VectorLinux 6.0 SOHO Alpha2 bugs and discussion go here

[Dweeberkitty]

KDE 4.3.3 is out!! Any plans to use it in VL6 SOHO? KDE4 seems to be getting better with each release.

And I thought 4.3.2 was sweet and stable.....

[Joe1962]

KDE 4.3.3 is out!! Any plans to use it in VL6 SOHO? KDE4 seems to be getting better with each release.

And I thought 4.3.2 was sweet and stable.....

I've had some glitches, a couple that come to mind:

- The taskbar suddenly starts showing an app twice for no good reason, and even shows it once in every other desktop, though I have that option disabled. Also, once you close the corresponding window/app, the offending taskbar entry remains until you logout/login.

- The konsole loses the window decor and even gets a transparent background and sometimes invisible text. You know it is there becomes it shows when selecting over what seems to be the desktop wallpaper, lol. Minimizing/restoring fixes it for a while.

Other minor stuff I can't remember right now. All in all though, KDE4 is an unexpectedly good experience.

[Dweeberkitty]

KDE 4.3.3 is out!! Any plans to use it in VL6 SOHO? KDE4 seems to be getting better with each release.

And I thought 4.3.2 was sweet and stable.....

I've had some glitches, a couple that come to mind:

- The taskbar suddenly starts showing an app twice for no good reason, and even shows it once in every other desktop, though I have that option disabled. Also, once you close the corresponding window/app, the offending taskbar entry remains until you logout/login.

- The konsole loses the window decor and even gets a transparent background and sometimes invisible text. You know it is there becomes it shows when selecting over what seems to be the desktop wallpaper, lol. Minimizing/restoring fixes it for a while.

Other minor stuff I can't remember right now. All in all though, KDE4 is an unexpectedly good experience.

If these bugs haven't already been reported, maybe we can post them to the KDE bug tracker? I haven't encountered either bug at all. I wonder about the Konsole bug....what sort of settings would make it do that (since I've never seen it)? Do you have desktop effects enabled?

[Joe1962]

The konsole bug seems to show up only with the desktop effects enabled. However, this is with the infamous Intel GMA4500 vid where I had to update to the Slack13 xorg to get it to work, so who knows what is really going on...

[Joe1962]

There is no longer a call to /sbin/vcpufreq-loader.gambas in rc.local. This is a safe thing to do if /etc/vcpufreq.conf has a setting of "Setting.LoadOnStart=0", meaning disabled, but also makes it easier for users who wish to use vcpufreq.

BTW, I have a much revised version of vcpufreq close to release. This has an overhaul of the UI and the multi-CPU / multi-core support.

With the new laptop I suddenly realized that both cores could be set to different governors and frequencies, so so only the first one was been changed by the old vcpufreq! In my defense, I developed it originally on a P4 with HT, where setting the first "CPU" would change the second. Also, nobody reported the problem for real multi-core CPus. In retrospect, it is logical, since there is actually only one core in that P4, but I assumed it was so for all cases...

[M0E-lnx]

great news!... I was trying that on my laptop last night in an attempt to improver power useage... let us know when the new version is available.

[Joe1962]

You can beta test...

I've attached vcpufreq-2.2.0_beta.tar.gz, with vcpufreq.gambas (the gui) which you need to put in /bin and vcpufreq-loader.gambas, which goes in /sbin. These were compiled on Gambas 2.16.0.

Dang! Forum won't accept tar.gz or tar.bz2...
Going with .zip...

[M0E-lnx]

I'll try it when I get home... only have a single core VM here.

[Joe1962]

We'll follow the new vcpufreq discussion here: http://forum.vectorlinux.com/index.php?topic=980.msg68736#msg68736

[stretchedthin]

1. I don't think either vbackupsys is working correctly.  When I run a manual backup it says that it has created a backup file in /home/backupsys but when I look in that file nothing is there.

When I run backupsys as root in the terminal I get the following...
root:# backupsys
/sbin/backupsys: line 120: [: -lt: unary operator expected
/sbin/backupsys: line 123: [: -gt: unary operator expected
Backupsys on Wed Nov 11 01:15:57 MST 2009
Volume /home/backupsys/backupsys-0.0-0.tar.bz2 is up to date.

2. Flash is not enabled in konqueror.

[Joe1962]

Just tried to install this on a P4 desktop with i865G chipset. This has both PATA and SATA controllers, but the DVD drive and both HDDs are PATA. The installer seems to lock up after selection of the keyboard. A look at htop shows it is calling parted seemingly to get the list of partitions on /dev/sda. The problem is that the HDDs are seen as /dev/hdx by the installer kernel, and not /dev/sdx, so this call never returns for some reason (not even an error, I guess). Actually, it might even be the other way around...   wish I had written it down at that moment.

Sorry to be so late with this, but so far I had only managed to try on the laptop. Hopefully this doesn' t happen with the Beta, which I will be downloading tonight.