Hello all, Well, this is my take on RH 8.0. Over the week end I tried to help a friend installing RH. The person never used linux before (only Mac and Win), and so I thought RH 8.0 would be perfect. it's also my first time installing RH 8.0.
The installation went fine and really smooth. Then after that, when I want to put some final touches, problem started appearing: XFree86: I use Matrox G200 8MB as the video card. It can do 1024 x 768, 16 bit without a problem. When I tried to switch using redhat-config-xfree86 to 1152 x 962(?), 16 bit, the screen flickered. The config gui show I can only do 1280 x 1024 with 256 color. ..interesting.... Mozilla: 1. I can't get plugger to work with mozilla. I tried everything I knew, read the website instruction, etc,etc. (http://fredrik.hubbe.net/plugger.html). Opening "About Plugins" from Mozilla display only "Plugger".. then the rest of the screen is blank, although I have Flash and SVG pluggins working 2. As someone else has mentioned, I can't get java plugins to work either. Abiword and Gnumeric: 1. All texts in abiword and gnumeric looks really screw up. It also looks as if there is a space between each letter (although there isn't), something like this: a b c d e Original font list in abiword does not even have Times font. 2. Upgrade Abiword manually doesn't solve the problem. I didn't bother to try to fix gnumeric. MP3 and MPEG 1. Since there is no MPEG movie player, I installed mplayer. KDE uses artsd to play sound, thus when I run mplayer, it complained sound device /dev/dsp is busy. Of course, when I tried "/sbin/fuser /dev/dsp" it showed the pid of artsd. never have this problem with plaympeg and mpg123 PDF Reader: 1. Acroread from Adobe failed to start. It says something about not being able to use UTF bla..bla..bla encoding. At that point, I just gave up. I had spent about half a day trying to get things set up and running, and those annoying little things made me think maybe I should just use RH 7.3 since I have more experience with it. So I scrapped the whole system and installed RH 7.3, and got everything set up to the way I want it in less than 2 hours (excluding the installation time). My purpose was to set up the system for new linux user, so I needed those little things (mozilla plugins, acrobat reader, abiword, gnumeric, etc) set up and easily accessible without much fiddling around with things. So my conclusion is: for the things that Redhat has set it up for me, eg. OpenOffice, evolution, and the desktop (bluecurve menu, etc), it works fine. But when I start adding things, it's hard to get it working since probably RH has tweaked a lot of stuff their way. Hope this helps anyone who's trying to decide whether to do an upgrade or not :) Reuben D. Budiardja -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
