This is a PII 366 Mhz Fujitsu Lifebook L-470 with 192M RAM and a 30G Hitachi harddrive, Neomagic X128 video, ESS soundcard, and Mandrake 9.1 (dual booting w/W2K Server):
First, thanks to Mr. Bathoorn and the list in general for the help in getting my installation to operate efficiently. It's mostly good now, I'm not sure what I did, but I did go to Mandrake Config and turn off CUPS, that seemed to make a big difference. Then I went through and reconfigured most things and, whatever, it's working quickly now. Gnome Monitor still doesn't work -- it still starts the program and then kills itself before it shows the screen (well, actually it's not dead, it's still running, but there's nothing showing). I can live with that by not using it. One other oddity -- when I change the resolution and it offers to test the new resolution, no test appears, I'm just returned to the previous screen. I can't seem to switch away from Gnome to KDE. I've selected KDE in Mandrake Config:System:Interface (or similar), I've played with the Mandrake Config: Boot section, I've played with all the configs I can find and set all to KDE and rebooted, but even though they still say KDE when I check them, Gnome is booted up. I don't want to delete Gnome, I do want to try other interfaces to see which suits me best. I installed 9.1 from disks I burned myself from the Mandrake website. 3 disks were called for, but there were 5 disks. What's on those other 2 disks? I've looked around and can't seem to find descriptions of the disk contents (one seems to be an additional international data, the other is 'extras"?). Finally, since it looks like I've no plans for tomorrow (except as subject to change by the /dev/wife), I've been thinking about installing 9.2. Anyone here have bad experiences with this yet? Should I wait 6 months? Since Mandrake 9.2 was released the day after I installed 9.1, would I be doing the linux community a disservice to install 9.2 tomorrow and thus spur the release of 9.3 for Monday? <grin> Thanks, Max
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