Wayne Wilson wrote: > 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? > > No you aren't the only one. Mandrake 7.2 is exciting in what it is attempting to do, and I guess that if you fit an idealized hardware profile everything will most probably work. I have several unresolved problems but have enjoyed the experience. I had the luxury of being able to install it on a secondary machine....my primary machine is a simpler distro (also KDE2) that I use for my day to day work....it's using Best Linux...(my favorite distro for stability and as near "bug" free as any I've used) Paul
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