[plug] Possible faults in Mandriver 2006

[Michael Collard]

AFAIK, i686 = Pentium II or higher

On Fri, 2005-11-18 at 11:29 -0800, John and Susan Foster wrote:
> I have this month installed Mandriver 2006 (4 CD's).
>  
> Things that worked on Mandrake 10.1 do not work.
> Faults identified to date are:
> 1    Kmail will not send or receive;
> 2    There is apparently a fault in the mouse pointer in some menus on
> the screen;
> 3    The upgrade package manager does not work properly.
>  
> Somewhere in trying to get something going, while in terminal command
> mode, I got a message to say that I had release 2006 (official) for
> i586 and Kernal 2.6.12-12mdk on an i686/tty1.
>  
> If the kernal works only on an i686, then the problem could be down to
> my pentium which is an Intell Pentium III (coppermine) Family 6
> stepping 3 etc.
>  
> I checked the relevant web site published by Mandriver.
> They say release 2006 is Ok for Pentiums but not for 486, 386 etc.
> They expressly mention Pentum 4, 5 etc. But not Pentium 1, 2 or 3
> (mine). So I find this a bit ambiguous if not confusing.
>  
> Does anybody know about these things?
>  
> PS 
> Incidentally, I tried initially to upgrade to Mandriver 2006 from
> Mandrake 10.1. This had even more problems than my installation. 
>  
> Thanks
> John Foster
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