Elive

Be patient with these installs:

Wine + WinMed.player (ie6),localization of Firefox,loacalization of Thunderbird,VLC,maybe Xine or others..

These will overwrite default settings for plugins to firefox and is not very easy to get them back to be driven by MP Embeded plugin.Can’t be deleted or rerouted.

Not bug,just stupid made programs-they don’t ask,just do.

Elive cant mannage this video board, msi5200le (nvidia), no way to make it work in higher resolution than 640×480

How to implement MTP support? I tried to mount my android device with MTP, but was not succesful..
Also PTP did nothing. After apt-get mtp, still nothing, thunar did not react.
?

Thanks

The new multiple screens betatesting is ready to be used, this task will be to better track all that is needed to betatest:

How to use it: Everything should be automated, so just upgrade your system with the command “apug” and restart to a new desktop configuration (from elive menus), which is important too. It should detect that you have multiple screens and ask you to configure them, or use an existing configuration, etc in contrary case you still have the configurator available (only one now, which is an elive tool)

Things to betatest: This is the list:

1. all the options and behaviours (what if select no, yes, save, not save, remove, etc), this is more or less already betatested by me
2. try to disconnect the extra screen, reboot computer, your desktop should be equally functional (and I assume not asking/saying anything about)
3. poweroff again the computer, connect again the extra screen, it should remember that configuration for your second screen and going back to these settings (without asking anything, i assume)
4. there’s some games that changes your screen resolution (in order to play in fullscreen), if the game exits with an error your desktop is messed up (desktop running in a strange resolution), the normal behaviour is to return to the correct resolution when the game exits correctly, but i dont know if this happens or even if goes to the correct multiscreen mode. Also: a reboot should perfectly return to the normal behaviour
5. maybe already said before, but switching between “using and not using” the external screen should be not a painful experience (and/or with reboots), it should be “work on the fly”
6. ecomorph (special effects) should work correctly, except for the “exposé effect” which doesn’t seems to like it so much (confused numbers of desktops, etc, not sure if this one works better after the full implementation)
7. detail: technically speaking, there’s two launching of the “load screen settings”, one happens before the desktop is loaded and the other when the desktop has started to load... in other words: if there’s a widget/question that asks for anything it should always happen when you already have access to the window controls (including window borders for example)
8. since i found a strange behavior with the “automated fonts sizing calculation” feature, i include this betatest point: test if the font sizes are not reconfigured “smaller than normal”
9. we have hotkeys to switch between virtual desktops, do we have a setup for between screens? i just tried to configure a new keyboard hotkey (ctrl + alt + shift + arrows) for switch to another screen 0/1 but doesn’t looks like to work on virtualbox... will need to do test in a real machine (and implement the hotkey in the default configuration)

Notes: if any of these betatests are not working as expected, please include the details of the “steps” about how to reproduce it, and the exact (first words) of the “conflicting” message found

“Normal” Music-CDs don’t get mounted and do not show up anywhere in the Filesystem.
That makes it impossible to play those CDs and also to copy them to the HDD.

Just booted and received :
XRandR failed:
XRandR returned error code 1: xrandr: cannot find crtc for output VGA1

If I open the screen config tool and try to configure again, I hit apply and still get

XRandR failed:
XRandR returned error code 1: xrandr: cannot find crtc for output VGA1

any idea ?

JF

I booted today and I can only see the mouse on my 2 screen.

I can go into console mode to reboot, but at reboot, same scenario. 2 BLack screen, only see the mouse

Weird that it happen suddenly, I had to reboot in Elive yesterday 2 or 3 times without having that problem.

What are your recommendations to avoid reinstalling ?

Cause: ecomorph
TODO: do not allow ecomorph at emodule level (loading module)

JF

net configurator works like when wrong DNS entered. Several weeks ago, I missed my dns address on elive gem, and result was that I couldn’t open some of my internet provider’s pages. Now in the development version of elive I, entered the correct DNS number, but with same result.

Can’t get net connector to work in 1.9.10 I try start it it says to stop it first, so i try to stop it and it says it’s not running. The only way to get on the internet is to run iconfig in the terminal and i have to do that every time i log in

Hi,

I just have installed the last development release of elive on my dell inspiron 1300 laptop.

Everything went ok except that after the “fine tuning” of the installed system the network connection is not activated by the default by the system when doing a normal boot. For the moment i am using elive panel to access the network connector to connect the card to the internet (via DHCP) or ifconfig in the terminal.

I saw that the netconnector has a “auto-connect” feature which is ticked yet it seems it doesn’t work.

My ethernet card is a Broadcom Corporation BCM4401-B0 100Base-Tx card.

Thanks a lot for your help on this and congratulations for a fine linux distribution.

Razvan

net-configurator works good, but it should put default netmasks when an ip is entered. unfortunately i was unable to lease an ip from my ap using dhcp, either via exalt either via net-configurator.

First the hard facts(version, hw):

EeePC 701 4g
WiFi AP configured to WAP2
Elive version: elive 1.9.61

Now for the problem.

I try to configure my wlan through the configurator but I couldn’t set it up since it constantly rescanned and also refreshed/wiped all the other fields(ESSID, Pass Key, Profile Name) each time I tried to enter them.

I changed the refresh and rescan times in the options but it didn’t respect them. On top of that the constant refreshing seriously loaded the system and caused quite a bit of battery use(not to mention heat).

After a reboot though it is now respecting them and I can actually configure wlan.

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

Buenas tardes, el siguiente error es:
Cuando en un pc de mesa o un portátil se le añade un usb wifi, el pc lo detecta y lo monta pero a la hora de usar el net-connecto se vuelve loco y hace exploración cada segundo con lo cual no te deja ni elegir una red ni poder para la exploraciones de redes, con lo cual lo hace inservible.
Las pruebas fueron realizadas con un usb-wifi Wisacom.
P.D. En los portátiles con wifi integrada no tenemos este problema y el funcionamiento es correcto

Net-connectors gui no longer displays interfaces or configuration options after upgrade run through synaptic on 3/24/09. Results have been replicated on 3 laptops and one virtual machine. program dump is as follows.

ERROR:dbus.proxies:Introspect error on :1.4:/test: dbus.exceptions.DBusException: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.AccessDenied: Rejected send message, 1 matched rules; type="method_call", sender=":1.22" (uid=1000 pid=3687 comm="/usr/bin/python /usr/bin/net-connector ") interface="org.freedesktop.DBus.Introspectable" member="Introspect" error name="(unset)" requested_reply=0 destination=":1.4" (uid=0 pid=2795 comm="/usr/bin/python /etc/rc2.d/S40netconnectord start "))
ERROR:dbus.proxies:Introspect error on :1.4:/test: dbus.exceptions.DBusException: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.AccessDenied: Rejected send message, 1 matched rules; type="method_call", sender=":1.22" (uid=1000 pid=3687 comm="/usr/bin/python /usr/bin/net-connector ") interface="org.freedesktop.DBus.Introspectable" member="Introspect" error name="(unset)" requested_reply=0 destination=":1.4" (uid=0 pid=2795 comm="/usr/bin/python /etc/rc2.d/S40netconnectord start "))
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "ecore.c_ecore_timer.pxi", line 29, in ecore.c_ecore.timer_cb (ecore/ecore.c_ecore.c:927)
  File "ecore.c_ecore_timer.pxi", line 97, in ecore.c_ecore.Timer._exec (ecore/ecore.c_ecore.c:1501)
  File "/usr/bin/net-connector", line 1198, in initial_scan
    gui.scan(None)
  File "/usr/bin/net-connector", line 769, in scan
    net_dev=self.get_net_dev()
  File "/usr/bin/net-connector", line 954, in get_net_dev
    return net_iface
UnboundLocalError: local variable 'net_iface' referenced before assignment

Net connector doesn’t autoconnect to a profile in ethernet even if auto connect is set up.
this as today upgrade

There’s a kind of mess between these 2 interfaces (wifi and wired), i removed all the netconnector configurations and then started the daemon and configured only for my wired connection, that is a static ip with autoconnect=yes, after to reboot i have:

A different ip (a dhcp one) for my wired interface, if I run netconnector (gui), in the Wired part i have my static ip set/configured, and in the Status values says that i have a different one (this dhcp obtained one), if i run ifconfig i have the static ip set to the WIFI interface instead of the wired one. Again in the GUI, in the Wifi part, i have the “autoconnect” box set in ON (of course i have not set it, maybe the problem is from here?), and the status for the wifi says that I have the static ip.

A more descriptive image can be found at http://thana.no-ip.org/shots/deleteme-netconnector-strange.jpg

My configurations are:

root@Babylon:~# cat /etc/network/interfaces-eth0 
iface network inet dhcp
root@Babylon:~# cat /etc/net-connector/profiles.conf 
[ath0]
[eth0]
[[casa]]
wireless = No
wireless-mode = None
essid = None
encryption_key = None
wpa-driver = None
encryption = None
dhcp = No
gateway = 192.168.2.1
address = 192.168.2.166
netmask = 255.255.255.0
auto_connect = yes
dns1 = None
dns2 = None
root@Babylon:~# 

It would be nice if there was an option of “Automatically connect when in range of network” - like in for instance WiCD (or windows netmanager).

I noticed that net-connector on eeepc doesn’t autoconnect anymore or does it seldom.

When on the road and staying at hotels - it becomes necessary to connect to their unencrypted networks, but net-connector from the control panel refuses to connect to unencrypted networks.

Hi!

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

Thanks

alex

put a script for the after-suspend step that just call the daemon with a option to “refresh” or something like this

We have the need for a working net-connector as soon as possible in order to iron out all the bugs
I would suggest that LinuxNit does the packaging himself in order to provide always up to date packages, this package should be labeled net-connector-dev in order to prevent normal users to install if not willing.

After to upgrade net-connector im unable to use it (daemon not running aparently), the daemon doesn’t want to start (init.d) because there’s teh file /var/run/net-connectord.pid existing, if this doesn’t do any problem, i will recommend to remove it at every “stop” action of the daemon (+ kill/close any possible daemon running), maybe also at every “start” of the daemon ? so i dont think that there will be a problem to restart the daemon (connection doesn’t drops, if im not wrong)

Could be nice and not very hard to implement an automatic tracer reporter, this means, a kind of pre-launcher for the interface (bash that calls the python code) with waiting error trace messages, if there’s these messages, they will be send to... somewhere, in some way

What you think ?