I did a reinstall today of Psyche on my IBM ThinkPad T23, because I had nothing else to do with the lovely snow storm outside (I live in Maryland). After the install with the default Desktop, and after running up2date, I went crazy with the extras (compliments of freshrpms.net): apt, synaptic, the alsa sound driver, the wlan driver (for my Linksys WPC11), the Java plugin, the Flash plugin, Xine, and Adobe Acrobat Reader. All installed without a hitch. Here are the annoyances at the moment. 1. Running xine with the xv video driver will not work; I have to use xshm. On my previous install, all was fine with xshm, but now, the picture isn't particularly clear (rather jagged, for lack of a better description). The difference is the version of xine (before it was 0.9.13, now it's 0.9.18, I think). Any way to get it to work with xv, or to make it look better with xshm? 2. I can't seem to get the animation to stop when minimizing windows, even when I goto Extras->Preferences->Panel. 3. I've had this annoyance ever since I've had Psyche: on Mozilla, let's say I have two tabs, and one of them has a number of text boxes for input. If I input something in a text box, switch to the other tab to look at something else, switch back to the page with the input boxes, and try to press the <Tab> key to move to the next text box, the page is scrolled down instead. This always happens. 4. I thought I installed alsa correctly, but... If I run xmms (with the mp3 plugin and the alsa plugin) and listen to an mp3 while browsing in Mozilla, eventually the sound gets scratchy, especially if I move the mouse and dragging something around. This didn't happen on my previous install, when I did *not* install alsa. 5. I am now getting the "FAMOpened failed, FAMErrno=0" error when running gedit from the terminal. This error seems harmless. I did a quick search through Google and there was some mention about needing to install the fam package, but I already have that installed. Any other ideas? These annoyances are minor, but it would be nice to fix them. I am very impressed in the ease in installing Psyche and all the extras. I remember when I got a headache trying to install a Linux distro, any distro, and configuring it afterwards. :) If anyone has any ideas on my annoyances, I'd appreciate a response. BP ===== Blaise Pascal pascal256@yahoo.com Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Send Flowers for Valentine's Day http://shopping.yahoo.com -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
