On Sat, 2007-01-27 at 17:37 -0500, Mike McMullin wrote: > I installed 10.2 opting for the Gnome UI. I like the new UI, but find > looking for stuff not on the first pane to be slow coming up with the > other window. > My HP-F335 all-in-one was totally supported right out of the box, > leaving only the scanner end of it to be configured. A nice change from > 10.0. > ZMD - what can I say? It still has a few gotcha's, currently my "orb" > is DOA. > Adding Channels - I'm not sure why they have to be synced with > ZENnetworks, which seems to be either problematic or grossly time > consuming, resulting in their not syncing at all. > KDE - I think this iteration, as presented, puts it on a usability par > with Gnome. In either UI case, I'm definitely more partial to the older > style menu system. Neither one stands out as speedier than the other. > Logitech Quickcam Messenger - This is the first time that I have seem > a module installed for this camera, out of the box. No applications to > use with it, but the module. I installed Ekiga, and managed to get a > configuration to include the detected camera, but only black screen > where the picture should be. > Speed - This version is putting me in mind of the problem that I had > with 9.3 which forced me over to Gnome for the duration of that install. > The system is noticibly slower than my 10.0 install, and crawls when I > use wget to grab an iso writing to my USB-Drive. > > No show stoppers for me, and a number of things that I do like about > it, enough to keep using it for now at least. I wonder what part of my > slowness problem is due to Beagle running on my 733mhz Celeron with 512 > M of ram, though when I was testing Sled10 with Beagle running, I did > not experience this slowdown. NOTE: I would prefer to keep Beagle > running, I like the search function of it, having used it several times. > > I do have the source to quickcam driver module, and could actually > remove the provided one and install it qc-usb-messenger-1.6, but I'm > curious as to which version of the driver that I'm running. I did a > search in YaST's Software module filtered for provide and spec'ed > quickcam but got no results.
One other thing, in the three times I've had the boot disk in the system, doing an install or update, not once have I run across the option to do a media check. Did this get dropped for some reason? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
