Re: [Cooker] More comments on Oxygen-3
GREAT.. sound blaster detected here and operational.. someone thought ahead here Lee Cronin wrote: I have also finished installing m 7.0 Immediate comments pretty cool. No problems at all and BEST OF ALL... my Sound blaster live value sound card worked fine... all I had to do was compile a new copy of emu10k.o and put it in the modules dir and load the module. I am a real NEWBIE to LINUX so this is really great if I can get this card to work anyone can..., however but do not be fooled by the soundconfig utility this did not help. Well done all whom helped construct Mandrake 7.0 - its gonna be a winner. Now I have sound... windoze is going bye-bye!! Lee -Original Message- From: Patrick Goetz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 08 January 2000 01:28 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Cooker] More comments on Oxygen-3 I just finished installing Beta-3. 3 immediate comments: 1. I noticed that amd was installed by default (as evidenced by the fact that I couldn't log in because my home directory couldn't be found ;-)). I'm pretty sure most people are now using autofs, which is newer, cleaner, and actively maintained. In any case, at the very least the installer should be given a choice between amd and autofs. 2. I'm not entirely satisfied with the granularity of choosing packages. For example, nowhere was I given the option of not installing TeX, as far as I can tell. (Of course I want TeX, but I think a lot of junk I don't want was installed anyway.) 1.3 gigabytes! What hath linux come to? 3. Is there any way not to get kde? kde and gnome are 2 terrible mistakes IMHO. I chose expert installation and tried very hard not to get any gnome or kde junk. Still, when I run startx, I end up looking at the kde desktop. :(p PEOPLE NOT CLEAR ON THE CONCEPT (OR TECHNOLOGY, OR HISTORY, OR ECONOMICS, OR CULTURAL LITERACY) DEPT.: "Well, it seems to me we ought to be encouraged that in the year 1000, they had to add a new digit, and yet no evidence of economic disruption. And then a millennium before, we had dates going down, and then they started going up, and yet no evidence of disruption or chaos in the economy. So if they could do it then, surely we can deal with it now, it seems to me." -- Sen. Phil Gramm, R-Texas, chairman Senate Banking Committee _Patrick Goetz _| ~-. Dept. of Mathematics \, *_} The University of Texas at Austin[EMAIL PROTECTED] \( Austin, Texas 78712-1084 Phone: (512) 232-2746 http://www.ma.utexas.edu/users/pgoetz
Re: [Cooker] More comments on Oxygen-3
AMD has admitted that the Athlon doesn't work well with AGP video cards. psycho wrote: how about geForce - detect ? new athlon box here . Patrick Goetz wrote: I just finished installing Beta-3. 3 immediate comments: 1. I noticed that amd was installed by default (as evidenced by the fact that I couldn't log in because my home directory couldn't be found ;-)). I'm pretty sure most people are now using autofs, which is newer, cleaner, and actively maintained. In any case, at the very least the installer should be given a choice between amd and autofs. 2. I'm not entirely satisfied with the granularity of choosing packages. For example, nowhere was I given the option of not installing TeX, as far as I can tell. (Of course I want TeX, but I think a lot of junk I don't want was installed anyway.) 1.3 gigabytes! What hath linux come to? 3. Is there any way not to get kde? kde and gnome are 2 terrible mistakes IMHO. I chose expert installation and tried very hard not to get any gnome or kde junk. Still, when I run startx, I end up looking at the kde desktop. :(p PEOPLE NOT CLEAR ON THE CONCEPT (OR TECHNOLOGY, OR HISTORY, OR ECONOMICS, OR CULTURAL LITERACY) DEPT.: "Well, it seems to me we ought to be encouraged that in the year 1000, they had to add a new digit, and yet no evidence of economic disruption. And then a millennium before, we had dates going down, and then they started going up, and yet no evidence of disruption or chaos in the economy. So if they could do it then, surely we can deal with it now, it seems to me." -- Sen. Phil Gramm, R-Texas, chairman Senate Banking Committee _Patrick Goetz _| ~-. Dept. of Mathematics \, *_} The University of Texas at Austin[EMAIL PROTECTED] \( Austin, Texas 78712-1084 Phone: (512) 232-2746 http://www.ma.utexas.edu/users/pgoetz
[Cooker] More comments on Oxygen-3
I just finished installing Beta-3. 3 immediate comments: 1. I noticed that amd was installed by default (as evidenced by the fact that I couldn't log in because my home directory couldn't be found ;-)). I'm pretty sure most people are now using autofs, which is newer, cleaner, and actively maintained. In any case, at the very least the installer should be given a choice between amd and autofs. 2. I'm not entirely satisfied with the granularity of choosing packages. For example, nowhere was I given the option of not installing TeX, as far as I can tell. (Of course I want TeX, but I think a lot of junk I don't want was installed anyway.) 1.3 gigabytes! What hath linux come to? 3. Is there any way not to get kde? kde and gnome are 2 terrible mistakes IMHO. I chose expert installation and tried very hard not to get any gnome or kde junk. Still, when I run startx, I end up looking at the kde desktop. :(p PEOPLE NOT CLEAR ON THE CONCEPT (OR TECHNOLOGY, OR HISTORY, OR ECONOMICS, OR CULTURAL LITERACY) DEPT.: "Well, it seems to me we ought to be encouraged that in the year 1000, they had to add a new digit, and yet no evidence of economic disruption. And then a millennium before, we had dates going down, and then they started going up, and yet no evidence of disruption or chaos in the economy. So if they could do it then, surely we can deal with it now, it seems to me." -- Sen. Phil Gramm, R-Texas, chairman Senate Banking Committee _Patrick Goetz _| ~-. Dept. of Mathematics \, *_} The University of Texas at Austin[EMAIL PROTECTED] \( Austin, Texas 78712-1084 Phone: (512) 232-2746 http://www.ma.utexas.edu/users/pgoetz
RE: [Cooker] More comments on Oxygen-3
I have also finished installing m 7.0 Immediate comments pretty cool. No problems at all and BEST OF ALL... my Sound blaster live value sound card worked fine... all I had to do was compile a new copy of emu10k.o and put it in the modules dir and load the module. I am a real NEWBIE to LINUX so this is really great if I can get this card to work anyone can..., however but do not be fooled by the soundconfig utility this did not help. Well done all whom helped construct Mandrake 7.0 - its gonna be a winner. Now I have sound... windoze is going bye-bye!! Lee -Original Message- From: Patrick Goetz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 08 January 2000 01:28 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Cooker] More comments on Oxygen-3 I just finished installing Beta-3. 3 immediate comments: 1. I noticed that amd was installed by default (as evidenced by the fact that I couldn't log in because my home directory couldn't be found ;-)). I'm pretty sure most people are now using autofs, which is newer, cleaner, and actively maintained. In any case, at the very least the installer should be given a choice between amd and autofs. 2. I'm not entirely satisfied with the granularity of choosing packages. For example, nowhere was I given the option of not installing TeX, as far as I can tell. (Of course I want TeX, but I think a lot of junk I don't want was installed anyway.) 1.3 gigabytes! What hath linux come to? 3. Is there any way not to get kde? kde and gnome are 2 terrible mistakes IMHO. I chose expert installation and tried very hard not to get any gnome or kde junk. Still, when I run startx, I end up looking at the kde desktop. :(p PEOPLE NOT CLEAR ON THE CONCEPT (OR TECHNOLOGY, OR HISTORY, OR ECONOMICS, OR CULTURAL LITERACY) DEPT.: "Well, it seems to me we ought to be encouraged that in the year 1000, they had to add a new digit, and yet no evidence of economic disruption. And then a millennium before, we had dates going down, and then they started going up, and yet no evidence of disruption or chaos in the economy. So if they could do it then, surely we can deal with it now, it seems to me." -- Sen. Phil Gramm, R-Texas, chairman Senate Banking Committee _Patrick Goetz _| ~-. Dept. of Mathematics \, *_} The University of Texas at Austin[EMAIL PROTECTED] \( Austin, Texas 78712-1084 Phone: (512) 232-2746 http://www.ma.utexas.edu/users/pgoetz
