cage47
01-03-2003, 08:41 PM
Ever since I picked up my other cdrw I've only Had Mandrake loaded on my machine. I haven't had Debian loaded back in. (Thought setting up the burner would be hard) So I gave it a second shot today. Well in Mandy I figured how to setup the cdrw, not hard at all. And today loaded Debian. Well the cdrw was not setup at install but using mandy's setup I got it going in two tries. ANd makes copies easier. I can work without supermount. But still haven't gotten kppp to work for user. (Gotta check on that) But the big bugger with my system was setting up the sound. I could get it to work but it wouldn't initialize until after the first login. Tehn subsequent logins it had sound, just not the first login. And in my module.conf file under alias slot-sound-0 es1371 there were two more lines regarding awemix settings. These weren't in mandy. Now I WAS using sndconfig to setup the sound. But after doing some digging realized all I had to do was add the alias line to the aliases file in the modutils dir. Bingo, my old nemsis the sound lag was fixed. Now I'm one step closer to keeping Debian as my main system.
Personally I like Mandy 8.2 but it runs a little slow (A lot compared to Debian) And there's lots that is loaded I don't need. And I'm not thrilled with Mandrakesoft's finanical woes coming back so soon. I also have always had an irking about the non-standard way Mandrake installs software. I've always wanted something more smooth and wanted Debian but sound was a show stopper. Now just have to get the printer configured again and look into that KPPP deal. Think it's just permissions. So we'll see. I've always prefered the wealth of packages inclued with Debian and the speed. I actually like the installer and dselect. But the jury is still out on the debconf stuff. But all it took was stepping back for a few weeks and trying it fresh.
Personally I like Mandy 8.2 but it runs a little slow (A lot compared to Debian) And there's lots that is loaded I don't need. And I'm not thrilled with Mandrakesoft's finanical woes coming back so soon. I also have always had an irking about the non-standard way Mandrake installs software. I've always wanted something more smooth and wanted Debian but sound was a show stopper. Now just have to get the printer configured again and look into that KPPP deal. Think it's just permissions. So we'll see. I've always prefered the wealth of packages inclued with Debian and the speed. I actually like the installer and dselect. But the jury is still out on the debconf stuff. But all it took was stepping back for a few weeks and trying it fresh.