Well in the end i did what I should never need to do....started from
scratch with nothing.....
In the end I had to redo the entrie kernel RPM and put back in the
patches for the IDE controllers that the normal kernel doesn't know
about....one of the features that I selected mandrake for that they
elected to leave out of their standard kernel and left me with a lame
slow controller....I have no idea why they left it out for...but they
did iinclude raid...something I don't use.....
So after about 24hrs of reworking stuff I finally got the box back to
where it was before I started the upgrade....next time i'll wait for the
X.1 and the removal of the bugs. This was such a dissappointment since
6.1 was so good of a distro....oh well live and learn. Means the door is
open for at least another linux distro that actually delivers....
tommiy wrote:
>
> Well when 7.0 came out i got excited and bought the CD thinking...hey
> 6.1 was cool...damn 7 must be better....what a dissappointment.....
>
> I selected an upgrade and now I find I have an absolute multitude of
> problems to work through....seems lots of things are now broken....all
> come with the distro...
>
> First my ppp scripts no longer function...cool huh and all I used to use
> was ifup ppp0.
>
> This is now broken by a new app in the initscripts called ppp-watch. Now
> if I try the old ifup ppp0 ppp-watch barfs and rejects it. Off to the
> source code time to resolve that...in the mean time I probably broke
> everything and went back to the init scripts from 6.1 to make it work
> again.... oh by the way this also appears to make linuxconf ppp side of
> life to fail as well...it gives the same errors in messages....kppp
> still goes but I hate KDE! Would seem to identify where the testing went
> thou.
>
> Also appears that the IDE patches weren't in the kernel cause my ALI
> board chipset is no longer recognised and installed as simplex...DOH!
> off to get another patch and patch the kernel....
>
> Next for some reason starting gnome is as slow as an absolute wet
> week!!! On 6.1 it came up fast....on 7.0 it takes approximately 3
> minutes for the desktop icons to appear.......
>
> Sigh appears that the reasons I went to Mandrake are fast dissappearing
> ;((
>
> Anyone have some cluse to the slow enlightenment startup I would
> appreciate.
>
> Regards
