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Friday, April 20, 2001

Arrrghhh -- 11:50 am CST, Update by A.T. Hun

I've been extremely frustrated trying to get Red Hat 7.1 to run properly. Here's a list of problems I've had:

It didn't install Linuxconf automatically. Why?
It refuses to run any root programs in X after I enter the root password. They just barf.
It didn't install PCMCIA services even though it detected my PCMCIA wireless card at installation.
I can't get it to access the Internet at all. I have no idea why. I've quadruple-checked all my settings (mind you, I got this working in Red Hat 6.2 and Mandrake 7.1).

I'm going to keep working at it, but right now I'm very frustrated, especially considering how much time I put into downloading this. There are some cool new features, but right now they are being drowned out in the noise of everything else that's going wrong.

UPDATE! OK, there was a bit of PEBKAC involved. With the help of Crawl we fished through all my settings until I found the problem. Networking is now working. For some reason, running root programs fixed itself. Too weird.

UPDATE #2! I got the NVIDIA driver installed, although I had to use the source RPM instead of the one that was for RH 7.1. Not sure if there is a kernel difference between 7.1 beta and 7.1 final that causes the problem. Now I can't get Quake III to run full-screen. I'll figure that one out later.

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