-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I received my powerpak CDs yesterday and installed 9.2 last evening.
Problems. I naturally ran into the disappearing icon problem but quickly fixed that by installing a previously downloaded kdeartwork-gorilla rpm which produced MOST icons so that things looked reasonable and were easier to navigate. I fixed this fully by installing the updates. Problems that remain: sound. In 9.1 sound was perfect. I have an oldish IBM Thinkpad 1412 with an essolo1 sound device in it. In 9.2 it detected it just fine but sound doesn't work without unacceptable gymnastics every time I start up. What I get by default is white noise static coming from my speakers (mixer settings were correct, not zeroed out). Nothing I do will bring sound. I even tried the alternative driver (esssolo1 instead of snd-es1968 or whatever it was). No good. What finally worked was to login as root, killall artsd, run alsaconf, and then restart artsd. After this, sound works...but only for the current session. If I restart the computer I lose sound again. This is obviously unacceptable. I have seen other posts wrt sound problems and wondered if a true fix has been discovered? There also appears to be a bit of a font bug wrt kmail. First time I started kmail up after the install (over 9.1, leaving my home dir and all its conf files intact) I found the default font used to be Beast Wars. When I opened up the configure pages to change the fonts, the highlighted/selected font was correct: luxi sans. Nevertheless, what was showing was Beast Wars. The only way to get luxi sans up and working was to highlight any other font for a moment and then go back to luxi sans. Do an "apply" and fonts were correct. Beast Wars? EVERYONE knows Beast Wars aren't ever used by anybody for anything. It's a junk font. I mean, c'mon! In any case, has anyone else run into this? Final question. I will likely need to rebuild my kernel to get grsecurity activated AND to build a patched orinoco wlan driver (to allow for monitor mode). Does the most recent tmb kernels include proper, already patched orinoco drivers? praedor - -- "Our ship is in the hands of pilots who are steering directly under full sail for a rock. The whole crew may see this course to violate our liberties in full view if they look the right way." - --Samuel Adams, 1771 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/sjvZaKr9sJYeTxgRAq6AAJ0dWVf77SQHQ4duDTQpf01PwrzPRgCfXh1U q734Apm1SwUX7U9oOGk5xxk= =lPpQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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