I did a fresh install of 9.0 RC1. And have encountered the following problems.
1) The problem with DM(Display Manager) being killed off or crashing is still happening. 2) I tried recording audio with my Sound Blast Live and it is not recording. This was using the gnome tool sound record. Since I couldn't get it to work. I pull the sound card out and activated the on board audio on the mother board ( via-8233 ). I needed to configure my sound card so I loaded up sndconfig. Which brings us to the next problem. 3) Ran Rpmdrake and selected sndconfig package. It gave me a list of a few other packages to load. I clicked on OK and it came back with the following message "Everything already installed ( is this suppose to happen at all ?)". So I dropped to a bash shell and used the command line rpm to load the packages. Having installed sndconfig I ran into the next problem. 4) Running sndconfig came back with error saying my via-8233 was not supported. I guess sndconfig is not being updated. So I manually loaded the via-8233 module and the sound still wasn't working. So I decided to reinstall Mandrake ( I'm getting very good at this ). This came up with the next problem. 5) When I got to the point of configuring Xfree86 I did the following. Selected my monitor as Plug'n Play Sony CPD-200SF. Selected my video cards as a GeForce 2 DDR ( generic ) Select Xfree86 4.2.0 Select a resolution of 1280x960 with 24 bit color. Did a test on the configuration. Which did not display properly. The screen was compressed horizontally. About 2/3 the screen. I click NO to change my resolution to 1152x864 24 bit color and tested it again. This setting work properly. I clicked on yes to confirm the settings. Then I clicked on OK. When I did this the installation program completely skipped the section asking me if I wanted X to start at boot. At the end of the install I rebooted my machine and the system went directly to a text screen. I did another install without the process of switching resolutions and X started properly. I tried the original steps twice to confirm the problem. 6) With my system up and running I verified that the sound was working and was able to play music. Which it did. Tried recording and still no luck. 7) I also tried changing the driver using Harddrake. When I selected the configure options it gave me a list to 2 drivers. I selected the emu-10K. I tried that one and it still did not work. I went back to select the other driver and Harddrake only gave me the original driver as an option to select. The second driver option had disappeared. 8) I did run into one other problem a while back when trying to upgrade to 9.0 Beta 2. I ran out of disk space and got the following message. 1677789172 > 125004745 Your system does not have enough space left for installation or upgrade. The only option was to click the OK button. Which I did. After a few seconds it repeated the same error. It would be nice if there was a restart installation button. 9) It would also be usefully if at the end of the install the program would check to see if the floppy or CD drive contains a disk. On numerous times I have forgotten to remove the floppy only to find myself back at the install main start screen. Maybe have a dialog box saying please remove any floppy or CD disk and click OK when ready. Thats about it for now. I will try and break more things tonight. Brent
