Installed 9.1 on my spare partitions yesterday, and it is very nice!
Installation:
The Mandrake installer is getting better:
- still hangs a horrible death on my laptop if I have the USB mouse
connected.
- On the individual package selection and configuration of services
screen the "work box" on the screen is smaller than the content
displayed, obscuring the buttons. The screen is big enough. Weird.
I did an expert installation.
Using the system:
My laptop seems to have an fsck'd implementation of ACPI so initial
boot-up locked-up, passing acpi=off on the boot prompt fixed that.
A strange thing, when first rebooting, my CD drive was open (install
ejected the disc when done, and I left it so as not to boot for it) and
start-up hung when it probed /dev/hdc. Odd.
Once up, everything looked spiffy, played around a bit, I'll have to
track down the kernel sources so I can recompile to get ACPI working on
my laptop.
One thing, what is with the default font on the Konsole? On my
machine there was almost a singe space between each character? Switched
to a custom font and this went away, most odd.
A quick edit to the /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 and I got my USB mouse
working in concert with the touchpad on my laptop.
Other than that, I like it, it picked up my NTFS partitions
automagically, I can't wait until XFS is supported so I can link into my
regular home partition and really give it a work out.
Very stable looking release for a beta, impressive!
--
...Rob
-- "Facts are meaningless. You could use facts to prove anything that's even remotely
true." -- Homer Simpson
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Robert Goshko Axis Computer Consulting Services, Inc
President Sherwood Park, Alberta, Canada
http://www.axis-dev.ca/ Supporting the Revolution In Your World
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Registered Linux User #260513 GNU/Linux i686 2.4.20-2mdk-725ca
10:28am up 2:49, 5 users, load average: 1.38, 1.52, 1.52
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