Hey Colin, How's that iBook2 how-to coming along? Mandrake 8.2 either 'working' or 'not working' on mine is the deciding factor on whether or not I keep my iBook or it goes to eBay...
So I have high hopes that the final actually 'works'. Did you have to do the modem tweak thing to get it working, or did it just work by default? Justin --- Colin Ward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Well after a few days uptime and a little tweaking > (new kernel and such) I > have a working ibook2(may 2001), 500/CDRW/384/10. > Most things working > straight from install including sound, 16bit color, > modem, network, > printing, CD burning. > Also have a working control center (seemed to be > broken in 1st beta), but if > I use hardware detection most of the information is > blacked/grayed out. > Everything in KDE seem to work fine, but gnomes not > so good. Only spent 10 > minuets in there because everything kept crashing, I > didn't write down what > the prompt kept telling me, but I will later and > report here so it can maybe > get fixed. Enlightenment seems to work very well > though, not my type of > thing but it looks and sounds very pretty. > Another thing was the login screen, it won't display > right and looks ugly, > and its hard to pick a different manager as well as > password/login > information. This was fixed though once I installed > a newer kernel > (2.4.19-pre4). I also have a working battery > monitor/APM after the new > kernel install, very useful. Thatıs about all I've > done so far. Will get > the gnome info to you all after I've had another > look. > Overall this is a huge improvement on the 1st beta. > One thing though, in the graphical installer you > don't get the choice of > adding OSX or another OS to your boot menu in yaboot > (you do in 8). I had to > manually do it once install had finished. All in all > though I'm pretty > please with it. Keep up the great work > Colin > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Greetings - send holiday greetings for Easter, Passover http://greetings.yahoo.com/
