In short: RH7.0 has a lot of nasty bugs.. and if the gcc problem truely
exists.. then the whole distro is basically scrap metal.
On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Manuel A. Camacho Q. wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I got my RH 7.0 boxed set on Friday, and had a whole bunch of problems. Hope
> someone can help.
>
> 1.) The new version of XFree crashes with my Creative Labs Blaster Exxtreme
> (Permedia2 with 4 MB of video memory). It did not happen with the 6.x
> version series. First, best resolution I could get from the installer was
> 640x480 (running Xconfigurator after that only recognized 1 MB of video
> memory, although I have four). I sat the resolution and color depht
> manually, and got X working as 800x600 (nothing better) with 24 bit color. X
> worked for a couple of minutes, and then I had a sudden change of colors...
> refreshing the screen did nothing to solve the issue, only restarting the X
> server. If I continued working under X after the color change, between
> three and five minutes, I got a server crash, and a system lockup.
>
> Ok, I gave it an alternate solution: I reinstalled 6.2 (which works fine)
> and upgraded to 7, but with same results. Third chance: I reinstalled 6.2
> from scratch and upgraded everything but XFree. It worked... only until I
> closed X and tried to restart, when I got a 111 error (I made no changes at
> all).
>
> I even tried another time, trying to upgrade packages manually, but as there
> is a new version of RPM, I could do nothing... (packages on the disk can
> only be installed with the new RPM version and the new RPM version can not
> be installed with the RPM version from 6.2).
>
> 2.) Under 6.x series, when shutting down the system, my computer turned off
> autonatically after the "system halted" message. Under 7, it does not.
>
> 3.) For kppp to start, I am only supposed to input the root passwd. Ok. But
> a process start under root user, but there is no kppp on screen. To get to
> kppp, I have to open a shell window, and log as root. Then, from my user
> desktop, I can start kppp with no major trouble...
>
> If any one can help, I would really appreciate it. I tried all weekend to
> make this work, but it just doesn't.
>
> -Manuel.
>
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