Fwd: [CLUG] new livecd synopsis/review

[freegazer]

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From: freegazer <freegazer at gmail.com>
Date: Apr 1, 2006 12:04 PM
Subject: Re: [CLUG] new livecd synopsis/review
To: Chris Smart <chris at kororaa.org>



On 4/1/06, Chris Smart <chris at kororaa.org> wrote:
>
> On 1/4/06 9:42 AM, "freegazer" <freegazer at gmail.com> wrote:
> [snip]
> >
> > do you have a version that will allow loading of an E desktop by default
> on
> > the cd? the only use of it (E-17) that I have seen previously was a
> > (Spanish?) LiveCD that failed to boot on even the most generous systems.
> Well currently version 0.2 (yet to be released) sits at 690MB after taking
>
> out all the man pages.. Not sure how much room I have for e17 :) However,
> as
> the next version is installable you could easily install it and then
> emerge
> e17 yourself. If I can strip things out of the CD then I could include e17
>
> for you in the next release. Any idea how much space e17 will take
> squashfs-ified / unionfs-ified?
> >
> > Hmm.. This is strange.. What modules weren't loading? Or are you
> referring
> >> to not auto detecting all your devices on boot up?
> >
> > multiple modules fail during boot, on one laptop that uses a USB based
> > connection to access the HDD (don't ask why i don't know but its an
> internal
> > drive) it loaded all the usb components and still was unable to read the
>
> > ext2 partitions giving a depmod and reboot recommendation.
> Hmm.. The modules for full usb hdd access are there, but they are not
> built
> into the kernel. My usb thumbie works just fine. Maybe that internal usb
> hdd
> requires something specific. It certainly won't be able to access the
> drive
> to boot from as the drivers are missing from kernel / initrd. Next release
> I
> have a scsi kernel which includes monolithic support for both scsi / usb
> hdd
> and cdrom drives
> > on another
> > computer it simply fails to pass kernel initialization.
> Any errors for this one? You can pass options to the kernel so if it's
> acpi
> that's dying for example you can disable it with "pci=noacpi" option.
> >on another it failed
> > to start xgl but as it continually tried the system locked up hard.
> Do you remember what video card this was? 0.1 only supports nvidia gf3+
> and
> radeons using fglrx. Radeon dri and intel dri were absent from the cd.
> > on another there were several errors reported by the system pointed to
> the
> > fact that several kernel modules failed to load, once again the error
> > pointed to depmoding and rebooting to resolving the issue.
> This doesn't make sense to me, dunno why it broke.
> > I was not going into detail on these errors ( and still will not) as I
> was
> > not and am not attempting to get a resolution to these problems. I
> simply
> > want people to know they exist and to emphasis that despite this it is
> still
> > a worthwile demo-cd, the installed system may well have solutions to
> these
> > issues
> Ahh.. Ok, well nps, ignore my probes above :) Thanks for the feedback it
> might help me get something fixed.
> >
> >> What monitors were you trying on? Maybe it was the video card? 0.1 only
> >> supports nvidia and ati (fglrx) atm.
> >
> > samsung LCD, ibm LCD, acer CRT & LCD (several models), only one of the
> acer
> > LCD monitors and a laptop screen had issues. As to the Video card read
> above
> > and also add at least one case of xserver bombed out with little or no
> > information in sys logs
> Ok, well I have no idea why that would be as it's hard coded to only run
> 1024x768..
> >
> > Sweet ;) If only I could get fglrx to work without seg faulting the
> kernel
> >> we'd be ready for another release.. :(
> >
> > You said above that you had it working without issue on ATI, fglrx in
> > particular ..... care to amend that statement?
> Ahh.. I can't remember where I said it, but I can re-iterate. ATI fglrx
> works fine on 0.1, but for the next release 0.2 I am having troubles :(


I undestand now that the difference and misunderstanding comes from the
version differences.
< quote >

0.1 only supports nvidia and ati (fglrx) atm.
</quote>
was the original line causing some concern.


Thanks a lot for your emails!


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