First and foremost I love this distro. The font rendering is awesome, and the sound was configured out of the box. Totem works flawlessly for multimedia and all I had to do was download libdvdcss to enable Dvd playback.

There are a few annoying bugs however any help would be greatly appreciated.

First of all it seems when ever I use the Mandrake control center to upgrade software (bug fixes and security updates) something breaks. For instance I updated the first two or three items (one of them being drakconf or something) and when I logged out and logged back in I lost 90% of the icons I had placed on the taskbar. Not only that when I clicked on the remaining icons it said this application is no longer available (something similar to that anyway). What gives?? I had to re-boot with the install disk in and tell the install program to update my system and then when I re-booted again my icons were all still missing but the ones remaining in the task bar worked.

The second issue is sound, I always lose sound for no reason at some point during a sesssion. When I re-boot I have sound again. This may have something to do with the fact that I have on-board sound and a seperate sound card, both are recognized but I don't know how to tell Mandrake which one to use as default. It is currently using the on-board sound as default. The driver is right because the sound works, but I consistently lose sound at some point during my session.

Any help would be appreciated

I've never had a problem with 9.2 update. It could be the mirror you are using. Open Mandrake Control Center and go to the Software sources setting and remove the update.source. The next time you run update it will ask you to select a mirror and you can try a different one.

As for the sound I would try either:

1. Disable integrated sound through BIOS.
2. Remove the additional sound card.
3. Move the sound card to another slot.
4. Check for IRQ conflict.

If you set up the media sources (goto plf.zarb.org, easy urpmi setup), then goto control panel, update software, Mandrake update, under bug fixes there is a KDE related fix for the menu problem (I feel your pain). The quick fix is just to create another user account, the menu data is intact, just that user account (that you used when doing the updates the first time) is hosed. I don't know whether the bug fix will fix the other account or not, but it didn't happen to my other systems once I had the fix in place.

Hi
try menues-update on the CLI

Cheers

Try it but don't be upset if it doesn't work. Many have reported that it does not. I can't vouch either way. But jolly good if it works for you!

I have the same problem either, but only with the desktop icons.

Mandrake sacrifices certain things such as stability in order to have the newest stuff. i think it's worth it though.