Hi,
I just wanted to have a little rant. Awhile ago I installed LM7.1 and
it worked great. It recognized all of my hardware and ran all of my
software. Granted, It wouldn't run X4.0 (so I couldn't use my GeForce2
MX on my other machine), and KDE 1 was a bit clunky, but it worked fine.
Hardware:
128 Megs of RAM in DIMMS
AMD K6-2 366 MHz
1.2 Gig HD (hda)
20 Gig HD (hdb)
Generic ATAPI 48x CDROM (hdc)
ATI Expert@Play 98 PCI video
Sound Blaster 16 ViBRA16x (ISA PnP)
Boca 33.6 Modem (ISA PnP)
Netgear FA310TX PCI Network Card
Generic Serial Mouse
Enter 7.2. First, I tried upgrading, and royally messed things up. I
then proceeded to wipe and reload. It installed fine, and I set LOADLIN
to boot it. (side note: I keep Windoze on hda. Root is hdb2. I like the
menu system that Windoze 98 provides) After booting into Linux, I
noticed several things. First, cups ( :^P ) had lots of drivers for my
HP 932C. Second, none of them worked. On 7.1 I used the 550C drivers
(lp) to print to my 932 without a problem. Now, none of the drivers work
(not even the 550C ones). "Oh well," I thought, "I can do without a
printer." Next, I noticed that sound was not working. In 7.1 this had
set up automatically. Since my card is a common SB16, I tried setting it
up here. It totally failed to autodetect the settings. It was only
recently that I tried changing the IRQ to 5 (5 wasn't even on the
dropdown list, and it's 9 under Win95). Now sound works, although MIDI
still is out (no biggie). The final straw, though, was that it
completely missed my modem. When I run HardDrake, it says it detects to
ISA PnP cards: SB16 & BocaModem. However, when I look through the
hardware list, it doesn't even show up! I have the modem setup
(hardware) to be TtyS1, so I *should* be able to just "echo ATDT #######"
to /dev/TtyS1and hear it dial, or tell Minicom to use TtyS1 and have that
work. When I "echo ATDT #######" to TtyS0 (my serial mouse), I at least
see the cursor jump if I have gpm running. This makes Linux almost
unusable for me, as I can't get any work done under it (no printing or
Internet). I am very much looking forward to 8.0 and hope that there
problems will be fixed.
Clint Olson
CO-n-Co.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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