Elive

Hi,
I use elive installed on a Dell D410 laptop with Broadcom BCM4311 wifi card. I can see networks, but I’m unable to connect to anyone because dhclient is unable to obtain an IP address.
I tried other wifi cards (Realtek, D-Link), and it is always same problem. All these cards are supported by Debian Lenny or Ubuntu 8.04.
I really like elive and wouldn’t go back to Lenny because of this wifi problem.

Thanks for help.
G. Hatt

uname -r:
2.6.26.8-elive-686

lspci :
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/PM/GMS/910GML Express Processor to DRAM Controller (rev 03)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Graphics Controller (rev 03)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Graphics Controller (rev 03)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 03)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #1 (rev 03)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #2 (rev 03)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #3 (rev 03)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #4 (rev 03)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 03)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev d3)
00:1e.2 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) AC’97 Audio Controller (rev 03)
00:1e.3 Modem: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) AC’97 Modem Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801FBM (ICH6M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 03)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) IDE Controller (rev 03)
01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5751 Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express (rev 01)
02:01.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI6515 Cardbus Controller
02:01.5 Communication controller: Texas Instruments PCI6515 SmartCard Controller
02:03.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4311 [AirForce 54g] 802.11a/b/g PCI Express Transceiver (rev 02)

After upgrading from 1.9.51 to 1.9.52 the Screenresolution was set too high.
-I’ve used the Upgrade-Elive tool.
-I tried changing the resoultion back to 1280×1024 by using both: The tool provided in Elpanel “xconfigurator” and also the Enlightenment Configuration.

-Elpanel’s Tool xconfigurator seems to be doing nothing.
-Enlightenment Configuration returned an Errormessage, telling X-Server is missing XRandR.

The Keyboard setting qwertz is still falling back to qwerty after a reboot or log-off.
It’s on: 1.9.5.0, 1.9.5.1 and 1.9.5.2
The bug is up to 1 or 2 packages I install from elive-repo,
Nvidia-xconfig and/or Nvidia-settings (I need them for my 2. Monitor)
LG
Posbi

After installing 1.9.54 I found that Synaptic is missing!
I simply installed it via “apt-get install synaptic”. But I really wonder why Synaptic isn’t installed by default. All elive-dev Versions before came with Synaptic installed by default.

In Menu>Settings>Settings Panel>System, when “Esu” is called, the window asking for root password lacks in my opinion a “close” or “cancel” button.
This could be handy for someone who selected the wrong setting to open, a user that does not know the root password, or anyone who finally prefers to just cancel the requested action.

Additionally, the text about Esu when it asks for password is presently :
“Welcome to Esu, this program will give you access to other users providing you have there password.” This text could be improved and become :
“Welcome to Esu, this program will give you access to other users provided you have their password.” (italics to show corrections)

Every time, even for the first time with nothing installed there is a dialog at the time of logging out/powering down/restarting that this process takes too long time and I have to confirm what I want to do - shut down system..

I’ve read about this problem and it’s not problem of elive, it’s global problem and I don’t know solution. Mplayer and VLC stopped playback video and mozilla plugin doesn’t work. Win32codecs have installed but it seems like VLC and Mplayer are unable to find them. Kaffeine/Kmplayer/Xine/gxine plugin.. all of them works still but these two - mplayer (the root of elive) and VLC don’t...

The CPU speed stand still low even after plugging power cord to adapter and the speed doesn’t grow up to full or to medium possibility. Still low power-saved mode. I have installed advanced power management, powertweak and gnome power management-the new one feature.

I think this shoul be nice feature and maybe easy to do.. Add this feature to possiblities settings of feature - for example to have watch all the time above the windows or volume or others often needed..

Hi!

In 1.9.57 net-connector is not usable due to a segmentation fault!

Thanks

alex

Net-connetor
Al arrancar produce violación de segmento.
En ultima actualización a día de 22/01/2010

Hello,
a problem for elive 1.9.56 and earlier versions up from about 1.9.30: (where older versions did not have this problem, but i don’t know exactly)

description:
the startup elive sound is much too loud (almost breaking the speakers)

on Lenovo R61i (and probably other laptops of this brand)
on DELL Latitude C540 (and also other laptops of this brand)

i found a workaround:
after selection of language you add nosound to the command line options
then the sound will be just audible but not annoy your neighbourhood.

on other computers like Apple MacMini or Samsung the sound level is ok.

on Apple iMac elive does not sound at all.

Hello,
can u use scons 1.2
because the 1.0 it’s too old, and i can’t instlal application, and install scons is difficult :
i can do it!

Version 1.9.58 emodule places crashes totally e17.
Unable to use Elive.

Greetings:
Agust

PLEASE be describable, clear, and direct. Think that we need to understand, found, and solve the bug.

Remember to set the Due in Version box into the next stable version number.

Thank you
In devel.version 1.9.58 and 1.9.59 - live mode - several programs cannot be started. Examples are synaptic and gparted

System: elive 1.9.57
Language: English
Keyboard: US

If root password [and possibly user passwd] is set during HD install with “$” as the first character, elive appears to accept the password. Once the system is installed ‘esu’ and terminal commands like ‘su’ fail to accept the password.

This works perfectly on every other Distro I’ve ever used, so I think it must be specific to the elive installer.

Also, once the system is installed, attempting to change the password using the GUI user manager attempting to set a password beginning with “$” fails with the message “The passwords are not equals, please try again”.

It appears to accept other non-alphanumeric characters. It only fails with “$”

The best solution would be for the password setting to work correctly with “$” as the first character in the passwd.

A less professional but at least acceptable alternative would be to generate an error telling the user not to start a password with “$”. This would be a useful workaround but might appear as a shortcoming relative to other distributions.

After dist-upgrade yesterday (1.9.60) and restarted, module places disappeared from system. Whats’ wrong?

When trying to change resolution screen goes black and a box appears showing that Enlightenment SEGV’d.

To reproduce this bug please boot Elive from a CD, selecting automatic resolution. After full boot up enter Settings Panel/Screen/Resolution and choose some other resolution and frequency but do not save your selection, just click “restore” button and then change frequency again. Now this crash should happen.
I supose this behaviour is easier to reproduce using CRT display.

My guess is that this SEGV happens because when you mark resolution and frequency for the first time and cancel, the choice of resolution is not remembered, but you are still able to choose frequency and try to set it.

My rig has GeForce 5700 FX and thus uses nvidia 173 driver.

After changing resolution or frequency with the Screen Resolution Setting box the tick mark doesn’t change it’s place. However it marks the proper option after closing and reopening this box.

When graphical system crashes and a box with “Enlightenment SEGV’d” message shows up, this box is displayed in the centre of a screen with resolution set while booting up.
If resolution was changed after loading graphical system, this box shows out of the centre of current screen as if it matched centre of a sceen of resolution set at boot up. If resolution was changed a lot, part (or possibly whole) of this box is displayed out of visible screen and thus it’s hard to find out what actions are possible to recover from this situation.

I’m trying Elive 1.9.60

There are strange values in a box on the right.
As far as I know these values should look more like 60 Hz, 70 Hz, 75 Hz, 85 Hz...

You may also notice that there’s no marked refresh frequency on the right although 77 Hz (it really stands for 85 Hz) was just selected and saved (it’s what I mean in report #542)

... and probably other windows, although they are correctly displayed in menu.

Elive 1.9.60

Rectangles mark places where those characters should be displayed.

Hello can u add by defalt thie logs , please

Running on a Dell Optiplex 320, 4Gb Ram, ATI Vid -Running Live CD

Video and audio hardware detected correctly.
Opening screen (Desktop) should have not only clock but also the current date somewhere.
Ice Weasel browser handles multimedia well. I have noticed odd behavior browsing on Piratebay.org, after loading initial page, subsequent ones, after clicking navigation controls on bottom of page, refuse to load???
Need to have an email client (s/b able to be configured & tested on live CD)
-Outstanding distro. Keep up the excellent work. Looking forward to next version.

JR_2

PLEASE be describable, clear, and direct. Think that we need to understand, found, and solve the bug.

Remember to set the Due in Version box into the next stable version number.

Thank you

PLEASE be describable, clear, and direct. Think that we need to understand, found, and solve the bug.

Remember to set the Due in Version box into the next stable version number.

Thank you
Since 1.9.52 Unstable and 2.6.30.9 kernel version all the Elive releases are very “unstable” and buggy for my system,both in live and installed mode,with or without ecomorph enabled,the system totally freezes after no more than 5 minutes and it can’t be unlocked with ctrl+alt+backspace or alt+PrintScreenSysRq+REISUB,only with forced reboot.The pppoe internet connection is very unstable too with many disconnections and very slow speed.In rest the system is very fast even in ecomorph mode.
Personally I blame the latest 2.6.30.9 kernel version,with older 2.6.26-2 version I haven’t got these problems.