Elive

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

Hola! Tengo tres problemas:

1- Al cerrar sesión el sistema se bloquea.

2- Cuando pongo el equipo en suspensión o le doy a hibernar, me ocurre que al volver al escritorio Internet no funciona y si reinicio todo vuelve a la normalidad, esto ya me pasaba con el sistema estable.

3- Cuando intento actualizar no me deja y todo es darle al botón pero ahí se queda sin poder actualizar.

P. D. - Por lo demás todo perfecto.

Un saludo!

Eltrans was the easiest way to get big parts of the os translated for free. It needs to go live again, so what is the problem that prevents it from working? Is there any way we could write a new version of it so you do not need to waste your time? In that case, what are your requiremetns and what kind of interface should we give it so that it can just be put in place of the older one?

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

since early August both hostap and acx100 wlan modules report compiler version mismatches and fail to load.

When Xpad notes are open on screen 1 and E16 is exited from screen 2, negative coordinates are written to the xpad config file. On restart, notepads are not visible on either screen.

example X coord -255

During the boot - the first menu offer “select language” - whenU select Czech - you cannot log to elive - keyboard is dead. (In the case of English everything is of course OK).