x86_64 dvd on a laptop (i3, 4Gb RAM, Atheros wifi, nvidia graphics), DE selection: KDE
Only few things, minor and major: - [minor] in first screens (ncurses) before the graphic installer the lines are displayed as special characters, probably a charset issue (has been reported by other) - [minor] a translation of the ads during package installation according to the language selection would be a "nice to have" - [minor] bootloader setup does not recognize Ubuntu already present on the same harddisk (Mageia 1 grub recognized it) - [major] setting up wifi during installation (from the summary screen) recognizes the atheros chip and available networks but does not start the connection - long standing error, see https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1452 - [major] caused by the previous bug no updates are possible during installation After reboot: - at first reboot system hangs after "Starting cpufre1 (via systemctl): [ok]" - as there is no tty12 available (or any other) I can not tell which task is stopping the process. Have to restart the machine with Ctrl+Alt+Del! At second try the startup process went through to kdm without failure. All reboots after this worked ok. - [minor] selecting the Activity Manager display shows no background graphic nor picture, just a black background - can be changed easily but should be avoided. - [success] after reboot wifi is available, sound working, major apps working - [success] device manager recognizes USB keys & harddisk, data dvd, music cd, etc. - [success] using data dvd and windows 7 partitions via dolphin (and MC) works out-of-the-box Remark: After setting up package media the known bug with rpmdrake set in. After erasing the lock files (2 of them) and the old __db files AND rebuilding the rpm database AND updating rpmdrake (via urpmi) the error is gone and rpmdrake is working ok - known bug, fixed by rpmdrake update. Remark 2: During installation the free nouveau graphic driver is installed and works ok. After setting up package media (including non-free and tainted) the installation of the proprietary nvidia driver fails. Details: - I open MCC -> Hardware -> Configure graphics server and click on the graphic card (selection is correct), then on OK. Normally there should be a message box telling me that there is a proprietary driver available. This message box is not displayed, the process ends as if everything is ok. - started from a konsole window (XFdrake) the error message reads: "The program 'XFdrake' received an X Window System error. This probably reflects a bug in the program. The error was: 'BadWIndow'. (Details: serial 21486 error_code 3 request _code 153 minor_code 3)" - Now I go to tty2, login and open XFdrake on the CLI. This time the message about the proprietary driver is shown and the usual procedure (installing devel and dkms packages, building the module) works as expected. After reboot the nvidia splash comes up and the performance matches the proprietary driver.
