Hello I have tried an upgrade of my old laptop.
For the hardware part, it is based on a pentium M @1.6GHz, 1GB RAM, an intel 855GM integrated graphics, RTL8139 ethernet and intel 2200 wifi. For the software part, it was a mandriva 2010.2 (not up to date, about one month old), with KDE updated to 4.5.5 with unofficial packages from http://mib.pianetalinux.org/mib/ The upgrade was done using the i586 DVD, then updated to latest upgrades with urpmi --auto-select, and orphans packages removes with urpme --auto- orphans. There was only one upgrade problem with amarok, I had amarok 2.4.0, also from MIB, but it failed to upgrade to the mageia packages due to a conflict, in the MIB packages libampache_account_login.so is provided in a separate package (libampache_account), but it is in the main amarok package in mageia. Urpmi tells me there is a conflict between amarok-3:2.4.0.90-2.mga1 and libampache_account-3:2.4.0-1mdv2010.2, and doesn't propose to uninstall the later to resolve the conflict. urpme libampache_account (and amarok with it), then urpmi amarok solved the problem (as expected). I don't know if this issue should be handled on mageia's side, or if MIB should provide an updated package re-integrating libampache_account_login.so into the main amarok package to provide a clean upgrade. Looking at current cooker, they also provide libampache_account_login.so in the main amarok package, so the problem might arise also when updgrading to mdv2011. Looking at mdv packages still installed after the upgrade, I see kbluetooth-0.4.2 is still there, which, I believe, is replaced by bluedevil in KDE 4.6. Bluedevil is installed without conflicts, thanks to the name change, but shouldn't it obsolete kbluetooth? Package plasma-applet-yawp did not upgrade to mga's version, as it is version 0.3.6-1.1mdv2010.2 (also from MIB) and mageia's version is 0.3.6-1mga1, so urpmi think it is older. Not a big problem as the old package works fine. Another strange case with webkit, official mandriva updates provide some webkit 1.2.7 packages, while magiea has 1.2.5, so I end up with # rpm -qa|sort|grep webkit libggadget-webkitjs0-0.11.2-5.mga1 libkdewebkit5-4.6.2-0.mga1 libqtwebkit4-4.7.2-1.mga1 libwebkitgtk1.0_2-1.2.7-0.1mdv2010.2 python-qt4-webkit-4.8.3-2.mga1 webkit1.0-1.2.7-0.1mdv2010.2 webkit1.0-webinspector-1.2.7-0.1mdv2010.2 webkit-1.2.7-0.1mdv2010.2 On the hardware support part, wifi is working fine (with non-free ipw2200 firmware). Firewire is also enabled, but I have nothing to connect to it. Suspend to RAM works fine also. The intel graphics works (i810), but compositing is unusable, if I enable kwin's desktop effects I get huge rendering problem with windows not updating, still showing at their old position when moved, and so on. I guess this is more a driver related problem and can't be fixed by mageia, but if confirmed by someone else with the same hardware I guess it should be listed in the release notes. With desktop effects disabled it is fully usable. In mdv 2010.2, compositing was almost usable, but already with some rendering glithes in plasma. I also had a strange problem when connecting one particular USB memory key (sandisk cruzer 8BG), udisks-daemon and dbus-daemon started taking lots of CPU (with many context switch wetween each other), disconnecting the key actually made things worse and I had to disconnect from the desktop to have it stop. The strange thing is that two devices shows when that key is connected, the expected 8GB mass storage, and an optical disk with label "U3 System" which can't be mounted. I don't know what it is, but there is an "U3 smart" logo on the key. I don't have the problem on another computer with KDE 4.5.5 and udisks 1.0.1 that's all for now -- Renaud Michel
