Installed 8.2 RC1. Overall great experience. I tried to go through the
mailing list and through other archive/google searches and managed a few
things that I couldn't figure out completely. I apologize ff it has come up
before and it has slipped passed me.
The only thing I noticed from the regular install has to do with the
network settings.
The install asks for the following settings for the network:
Hostname:
DNS Server:
Gateway:
I put in the FQDN with the hostname, so machinename.mydomain.com
After the install is through I can't ping any machine on mydomain.com. So I
check the various configuration files and find the following:
resolv.conf has the following entries:
search localdomain
nameserver xxx.yyy.zzz.qqq
Then I look at the file /etc/sysconfig/network and see that the HOSTNAME is
set to
machinename.mydomain.com but the DOMAINNAME is set to localdomain.
At this stage I can't ping hostnames on my network without the full domainname.
So I add the line domain mydomain.com to resolv.conf and now I can ping
hostnames without the domain. I also change the DOMAINNAME line in
/etc/sysconfig/network to reflect mydomain.com.
I checked on a Redhat 7.2 machine and saw that resolv.conf doesn't have the
domain line in it and the network file doesn't have the DOMAINNAME line but
I can ping hostnames on my domain without the full domainname.
Not sure where else to look for this.
The next thing I noticed is when I do updates with the current cooker is
that it updates bootsplash among other things (version is 1.3.9-1mdk). Now
with the new one installed the graphical screen disappears and only the
Mandrake logo shows up under the kernel version. Then I get a black screen
with the white text for the few init lines. On shutdown I get a black
screen with a blue bar going accross the bottom.
So I uninstalled the update and then reinstalled the one that came with RC1
(1.3.8-1mdk) and still the same result. Can't get it back to the graphical
way of just after the RC1 install.
Also reran lilo and also tried to recreate a new initrd.
This happened also when I did a bootsplash upgrade with Beta 4.
Next install is the emu10k1-tools-0.9.4-1mdk as I have a SB Live 5.1 with
Digital Boston Speakers.
The rpm installs the needed files like /usr/bin/emu-config ,
/usr/bin/emu10k1-ctl (why was this one renamed from the original package??)
and /etc/emu.conf where I set the Digital Speaker option to Yes.
If I run the command /usr/bin/emu-config -d manually then everything works
fine. The documentation then says to add the following lines to the
/etc/modules.conf :
post-install emu10k1 /usr/bin/emu10k1-ctl
That doesn't work. Only got it to work by adding the following line instead:
post-install emu10k1 /usr/bin/emu-config -d
But that circumvents the use of the options file in /etc
And last but not least :-) I have a Geforce 2MX 400 and I downloaded the
newest drivers from NVIDIA (source files for GLX and kernel).
Both compile and install go smooth and X starts properly and all 3D apps
work great.
But if I reboot I can't start X unless I do a insmod NVdriver manually as
root first.
The line it puts into modules.conf is:
alias /dev/nvidia/* NVdriver
I tried to change that to :
alias char-major-195 NVdriver
but it still doesn't get loaded at boot time. The only way so far I found
is to do the manual insmod NVdriver after every boot. (I know that these
are proprietary drivers and this might not be the right place to discuss
issues with them, but still thought I would at least mention this).
Ok, I think that's it so far. Am looking forward to the released version
and see if the above issues will be gone or maybe there are some simple
fixes for them.
Thank you
Serge
