Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on May 10, 2007 02:05 PM
Mandriva 2007 spring is great. It's much better than 2007 version. (I am talking about powerpack) But there are some limitations and things that need workarounds. 1. Couldn't get ndiswrapper to work on 64 bit turion notebook (but it detected my atheros card without having to use mad wifi from source code like in Mandriva 2007 so no need to use ndiswrapper for me) 2. Wifi doesn't work after resume from suspend to disk or ram. Have to use modprobe -r ath_pci with root permission then the wifi would work. So I created a shortcut on the kde desktop to do this using root user. So every time I resume, I just click this and it would ask for root password and then I can reconnect. This is fine for me. 3. Couldn't get any 3D desk top to work properly with my ATI card. It's very very slow even with 128 MB allocated to the VGA. Will get support from Mandriva on this.
But overall, this is the best Linux distro I've ever used. 5 stars for Mandriva.<nobr> <wbr></nobr>:-)
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on May 10, 2007 02:05 PMBut there are some limitations and things that need workarounds.
1. Couldn't get ndiswrapper to work on 64 bit turion notebook (but it detected my atheros card without having to use mad wifi from source code like in Mandriva 2007 so no need to use ndiswrapper for me)
2. Wifi doesn't work after resume from suspend to disk or ram. Have to use modprobe -r ath_pci with root permission then the wifi would work. So I created a shortcut on the kde desktop to do this using root user. So every time I resume, I just click this and it would ask for root password and then I can reconnect. This is fine for me.
3. Couldn't get any 3D desk top to work properly with my ATI card. It's very very slow even with 128 MB allocated to the VGA. Will get support from Mandriva on this.
But overall, this is the best Linux distro I've ever used. 5 stars for Mandriva.<nobr> <wbr></nobr>:-)
-Neranjana
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