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From: Robert L. <vec...@ya...> - 2009-08-10 08:56:14
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Lets give these iso's a try I think we are ready for a public release. I encourage all of our internal developers to please try and report any show stoppers before we go public with these. Hopefully all is ok but just to be safe lets go one more time. Just a reminder there is no text installer that is usable we are aiming for a very high success rate on the gui installer. The iso's are here: ftp://ftp-osl.osuosl.org/pub/vectorlinux/Uelsk8s/test/VL6.0-SOHO-A1.9.22.iso ftp://ftp-osl.osuosl.org/pub/vectorlinux/Uelsk8s/test/VL6.0-SOHO-A1.9.22-CD2.iso there are deltas up in the same directory if you have the previous A1.9.21 iso's good hunting! Cheers, Robert Robert Lange vec...@ya... http://www.vectorlinux.com __________________________________________________________________ Make your browsing faster, safer, and easier with the new Internet Explorer® 8. Optimized for Yahoo! Get it Now for Free! at http://downloads.yahoo.com/ca/internetexplorer/ |
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From: M0E L. <m0...@gm...> - 2009-08-10 13:49:37
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Well, I just grabbed this and ran it. Here are my results Custom installation, ignoring CD2 contents on purpose (i'm lazy like that) ;) Installation went flawlessly grub setup was flawless (no other os's on this vm). There is a problem running grub2 on a VM, the boot menu lags for a while... but that's only on VM is it's a grub problem not a VL problem, so we'll leave that alone. root and user passwords are set, and system boots just fine. Again, I have another problem doing this on a VBox VM, but I've had it ever since the first alpha was released. KDE wont start. I see the KDM login, so I put my use name and password and it loads the desktop. Flashes before my eyes for like 5 seconds, and then, it's back to KDM. The only way to get around this that I know of, is to install the VBox Guest additions. Then I get the desktop. Other than that, it's good here. But please, dont believe me... the thing may just know it's me and be on it's best behaviour, so we need some outsiders to test this out. |
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From: Newtor <gen...@gm...> - 2009-08-10 23:28:02
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Hello, Here are some notes during an install with 1.23 (installer revision 705): >> FATAL (major): >> After installing system and user reaches "System Bootload Config": 'back' >> button is enabled but causes a FATAL error: [20] Bad Argument. fmain.?.0 >> >> Earlier on (minor): >> Gparted offers reiser4 but fails to create partitions. I feel like it should >> either not be an option or the user should be warned that it will fail if they >> try. I have a feeling that many folks will attempt to use this filesystem >> because it's been such a hot topic lately. >> >> When unselecting X11 package the warning message still says 'conponent' >> (spelling) towards the end of the message. >> >> Missing some packages on 2nd package selection screen. I don't remember them >> all but there was about 6 and now there's only 1 (gutenprint). There used to be hplips, plus others. >> >> Suggestions (random thoughts): >> -Perhaps there should be an option in the JWM menu to start the >> installer if the user quits it, or encounters a fatal error and it crashes. Maybe, maybe not. >> -Since we often times recommend to user to use the CD to reinstall >> lilo, I wonder if there should be some sort of lilo installation routine that a user could access in case needed. I'm going to do the installation again avoiding the FATAL error so I can complete it this time :D Cheers, newt -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Monday, August 10, 2009, 2:56:04 AM, you wrote: RL> Lets give these iso's a try I think we are ready for a public release. I RL> encourage all of our internal developers to please try and report any show RL> stoppers before we go public with these. Hopefully all is ok but just to be RL> safe lets go one more time. Just a reminder there is no text installer that is RL> usable we are aiming for a very high success rate on the gui installer. RL> The iso's are here: RL> ftp://ftp-osl.osuosl.org/pub/vectorlinux/Uelsk8s/test/VL6.0-SOHO-A1.9.22.iso RL> ftp://ftp-osl.osuosl.org/pub/vectorlinux/Uelsk8s/test/VL6.0-SOHO-A1.9.22-CD2.iso RL> there are deltas up in the same directory if you have the previous A1.9.21 iso's RL> good hunting! RL> Cheers, RL> Robert RL> Robert Lange RL> vec...@ya... RL> http://www.vectorlinux.com RL> __________________________________________________________________ RL> Make your browsing faster, safer, and easier with the new Internet Explorer® RL> 8. Optimized for Yahoo! Get it Now for Free! at RL> http://downloads.yahoo.com/ca/internetexplorer/ RL> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ RL> Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day RL> trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on RL> what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with RL> Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july RL> _______________________________________________ RL> Vectorlinux-devel mailing list RL> Vec...@li... RL> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vectorlinux-devel |
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From: Newtor <gen...@gm...> - 2009-08-11 05:38:42
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Hello, 2 things: -Gslapt would not start (console mentioned directory missing or similar) -Could not find VasmCC - perhaps "by design"? (could only find vasm, not vasmCC) Cheers, newt -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Monday, August 10, 2009, 2:56:04 AM, you wrote: RL> Lets give these iso's a try I think we are ready for a public release. I RL> encourage all of our internal developers to please try and report any show RL> stoppers before we go public with these. Hopefully all is ok but just to be RL> safe lets go one more time. Just a reminder there is no text installer that is RL> usable we are aiming for a very high success rate on the gui installer. RL> The iso's are here: RL> ftp://ftp-osl.osuosl.org/pub/vectorlinux/Uelsk8s/test/VL6.0-SOHO-A1.9.22.iso RL> ftp://ftp-osl.osuosl.org/pub/vectorlinux/Uelsk8s/test/VL6.0-SOHO-A1.9.22-CD2.iso RL> there are deltas up in the same directory if you have the previous A1.9.21 iso's RL> good hunting! RL> Cheers, RL> Robert RL> Robert Lange RL> vec...@ya... RL> http://www.vectorlinux.com RL> __________________________________________________________________ RL> Make your browsing faster, safer, and easier with the new Internet Explorer® RL> 8. Optimized for Yahoo! Get it Now for Free! at RL> http://downloads.yahoo.com/ca/internetexplorer/ RL> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ RL> Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day RL> trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on RL> what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with RL> Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july RL> _______________________________________________ RL> Vectorlinux-devel mailing list RL> Vec...@li... RL> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vectorlinux-devel |
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From: M0E L. <m0...@gm...> - 2009-08-11 14:08:58
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The back button should definitely not be enabled on bootloader config I'll get on it rihght now. |
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From: Sergey P. <fa...@gm...> - 2009-08-12 17:31:33
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Hi, guys. Here's my take. Installer isn't that bad, it's even nice. But: 1) You can't select Windows partitions in fstab in installer, only Linux partitions are available to choose mountpoint for. 2) I've got a minor misunderstanding, when installer asked my for second disc - tray was locked. Then I pressed ok, i have another disc, tray was unlocked and I could insert disc two. 3) Also bootloader install is fucked up. It didn't detect FreeBSD, didn't detect Windows XP (which old installer did). It found only VL I installed and detected it as "Slackware 12.1_". And I couldn't find a way to add another OS in bootloader in installer. Now the actual run: 4) When you start VL from HDD first time, you have to configure X again. Why won't it use Xorg.conf generated while starting up the installer? 5) I have used my old /home partition, and /home/vanger appeared to be chowned to 1000.none and chmodded to 700. That is really bad, if user already has an old user directory, it should be chmodded and chowned properly by installer. 6) SHOWTOPPER When you try to start up KDE4, you get an xmessage "kstartupconfig4 does not exist or fails. Th". And when you press "ok", everything horribly-horribly dies in some wildly-coloured blinking text-mode garbage. Why won't we use KDE 4.3.0? As I see, release would be in a month, KDE 4.2.3 will look too old-fashioned by that time. I think, we should switch to KDE 4.3.0 as fast as possible, to give it more extensive testing (and to be able to blame some bugs on KDE devs). Also, we won't need to debug why our current 4.2.3 dies. |
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From: M0E L. <m0...@gm...> - 2009-08-12 17:43:21
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Actually, the installer should list all of your partitions. You should be able to see their current fs to the very right of the listing entry. You cannot select a linux mount point like /, /usr, /opt for it without formatting. The installer will actually warn you about this, and will only let you select /mnt/xyz[0-9] for it. We do need to debug the dual cd thing... I have not had chance to test this on real hardware, so I really dont know how accurate the code is. HOpe to get some time by the end of the week to test some more. Buf if I could get some more input from other users if this does/does not work for you all, also, the type of hardware involved... Desktop box / laptop cdrom units? I would vote for vanger's suggestion of using the xorg.conf created during installation, except for one thing. The initrd that boots for the installer is very limited, module wise, so your video will not always be the best using whatever was used during installation to run the installed system, but I think it's worth a shot. About the permissions problem. I'm going to need you guys to tell me how to set these Here is a link to the code that sets these, but I'm not sure if this is enough http://vlcore.vectorlinux.com/trac/vinstall/browser/branches/speedy/MdlMain.module#L600 basically, what that does is this "chown -R <user>:<user> /mnt/target/home/<user>" Let me know what I'm missing here, and I'll take care of it. #6 is beyond the installer, so I'll leave that one along. |
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From: Sergey P. <fa...@gm...> - 2009-08-12 17:56:19
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Hmm, nevermind the kde, should be kdm thing, as it dies horribly when I try to run fluxbox too. I've switched to vesa drivers, instead of nv - well, now it isn't dying, window managers just don't start. Ok, investigating... > Actually, the installer should list all of your partitions. You should > be able to see their current fs to the very right of the listing > entry. Out of 4 partitions on sda, four on hda and three on hdb, only hda partitions were shown for me. Though I'll retry it. > You cannot select a linux mount point like /, /usr, /opt for it > without formatting. The installer will actually warn you about this, > and will only let you select /mnt/xyz[0-9] for it. Emm, I was trying to set my /dev/sda3 as /mnt/win_d, particularly. > We do need to debug the dual cd thing... I have not had chance to test > this on real hardware, so I really dont know how accurate the code is. Just combine that "Ok, I have another disk" with eject command. > HOpe to get some time by the end of the week to test some more. Buf if > I could get some more input from other users if this does/does not > work for you all, also, the type of hardware involved... Desktop box / > laptop cdrom units? NEC DVD+RW ND-3520A. > The initrd that boots for the installer is very limited, module wise, > so your video will not always be the best using whatever was used > during installation to run the installed system, but I think it's > worth a shot. Does new VasmCC provide you with graphical xorg options editor? If it does, just launch it after first boot. On bare xorg, without any wm, if you need. > About the permissions problem. I'm going to need you guys to tell me > how to set these > Here is a link to the code that sets these, but I'm not sure if this > is enough http://vlcore.vectorlinux.com/trac/vinstall/browser/branches/speedy/MdlMain.module#L600 > basically, what that does is this "chown -R <user>:<user> > /mnt/target/home/<user>" I don't think that chowning to vanger.vanger is a good idea. It should be: if sAccntName=="root" then chown -R root:root /mnt/target/root else chown -R sAccntName:users /mnt/target/home/sAccntName && chmod 755 /mnt/target/home/sAccntName I don't think it's safe to chmod -R 755, people may have some installed apps there. |
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From: M0E L. <m0...@gm...> - 2009-08-12 18:13:44
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we're not doing anything to the root home in particular, as we're only setting the root password, everything else comes from pre-configured home for root I guess. I will get these permissions set as described above. Unless someone else suggests differently by the end of the day. I need you to do me a favor, boot up the ISO, cd or whatever you're booting. when the installer loads up, open a terminal and show me the output of probepart also show me the output of os-prober Thanks |
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From: Sergey P. <fa...@gm...> - 2009-08-12 19:02:50
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Ok, my KDE troubles were combined from two things: weird ownership on ~/.Xdefaults and 8600GT running on outdated "nv" driver from Xorg 1.4.2. So I downloaded drivers from nVidia - but wtf? Two CDs, but no kernel-headers. That's really bad. > I need you to do me a favor, boot up the ISO, cd or whatever you're booting. > when the installer loads up, open a terminal and show me the output of probepart > also show me the output of os-prober Attached. |
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From: Sergey P. <fa...@gm...> - 2009-08-12 19:14:17
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Sorry for so many letters, just wanted to copy-paste nvidia drivers' error: ERROR: The kernel header file '/lib/modules/2.6.27.12/build/include/linux/version.h' does not exist. The most likely reason for this is that the kernel source files in '/lib/modules/2.6.27.12/build' have not been configured. I'm not a pro in packaging kernels, I'm currently make modules && make modules_install to make nVidia drivers install, but it is a major issue to deal with. |
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From: M0E L. <m0...@gm...> - 2009-08-12 19:28:15
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Yeah... the current ISO's dont have the kernel src package for some reason. We need to get them in there. I also need them for vbox guest additions, and have to dload every time I need them :( |
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From: Sergey P. <fa...@gm...> - 2009-08-12 22:23:34
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Just before I go to sleep - we again got the problem that root can't run GUI apps on user's X. man xhost, anyone? 2009/8/12, M0E Lnx <m0...@gm...>: > Yeah... the current ISO's dont have the kernel src package for some reason. > We need to get them in there. > I also need them for vbox guest additions, and have to dload every > time I need them :( > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day > trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus > on > what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with > Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july > _______________________________________________ > Vectorlinux-devel mailing list > Vec...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vectorlinux-devel > |
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From: M0E L. <m0...@gm...> - 2009-08-13 03:35:41
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Do you have that xhost line in the user's ~.bashrc? |
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From: Sergey P. <fa...@gm...> - 2009-08-13 08:24:48
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xhost +si:localuser:root > /dev/null 2>&1 |
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From: Robert L. <vec...@ya...> - 2009-08-13 08:27:22
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A1.9.25 and A1.9.25-CD2 should be up by the time you read this..........beware its getting better with every bug report keep em coming................:) Robert Lange vec...@ya... http://www.vectorlinux.com --- On Wed, 8/12/09, M0E Lnx <m0...@gm...> wrote: > From: M0E Lnx <m0...@gm...> > Subject: Re: [Vectorlinux-devel] SOHO Alpha2 is ready > To: "Vector Linux developer's list" <vec...@li...> > Received: Wednesday, August 12, 2009, 11:35 PM > Do you have that xhost line in the > user's ~.bashrc? > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal > Reports 2008 30-Day > trial. Simplify your report design, integration and > deployment - and focus on > what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's > new with > Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july > _______________________________________________ > Vectorlinux-devel mailing list > Vec...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vectorlinux-devel > __________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Canada Toolbar: Search from anywhere on the web, and bookmark your favourite sites. Download it now http://ca.toolbar.yahoo.com. |
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From: uel a. <ue...@gm...> - 2009-08-15 22:17:36
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new iso's are up ftp://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/vectorlinux/Uelsk8s/test/VL6.0-SOHO-A1.11.iso ftp://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/vectorlinux/Uelsk8s/test/VL6.0-SOHO-A1.11-CD2.iso On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 2:27 AM, Robert Lange <vec...@ya...> wrote: > A1.9.25 and A1.9.25-CD2 should be up by the time you read > this..........beware its getting better with every bug report keep em > coming................:) > Robert Lange > vec...@ya... > http://www.vectorlinux.com > > > --- On Wed, 8/12/09, M0E Lnx <m0...@gm...> wrote: > > > From: M0E Lnx <m0...@gm...> > > Subject: Re: [Vectorlinux-devel] SOHO Alpha2 is ready > > To: "Vector Linux developer's list" < > vec...@li...> > > Received: Wednesday, August 12, 2009, 11:35 PM > > Do you have that xhost line in the > > user's ~.bashrc? > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal > > Reports 2008 30-Day > > trial. Simplify your report design, integration and > > deployment - and focus on > > what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's > > new with > > Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july > > _______________________________________________ > > Vectorlinux-devel mailing list > > Vec...@li... > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vectorlinux-devel > > > > > __________________________________________________________________ > Yahoo! Canada Toolbar: Search from anywhere on the web, and bookmark your > favourite sites. Download it now > http://ca.toolbar.yahoo.com. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day > trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus > on > what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with > Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july > _______________________________________________ > Vectorlinux-devel mailing list > Vec...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vectorlinux-devel > |
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From: Robert L. <vec...@ya...> - 2009-08-16 07:22:22
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People uel did not specify but this is the new kde 4.3 I would suggest you get it while it's still warm. Works good here........also has a new kernel with latest vunerabilty patch as posted a few days ago...........the gang was on it. Please give these new iso's a try we need more reports before we hit distrowatch with this. Thanks for your help! Cheers, Robert Robert Lange vec...@ya... http://www.vectorlinux.com --- On Sat, 8/15/09, uel archuletta <ue...@gm...> wrote: > From: uel archuletta <ue...@gm...> > Subject: Re: [Vectorlinux-devel] SOHO Alpha2 is ready > To: "Vector Linux developer's list" <vec...@li...> > Received: Saturday, August 15, 2009, 6:17 PM > new iso's are up > ftp://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/vectorlinux/Uelsk8s/test/VL6.0-SOHO-A1.11.iso > ftp://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/vectorlinux/Uelsk8s/test/VL6.0-SOHO-A1.11-CD2.iso > > > > On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 2:27 AM, > Robert Lange <vec...@ya...> > wrote: > > A1.9.25 and A1.9.25-CD2 should be up by the time you read > this..........beware its getting better with every bug > report keep em coming................:) > > Robert Lange > > vec...@ya... > > http://www.vectorlinux.com > > > > > > --- On Wed, 8/12/09, M0E Lnx <m0...@gm...> > wrote: > > > > > From: M0E Lnx <m0...@gm...> > > > Subject: Re: [Vectorlinux-devel] SOHO Alpha2 is ready > > > To: "Vector Linux developer's list" > <vec...@li...> > > > Received: Wednesday, August 12, 2009, 11:35 PM > > > Do you have that xhost > line in the > > > user's ~.bashrc? > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free > Crystal > > > Reports 2008 30-Day > > > trial. Simplify your report design, integration and > > > deployment - and focus on > > > what you do best, core application coding. Discover > what's > > > new with > > > Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Vectorlinux-devel mailing list > > > Vec...@li... > > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vectorlinux-devel > > > > > > > > > > __________________________________________________________________ > > Yahoo! Canada Toolbar: Search from anywhere on the web, and > bookmark your favourite sites. Download it now > > http://ca.toolbar.yahoo.com. > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal > Reports 2008 30-Day > > trial. Simplify your report design, integration and > deployment - and focus on > > what you do best, core application coding. Discover > what's new with > > Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july > > _______________________________________________ > > Vectorlinux-devel mailing list > > Vec...@li... > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vectorlinux-devel > > > > > -----Inline Attachment Follows----- > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal > Reports 2008 30-Day > trial. Simplify your report design, integration and > deployment - and focus on > what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's > new with > Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july > -----Inline Attachment Follows----- > > _______________________________________________ > Vectorlinux-devel mailing list > Vec...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vectorlinux-devel > __________________________________________________________________ Get a sneak peak at messages with a handy reading pane with All new Yahoo! Mail: http://ca.promos.yahoo.com/newmail/overview2/ |
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From: KC1DI <kc1...@ro...> - 2009-08-16 12:51:22
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Good Morning All, Been away on extended business. And just returned last night. Downloaded A1.11 this morning, install went well except it does not eject disc 1 when asking for disc 2 kde 4.3 seems to be working but haven't had a lot of time with it yet. Still needs smart packager in order for kpackage to work. will test more later in the day. all in all great work. hope we are going to do something else for the lilo splash screen though.. don't like the read standard lilo splash. Dave |
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From: paul m. <pa...@wa...> - 2009-08-16 05:34:02
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Robert Lange wrote: > A1.9.25 and A1.9.25-CD2 should be up by the time you read this..........beware its getting better with every bug report keep em coming................:) > Finally got enough free time to try these. Installer worked pretty well, though there was some confusion when prompted for the second CD - I had to click OK, wait, manually eject the first disk, then insert the second disk and click OK a second time. Can't say I'm all that fond of KDE 4 so far. Most things seem to be working, but I'm having trouble with the help - it complains about a missing index, prompts me to generate it, but complains about missing files. Search in the help then doesn't do anything. I also had some problems with sound on my T61. Took several attempts to get it working - for some reason, the speaker is not selected in the mixer controls, and after it is selected, it is muted - a bit confusing getting it going. :) I'll download the later isos and try them later if I get the chance. paul. |
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