I thought I'd share my experiences with the 9.1 Download edition and hopefully get some feedback on a few remaining issues:
A few snags in the installation: 1) All in Wonder 128 AGP card was showing up as a Rage card. No TV software was installed however. Installed xawtv but it complained about the lack of v4l devices. Normal video works well though and I no longer have the occasional mouse pointer corruption or video corruption when switching between virtual consoles and X. 2) Sound wasn't detected properly for the built-in audio on a Biostar m7vkb motherboard. The machine also locked up completely while playing an MP3 but this may be because I used the i810 driver. Not sure yet... 3) Openssh-server wasn't installed. After manually installing with rpm, the server host keys needed to be manually created. 4) CDRW was not properly configured. Mount seems to complete but cd'ing to the /mnt/cdrom gives and input/output error. The machine can boot with the CDROM however. 5) USB was not working. Tried using the usb-uhci modules but neither my HP318 digital camera or Sandisk reader worked. Keyboard/Mouse worked fine though. 6) Linksys ethernet card is not starting automatically on boot. Running a network restart fixes the problem though. I still haven't determined why it doesn't start properly since sysconfig shows it as ONBOOT and no other actions except the restart is required. 7) urpmi installations are painless once the sources are properly configured (did this to get around the CD mount problem). 8) KDE 3.1 is noticeably faster than before. It also looks a lot better as far as consistency among icon sets, fonts, graphical elements, etc.. The new Konqueror is now my default browser because of tabbed browsing. I'll try this later on an ECS K7S5A board with which I've had excellent results before. If I can get the television and usb working I'll keep the 9.1. It'll be difficult to drop back to 8.2 but I'll need to do so if these don't work. All this said, there's a lot to like about the new version.
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