Similar stuff here. CUPS didn't work. Now it does, but don't ask me what
I've done to get it working, because I don't know, really. Just deinstalled
and reinstalled it, and now it works.
The screenshooter-applet (gnome) which always worked fine now produces
jpegs 15 times bigger than before, which no graphical application can seem
to recognise.
The nVidia drivers which always worked perfectly before, fail to work now
for OpenGL. Except in KDE. Well, I don't want to switch back and forth from
one WM to the other just to play a game. Besides, it should work in gnome
as well. Right now it only works in KDE; not even in plain X.
I could go on, but you're getting the point... All the stuff I liked to use
a lot under 7.1, and which at that time worked perfectly, is now broken. I
have no clue what the heck went wrong. The only difference with previous
installs is that I just chose to install everything, since I got 2 new 45GB
drives, and didn't feel like having to wade trough the whole app-list at
install time. Perhaps that's my whole problem. Perhaps LM just isn't
intended to be installed completely since it might break things. Heck, do I
know. If that's the problem, then why don't the packages complain about
broken dependency conflicts or stuff? No clue. Hey, it might just be me.
Perhaps it's something I did wrong at install time. Although I'm seriously
wondering what the heck one can do wrong by inserting a bootable CD,
choosing the partitions to install on, and selecting "install
everything"...
Oh, well... I'll try to deinstall and reinstall some more apps, see it it
helps. And if not... There's always 8.0 when it comes out.
On 2001.03.19 02:55 Clint Olson wrote:
> 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.
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