YDL 4 on Oldworld Mac, additional comments

[Geert Janssens]

After running YDL4 for about a week now on my Oldworld G3, I can comment 
some more on my experience.

I'll focus on what doesn't work correctly, since those are the things 
that catch my eye. The rest "just works".


1. I have noticed Firefox sometimes has stability issues: it randomly 
crashes. This did not happen at all in 3.0x. I haven't been able to 
figure out what triggers it.

2. Although I have alsa working on this machine (see a previous mail), 
KMix doesn't keep it's settings between reboots. Each time the machine 
boots, I first have to open KMix, in the Inputs tab click the red LED to 
enable the input (recording ?) and in the Switches tab, enable the 
Microphone tab. The other settings are kept.

3. KDE's taskbar shows some instability. There are times the open 
windows list is no longer updated. I mean, when I close an app, it's 
name remains in the taskbar, or if I open an extra window, it's not 
shown in the taskbar. This is resolved by removing the taskbar, and 
readding it to the panel. But after some time, it's stuck again. Again, 
I have no idea what triggers this.

4. YDL4's Gnucash (v1.8.9) that incorrectly shows the Net worth and 
Profit in the status bar. Not YDL's fault, it really is a bug in 
GnuCash, which should be resolved in the upcoming 2.8.10 release. I just 
hope YDL will provide an update via YUM.

5. When I change a music CD, KsCD doesn't update the track information. 
I have to click the CDDB button and click Fetch Info to refresh the 
track list.

6. Usually, my screen goes black once after booting when I am working 
for about half an hour. Just moving the mouse restores it. It's not the 
screensaver kicking in, it's really the monitor going into suspend mode. 
It seems as if Xorg's suspend timer is not reset until the screen is 
suspended a first time. After that, the sequence is normal: after some 
time of inactivity, first screensaver, and if still no activity some 
time longer, suspend. But directly after boot (ie about half an hour), 
it does a suspend first.

7. I have the impression that generally the system is less responsive 
than in 3.0. Maybe X.org is less optimized for old video controllers, or 
KDE has some extra's that slow things down...


There you go, the short summary of my YDL4 experience up till now. I 
welcome all suggestions, counter-experiences, or tips for improvements 
on all of the above.

Cheers,

Geert Jan