I just upgraded my machine from a k6-2 400 with a super 7 board to a ahtlon 1700xp with a kt333 board and now my system is mucho unstable. It's gotten to the point where I am very frustrated with Mandrake and even wondering about how good Linux really is. After years (I started before the kernel was up to 1.0) of supporting Linux, I have watched windows become easier to use and more stable. Windows XP installs new drivers for me without even asking me for anything. It just works. But I love the power of Linux and the applications.
Here's the list of my problems. 1. When I shutdown, it goes through the normal routine and then tells me to power the machine down. Before the upgrade, it would power down the machine for me....now I have manually use the power button. 2. No sound. I am still working on this one. sndconfig is useless. It finds my sound card and then tries to play a sound. It cant so it just hangs there and I never get to actually configure the sound card to fix the problem. That's pretty pathetic for a real os....the config tool wont config! 3. CD burning on my scsi plextor is now very unstable. I have to burn at 1x or the burn fails. The burner is the only device in the scsi chain. The scsi card is sharing an IRQ with 2 ethernet cards and the sound card but of source I cant configure the sound card (see above) to change the IRQ. These are not the problems users should put up with from a real operating system. This is mickey mouse stuff. Like I said before, I run windows XP on my other system...I add new hardware, it configures it for me, no problem. I don't mind configuring hardware myself but as you can see above, I would if I could. In conclusion, I think the lesson learned here is: When upgrading major hardware components such as motherboards, REINSTALL the operating system. It's sad but at least with Mandrake 8.2, it's true. Darren
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