On Monday 30 April 2001 07:07 pm, you wrote:
> patrick wrote:
> > has anybody tried out the new Mandrake 8. yet.
> > i've got it and its the only game in town.
>
> I downloaded it last week and have it installed on a 450 MHz AMD K6-2 .
> It is the first Linux version to work with my onboard Audio. It also
> works pretty well with the onboard video. I am disappointed in the
> fact that I haven't been able to mount a floppy device though and
> mounting of a CD-ROM is flaky at best. I had tried Mandrake 8.0 beta 1
> and I had no problem with Floppy or CD-ROM mounts, (Beta 1 had plenty
> other bugs though). Mandrake uses supermount to auto mount the Floppy
> and CD-ROM. Strange thing is that the mandrake RPM management tool
> mounts the CD-ROM but I can't mount it as a user or as root. I've
> checked the all the /dev/* file privileges and added myself and root to
> the Floppy and CD-ROM groups. No luck and documentation on supermount
> and Mandrake security is pretty sparse.
>
> I can't say that it is the only game in town if basic functions that
> worked on earlier releases no longer work, even if they have added a
> pretty install and new functionality.
i dont any of the problem u are talking about but if there
are fixes to be made they will make them. i think anti alising
is awesome. i think the distro is the best just for this. have
u checked out the mandrake control panel. ?
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>
>
> --
> Mike Richards
> mrichard@tampabay.rr.com
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