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?

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.

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?

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.

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.

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

Cuando instalas el opera no hay ninguna manera de recuperar el enlace de firefox para hacerlo el navegador por defecto. Hay la forma manual:

rm /etc/alternatives/x-www-browser ; ln -s /usr/bin/firefox /etc/alternatives/x-www-browser/x-www-browser

Esto tecnicamente tendria que hacerlo automaticamente al volver a eliminar el opera.

The live cd does not boot from a firewire dvd-recorder; at least not the one which came with my Acer Travelmate 3012wtmi.

Both Debian and Ubuntu boot with no problem at all (Debian used to have the same problem before, though) and in Gentoo, it works when the “doscsi” kernel argument is passed. I have not successfully booted Elive with this drive, however.

I don not think this will be a problem very hard to fix; it just needs to be detected ;).

I will try the latest Elive as well (downloading now) and report, but I don not expect it to work, since this bug is not mentioned on the “Fixed Bugs” list.

/ / Talyz / /

entangle and e17genmenu missing from default e17 menus. e noobs could well be put off by this, thinking they can’t edit the menus and the shortcut bar, at least not graphically. You have to know about entangle to use it to add itself to the e17 menus.

A shortcut to e17genmenu would be nice too.

Icedove and Thunderbird are both installed by default on Elive 0.5.3. Thunderbird should be removed in favour of Icedove as this is the version that Debian is using. On a related note, maybe the Icedove icon should be replaced with one of the icons from https://wiki.ubuntu.com/IceDoveIcon or one from gnome-look.org because I’m not sure if you can ship that icon without Thunderbird.

gtkpod fails to start with the following error.

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

Elive 0.53 unstable using fglrx driver option....fails and the screen rest black and any key or combination works.
Just after choosing between ati driver options.
With 0.51 unstable works well.
My pc: AMD 1000, ATI-9550 and Compaq 17” monitor.
Help
Jose

This is by far my favourite Linux distro Thanks.

The Bug
System hangs(with mouse pointer disappearing) on my IBM Thinkpad T22 (P3, 512mb ram) every time I use the internet. Problem occurs in both e16 and e17(more frequently here) versions of elive 0.4, 0.5 all and so far on Revolution livecd.

I don’t know if its elive, firefox or just a general problem with Debian and the Thinkpad.

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.

The driver for bcm43xx(broadcom 4318) is buggy(unusable), the best way is using ndiswrapper and windows*sic* drivers, contact me if you need something!

Chosing keyboard layout diferent from english switches direktly to it. And loging becomes inposible. I think there should be some hot key for swutching between english and other kayboard layout.

I have a couple old computers with Ati Rage 128 Pro 32MB cards. In both Revolution releases the detection of the video card dos not work properly and asks to choose fglrx, radeon or VESA drivers for X11, the first two failing, obviously, and the third one being terribbly slow.
The driver to use is r128, and changing that in /etc/X11/xorg.conf and restarting the X system everything works perfectly.