Hi, I've just joined this list to help mandrake linux become a better product. I wasnt happy with the quality of 8.1 and have decided to do my bit make 8.2 a great release. I have downloaded and updated my 8.1 install on my laptop to 8.2b1, and have noted down on papaer a few bugs that I have picked up. I have also got myself a bugger account.
Im not the best at writing bug reports. I guess for my bug reports to be usefull I need to send information on how to reproduce the problem. Since it was un upgrade, this could be hard. Here is a quick summary of some of the bugs I have picked: Gnome Background: doesnt set on starting X. Does retain the settings. If I go to the background tool, the right settings are there, and I just hit apply and it sets correctly. I have to do this each bootup. Lilo: instead of saying "lilo boot:" or similar there is a bunch of about 8 control codes. Lilo still functions OK. PCMCIA: Toshiba satellite pro, with ToPIC95 pcmcia chipset which is intel compatable. Worked before upgrade, broken after. Its i82365 register compatable, and doesnt use the yenta socket stuff, although kudzu tells the script in /etc/rc.d/init.d/pcmcia that it does. If I rem out this check and manually load the modules the pcmcia works. Now, what is the best thing for me to do? Should I mention bugs like these here, and get some guidance as to what information I should dig out to help the developers before submitting a bug report? Is this information helpful, or does it lack detail of the problem? Thanks, Ant
