Re: [Vectorlinux-devel] VL6.0 Light LIVE goes final.

[Newt <gen...@gm...>]

Hello All,

Just tested booting soho117alpha using new option and it worked perfectly - very
nice!

All boot options work over here in VM testing along with most menu options. I did
not run through them all again, but they were working before and of the ones I
tried again they worked. I have never tested the vlinstall, vlusb, vlmakiso, etc
options so I cannot confirm that they ever worked. I'll try to give this a shot
tonight in a virtual machine.

Probe, autoprobe, and alternative autoprobe all provide scroll mouse functionality
without any additional work on my part.

Fantastic LIVE distro! Thanks to all involved for the hard work!!



Just some general ideas and thoughts below:

I wonder if the 'autoprobe' option would make the better default option (i.e. the
first listed) followed by the 'vesa' option. I like the idea of users having
scroll mouse functionality working without any additional effort. Also, I know I'm
kind of unique in this aspect, but 'vesa' does not work with my Abit Siluro Nvidia
Geforce FX5200 and the 'autoprobe' selects a working driver plus give me scroll
wheel functionality.

A few more seconds on the boot menu would be nice. Unless I'm reading really fast
I can only get down to the third or fourth option before the time runs out. I know
it's about finding a nice balance and 20 is probably too much but even 3-5 more
seconds would help. At least it would give the user time to realize that their
time is running out and to make a choice quickly.

VGA=791 and VGA=normal boot options boot to TUI login, but nowhere is it mentioned
what users actually exist on the system. Granted, everyone should expect 'root' to
exist and it works but user 'vl' in not mentioned anywhere and since it's not an
intuitive username I feel like it should be mentioned somewhere; perhaps above the
password. Logging in as root and starting X brings up a red-background desktop
which is to be expected, but having the user login as 'vl' and then starting X
would provide a more desirable experience with the pretty background.



Cheers, newt