Redhat 7.2 is really easy to set up!

[Jomboni]

I had a little difficulty getting online, but it turns out it was just a little typo on my part... oops! Anyway, I'm on now. I've gotten everything working that I've wanted to so far.

xawtv - worked right away. I'm trying to figure it out, the channel settings are kind of freaky, but once I get the hang of it it'll be cool. The picture is better than in Windows.

Mozilla - has something I've never seen in a Linux browser - if you don't have a plugin you need to view a page, it will download it for you and set it up automatically! It doesn't crash every 10 seconds like Netscape 6.1 did when I was running RH 7.1

KDE - pretty cool, but I'm sticking with Gnome, I'll check out some other windowmanagers in a few days.

I haven't tried playing DVDs or setting up my mousewheel yet, so I don't know how hard or easy this will be, I guess I'll find out tomorrow.

My one complaint, and it's not Redhat's fault - I have a GeForce 2, and Nvidia doesn't have RH 7.2 drivers just yet (it did just come out.... I tried the 7.1 drivers and they didn't work because they seem to be kernel specific? Hopefully Nvidia will get cracking and release a new driver soon!

[Eroberer]

So how are you running X without the GeForce drivers? XFree doesn't work for me, but I have a GeForce2 Go card, so it's slightly understandable.

[Jomboni]

From what I can tell it has Geforce 2 drivers (included on the installation cd) but only for 2d, not 3d capabilities. If I want to play any 3d games or stuff like that I have to wait for the new Nvidia drivers.

[PimpHolic]

i guess a stupid question:
is red hat 7.2 beta? cause i just and i mean just downloaded 7.1 :o

[Eroberer]

Nope, full version. :p

Did you maybe have a slow connection, and it took 24 hours to dl 7.1?

[slacker_x]

Originally posted by Jomboni:
<STRONG>From what I can tell it has Geforce 2 drivers (included on the installation cd) but only for 2d, not 3d capabilities. If I want to play any 3d games or stuff like that I have to wait for the new Nvidia drivers.</STRONG>
the "nv" driver is the 2d one which is open source.
the "nvidia" driver is the 3d version which is not open source.

[subnet_rx]

the Nvidia kernel src and glx drivers at the top are the ones to go with. they will work with any kernel you have in 7.2 You can rebuild them to fit any version of Red Hat you have.

Just follow the easy instructions on the site. I already have them installed on 7.2 and am running Wolfenstein nicely.

And 7.2 comes with XFree86 4.1.0, which supports up to GeForce 3 I think. It found and configured my GeForce 2 MX easily.

[ 23 October 2001: Message edited by: subnet_rx ]

[PimpHolic]

no i have dsl its just that i gotta re-download the files again and its just..an annoyance :)
oh well...back to downloading i go

[PimpHolic]

can anyone post a ftp with 7.2 on it? all the ftp's i have checked have 7.1
tahinks in advance

[subnet_rx]

try redhat.com

[lilrabbit129]

The d/l are going so slow! The fastest i can find is 11/sec... and that's with my t1!

i think i've been spoiled. I used to be able to d/l the entire iso in 30 mins...

[Big_daddy]

http://freshrpms.net/misc/enigma.html

All 7.2...all the time

[Eroberer]

This was posted in another thread:
http://www.lwn.net/daily/redhat-7.2.php3

I used the one from Duke University, which cut me off three times, once when I was 15MB from the finish of each file, but I still got them at 250K/S on UNC-CH's connection (a few miles from Duke).

[imfscked]

Have you found there to be any major fundamental feature values ?

I had heard that it was more of a patch kit upgrade ...

Thanks,,

[chadm1967]

PimpHolic,

7.2 is on most of the mirror sites listed on the Red Hat site. They put it in a folder called "linux". I'm not quite sure why they did it that way.......