On Friday March 28 I decided it was time to jump to 9.1. A 2 days download time taking into consideration my slow ADSL connection and servers overload.
I have a dual boot Toshiba laptop (XP Pro is the other one). As I wanted to change my partitions scheme I also went to install everything from scratch. After installing XP, my CD drive died. An unmerciful, horrible death. On monday, I went to a Toshiba representative and at the moment they didn't carry my CD drive model. Fortunately, they provided me with another laptop, "almost" the same as mine. They switched the hard drives and I just went on with the installation of everything in the borrowed laptop (with my hard drive). I noticed that the NIC and video card were different, but anyway I kept installing Windows packages and, finally, Mandrake 9.1. Yesterday, I switched back laptop (and hard drives) and this is where the interesting story begins: 1.- I've been unable to boot XP. It just crashes after showing the splash with the XP logo. No matter whether I pick safe mode in any flavor or normal, it just crashes. I left alone in its coma. 2.- OTH, Mandrake 9.1 alerted me that the NIC and video card didn't matched the drivers previously selected, picked the right ones and started without any additional hassle whatsoever. The only problem that I had (not related to 9.1) was that Evolution corrupted my old settings for folders and filters (I had read that there were some problems upgrading from 1.2.2 to 1.2.3) but after a boring import process everything is back to normal. The only thing that kept bugging me is keventd overloading the processor if I turn ACPI on. If I turn it off then the sound driver is not loaded (problem with IRQ 0). An interesting challenge for easter. I just wanted to share this eXPerience and to say that 9.1 is just amazing and beautiful! Adolfo
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