glad to see that I'm not the only one that thought that the colors on the
install prg were slighltly confusing (grey & green shades = install or not
install). Hopefully they will integrate a small menu (including the other
previous notes i've made).
I also thought it was somewhat of a masterpiece.
On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, you wrote:
> I installed oxygen the other day, finally started playing around > with it.
Here's a few problems I noted. > > etherconfig: > Instant warm boot, no
warning, no nothing. Run the program and, > bang, my machine is booting. >
> sndconfig:
> Finally recognises my GUS PnP Pro card and configures it. Hurrah!
> But the resulting sound is unlistenable, every half second of sound is
> repeated. viz: if the sound to be played is: "I'm riding in your
> car", it will be played as
> "I'm riI'm ri ding inding in your cayour ca" This doesn't really
> matter to me as I intend to use the ALSA drivers anyway.
>
> drakxconf:
> [root@localhost /root]# drakxconf
> Use of uninitialized value at /usr/lib/libDrakX/partition_table.pm
> line 224 (#1)
> (W) An undefined value was used as if it were already defined.
> It was interpreted as a "" or a 0, but maybe it was a mistake. To
> suppress this warning assign an initial value to your variables.
>
> Use of uninitialized value at /usr/lib/libDrakX/partition_table.pm
> line 215 (#1)
> Use of uninitialized value at /usr/lib/libDrakX/diskdrake.pm line 332
> (#1)
> Use of uninitialized value at /usr/lib/libDrakX/diskdrake.pm line 334
> (#1)
> Use of uninitialized value at /usr/lib/libDrakX/lang.pm line 228 (#1)
> Use of uninitialized value at /usr/lib/libDrakX/my_gtk.pm line 72 (#1)
> Use of uninitialized value at /usr/lib/libDrakX/my_gtk.pm line 48
> (#1)
>
> Error: ext2 formatting of hdb7 failed at /usr/lib/libDrakX/fs.pm line
> 67
>
> DrakX:
> It's nice! Great splash screen to start with. However I find the
> package selection screen to be confusing with just the dark green and
> dark gray colours. I have no idea whether I'm selecting or
> unselecting packages.
>
> Also, if I make a mistake in selecting the size of installation,
> there's no way out except to reboot. I made a 1.4 gig partition for
> Oxygen and tried to select everything (that should be one of the
> options, BTW). DrakX said it was going to install about 700 MB of
> stuff but that I'd have the option later of adding more stuff (I was
> in Expert mode). A slider came up, asking how big of an installation
> did I want. I set it to 1400 MB. Away went the installation only
> to barf out at the very end, saying it needed 40 MB on the /mnt
> partition. I went back to the slider screen and set it to 1200. I
> deselected some packages to reduce the installation size. This
> made no difference; it still tried to install 1440 MB on a 1400 MB
> partition.
>
> Only by rebooting was I able to make better selections and have them
> apply.
>
> That whole part about selecting size of installation is
> confusing.
>
> Lothar:
> The window label "Informations" is misspelled, it should be just
> "Information".
>
> None of my SCSI devices are detected, though both my SCSI cards are
> properly detected. It did not detect 3 SCSI hard drives, CD-ROM,
> CD-RW, scanner or tape drive.
>
> My sound card (ISA GUS PnP Pro) wasn't detected.
> My modem (Zoom 2919 on ttyS3) wasn't detected.
>
> I was pleased to see that KDevelop 1.0 was included in oxygen. I
> was disappointed, however, in that many of the packages/utilities it
> uses (glimpse, sgml2html, c/c++ reference) weren't included.
>
> Cheers, Rob
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