Elive

It is needed to set some extra configurations for when there’s Intel cards in Elive Compiz:

• change mplayer conf to use X11 (or GL is better option?), and set the zoom ON
• Update: set the X11 or GL as a choice for the user (in case of any elive-compiz, not only intel), explaining how to configure it later and what’s the difference between them
• xine: use xshm or gl output (ask to the user too, or better, include the answer of the previous question for selection there too)
• gstreamer-properties for configure gstreamer to use X11 instead of XV
• xorg: set XAA instead of EXA (see deliver configuration for eeepc)
• export INTEL_BATCH=1 in /etc/profile
• set a different launcher for skype (.desktop) that uses: http://forum.skype.com/index.php?s=4417cd748721d80e99c902e2857eb6d8&showtopic=328901&st=0&p=1622441&#entry1622441

I have just installed E16 64 bits on my Acer laptop, and when I close the lid, the whole system freezes and I have to do a forced shutdown to start it up again.
It does not go into hibernation, it only freezes. I have trouble starting the pc up after hibernation as well.

Thank you for an otherwise great and very pretty OS.

Beta 2.6.14

If the prior version installed on the hard drive uses the LABEL= partition naming convention in /etc/fstab, both the / and /home partitions should be changed to UUID= or if one wants to risk it /dev/sdc or sda or whatever # blkid from the live boot calls it.

Since i am not too sure about the handling of multiple users on /home I am now going to clone a home partition to test the install.

Today I downloaded the iso-hybrid of 2.6.0 and installed it sda5 as /.
When I chose sda8 as /home it during the install I carefully said NOT to format it.
However the install did not pick up the /home directory as planned.

First I couldn’t log in via the graphical screen. So I Ctrl-Alt-F1 into
tty1 & logged in then sudo su to edit /etc/fstab.

What had happened was there were no options chosen for sda8. So I
added “defaults” and rebooted.

Then I found that your install had deleted all the other directories on
sda8 leaving only my elive user (larryel)

Please change your install to NOT erase all the other users on the
chosen /home partition. The logic would seem to be that if a user did
NOT want to format the partition s/he would MOST certainly NOT want the
install to erase all the data on the partition either,

A lot of Techies doing reviews are using Oracle virtual box to try new OS and to make reviews.

I don’t know all the technical reasons behind it but why Elive cannot run at it’s full " Visual effects potential” within a VM ?

In my case I started products review project in french ( a new project I have on " Patreon”) and even if I was blown away by ELive, THe fact that I can’t show Elive at it’s Full potential when runned within a VM, I have delayed my review of Elive.

My simple tought was " I’ll find a time to install it on a real PC” and use Vokoscreen already within Elive but.... I don’t have that many PC’s (3 : one to run my TV (ubuntu budgie), one on my laptop for work (EndlessOS as the HP stream is kind of slow... Ia tried Elive but was having problem with TouchPad ) and one on my desktop (that for now I want to keep it with the actual Linux distro...)

So even if the performance is not good, if it is technically possible for you to let Elive install itself " with it’s full GUI power " (sorry don’t know how to call it) within a VM, for sure I would do a french review and post it on my Patreon page, and on my LinkedIn Wall (18.000 connections). May be others Nerds would also make review of it on their Youtube channel / web site...

As I am impressed by ELive GUI when activated at it’s full potential, when installed on a real machine, I don’t want to record a video of the " Virtual BOx version of elive”.

JF

export by default the DISPLAY and XAUTHORITY variables if the user has ssh to the machine

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.

Looks like it is not really possible to have a full utf-8 working system on console mode, this mades a lot of translated messages (like in spanish(á, é, í...), or russian) bad readable, broken, crappy...

Maybe is a fixable bug since looks like to work in the installed system

If is not fixable, remove liveboot translations

ecomorph default hotkey for ‘scale’ is the same as for ‘expose’ which is Ctl-Alt-o. Shouldn’t it be Ctl-Alt-p?
After correcting this hotkey, scale doesn’t work until it has 2 instances of a same program to show and also rxvt windows don’t show up.

merge the eeepc configuration for eeepc with the original e17 configuration, there’s wrong things like setvolume hotkeys

How do you alter the time on the background wallpaper changing. The default is way to fast

a back button is needed in during the installation progress

Hi ,

Can’t we go back to thunar?it was better integrated in Elive than PCMan.

Regards,
FreeEagle

There is any way to go back one or, maybe, several steps on the installation?... because I made a mistake and I couldn’t go back.

Thanks!

if the user select the “static” mode, the entry’s should be writed automatically with the actual ip variables (the ones done by dhcp or the actual used)

Add a feature in the elpanel configurator of entrance that enable/disable autologin, based on this howto http://forum.elivecd.org/read.php?18,1244

Before to run the mount function, check if gparted/fdisk/cfdisk/* is running in order to avoid problems

Looks like when the partition label has a space, blocks e17

AUtmatic Update manager, its a really need for Elive. I would like to see it in the next versions.

Users do not know when they should do Update, especially New users.

FreeEagle

Hi!

The auto luncher in GEM does not work. Whenever i insert a new empty CD to burn it, the auto luncher started and asks about if it should start the burner Program to start burning, and when i confirm the task, it did nothing ( do not start the Burner Program automatically ) so i have to do it myself.

FreeEagle

When USB device is mounted and not correctly unplugged/unmounted (for example my camera switched off after 10minutes of not using it),it is difficult to mount it again. System should remember what device was mounted where (for example for the time from startup the system)and if there comes message from device on USB,system should have a look if it was already mounted this session and write it again in FSTAB.

After the verifying speeds steps of the installer, if you have a NTFS partition, the /root files will be vanished (see how your gtk theme of the installer looks ugly now)

Solutions: update aufs version (kernel) or copy the root files back

Note: This DOESN’T affect to the installed system, it is just a bug for the live mode, installed system is perfectly clean and stable... if will be not the case, Elive won’t use this way :))

In laptop of sapi, there’s an hdmi entry that is not a real card, in order to preselect it correctly we could list the channels and see if has any valid entry, for example this wrong one has:

~ amixer
Simple mixer control ‘IEC958’,0

Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined penum
Playback channels: Mono
Mono: Playback [off]

~

Under this version of Elive Elive_1.9.23_unstable

whenever i try to activate the Audio mixer Gadget it just dissapear on the next start, but what i realized that it does not dissapear completly, it still there but i have to change the resolution of my Monitor to see it on its place. I have 1024 x 1280

but when i move to 1024x 768 i found this Gadget there. (Wierd)