[..] > > Well, I must admit that I tested it (version 1.1) on many different PC, > > and all but my laptop failed, mostly because of display problems > > (garbage, and impossible to see anything, or seeing just the mouse > > pointer, but impossible to move it and nothing else ever appears on the > > screen). I would guess they are graphics adapters-related. > > One of those is a Matrox MGA G200 AGP, another is a S3 Trio3D, and the > > last one is an nVidia TNT chipset. If I can help in fixing those... > > > > My laptop is an IBM T23, with a Savage adapter. > > Ok, you can download the beta from the torrent: > http://torrent.freesbie.org/FreeSBIE-default-i386-20051218.iso.torrent
I tried it. On my PC with a Matrox MGA G200, it works nicely, detecting the card without any problem, and no more graphics memory corruption. On this PC, which has only 64MB RAM, starting OOo is *extremely* slow. On my laptop (IBM T23), it seems it has a real big problem to read from the DVD drive, so it is _extremely_ slooow to boot, and unusable afterwards anyway. I can read the following error line during bootup: acd0: FAILURE - READ_BIG ILLEGAL REQUEST ... error=4<ABORTED> > You can log in as user "freesbie" (no password) and try startxfce4 or > startfluxbox. You won't find the preconfigured menus and settings as > dave's still working on them, but you can run `openoffice.org' from a > terminal. > > All you readers are strongly welcome if you can give it a test and > report a feedback, we are working hard for the new release ;) Where should I change the keyboard mapping? It doesn't ask for anything, but the result is that it does not get alone to a graphical environment, nor does allow to change the keyboard mapping at boot. Also, the motd is not yet personalized. > Bye and thanks Hope it helps -- FreeSBIE mailing list (http://www.freesbie.org)
