrade failed, I was forced to install from scratch. As I said previously, sound is so bad I am turning it off in the BIOS. Today, Helix-Gnome (something else I've used on 7.1) has become unuseable. Two things: whenever I boot up, somehow, the permissions in /etc/X11/gdm/Sessions for Gnome get changed such that gdm login can't access Gnome! I am tired of going to root at every boot and changing those permissions. Even more catastrophic was today, I launched one my standard X-window apps from our servers, and the Windowing system just failed completely and left me back at gdm login. Since Gnome was not available now, I switched to KDE, and tried runing my X-app again. This time the windowing system just hung with a blank screen, forcing me to re-boot (and once again, Gnome is not a option - I think I get the message: use KDE :) So Gnome is unuseable, X-Window seems problematical (is the Sawfish windowing system broke in 7.2?), Sound doesn't work, I can't come close to my 7.1 system. Now I know you will all think I must be some kind of idiot to have all these problems, but let me assure you that I had no such problems in 7.1 and other than installing some applications (like MIT Kerberos) and using standard customizations (like panel auto-hide), everything is default from the installer process. I have tried loading all the updates available for Mandrake and Helix-Gnome, they don't change this behavior at all. Am I the only unfortunate person to have these kinds of problems?
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