Thanks for the advice but I am still a high school student.. I have a so
called opimistic future...I am new to linux, I want to improve the hardware
compability list of linux!!!!
>From: Till Kamppeter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>To: Mandrake Development List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: [Cooker] Bugs in 7.1 and some suggestions
>Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 17:35:01 +0200
>
>Hi,
>
>I have installed Mandrake 7.1 on a notebook (Pentium II 366, S3 Virge,
>ESS Solo 1, PCMCIA Modem, and PCMCIA 100MB LAN). I have found/fixed some
>bugs and I also have some suggestions:
>
>1.) /etc/rc.d/rc.modules: BUG: In this file there is a typo. Instead of
>
> initlog -s "Loading module: $modules"
>
>it must read
>
> initlog -s "Loading module: $module"
>
>SUGGESTION: Leave out the 'insmod -p $module >/dev/null 2>&1 && '
>checking, because it leads to problems in the following example. The
>module 'paride' needs 'parport'. Therefore 'modprobe paride' loads
>'parport' automatically. Starting 'paride' with 'insmod' would fail,
>though with 'modprobe' it succeeds. Therefore the mentioned test fails
>and 'paride' is not loaded. The simple 'modprobe' would load it. This
>problem appears for all modules which require another module even if
>'modprobe' would load it automatically.
>
>2.) Netscape and PostScript or PDF files BUG: If I assign 'gv %s' (or
>any other PostScript viewer) with the PostScript Mime Type under
>'Edit'/'Preferences'/'Navigator'/'Applications', I always get a
>GhostScript Interpreter Error and 'gv' shows me
>the correct number of pages but not the contents of the file. Assigning
>'acroread %s' (Both version 3 and 4) to the 'Portable Document Format'
>Mime type leads to the PDF file being loaded, but not shown. 'acroread'
>does not start.
>
>To fix this Bug I have edited /usr/bin/netscape commenting out the
>following lines
>
> if [ -n "$LD_PRELOAD" ]; then
> LD_PRELOAD=$prefix/lib/netscape/libnspipepatch.so:$LD_PRELOAD
> else
> LD_PRELOAD=$prefix/lib/netscape/libnspipepatch.so
> fi
> export LD_PRELOAD
>
>both in the newbrowser() and in the oldopt() function. Now Netscape
>displays PostScript and PDF (via 'gv' and 'acroread') without any
>problems.
>
>3.) The Acrobat Reader Plugin for Netscape does not work in general BUG:
>I have added the lines
>
> export MOZILLA_HOME=/usr/lib/netscape # find plugins
> export
>NPX_PLUGIN_PATH=/usr/local/Acrobat3/Browsers/intellinux:$MOZILLA_HOME/p\lugins:$HOME/.netscape/plugins
># find
> # Acrobat Reader plugin
>
>to the beginning of the /usr/bin/netscape script and Netscape found the
>plugin, but ignored it due to a missing libc5 library. The library is
>/usr/i486-linux-libc5/lib/libc.so.5 and its path is in /etc/ld.so.conf.
>So I set the link
>
> ln -s /usr/i486-linux-libc5/lib/libc.so.5 /lib
> ldconfig
>
>and Netscape crashed with the plugin. After commenting out the lines
>which I inserted in /usr/bin/netscape. Netscape ran, but without
>Acroread plugin.
>
>4. ) Turning off NIS when there is no network SUGGESTION: Sometimes I
>connect my notebook to a LAN where it gets some information by NIS, but
>sometimes I use it without LAN. Then the ypbind daemon starts anyway and
>I get a lot of messages because of a missing NIS server. To avoid these
>error messages I have inserted a check in the /etc/rc.d/init.d/ypbind
>file. I have edited only one line as follows:
>
> ...
> # See how we were called.
> case "$1" in
> start)
> echo -n "Binding to the NIS domain... "
> daemon ypbind
> echo
> # the following fixes problems with the init scripts continuing
> # even when we are really not bound yet to a server, and then
>things
> # that need NIS fail.
> pid=`pidofproc ypbind`
> if [ -n "$pid" ]; then
> echo -n "Listening for an NIS domain server: "
> times=0
> until ypwhich > /dev/null 2>&1 || [ "$times" = "10" ]
> do
> echo -n "." ;
> sleep 1
> times=$[$times+1]
> done
> ###
> ### This line changed:
> ###
> ypwhich || $0 stop ## <-- Turns off NIS if ypwhich fails
> ###
> ###
> fi
> RETVAL=$?
> [ $RETVAL -eq 0 ] && touch /var/lock/subsys/ypbind
>
>;;
> ...
>
>See the line between the '###' lines. Now the NIS daemon will only run
>if there is a NIS server available.
>
>5.) Suggestion: Take PCMCIA network cards into account during the
>network configuration in the installation process.
>
>I hope these hints will make Mandrake better, but all in all it is a
>nice distribution (automatic GL installation, automatically use ALSA for
>ESS SOLO 1 which is much better than the kernel driver for this card,
>syntax highlighting in Emacs ...).
>
> Till
>
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