Re: [Vectorlinux-devel] Alpha 1.11

[Paul M. <pa...@wa...>]

Hi Robert.

Commenting out the cdrom entry in /etc/fstab fixes the mount problem ( 
:) I usually do that with 6.0 Standard as well, but haven't seen it 
break HAL before).

The Open Office problem is 100% consistent here. Open writer, select 
Tools > Extension Manager. When the box comes up, select add. Instead of 
getting a file pick dialog, Open Office freezes. Looking through the 
process list, kdefilepicker is listed as a zombie. The only way out it 
to kill the ooo process.

I suspect I'm still running in KDE safe mode (have to check next time I 
start), so I still need to identify what caused the problem with KDE 
startup. I'm wondering if it may have been my attempt to enable visual 
effects (I still don't understand why they're being disabled - they 
normally work with Intel GPUs).

Another problem (which may simply be KDE stupidity) - I can only set 
performance or power save as profiles. I normally run ondemand for CPU 
throttling, but there doesn't seem to be any option to do so in SOHO.

I've also still got to check the help problems I was seeing in the 
earlier alpha.

paul.

Robert Lange wrote:
> Paul............
> 
> try commenting out the cdrom section of your fstab.........seems we are keeping hal from doing its job there. I can't recreate the openoffice problem neither can uel........anyone  else having openoffice issues with this install???
> let us know ..............thanks
> M0E..........
> looks like all thats required for cdrom bug is to comment out the cdrom reference in fstab since it conflicts with hal.
> 
> Cheers,
> Robert
> 
> Robert Lange
> vec...@ya...
> http://www.vectorlinux.com
> 
> 
> --- On Sun, 8/16/09, paul marwick <pa...@wa...> wrote:
> 
>> From: paul marwick <pa...@wa...>
>> Subject: [Vectorlinux-devel] Alpha 1.11
>> To: vec...@li...
>> Received: Sunday, August 16, 2009, 6:44 PM
>> 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 :(
>>