On Tuesday 24 June 2003 11:22 pm, Roland Hughes wrote: > I have done 3-4 install's and everyone was different. I think mandrake > is becoming like windows ( I am joking!). > Roly > > On Tue, 2003-06-24 at 20:03, Dennis Myers wrote: > > On Monday 23 June 2003 10:30 pm, Allan wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > Does anyone know why Mandrake 9.1 seems to come up with different > > > results each time I install it? I installed it twice on my machine and > > > another time on a friend's machine. On my system the end result was > > > different each time, with minor differences showing up in KDE. (I've > > > since switched to Window Maker and love it.) However, the WindowMaker > > > default setup varies between users added on the same system. For > > > instance, some users by default had the wmCalClock dockapp and others > > > didn't, some have an "extra" WPrefs dock icon, etc. > > > > > > Also, I wanted to help my friend get started with Linux, but when we > > > were installing it, it didn't show a lot of packages to select from. > > > In particular, I wanted to install Window Maker and Aterm. Neither > > > showed up in the package selection screen during initial installation > > > or afterwards with rpmdrake. I thought it might be because my friend > > > has an older machine (~400 MHz CPU, 64MB RAM, etc.), but KDE and Gnome > > > installed okay so I don't think it's the hardware support that's > > > lacking. IceWM installed successfully, but it still runs slower than > > > Win98 on the same computer (dual boot). > > > > > > Anyone know why the install is different each time? How can I get > > > WindowMaker onto my friend's computer? Why would IceWM run slower than > > > Win98? (Sorry for so many questions, but I felt they're all related > > > somewhat.) > > > > > > Thanks, > > > Allan > > > > I often wonder the same thing. I just had to do a minor reinstall on the > > machine that would not play xmms. Guess what, it now plays. I choose all > > the same packages and input the answers on the setup and yet now it works > > when before it didn't. Oh, well. Mysteries are for solving. > > -- > > Dennis M. linux user #180842 > > > > ---- > > > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Ya know, it occurred to me that there was a difference this time. I did not install alsa and the alsamixer-gui. My CDROM works with xmms now. I had those loaded before and also had the alsa plugin installed for xmms but it wouldn't play using the alsa sound or OSS sound. Now it works with OSS just fine.:???? -- Dennis M. linux user #180842
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