Well, I must say that I am impressed and pleased with 8.1 installation. I had installed it some few weeks ago on my laptop but that system is nothing to get excited about. Midlin video, weak audio, no printer (just network printers). It went in OK and runs fine.
The thing that impressed me is that last night I went ahead and reinstalled Mandrake on my desktop, which has been an 8.0-Cooker hybrid for a while. This system has an ATI Radeon 32 DDR video card, integrated via686a sound, and a USB HP845c color inkjet. It detected my printer and I was able to set it up fine (I initially used an HP840c driver, which sucks, but after installation went to the linux printing page and created a driver for the 845c and it works very well). Sound? No problem. I haven't had to dick with settings for once or swapping out alsa for oss or vis versa. Finally and most significantly, XFree86 correctly worked with hardware acceleration for my Radeon! Up to now, I had to manually compile and install the DRI source and kernel. This time it worked out of the box with my expected/desired 800+ FPS with glxgears. This last thing is something that has made me hesitant to upgrade kernels (besides loss of my beloved supermount) because having to dork with DRM and the DRI module source to get my Radeon to work. I hope upgrading to kernel-2.4.12 (to escape the security DoS problem) doesn't dick up my DRI... praedor
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