Hi;

I upgraded my hdd install from 4/5/03 to 9/05/03.

I noticed changes, not all for the better.

I uninstalled 9/05/03, did a clean reinstall just to check and then reinstalled 4/5/03.

I have new hardware. I bought my system in March 2003.

4/05/03 detected and configured all of my hardware perfectly without any effort from me.

9/05/03:

- didn't quite get my monitor (multisyncy lcd 1530v ) right. When I hit the
autoconfigure on the monitor the words became blurry and half of my
"screen" shot off to the right horizontally. 4/05/03 worked perfectly
with the autoconfigure.

- 4/05/03 all I had to do to get xine working was to dowload the dvd cracker
libs mentioned in the faq. No fuss, no muss. 9/05/03 set /dev/dvd to
"Knoppix/dev/dvd". It also could not detect my dvd player properly
running dmesg produced all sorts of errors. Trying to start xine made
it and the terminal hang.

- using XMMS to play a cd resulted in XMMS trying to play my radio
card instead. no such problem in 4/05/03.

- icewm 1.2.12 is BUGGY.


I don't want to complain for no reason.

If someone who has the power to change knoppix wants to work with me to figure out this apparent step backwards I will be glad to keep my system as it is for a few days to try to debug things so Knoppix can keep getting better with newer versions.

Thanks in advance

Steve