Hi Guys, Warning: This is a longish email.
Okay, just an update on how the install went. After I was finally able to get a clean download and a clean burn of the ISO, the install went faiirly smooth. (No Surprises there really) But a couple of things I noticed: 1. The media check doesn't seem to check anything, I got no output and after about 1.5 seconds the installation continued as normal. It did this on the good disc I had but also on the bad disc that should have failed any media check. 2. The cfdisk step, I already had the partitions I wanted but thought I would take a look at them anyway. After looking at them I quit without making any changes, after telling me that on an error it would reboot it then did nothing. It may have dropped me to a shell but there was no curser or command prompt so I just rebooted. I didn't check if it was a shell because of the trouble I'd had with it freezing earlier so just hit reset. This is already known, but udev is still spitting out error messages. There wasn't anything that looked like a real problem there though. The last issue that came up was X freezing up on me. I suspect it was because of the unit over-bl**dy-heating, anyway I am not sure about that one. The card is an SIS S3 DDR Pro Savage, an old onboard graphics chip. I did a hard reboot, Grub looks nice by the way. Yoper loaded up and dropped me into a shell, so the first thing I did was try and run kdmctrl to get a display manager, I guess yoper doesn't use it anymore because I couldn't find it :) I did a startx to see what meesages I got from xorg. There wasn't anything realy helpful so I ran xorgconfig. But, I have no real idea what the graphic capabilities, screen resolution all that sort of stuff is so I just opted for really low options. Then restarted x. I got a basic x window display! That was really cool. Then that was it for the time being, shutdown, go home, la la la. So, late last night I fired it up again. I was amazed, because it put me into a display manager from which I was able to log in and get kde! That was nice. But my desktop window was about 640x480 and took up only half of the laptops screen. So back to xorg.conf, I manually edited a few options I knew I was over conservative on and restarted x, but nothing changed so I tried the xorgcfg utility. It detected the card, the resolution and proper screen size and everything. Magic :) That was it, so now I have a fully functioning Yoper laptop! Things I haven't checked out yet are internet, wireless internet via a pcmcia card and USB devices and smb shares and so forth. That's the end of the issues I had installing. I hope some of the above can be useful in streamlining further. Now the Positives! Grub looks nice, the system is nice and responsive and looks good, the default colours are very cool. The system responds far quicker than Kubuntu, in fact it kills Kubuntu for speed, The installer overall was very straightforward. Basically the majority of problems I was having were because of Windows! So am looking forward to testing this out more. Now my request to you guys is what needs testing on this ? Let me know and I'll try and get some info on whatever neeeds testing. Thanks, Kaneri aka lordtweety 2008/5/24 Kaneri Warren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi Carlos, > > Nice to hear from you as well. I managed to get a clean download from > the ihug server this afternoon, but not on a windows box obviously. > That may have been the problem, I tried a number of downloads > yesterday with none of them matching up when I did the hash check. > That was using my work computer though (an XP box). Will see how I go > now. :) > > Kaneri > aka lordtweety > > 2008/5/23 Carlos López <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> >> Hi Lordweety, >> >> it's so good to know about you.... I've been wondering where this guy is all >> this time... :D >> >> Well, the md5sum should match at least it did to me every time I downloaded >> an ISO image. Make sure you don't have anyother problem regarding your >> network or burner settings. Yoper still lacks a bit in its hardware >> autodection capabilities (mainly mouse and keyboard issues) but broadly >> speaking it usually boots up. Thus, try to get a new ISO and make sure both >> the md5sum matches and you enable the "verify written data"-like option in >> your burning software. >> >> I hope to see you MUCH often around.... >> >> Take care! :-) >> >>> Date: Fri, 23 May 2008 16:34:16 +1000 >>> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> CC: yoper-dev@lists.yoper.com >>> Subject: Re: [yoper-dev] Latest ISO >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> Its been a while since I've been able to try out the latest yoper >>> version, so I might just be a little out of touch with things. The >>> lock happens on the initial live/slim boot. Just downloaded and >>> burning another copy as the md5sum didn't match up. >>> >>> Just tried the CTRL+C key combo, but it is still locked up. >>> >>> I'll report back after I try this new disc. >>> >>> Cheers, >>> >>> Kaneri >>> >>> >>> 2008/5/23 Tobias Gerschner : >>>> Hi Kaneri, >>>> >>>> >>>> Good to hear from you. Well it's quite easy to get past that lock. >>>> Just press CTRL+C, I have to do that myself ocassionally. I probably >>>> do this in a non locking mode. I am sitting on a new kernel right now >>>> . >>>> >>>> Does the locking happen during livecd/ slimcd boot or after >>>> installation during firstboot ? >>>> >>>> cheers >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Tobias Gerschner >>>> Yoper Linux - www.yoper.com >>>> >>>> Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do. >>>> >>>> >>>> 2008/5/23 Kaneri Warren : >>>>> Hi Tobi et al, >>>>> >>>>> I gave the latest ISO a whirl on this laptop but I couldn't get past >>>>> the "autoconfiguring devices" point of the initial boot. It just hung >>>>> at that point. I tried both the latest live iso and the latest slim >>>>> iso, both hang at the same point. I tried different burns of the discs >>>>> also. >>>>> >>>>> Let me know if you want the laptop specs, as I mentioned in a mail to >>>>> Tobi, it is an older laptop. >>>>> >>>>> I'll try the 3.1 release and see what happens there. >>>>> >>>>> Cheers, >>>>> >>>>> Kaneri >>>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could >>> produce the complete works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the >>> Internet, we know that it is not true. >>> --Robert Wilensky >>> _______________________________________________ >>> yoper-dev mailing list >>> yoper-dev@lists.yoper.com >>> http://lists.frank-hosting.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/yoper-dev >> >> _________________________________________________________________ >> Tecnología, moda, motor, viajes,…suscríbete a nuestros boletines para estar >> siempre a la última >> http://newsletters.msn.com/hm/maintenanceeses.asp?L=ES&C=ES&P=WCMaintenance&Brand=WL&RU=http%3a%2f%2fmail.live.com >> _______________________________________________ >> yoper-dev mailing list >> yoper-dev@lists.yoper.com >> http://lists.frank-hosting.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/yoper-dev >> > > > > -- > We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could > produce the complete works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the > Internet, we know that it is not true. > --Robert Wilensky > -- We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know that it is not true. --Robert Wilensky _______________________________________________ yoper-dev mailing list yoper-dev@lists.yoper.com http://lists.frank-hosting.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/yoper-dev
