Elive

I`m running 1.9.56 development Version on my Laptop with a X1300 Mobility radeon.
Compiz works under Ubuntu 9.10 out of the box. I use there the OSS ati driver.

On Elive there seems to be a bug with the included ati driver. I’ve tried several Notebooks with ATI graphic cards. None of them worked.
On every machine I’ve got the following message:

$> ecomorph 
ecomorph (core) - Fatal: No GLXFBConfig for default depth, this isn't going to work.
ecomorph (core) - Error: Failed to manage screen: 0
ecomorph (core) - Fatal: No manageable screens found on display :0.0

a compiz-check shows, that everything should be ok:

$> compiz-check 

Gathering information about your system...

 Distribution:          Debian GNU/Linux (5.0.3)
 Desktop environment:   Unknown
 Graphics chip:         ATI Technologies Inc M52 [Mobility Radeon X1300]
 Driver in use:         radeon
 Rendering method:      AIGLX

Checking if it's possible to run Compiz on your system...

 Checking for texture_from_pixmap...               [ OK ]
 Checking for non power of two support...          [ OK ]
 Checking for composite extension...               [ OK ]
 Checking for FBConfig...                          [ OK ]
 Checking for hardware/setup problems...           [ OK ]

To manualy compile the driver won’t work. It aborts.

regards
Dragan

Certian programs that are in the slider window “grey out” on a quick restart of Elive. I have seen Azureus and Firefox do this. This is all I know, try it out. Does anyone know a way to debug this? Thanks, later.

Xpdf is not a bad reader but I think they are very better pdf reader now:

- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evince (mulitpe document viewer)

- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPdf (but now Evince remplace it)

Perhaps an other??

The fstab file is not good gererated by the system when is installed. The system detect extended partition and put it on the fstab. This procure a crash on fsdik on startup.

My partition schema

{—–sda1—–}{—–sda2—–} {—–sda3—–} {—–sda4(extended)—–[—–sda5(logic)—-][——swap(logic)—-][—-FREE(logic)—]—–}

The auto generated fstab

/dev/sda2 / xfs defaults 0 0
/dev/sda6 none swap sw 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
/dev/sda5 /boot ext3 defaults 0 0
/dev/sda3 /home ext3 defaults 0 1
/dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1 auto defaults,auto 0 2
/dev/sda4 /mnt/sda4 ext3 defaults,auto 0 2 #This is a extended partition don’t mount it!
sys /sys sysfs defaults 0 0 * The correct fstab **

/dev/sda2 / xfs defaults 0 0
/dev/sda6 none swap sw 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
/dev/sda5 /boot ext3 defaults 0 0
/dev/sda3 /home ext3 defaults 0 1
/dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1 auto defaults,auto 0 2
sys /sys sysfs defaults 0 0

When I creat a new partition with gparted on my usb disc, the partition is automaticaly detected and the system proposes me to mounted but gparted has not finish the work and crashes.

Creating new partitions is not possible (for end user).

The text in menu of XFE is not right encoded (with the french menu). For exemple “Propriété” is “Propri€Â©t€Â©”.

If I created a file or rename it i have the same problem.

Synaptic will not update everything. If i update lists, and select the option to mark all, it cannot update. (it displays the folowwing error:)

E: This installation run will require temporarily removing the essential package libglu1-xorg due to a Conflicts/Pre-Depends loop. This is often bad, but if you really want to do it, activate the APT::Force-LoopBreak option. E: Internal Error, Could not early remove libglu1-xorg

This is a problem of the upgrade of xorg7, well, the more simple option is “upgrade your Elive” from the Elive installer (a new feature similar a upgrade than a installation), it reinstall the system automatized saving your /home partition, users, files, main configurations, etc

No access to my other partitions (Windows partition) for normal users. (Root user has access) This is not really a bug, but in the 0.4 all users had access.

When I put a usb key for exemple elive mount it on /media/XXX with the user option. Is not realy a bug but the user option implies noexec, nosuid, et nodev option. I think noexec is not a cool option because I have often program on my key and is not a security because you can start a script for exemple like this /bin/sh ./script.sh. my proposition keep the user option but remove noexec. more information here → http://linuxfr.org/forums/15/7853.html (french)

Try it out, I get two terminals directly over top of each other. I think some people might not have an “Ins” or Insert key, does anyone have a different default key that they use to bring up a term (x2) window?

The site not works very good since is used http://bugs.thanatermesis.org instead of the real site... for example not is posible to “copy the link of the site” because it stills on http://bugs.thanatermesis.org all the time
Also when you make a login, sometimes give you a strange blank page

Any recomendation for the redirection of the site ?

In Elive (cvs20060516) there is problems with cdripping. cdda2wav is not working, cdparanoia is painfully slow. (To rip 1 CD in elive takes 80 minutes on my old debian install on the same computer it took less then 10 min) Ubuntu-users has reported similar problems.

Ok, i have look thunar and its a perfect candidate, very good options, not big, nice features, and a look vision to the future, you can install it actually on your Elive via apt-get...

Use from now this application normally, and look options and stuff, if you look any thing to looks bad, write here in a comment... write also a list of the special options to you think to needs to are configured for Elive (no mime-types for launch the correct applications), and you put here in a comment, and then i start to implement it for the first 0.6-beta’s release :)

Using Thunderbird on a Elive 0.5 on my laptop. The default language is French (Fr_fr), and default charset is utf8 for the system.
Some headers of emails don’t print correctly in the headers window of thunderbird, and changing the charset in the menu View→ Character Encoding doesn’t solve the pb... Maybe a pb of compilation of the pgm ?

I also had a pb with accents in xfe, I didn’t manage to solve (Those french and their accents !...)

Thanks for all with this wonderfull distro !
FX

mount ntfs filesystem with rw attributes in live mode, it forced re-check filesystem for win in the next boot.

Bad values to VertRefresh for IIyama Vision Master Pro 410.

Values in original xorg.conf : 50 - 60

Good values : 50 - 160

The original values block refresh rate to 60Hz.

The current default GTK theme for the Night look is too dark in my opinion. OO.org2 has a dark background with blueish font colour which is a bit distrasting and hard on the eyes.
I found the following Neos theme at...

http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php?content=24229

It still maintains that dark look while allowing gtk applications to still have the traditional white background with black font. It also has nice rounded window borders.

When I plug in my IPod it causes two instances of Thunar to open. This is a rather trivial, but annoying bug, as I immediately have to close one instance of Thunar and click cancel when it asks me to if I wish to unmount the device.
I think it would be better if Thunar didn’t open when I insert my IPod. Instead GTKPod could handle IPods and other mp3 players by default instead of Thunar as most people won’t use Thunar for IPod management (as it can’t sync, read, etc.) only GTKPod.