Elive

“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.

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

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

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

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.

running in command line result is:
elive-startup-sound -c
bash : ligne 1 : 11409 Instruction non permise mplayer -noconfig all -really-quiet -nojoystick -nolirc -ao alsa /usr/share/sounds/elive/elive-wm-login-3.0.mp3

cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
vendor_id : AuthenticAMD
cpu family : 6
model : 10
model name : AMD Athlon™ XP 2800+
stepping : 0
cpu MHz : 2075.085
cache size : 512 KB
physical id : 0
siblings : 1
core id : 0
cpu cores : 1
apicid : 0
initial apicid : 0
fdiv_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 1
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr sse syscall mmxext 3dnowext 3dnow cpuid 3dnowprefetch vmmcall
bugs : fxsave_leak sysret_ss_attrs spectre_v1 spectre_v2 spec_store_bypass
bogomips : 4150.17
clflush size : 32
cache_alignment: 32
address sizes : 34 bits physical, 32 bits virtual
power management: ts

I found out that if i browse with thunar then i launch mplayer for example to play a movie, it crashes if i close thunar window.
i tried the same with oxine but it doesn’t.

Hi there, I have installed eLive Gem+ compiz on a Lenovo Thinkpad T60 with an ATI Radeon Mobility graphics adapter. Both the included mplayer and vlc from the repositories flicker when watching movies. This seems independent from the movie format and the payer.

Mouse speed REALLY slow for dell inspiron 510m when x is started..

To fix it, I needed to add:

Option        "SHMConfig"     "on"

to the section in xorg.conf:

Section “InputDevice”

Identifier  "Synaptics"
Driver      "synaptics"

EndSection

(this allows one to set the synaptic properties in real time in X)

Also, these needed to be set:

      Option      "LeftEdge"         "75"
      Option      "RightEdge"        "790"
      Option      "TopEdge"          "58"
      Option      "BottomEdge"       "600"
      Option      "FingerLow"        "14"
      Option      "FingerHigh"       "15"
      Option      "MaxTapTime"       "180"
      Option      "MaxTapMove"       "220"
      Option      "MaxDoubleTapTime" "140"
      Option      "ClickTime"        "100"
      Option      "FastTaps"         "1"
      Option      "EmulateMidButton" "75"
      Option      "VertScrollDelta"  "10"
      Option      "HorizScrollDelta" "10"
      Option      "MinSpeed"        "0.3"
      Option      "MaxSpeed"        "0.75"
      Option      "AccelFactor"     "0.05"
      Option      "EdgeMotionMinZ"  "30"
      Option      "EdgeMotionMaxZ"  "160"
      Option      "EdgeMotionMinSpeed" "0"
      Option      "EdgeMotionMaxSpeed" "400"
      Option      "EdgeMotionUseAlways" "0"
      Option      "UpDownScrolling" "1"
      Option      "TouchpadOff"    "0"
      Option      "GuestMouseOff"  "0"
      Option      "LockedDrags"    "0"
      Option      "RTCornerButton" "2"
      Option      "RBCornerButton" "3"
      Option      "LTCornerButton" "0"
      Option      "LBCornerButton" "0"
      Option      "TapButton1"     "1"
      Option      "TapButton2"     "2"
      Option      "TapButton3"     "3"
      Option      "CircularScrolling" "0"
      Option      "CircScrollDelta" "0.05"
      Option      "CircScrollTrigger" "1"
      Option      "CircularPad"    "0"
      Option      "PalmDetect"     "0"
      Option      "PalmMinWidth"   "10"
      Option      "PalmMinZ"       "200"
      Option      "CoastingSpeed"  "1"

I think that not having the”SHMConfig” is a bug in eLive, and possible having incorrect synaptics settings could be a bug in the synaptic driver.

But it could be possible to probe for specific laptop type, and set up decent parameters based on that.

sorry for an annoying bug! And close it if it’s too hardware specific..

Hi!

When i click on Audacious, the mouse pointer jump to the left high corner of the screen automatically, please fix this Problem.

FreeEagle

This is the second time i experience the following problem:
if i set powersave governor, and leave the pc on overnight
the next morning the mouse pointer has disappeared
everything works, but i have no mouse pointer.
i have to open a terminal as root and reboot in order to regain control of the system.
This happens only with powersave governor or userspace fixed at the lowest speed (600 over 1300)

error on an insert of a CD rewritable on the second (slave) CD-driver

the error message display “échec au montage de disque CD-RW” (the title was translated and means the mount failed ;
the next part of the message wasn’t translated):
Method “mount” with signature “ssas” on interface “org.freedesktop.hal.device.volume” doesn’t exist
– End of the error message

The CD wasn’t mounted.
Next try with the same CD on the first (master) CD-Driver : works fine.

Mounted devices after unmounting still let their directory in /media/
visible and not been deleted.

XDG_DATA_DIRS defines the order to where to search for .desktop files, for example we have apulse-skype package that replaces a .desktop that is defined on a previous dir on this variable, this perfectly works if you run skype from menus (skype that requires pulseaudio using a pulseaudio emulator work in alsa-only), but if you run it from engage or from ibar, it doesn’t works (so looks like it gots the .desktop from the default dir instead of the one that we have defined), it doesnt works also from other places like “startup applications”

Testing Elive at Amilo M7400, 512 MB about 1.2 GHz.

It works good, but performance coud be better by using video.
Installed at this mashine is Puppy 5.3 (Slaco), here the perfomance is much more better.

Hi, sorry to have to report, I just tried to install (with a proven DVD download of E17 compiz) on a 2nd computer, Intel MB DG45FC. First problem was it would not recognize display resolution, I am using Mitsubishi Diamond Digital, wide screen (16 x 9) and factory default setting called for is 1280 x 768 at 60HZ—which is in listed choices upon installation, nor any other resolution including auto? This is a 64bit machine, I have the DVD installed OK, no problem, on a Gigabyte 32bit MB.

I kept trying, over and over and somehow was able to “force” installation after being given a choice to use a pre-existing resolution(?) Install completed, fine tune came up and stopped at: “module slamr does not exist in /proc/modules. Also, internet connect was not able to be made, no matter what I tried so I can make no correction through apt-get, Synaptic or .deb. I also got a notice that e17 economorph failed to install because of some file in libdecorate(?) was trying to overwrite an already existing file. Not being technically capable, I haven’t a clue.

But please, do not fool yourself into thinking the slamr “bub” has been corrected and gone away, it is still there.

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

Module Mount kills ALSA + net eth0 + wlan. IBM T30+EliveCD installed 5.4 + Kernel 2.6.15.7 + usbmgr

I don’t see the mixer module in e17-stable

My laptop works regularly, however I receive a notification about excessive shaking while in use.

The message is correct but the title spells SHACKING so it does not make sense why one is correctly spelled but the other is not; there will be confusion, no doubt.

I put this on low priority because it is minor and does not prevent continuing one’s work. The notification disappears or fades based on the default duration.

kernel module missing for:
00:10.0 Ethernet controller: Accton Technology Corporation SMC2-1211TX (rev 10)

This prevents installation on systems with this card.

I believe that support is added for this controller in newer Linux kernels

- thunar: audio convertor: if you press “cancel”, the process is still running and so you can’t run it again, close all remaining processes.

- thunar: (audio or images convertor): the progress bar does not work

At least with the “vmware player” bundle script, thunar looks like to want to open with the wrong application (mplayer), do some kind of launcher for it, with terminal and etc...

Please try to complete the Mime under Elive, its not finished.

FreeEagle

In all versions, an essential tool, midnight commander, is missing!!!