On Sunday 30 September 2001 10:27 am, Ralph Crongeyer wrote: > 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.
Well, my epson is working fine. I'm using cups, but if you use pdq as your spooler you will have the option of killing a print job immediately. I set it up during one install of the betas and it puts an icon on the desktop when printing to hit if you want to stop it. But I really don't think there is a big problem with cups as this is the first time I didn't have to tweak setting to get descent printing from my epson. Maybe you could rerun printerdrake and re-set it up. Mine did nothing during the install and I too thought printing was still fscked, but I ran printerdrake after install and all is fine. > This is a serious flaw within this distro not to mention that supermount is > not implamented! True, they have been having problems with supermount for a while and thus is disabled by default. However you can enable it yourself and many have reported it works fine. I have enabled mine and it works fine. you know the command right? supermount -i enable > I also have an NVIDIA video card that worked just fine > with 8.0 but the drivers don't compile in 8.1!! I'm using the 1541 straight from nvidia and they were flawlessly. What seems to be your problem? I got the deprecated this and that during compile, but they still work fine. There is also a couple of sites with help for the stubborn systems with driver tweaks and embellishments for 8.1: http://www.mandrakeuser.org/download.php?dcategory=NVIDIA+For+8.1&sortby= http://home.cinci.rr.com/salaneking/ Also, I have found that I have to change the agp default option of 3 to 1 in my /etc/X11/XF86Config-4. Otherwise, my X hangs/freezes during login. This is nvidia's change not mandrake's. I just had to put this: Option "NvAGP" "1" under graphics device section options. > 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! Well, that was uncalled for. :-) However, I have come to realize that each new version mandrake puts out there is an adjustment period. I have to learn how to do things all over again. Such is the price for bleed edge technology. I happen to think it is a GREAT version and worthy of compliment. > I normaly tout this distro but what ever you do DONT PAY A DIME FOR THIS > VERSION!!! Ummm, nope. I have already donated and will probably buy the power pak too. Thank you. > Looking for a new distro to recomend to all customers currently about 4 > offices about ten servers running Mandrake. That's your choice. But I think you need to calm down, start addressing your problems, and ask for help instead of crying all over town about mandrake sux. -s
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