On Wed, 2003-04-02 at 15:34, Kwan Lowe wrote: > Onto my third day using the new 9.1 edition. In case anyone's > interested, I thought I'd followup on a few items: > > 1) Sound works beautifully now. It's crisp, doesn't clip, and has not > had any dropouts or pauses even while moving windows around. Did > Mandrake patch anything that would cause this welcome improvement? I'm > using the i810 drivers now. It was being picked up (correctly) as a VIA > 82Cxxx but this wasn't working. Overriding draksound allowed sound to > play. There were a couple remnants of the old driver left in > modules.conf that I had to clear out to get it to load properly on boot. > > 2) USB is still not working. USB Keyboard/Mouse work fine but so far no > cameras or scanners are detected. It's probably the fault of this crappy > Biostar board. > > 3) CDROM is working perfectly now. Not sure what did it, but I had tried > jumpering the drive as master and swapped it to different interfaces. > It's back on the original master drive on secondary IDE controller but > is now working where before it was not. The one glitch I noticed was > when I put in a blank CDR into the drive and used Konqueror to browse to > /mnt. The application froze for about two minutes trying to mount the > unmountable disk. > > 4) urpmi is awesome. MandrakeUpdate rocks. I've been a big Debian fan > for a long time because updates have always been so easy. Mandrake > definitely wins this time, though. Also, not having to search through > CDs for a package is a big time saver. I'm giving a presentation in a > couple weeks on RPM usage and will use urpmi as a response to those who > mention RPM dependency hell. > > 5) xine does not have all the proper codecs for some AVI files. Still > looking for packages to fix this. DVD playback is somewhat important too > since this will be a demo machine. MP3s worked out of the box, unlike > the RedHat installation. Still no television...
On the Xine front plf.zarb.org.... get the stuff that MDK can't include there. > > 6) Nitpicks: It would have been nice to have my scroll mouse > automatically detected and configured for web scrolling. The green on > blue bootup text is difficult to read on some monitors because of the > contrast (or lack thereof). > > 7) Major stuff: Everything seems faster. I'm guessing this is because of > the new GCC. KDE is certainly more responsive than before. Everything > seems well integrated and yup, very professional. I've been using the > common desktop apps (Evolution, Konqueror, XMMS, OpenOffice) for the > past couple days and like what I see. I was going to suggest that the > menu system adopt a more purpose friendly naming convention (Audio > Player vs XMMS, Email vs Evolution) Understandable... but what if you use kmail and noatune instead? > but the "What to Do" entry works a > lot better. This may be my imagination, but the box also seems to run > cooler. Is there anything in the kernel that could possibly have done > this?
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