Experiences with severn test3

[Bill Nottingham]

Müller Miklós (mmuller at lbcons.net) said: 
> 2. Rebooting after installation the graphical boot screen was
> hanging too long at "Detecting new hardware" so I switched to
> detailed mode, and saw Kudzu waiting for user interaction. I
> was lucky that kudzu did not time out yet, I still had a few
> seconds to enter in kudzu. Now kudzu told me that my pcmcia
> ehternet/serial combo was removed which was absolutely not the
> case! I decided to keep the configuration. After this small
> intermezzo, everything went well, kudzu did not complain about
> my pcmcia card at subsequent reboots. I think that:
> 
> a) kudzu behaviour should be fixed regarding pcmcia devices.

Yup, it's in bugzilla.

> b) the graphical boot is nice, but it should somehow recognize
> if the console is waiting for user interaction such as kudzu
> and switch to detailed mode otherwise users might miss something
> important at boot.

There are some *really* dirty hacks to enable this coming up. :)
(the long term answer is just a GUI configuration program)

> 3. Logging in first I am missing all the Openoffice.org
> icons. The openoffice.org rpms are all installed.  (I installed
> with the Workstation options, without customizing the software
> selection at all). Do I have to configure something to have
> those icons back on my taskbar?

Nope, it's a bug in the new OpenOffice packages. Also already
in bugzilla.

Bill