[Vectorlinux-devel] Alpha 1.11

[paul m. <pa...@wa...>]

Downloaded and installed. A few problems....

Install. Nothing major, though the installer is still sluggish compared to 
most others (such as Fedora 11). I've got the X res set to 1280x800 for the 
T61's widescreen display.

Doing a selective install, when the installer gets to the 'Additional 
included software;, the screen width is a bit excessive - I'm getting 'ye' 
at the end of the line, not 'yes'. Other than that minor problem, installer 
is fine.

Once the system is installed. Open office (I presume the same build I'm 
running under 6.0 standard) goes unresponsive if I attempt to use the 
extension manager. Looking at the process list, a number of items are 
listed as zombie when this happens. I have to kill open office to close it. 
Same version is working fine on 6.0 standard.

First user id is set to 1001? Seems strange....

Attempts to mount a CD fail every time. I get the notification, but when I 
select open in file manager, nothing happens. Clicking on the CD icon then 
gets me this error message:

'An error occured while accesing 'Zenwalk_Linuc_6.2_CD'. The system 
responds: mount can't find /dev/hda in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab'. I've tried 
with both VL-hot and HAL (which would be my normal choice - same error both 
times.

I didn't install Lilo or Grub - have an existing Grub install on the 
machine, so the first time I rebooted, I did it from the Grub command line. 
I then added the necessary entries to my existing menu.lst. These include 
setting the framebuffer mode to the correct one for the 1280x800 
widescreen.

On reboot, the initial KDM screen came up fine, but when I logged in, I got 
a few flashes, followed by a blank gray screen with nothing other than a 
mouse pointer visible. Can't see anything wrong, but the only way I could 
get KDE to restart was to use the failsafe start option.

Screen effects don't work. They should do - they do under both OpenSUSE and 
Fedora, but are disabled under SOHO.

More later - I have to go do some real work :(

paul.