Elive

Marvell Technology Yukon 88E8058, apple iMac 20” driver non-existent in gem. Development Livecd has the driver, but no installer.

Users are requesting a updated gem with newer and mac-compatible drivers.

This driver is reported in being in current kernels, have not tested it though.

1. There are several windows in the installation of Elive GEM that has a “generic” name on the top. And would be really better if we could write a correct description. Examples:

• Many windows has “SELECTS ITEMS FROM THE LIST”. That’s a generic name and it doesn’t reveal the content of the window when you press alt+tab. For example in: “Select partitioning method”, “Choose partition”, “Choose filesystem”.

This is particulary annoying when you are doing other things while installing. For example I had many windows opened and I didn’t noticed that “SELECTS ITEMS FROM THE LIST” was the “Select partitioning mehotd”.

Best regards,

- Felix

Bad key or directory name: “/apps/gnome-alsamixer/display_mixers/”: Key/directory may not end with a slash (/)
Bad key or directory name: “/apps/gnome-alsamixer/display_names/”: Key/directory may not end with a slash (/)

/apps does not exist.

Some application which are not installed show anyway in elive menu: blender, cinelerra and a few others.
Clicking on them results in an error.

There’s multiple packages on gimp for edit raw files, we need to know which one to include (betatesting)

a patch from debian (about xscreensaver) made it that doesn’t run, rebuild mplayer (patch to remove patch actually added to the builder of packages of elive)

I just tried to use Google Talk for videoconference (calls) but seems to not work, I tried it on chrome and even installed a .deb package provided by google, it complains about that is not correctly installed or something similar, I will need to make future look to it

I’m using Elive-dev 1.9.24 with latest upgrades.

Now the graphical Logout Manager fails. It does not show the window it should but only a part of it.
To show you what I mean I took a screenshot:
//www.flickr.com/photos/alexantemachina/3470245899/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/alexantemachina/3470245899/

Cdparanoia has a known issue (http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=391901) with SATA drives when ripping CD’s. Grip using it’s own internal cdparanoia code and also the cdparanoia binary freezes the entire system when ripping starts.

I think there’s a patch available but not sure if it’s implemented. Grip would also occasionally freeze teh system using cdda2wav ripper too although not every time.

Greet you! I have some problem with grub of eLive. It cannot display other systems except for eLive. I have ElementaryOS Juno and Linuxt Mint 19.

Thanks,
Peter

If you partition up your disk and want /boot to be JFS then Grub just shows the “Grub is now loading” with the “Stage 1.5” at the top.

I’ve tried to load up the livecd and mount and chroot into the installed environment to run grub manually, but that does not work either.

This is both for elive 1.9.36-compiz and the .37 non-compiz.

I have three operating systems on my machine. The 1st one is Windows Vista, the 2nd one is Windows XP and the 3rd one is eLive. eLive has been installed as the last one and brought GRUB with it. It has created four GRUB entries (1: eLive GEM+, 2: Windows Vista, Windows XP, Memory RAM Diagnostic). Every entry works fine, only when I select Vista then XP comes up and when I select XP then Vista comes up. So either the descriptions or the boot devices are swapped. I am not clear about the devices. Vista has one disk, eLive and XP share the other disk. This is my menu.lst:

title Elive Gem+ 
root (hd0,4)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.26.8-elive-686 root=UUID=5f5c337c-c679-413e-b9e7-1cbcdc0107ae vga=791 splash=silent resume=UUID=a756b053-617a-439b-8fb9-50d97962aa84
initrd /initrd.img-2.6.26.8-elive-686

# This is a divider, added to separate the menu items below from the Debian
# ones.

# on /dev/sda1
title		Windows Vista/Longhorn (loader)
root		(hd0,0)
savedefault
chainloader	+1

# on /dev/sdb1
title		Microsoft Windows XP Professional
root		(hd1,0)
savedefault
chainloader	+1

title 		Memory RAM diagnostic
root		(hd1,4)
kernel	 	/memtest86+.bin
savedefault

Installing in /dev/hdb1 for example, grub generates a configuration using (hd0,0), where it should be (hd1,0)

The questions is...

• with which disk you boot the computer ? hda or hdb ?
• where you have selected to install grub ? (if the installer has asked you this)

I think that the selector of grub needs to be rewrited... in case that is not hda or sda, ask allways to the user about which/where to install grub, a better look needs to be made on this side

please comment this ticket, i need your info for fix it :P

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.

gtkpod fails to start with the following error.

lontra@elive[~]$ gtkpod
* glibc detected * malloc(): memory corruption (fast): 0x0845dd60 ***
Aborted

GTKPod is under found under utils → file manager. I think it makes more sense to put GTKPod in Audio as it’s used for audio. This is just a suggestion.

when using GUI to import a new theme, a file selection window is displayed. The problem is that from the default directory, the “Go up a Directory” button is grayed out (unselectable).

This can be ugly-fixed by clicking “Add to Favorites” button, after which the “Go up a Directory” button is activated.

System - elive 1.9.21-6

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.

HandBrake is an open-source, GPL-licensed, multiplatform, multithreaded video transcoder, available for MacOS X, Linux and Windows.

http://handbrake.fr/

Supported sources:

• Any DVD-like source: VIDEO_TS folder, DVD image or real DVD (unencrypted–protection methods including CSS are not supported internally and must be handled externally with third-party software and libraries), and some .VOB and .TS files
• Most any multimedia file it can get libavformat to read and libavcodec to decode.

Outputs:

• File format: MP4, MKV, AVI or OGM
• Video: MPEG-4, H.264, or Theora (1 or 2 passes or constant quantizer/rate encoding)
• Audio: AAC, MP3, Vorbis or AC-3 pass-through (supports encoding of several audio tracks)

Misc features:

• Chapter selection
• Basic subtitle support (burned into the picture)
• Integrated bitrate calculator
• Picture deinterlacing, cropping and scaling
• Grayscale encoding

Would you please add this Programm to the Repos.

Best Regards,
FreeEagle

The system recognized well the charging but when discharging it gives the warning message about critical low battery few seconds before system totally collapse cause no power - about 20 sec... So, where to set it to another value? The measurement of the battery status shows about 30% when there is nothing left.. I have new high-capacity battery so there is no probability about non-linear electricity discharging..

Version 2.3.6 installed on HDD.

Hibernate are not working at all.
When I press button Hibernate the screen become totally black,
only mouse is active and can’t do anything,
i waited around 2 minutes and nothing changes so i restarted my laptop by power button.

PS. I installed “powermanagement-interface” package
and edited “/etc/default/grub” by adding there new line:
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=”resume=/dev/sda5”

and now i am using “pm-hibernate” (from terminal) and it’s works well but i want do it from button.

Also i want to know where this action scripts are stored i mean “Power Off”, “Suspend”, “Lock”, “Reboot”, “Hibernate”, “Log Out” ?
I edited file “/etc/enlightenment/sysactions.conf”
by editing line:
“action: hibernate /usr/sbin/hiber.sh”

in hiber.sh i have > “pm-hibernate” command.
But this doesn’t work so i only can go to hibernate from console by command “pm-hibernate” :(

(Apologies for not being able to provide much in the way of technical info.)

1.9.22 ecomp version
Eeepc901, ssd, first ssd partitioned in ext3/boot, reiserfs/root, linuxswap/.

What happens that I can see is the following. I choose hibernate, the system finds the swap- partition, writes to it, and shuts down. Upon reboot, tuxonice cannot find the hibernation state, and the system loses the swap. Seems likely this is normal, since the swap- partition is marked, and shouldn’t be overwritten - still, I am not able to figure out why tuxonice won’t attempt the restore. Attempted to set verbose mode, but no luck on the boot- section.. The init says swap:’huge md5- like checksum’, etc. Attempted to increase the swap- partition, also change it to a different drive, with the same result.

some problem with USB appeared after trying to wake up from hibernate.. Enumerate USB or something.. ?
System wont launch and the text with error report is running on the screen..

Don’t know if it’s bug from distro or from my “work” on installed distro.. Well, command hibernate from terminal in root mode works great but from keyboard hotkey settings of from shut down dialog doesn’t work and it claims I have no hibernate able computer..

Hibernate/suspend features are not stable in some computers, maybe the hibernate* tool in elive should ask/warning about this before to do it