RE: [newbie] 9.2 good now?

2004-01-07 Thread Tango Echo
>-Original Message- >From: Eric Huff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2004 11:38 AM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: [newbie] 9.2 good now? > > >> Is there something wrong with the USA 9.2 contrib >> mirrors? I can't

Re: [newbie] 9.2 good now?

2004-01-07 Thread Eric Huff
> Is there something wrong with the USA 9.2 contrib > mirrors? I can't seem to get them to work =/ Did you remove the bad ones before adding a different one? eric -- Mandrake HowTo's & More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

RE: [newbie] 9.2 good now?

2004-01-07 Thread Tango Echo
>I think you'll find that if you do a fresh install of 9.2 and >immediately >apply all the bugfixes and updates before doing anything else, >that you will >find it to be a very sweet distro. Indeed! The basic overview has been very impressive so far. However, I have yet to really put it to th

Re: [newbie] 9.2 good now?

2004-01-06 Thread Greg Meyer
On Monday 05 January 2004 07:43 am, Tango Echo wrote: > Hi all, > > What have your experiences been with Mandrake 9.2? I > recently purchased a new hard drive and was debating > if I should put 9.1 (my current one) or 9.2. I know > lots of people had complained about 9.2 initially, but > perhaps

Re: [newbie] 9.2 good now?

2004-01-06 Thread bascule
i just ran tuxracer to check and it was fine, though i did think that the screen seemed a litle flickery, as though the refresh rate went down, i'm using the driver installed using the NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-4496-pkg2.run package from nvidia, bascule On Tuesday 06 Jan 2004 2:00 pm, Tango Echo wrot

Re: [newbie] 9.2 good now?

2004-01-06 Thread N. B. Day
On Mon, 2004-01-05 at 16:58, Carroll Grigsby wrote: > On Monday 05 January 2004 12:12 pm, Paul Harrison wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > Tango Echo wrote: > > | Hi all, > > | > > | What have your experiences been with Mandrake 9.2? > > > > For me, 9.2 worked much

Re: [newbie] 9.2 good now?

2004-01-05 Thread Paul Harrison
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 E. Hines wrote: | Just My Opinion, which probably isn't worth much. I've installed 9.2 on two | different laptops and on my experimental machine at home. For me, the | "updated rpm packages fix" was a necessity due to menu problems after I | installe

Re: [newbie] 9.2 good now?

2004-01-05 Thread Paul Harrison
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Carroll Grigsby wrote: | Paul: | How much updating was necessary? Yeah, I'm still on dialup (at 44K), and | downloading massive files is not a pleasant task. | -- cmg 'Fraid I did a clean install in the end, getting Mdk 9.2 off a magazine CD. Paul ---

Re: [newbie] 9.2 good now?

2004-01-05 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Monday 05 January 2004 09:32 pm, julie wrote: > On Monday 05 January 2004 02:58 pm, Carroll Grigsby wrote: > > > Tango Echo wrote: > > > | Hi all, > > > | > > > | What have your experiences been with Mandrake 9.2? > > > > > > For me, 9.2 worked much more "out of the box" than 9.1. Sound, digita

Re: [newbie] 9.2 good now?

2004-01-05 Thread Ramin
Overall good. I had initially a lot of freezing which i found out being related to APIC and ACPI. Finally i disabled APIC (while running ACPI) and i haven had any freezing for two days. Other than this the system seems super fast (other than booting time) in particular Konqueror seems the fastest

Re: [newbie] 9.2 good now?

2004-01-05 Thread Ramin
Overall good. I had initially a lot of freezing which i found out being related to APIC and ACPI. Finally i disabled APIC (while running ACPI) and i haven had any freezing for two days. Other than this the system seems super fast (other than booting time) in particular Konqueror seems the fastest

Re: [newbie] 9.2 good now?

2004-01-05 Thread bascule
hmm, not to be a party pooper but some folk still have problems that we didn't have with 9.1 i get random xmms freezes where it just stops, i cant use the mouse to change desktops but i can use ctrl-f1 etc. i alt-f2 and issue 'killall -9 xmms' and i'm back in action, the freeze was almost instan

Re: [newbie] 9.2 good now?

2004-01-05 Thread julie
On Monday 05 January 2004 02:58 pm, Carroll Grigsby wrote: > > Tango Echo wrote: > > | Hi all, > > | > > | What have your experiences been with Mandrake 9.2? > > > > For me, 9.2 worked much more "out of the box" than 9.1. Sound, digital > > camera, printer all worked more or less straight away, w

Re: [newbie] 9.2 good now?

2004-01-05 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Monday 05 January 2004 12:12 pm, Paul Harrison wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Tango Echo wrote: > | Hi all, > | > | What have your experiences been with Mandrake 9.2? > > For me, 9.2 worked much more "out of the box" than 9.1. Sound, digital > camera, printer all w

Re: [newbie] 9.2 good now?

2004-01-05 Thread racerpup2
On Mon, 2004-01-05 at 07:43, Tango Echo wrote: > Hi all, > > What have your experiences been with Mandrake 9.2? I > recently purchased a new hard drive and was debating > if I should put 9.1 (my current one) or 9.2. I know > lots of people had complained about 9.2 initially, but > perhaps most o

Re: [newbie] 9.2 good now?

2004-01-05 Thread LtCdData
On Monday 05 Jan 2004 H:12, Paul Harrison wrote: 9.2 is a bit too much AOL-user-ish with way too much control removed so far its messed up some of my hardware settings eg at this time 9.2 cant seem to tell the diff. between a (usb)scanner.. (pci)tvcard.. and (usb)webcam ?!?!?! otherwise its been

[newbie] 9.2 good now?

2004-01-05 Thread Tango Echo
Hi all, What have your experiences been with Mandrake 9.2? I recently purchased a new hard drive and was debating if I should put 9.1 (my current one) or 9.2. I know lots of people had complained about 9.2 initially, but perhaps most of the bugs have been worked out? Are there any common bugs I