Re: [Vectorlinux-devel] New SOHO ISO's

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

uel archuletta wrote:
> ftp://vectorlinux.osuosl.org/pub/vectorlinux/Uelsk8s/test/VL6.0-SOHO-A1.40txz.iso 
>
> ftp://vectorlinux.osuosl.org/pub/vectorlinux/Uelsk8s/test/VL6.0-SOHO-A1.34-CD2.iso 
>
> are up!
>
> new installer
> new grub
> nv driver in initrd - needs tested - this does not work on my Macpro
> mc in initrd - needs testing - let us know how it handles txz packages 
> and other functions
>

Install was very good. The only minor glitch I hit was at the ncurses 
resolution selection stage - the bottom of the box was overwritten by 
the load message for the trackpoint. Other than that, the install went 
without a hitch.

MC seemed to work fine with the txz packages. Is there a package for 
4.7.0pre3 available? I'd like to test using shell link, which I use a 
lot, and which has been broken in the recent svn versions I've tried. I 
notice that once installed, MC reverts to 4.6.2Pre1, not the version 
available during the install.

All the X eye-candy works for me with this alpha - first time it has. 
I've got wobbly windows, workspaces on a cube, all very smart! The only 
thing I did have a bit of a problem with was playing films - I was 
getting some stuttering and odd speedups in places. May just be the 
Intel driver - it hasn't been good in recent versions of Xorg. I also 
found that after maximising the movie player (Dragon?), I lost all the 
window controls and ended up with X becoming unresponsive - had to use 
CTRL-ALT-BackSpace to kill X and restart it.

I had to fiddle with mixer controls to get sound, but I've had to do 
that with most distros installed on the T61 - it looks as though the 
Alsa drivers for Intel HDA are not all there yet. Once I'd configured 
the switches (for some reason, speaker is never ticked), selected 
speaker, then unmuted the speaker option, sound works.

I noticed that the Vcpufreq selection in VasmCC does nothing. I've also 
not tested Grub - I have a Grub legacy install that I use, so I skipped 
the boot loader and manually added the SOHO alpha to my /boot/grub/menu.lst.

Other than that, looks very good indeed. I could almost grow to like KDE 
4...

paul.