On Monday 22 January 2007 19:41, Tobias Gerschner wrote: > > 2007/1/23, Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > A quick note of how the install of the Weekly iso 3 went. > > > > I installed to a partition on my main system which was already > > partitioned into a 9 gig root, 512mb swap and 40 gig home. > > The install went smoothly and I chose to manually add the info to my > > existing bootloader, so I cannot comment on how well Yoper picked up the > > other partitions on there. > > It completely doesn't do that yet. So if someone knows an helpful > tool. I am all ears. > > > Issues found are - > > > > 1 As in the VMWare install, the CD is not detected after rebooting the > > first time, despite following the comments on the forum about only > > inserting CD when asked. To add the CD so I could grab the various files, > > I needed to add the installcd option which is mentioned in the forum (the > > info I received from Tobias in the irc chat). > > Will look into it again. Having problems to verify that here. It works > here. So without seeing the error I am walking in the dark. >
No error message - just no cd added to the smart channels. > > 2 No GUI is installed - presumably because of the CD issue above. I had > > no problems getting the gui installed once I could add the CD to the > > smart channels. This needs to be sorted for users however! > > Yes, the basic package configuration does install a working gui + the > smart package manager gui. > Frustrating then that the install fails to add the cd - or even recognise it. As has been mentioned before, it has to be manually added - the cd has to be mounted manually afterwards. Carlos makes a good point that we need to avoid forcing the users into a command line. Whilst we are all happy to use it, there are plenty who really don't! > > 3 Powernow fails. I thought it may be simply down to the VMWare install I > > was using before, but it still fails - despite powernow working on the > > same system with other distros. Not a vital issue, but another small > > niggle which users will pick up on. > > Error Message ? > Will dig it out. It is possible that I have disabled powernow in the bios (I do that sometimes as it affects the game Deus Ex ) > > 4 Sound. A horrific mess here! During install, all seemed to be OK - the > > alsaconf thing came up and correctly identified the card etc. However, > > when attempting to use the system, the Soundserver crash dialog was > > coming up every second or so at times! So frequently that it was unusable > > - I could not even type into a command line to kill artsd as the focus > > kept being stolen by the sound server crash box! Attempting to sort it > > via the Sound System box from the System menu was useless - it kept > > locking up/crashing the soundserver etc. I disabled the sound system in > > there but it kept throwing up the soundserver crash box. >The error is simple, solution unknown tho. The arts sound system is >using a kde media player to play its sounds. That media player is >present in the kdemultimedia package. It's seperated now and a smart >install noatun may sort the issue. If so please tell me, so that I can >adjust the package selection. Quite likely to be the issue - playing a CD via Kaffeine works fine! Seems to be artsd related. Will see what happens with the install mentioned. > >> 5 Packages. As I mentioned before, I think smartpm-gui needs to be installed >> as part of the gui system so users can use smart without resorting to the >> command line. >> Also I still think the smart channel which is there by default is incorrect. >What channels do you have ? Please show me smart channel --show As per Chaks' post in the forum. I don't seem to get any connection to the server - I get a time out error. Could be something wrong here though! >> What should the correct channel actually be? I am currently using just the CD. >> Because of the problems with the soundserver, I was limited to a few test >>package installs. These ran fine - smart works well. I did find Firefox >> failed to both add an icon to either the desktop or Internet section of the > >menu, and also failed to actually work. Even launching from a command line, I >>got nothing - no error messages but no Firefox either. That may be me - >> perhaps some dependancy is missing from the spec? >No idea, I do smart install firefox all the time on a very basic system. >And well we want to iron out the negative things. So just keep >mentioning them. Thanks a lot for testing ! Thats what I did here - smart installed Firefox - the program is installed, I get the option to right click and select open with Firefox, but I haven't tried that. I have tried reinstalling it, but still nothing. Will continue to look into that one ;) About to add the nvidia drivers so I can start seeing how things work for gaming etc ;) Mark _______________________________________________ yoper-dev mailing list yoper-dev@lists.yoper.com https://morpheus.pingos.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/yoper-dev
