28 Feb
2003
28 Feb
'03
12:05 p.m.
On Fri, 2003-02-28 at 10:26, Dave Phillips wrote:
1. The CD drive is actually a Toshiba DVD drive.
Mandrake installed all
right from it but afterwards is unable to read from any disc I insert.
All I get is an uninformative "input/output error".
8.2 had a really good supermount setup, so I doubt it's that.
I dunno about that one.
2. The sound configuration is a joke, right ? I boot
into KDE and hear
the KDE tune just fine, but when I try to run any bundled sound
application (XMMS, MIDI synth, etc) I get an error saying that the
output device is unreachable. When I test sound using the Drake tool it
says it's playing an 8-bit sample but I hear nothing. The tool asks only
if you do or do not hear the sample, it offers no advice on what to do
if you don't hear anything.
Arts is your problem. Try killing artsd. You can set that up
permanently in KDE control centre somewhere.
3. The Internet configuration informs me that I have
no connection even
when I do.
Yep. The connect tool in 8.2 was messed up. Is it such a big problem
that it lies to you? You can see the I/O meter is active which tells
you you are connected.
4. The GCC 2.96 is weird, yes ? When I ran
./configure for the latest
ALSA I get an error telling me that the C compiler cannot produce
executables. This, whether I'm normal user or root. Whafug??!!
You're likely missing some packages. Did you install the development
suite?
So is it just me or are these well-known problems
with Mandrake ? I'm
setting up two machines here, both experience the same problems with
Mandrake 8.2. I'm going to reinstall it once more then I'll give up and
move on to Red Hat. The only reason I'm installing it at all is because
the client wants it. Any and all advice will be vastly appreciated !
Why are you using 8.2? 9.0 is current, and 9.1 will be out in a month.
9.0 stock has a few problems, so be sure to install the errata packages
as well from the Mandrake update website.
Let me know if I can be of more help,
Austin
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Austin Acton Hon.B.Sc.
Synthetic Organic Chemist, Teaching Assistant
Department of Chemistry, York University, Toronto
MandrakeClub Volunteer (www.mandrakeclub.com)
homepage: www.groundstate.ca