Claudio,
I don't use RedHat, but now I have MDK 8 installed in both, my big box linux
and my Toshiba laptop; I don't have SCSI neither NVdia (I think the
commercial distribution includes the NVdia drivers, but if not, it is easy to
download them from Time page); on the other hand:
Scanner: detected but not working, just create in my case mknod
usbscanner0.... and works fine (Epson 1200 Perfection USB)
Network: cable modem installed fine.
Network: ip mask well done, my laptop is conected to the big box (Pentium
III) and I have both computers using the cable módem and the internet
conexion ¡great! and easy.
DVD: working well; just there seems kernel 2.4.3. has a problem to xv, but I
can watch dvd movies, using it as cdrom and so on. You could try with a xine
rpm, the problems to compile could be because you need some libs or compiler
packages.
The Mandrake control center and rpm manager working great, I was afraid
because in the betas they didn't :-)
Perhaps you need some help to install some of your hardware, I am sure the
mandrake team will be very glad to help you and improve with this experience
the distribution.
Have a nice day
Francisco Alcaraz
Murcia (Spain)
El Dom 22 Abr 2001 08:39, escribiste:
> Well,
> I'm testing Rh-7.1 for some problems I'm having at home with Mdk and my PC.
> Indeed at the moment the differences are:
>
> Topics Mandrake 8.0 Redhat 7.1
> ------------------------------------------
> Scanner NOT working Working
> DVD NOT working Working
> SCSI sys NOT working Working
> Network Working Working
> NVidia NOT working Working
> Desk Env. Perfect Good
> Programs Many nice programs Quite enought
>
> So, I really don't know. I like Mandrake since 5.x over all other
> distributions, but I need to use my hardware!
> Me and other talked about the scanner problem. It was ignored.
> Xine is old, something other don't work. Even xine won't compile.
> Some tools are missing even selectioning ALL categories during
> installation, I mean, for example, nslookup and traceroute, pine and so on.
> I mean: nslookup, traceroute and ping are even present in Window$, now I
> cannot find it in Linux?!?!?!?!?
> XcdRoast (ok, even if only root can use it, it's always better than
> nothing!) is not in the distribution and gcombust is in the second cd...
> Moreover, people with aic scsi subsystem cannot install Mdk-8.0 on their
> machine (I had to use my dvd for installation...), and I suppose that 90%
> of scsi controllers are "aic" controllers.
> NVidia drivers and Pine are not included in distribution for their license.
> OK, why then do you release Netscape? Should be coherent with it.
> So... when 8.1? ;(
>
> Claudio
>
> PS) Sorry, I know you made a great work. But I was waiting since 3 months
> for something that now is not usable at 100% but... let's say at 60%. How
> many people are in this conditions?!?
