-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hey all... I couldn't wait for my copy of 9.1 to get here, and I'm out of school* for only this week, I downloaded the version that is floating on the a.b.x.i.l, and installed it on my laptop. It is a one year old Gateway 600XL w/ 2.5ghz Pentium, 512meg of ram, 60gig Harddrive, Lucient (Orinoco) wireless card, built in ethernet 10/100, 17in LCD monitor, synaptic touchpad, and a usb mouse. I want to say up front that the items below are not to be taken in a negative way. I love 9.1. It is faster, snappier and overall the greatest thing I've seen. I can't wait for the boxes. 1. The first time I did the install i had the 60g partioned into 5g for /home, 47g for / and 2.5g for swap. 9.0 was installed with just about every upgrade that i could find. On my laptop I like to be just shy of bleeding edge when I can. My desktop has to have only stable stuff. So I get to play on the laptop. The install went pretty good. The new graphic of the lizard is kinda luminescence. Since I didn't want to delete my /home dir, when I selected the packages, I came up with about 75 conflicts. To make a long story short, I screwed something up and ended up doing a complete wipe and starting over (saved the data). So with a brand new install I have the following thoughts. please remember that I am pretty new to linux, and these may be my screw ups. Inspecting /boot/System.map-2.6.4-54.3-default Loaded 23440 symbols from /boot/System.map-2.6.4-54.3-default. Symbols match kernel version 2.6.4. No module symbols loaded - kernel modules not enabled. 1. During the boot process the new pci scan gives astericks(*) and W's for the scan. On the same line I get an 'inserting hw_random' error. Says the module hw_random.ko isn't in the directory (forgot to write which one down, something w/ /char/). I looked at the text file that came with 9.1 and it said to DL the newest rng-tools (1.1 I think). installed it. Didn't make any difference, still have the same error. Doesn't seem to matter though. Master Resource Control: previous runlevel: N, switching to runlevel: 5 <notice>start services (random isdn hotplug) Initializing random number generator done Hotplug is already active (disable with NOHOTPLUG=1 at the boot prompt)done <notice>exit status of (random isdn hotplug) is (0 0 0) <notice>start services (coldplug) coldplughwup: Loading module 'orinoco_cs' for device 'static-0' ~ scanning input: done ~ scanning pci: ******..WW**modprobe: FATAL: Error inserting hw_random (/lib/modules/2.6.4-54.3-default/kernel/drivers/char/hw_random.ko): No such device W***done 2. As can be seen above it loads my wireless card as 'static-0' but it is called wlan-bus-pcmcia in network setup. The next funny thing is when I try to find out the ip address, the eth1 was the only device that showed up w/ an IP address (eth0 is disabled, more on that in #3), but no listing for static-0 or wlan. Guess it doesn't matter as my internet connection is up and running through the router (I have some questions on that, that I ask in another email). 3. I tried to enable bothe the wired eth0 and the wireless with DHCP, but as under 9.0 I couldn't make it work. ** Not that i've tried very hard. I just create 3 profiles (Home-wireless, School-wireless, work-wired) 4. Hmmm ACPI. This gave a scare. When I first booted I was doing some looking around when I noticed that my cpu fan seemed to running on overdrive. I loaded a superkaramba theme (One of my favorite programs) and it said the cpu was at 100%. I called up a konsole and ran 'top'. powersaved was using abot 80% of the cpu. i let run for a minute or two with no change. I disabled the program (renamed it) and restarted the system. Everything ran fine. I then did an 'Online Update' (quick note, Yast menus have changed position on my system, and a couple of new entries). Nothing to do with ACPI was listed. I renabled 'powersaved' and since then it has run fine, although intermitenly the screen goes blank for a split second. Almost as if the power saver was shutting it off, while on AC. The main battery died, so I haven't been brave enough to test the 'close screen' options, or any others yet. <6>ACPI: RSDT (v001 GATEWA 600YG2 0x20030129 LTP 0x00000000) @ x1fef8198 <6>ACPI: FADT (v001 GATEWA 600YG2 0x20030129 PTL 0x0000001e) @ 0x1fefef64 <6>ACPI: BOOT (v001 GATEWA 600YG2 0x20030129 LTP 0x00000001) @ 0x1fefefd8 <6>ACPI: DSDT (v001 GATEWA 600YG2 0x20030129 MSFT 0x0100000e) @ 0x00000000 <6>ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x1008 <6>ACPI: local apic disabled 4. When I ran sensors I didn't get any mention of the cpu temps, so I'll keep playing with this. <6>CPU#0: Thermal monitoring enabled 5. Synaptic: I use this to keep my systems up to date (I admit, I'm lazy). The repositories know that my system is 9.1 and not 9.0, as just about everything I have installed shows up under 'locally installed or obsolete' and has nothing for me to update. 6. When shutting down I get 'Fatal Error: ds module, pcmcia, hermes, and Orinoco modules still in use'. Not sure what this means (told you I was a newcomer), but the system still shuts down fine. Last two nitpicking items (wheeeeeew) On the login screen, ya know that dumb little picture next to the log-in name? Well, I changed it in KDE, but for some reason the bug p[icture keeps coming up no matter what else I've picked. I'm sure it's just a simple little thing I have to delet in .kde or something. It's way down my list of things to play with. The last thing is Kmenu (KDE 3.2.X). It grew like 300% in size. Nothing I've done there has changed the size, resizing icons, panels, or anything else in control panel seems to affect it. Hmmmm.. Probably something I overlooked.... As I said above, I eagerly looked forward to getting this release, and I was fully rewarded.This is the greatest thing since sliced bread!!!!!! I love it!!! *(Old fart who went back to college) - -- Adolph & Sharon Weidanz '78 43' Endeavour Ketch S/V Time To Paws -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAmEz2lC+PSm9+eB0RAiYHAJ4waJTuMDXVvWzlDdstpxbv7KsVuQCfTwYn K0OV4S/8nRvT5VogXlMJytw= =6OLO -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----