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 the

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

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 seem to get them to work =/ Did you remove the bad

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 more out of the

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

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 most

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

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 of the

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 worked more

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, whereas 9.1 took

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

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

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

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, digital camera, printer

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 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 | installed