well I can't comment on the printer, except to say "why would mandrake replace a faultless cups, with a flawed one?? it doesn't make sense, are you sure that its not a problem at your end??
as for your Nvidia drivers, I have heard numerous reports that 8.1 works fine with the nvidia drivers... I will reserve judgement till I see it for myself... having said that, if you were happy with 8.1RC1, then why not keep that.. and just update the buggy stuff... rgds Frank -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Ralph Crongeyer Sent: Sunday, 30 September 2001 11:27 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] 8.1, What happend!!! I was excited to download the new Mandrake as this is the OS I use. During the install the only problem I had was with the printer, which was odd because with 8.1 RC1 I had fsantastic results, my EPSON 860 never looked beter with 1400 DPI. When I selected the printer and then set the resolution to 1400 DPI all was fine but the test page hung putting the printer into a state of contenuees motion but nothing being done. I contenued on with the rest of the install with the printer in this state. After the install was complete and while the machine was rebooting I shut off the printer removed the page and reset it. When the machine was booted the print job was resumed and the printer started printing "goblede gook" page after page. I tried to clear the que several different ways, until I had to delete the the files from the spool dir manualy turn off the printer and restart cups. I then uninstalled the cups_drivers and installed the ones from RC1. Had the same problem. I then reinstalled cups and support rpm's from RC1 and still had the same problem. This is a serious flaw within this distro not to mention that supermount is not implamented! I also have an NVIDIA video card that worked just fine with 8.0 but the drivers don't compile in 8.1!! I have used Mandrake since 6.0 and I am extreamly dissapointed with this effort. Sloppy work, they got into to much of a hurry to put this one out. This is a Microsoft thing to do! I normaly tout this distro but what ever you do DONT PAY A DIME FOR THIS VERSION!!! Looking for a new distro to recomend to all customers currently about 4 offices about ten servers running Mandrake. Latter, Ralph __________________________________________________________________ Your favorite stores, helpful shopping tools and great gift ideas. Experience the convenience of buying online with Shop@Netscape! http://shopnow.netscape.com/ Get your own FREE, personal Netscape Mail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com/
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