On Wed, 27 Mar 2002, Peter R. Wood wrote:
> Just installed 8.2 beta 2 tonight from cd's. I ran into a few problems: > > 1) Near the end of installation, when the summary of input devices, language, >locale, printer, etc > is displayed, I click on Printer to try and add a CUPS printer. Whereas this worked >fine in previous > versions, I had some trouble in this version. After installing most of the packages, >it gave me an > error that the 'qtcups' package was not found. I assume this is a qt frontend for >CUPS. In any case, > I was not able to set up a printer because of this. > Added to rpmslist. I had used the x86 list which I thought would have resolved these missing package issues. > 2) When I boot up in graphical login mode, the KDM screen is still butt-ugly/messed >up as in > previous releases. I'm assuming this is a problem that is the responsibility of KDE >developers? > Unfortunately, in the 4 machines I've had access too, I haven't yet seen this behaviour, so it's a bit hard to fix. > 3) GNOME seems to have lots of problems. It starts up somewhat okay, but I get >errors related to > 'bonobo-moniker-archiver' when I do various things, such as opening up capplets in >the Control > Center. Specifically, it's telling me that 'bonobo-moniker-archiver' has segfaulted, >and that > /usr/bin/background-properties-control has segfaulted. Are there some new >bonobo/gnome packages > that I can urpmi? > No there aren't. Unfortunately no-one mentioned any additional issue with gnome, besides the original missing libs until a couple of days ago, and the ISO's were already burnt by then. I'll look into it. > 4) Network detection during install doesn't seem foolproof, and this is more of a >general Mandrake > issue than a PPC-specific one. But nonetheless, here it is: > I've got gmac ethernet built in on my Pismo, as well as an airport card. When the >network detecter > runs, it only detects my gmac. I then must tell it that I have another interface, >and select the > Apple Airport driver, which it will then load. Obviously, this is something I >understand, but the > novice user may not know what to do. I'm not sure how to make it easier for a novice >user, but we > would definitely want the airport module to be detected. Ideally, it should be >detected along with > the gmac interface, and presented to them in a list of interfaces which can be >chosen radio-button > style. I.E. pick either gmac or airport, and give an option for advanced users to >choose both if > they want to. Most novice users, however, would not understand the concept of having >two network > interfaces operating simultaneously. I dunno. Just rambling about this a bit, so if >it seems inane, > please ignore. :-) > Good ideas, I don't think it will be implemented this time around though. Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft PPC FAQ: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/demos/PPC/FAQ/
