I have 3 large issues with Mandrake 7.1 I need help with...
First, how do I enable XF86 4? I selected to install it (yes, with
expert installation) when it asked, but it seems that I'm running 3.3.6
(at least, rpm -q XFree86 reports so). I need XF86 4 for my NVidia
drivers.
Second, how do I configure PPP? I do NOT use KDE, and never will, so
please don't tell me what everyone else has: use KPPP. The Gnome-PPP
that shipped with Mandrake 7.1 doesn't work (pppd dies), and the PPP
configuration option in Linuxconf is gone. I had to manually edit some
files, which isn't something I would expect of a distro known for
simplicity.
Finally, this is more of a warning, the version of the emu10k1 driver
that shipped with Mandrake 7.1 had a very serious bug in it that causes
an NMI Error to be generated about twice a second on certain
hardware-configurations, and logged by syslog. How something like that
gets past quality control, I don't know... anyways, you very well may
want to post a patch for Mandrake 7.1 right away (for Mandrake Update or
what not).
Oh, finally, as a question, will Mandrake keep placing icons in my GNOME
menu for non-GNOME apps? That 'unified' menu was disgusting (couldn't
find anything I was looking for, and those damn ugly KDE-like icons all
over the place). I've of course replaced the menu with a normal GNOME
one (by deleting the old GNOME menus and installing true Helix GNOME,
not the 'partial/hacked' Helix GNOME Mandrake 7.1 shipped with). If so,
what program does this? Or was the menu thing merely a packaing issue
with the default Mandrake RPMs?
