[ltp] Mandrake 8.2 vs. TP 600e

[Richard Neill]

Steven Crane wrote:
> ...You did choose an "expert" install didn't you?...
> 
> No. I am manifestly not an expert and really didn't fancy my chances at dealing with 
> any questions. Knowing that it offers defaults changes a lot, but I don;t think I'll be 
> running back to re-install just yet.

Good point. Actually though, imho, Mandrake should always do the 
"expert" install (or even something more comprehensive) as you get to 
see what's going on!

I wouldn't suggest you re-install, but it does give more options.
> 
> 
> Something went wrong during that first install and I just couldn't make head nor tail of 
> the Mandrake partitioning options (or, more imprtantly, get back out of them). The old 
> RH install was plenty adequate for tidying up the mess so that Mandrake could pick its 
> own settings second time around.

Odd. I've found the Mandrake Installer has a really good partition 
editing gizmo. But I guess your mileage varied! If you want to feedback 
to Mdk, then see here:
http://www.mandrakesoft.com/company/contact/feedback


> 
> 
> 
> ...They should have been installed automatically if you included the documentation 
> options. To add them, use rpmdrake (under the menu of Configuration -> Packaging -> 
> Software Manager), and this will allow you to search for them. (Search for "howto")...
> 
> Nope. I selected every english language piece of documation I could find on the tree. 
> Repeated searches have turned up precious few pages and all of them individiual "one 
> in a folder documents, no "HOWTO" folder as in Redhat and indicated the Mandrake 
> manual. I can't get any better from searching under either "Installed" or "Installable".

Have you tried both "Search by file" and "search by description" 
options? Do you have all the CDs listed in the defined sources?
Failing which, you can ftp the package(s) manually from eg 
ftp.proxad.net (use "lftp" - it's much nicer), and then do "urpmi * "
[Urpmi is the Mdk equivalent of Debian's apt-get - it is a bit nicer 
than rpm -i]

> 
> 
> ...Mandrake has quite a lot of its own tools. These are called drakconf and are in 
> Configuration -> Other -> Mandrake Control Center...
> 
> So far the tool has proven worse than useless.
> 
> Mysteriously the sound is now running, UNLESS you go anywhere near it with the 
> MCC. The control centre still misidentifies it as a CS46xx (still doesn't offer CS42xx as 
> an option) reports that it doesn't exist if you try to configure or probe it and also causes 
> it to stop working until you reboot.
> 
> While poking around I did find a listing for CS42xx in the Config file although it was 
> listed as "CS4232=m" instead of the expected "=y". Under other circumstances I may 
> simply have changed it, but there is a warning at the top of the file not to edit it directly. 
> Still, promising that it at least gets a listing in what appears to be a Mandrake 
> generated config file.
> 
> Install and run "sndconfig" and it apparently works fine, even played a CD, but let the 
> Mandrake Control Centre take a look at it and that's the last you'll hear from it this 
> session. Something is obviously still screwy but it seems to work just so long aas you 
> don't try to figure out how.

Yes, I had that. It seems to require a restart of X to get the sound back.

> 
> A lot of software still seems unduly quiet, but without really knowing what it is 
> supposed to sound like it is hard to tell. CD works, KDE intro and environment sounds 
> seem to be okay, WAV playback from a DOS partition works. Not so much as a peep 
> out of any of the tested games yet (which seems strange).

I had some luck with the very ugly hack of "chmod a+w /dev/sound/* ", or 
trying the relevant game as root. I can't now remember what I did 
though. This is almost certainly not The Right Way :-)




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