I've mentioned many times that installing EVERYTHING misses about 50% of
the RPM's.
It seems that this is by design, to force the user to go back in and
select what they want.
This proved to be so tedious that I ended copying everything to a
directory on the hard drive and "find . -iname *.rpm --exec rpm -Uvh {}
\;" several times until everything really was installed... (of course I
had to watch out for daemon conflicts...)
Neomagic video and audio, ugh!
Laptop users have been battling with these chipsets for awhile now under
Xfree4. Not really a LM8.1 problem...
LM8.1 had no troubles with Crystal (also lousy chipsets) and ESS
chipsets on my motherboards, though I quickly tossed this in favor of
SBLive cards...
-JMS
|-----Original Message-----
|From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Ken Hawkins
|Sent: Monday, December 03, 2001 12:51 PM
|To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
|Subject: Re: [expert] 8.1 Piece of Crap!
|
|
|I am the guilty party who started this thread, and I wish to
|apologise to all readers for my rant. It does seem to have
|elicited some similar feelings from other subscribers though.
|My attitude when sending that original message was the result
|of a 14 hr day spent: Upgrading to 8.1, blowing off 8.1 and
|installing from scratch (keeping only /HOME), blowing off 8.1
|and totally repartitioning the drive, THEN re-installing for
|the third time. The result of all this was: No sound, wrong
|video card & display installed, wrong PCMCIA NIC installed, a
|large number of programs missing from the Dekstop Menu's (even
|though I "installed everything"), desktops dropping out at
|random (working in KDE, then FLICKER,FLICKER,GONE. I am
|sitting at the command prompt login)
|
|I tend to assume that a newer version of an OS, will have all
|the capabilities of an older version, plus nice extras. MDK7.2
|autodetected all the components. Even when it didn't quite
|recognize the component, it was able to set up parameters
|close enough to work. I restored my laptop to 7.2 in under 2
|hours, with a working sound card, proper video card, and
|PCMCIA NIC, all detected and working automagically.
|
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