I had similar experiences with 8.1. Had most everything (including winmodem and prisim visor USB) working fine on my laptop. With 8.1, my USB has never worked correctly, took forever to find the correct support for the winmodem and my sound is still a bit flaky even though I use the same specs from 8.0. In all, I sent my comments to Mandrake like a good user.
I prefer the RH distros but the Mandrake installed easier and nicer than RH. Always had issues with the GUI loading correctly with RH and would hang the machine. anyway, that's just my 2 bits. kw -- Kris A. Wotipka, WOTIPKA! inc. 337.739.5180 human__337.893.1289 fax__KD5QYV amateur radio ================================================ BRLUG - The Baton Rouge Linux User Group Visit http://www.brlug.net for more information. Send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to change your subscription information. ================================================