Vectorlinux7 RC3.4 bug reports and comments

[nightflier]

On low RAM system, try using the text installer. Type "install" on first screen. This will install everything. With 128 mb of memory, you'd probably need to run fluxbox instead of xfce.

[pierce.jason]

Running the text installer by typing "install" at the bootup prompt doesn't make any difference for me while testing in VirtualBox. The memory limit is still hit at the same size for decompressing the init image. It takes 224MB to boot to text installer, 216MB won't cut it.

Checking the isolinux/isolinux.cfg file on the cdrom, both "install" and "gui" use the same init.lz. So changing to text installer won't help any with a resource problem at this early stage in bootup.

Looks like unless the initrd has its compression changed before final, then we're looking at a bare minimum hardware requirement of 224MB ram.

[Pita]

Jumped the line to RC4.4, Sorry, but may be what I report can be corrected before the final release:
Installed on desktop PC with GUI installer up to entering root and user name/password.
Root PW was apparently not registered since when loging-in the PW was a blank.
User name and user PW was not accepted during installation which was then aborted on its own at that point. Did the lilo bid separately in another box.

When booting then into RC4.4 there was an error message that /usr/lib/liblber.* could not be found.

User name and user PW could be entered with vasm correctly as well as root PW.

[Scott271]

Still not able to get my mouse to scroll - either in a browser or through desktops. I've tried tweaking xorg.conf and xorg.conf.d - no luck. Also, when I start the computer the bootsplash gets to Starting UDEV and goes to the scrolling words startup. When I do finally get logged in there is two instances of cairo-dock running.

I did an md5check so I know I have a good burn. Any thoughts?

Scott

[hata_ph]

The verbose bootsplash screen after UDEV is due to old bootsplash that maybe not compatible with certain video card such as intel...there is suggestion to change to plymouth but it is too late to change that.  Maybe will replace bootsplash with plymouth in VL7.x... 

About the cairo-dock...how many instance of cairo-dock in your autostart folder? or did you enable save session from your xfce logout screen?

[Joe1962]

I had a look at the kernel 3.0.4 config and you can only build modules for powernow-K6, K7 and K8.

Hmmmm. I'm still getting the following during bootup.

[   20.236318] k8temp 0000:00:18.3: Temperature readouts might be wrong - check erratum #141

Perhaps I misunderstood my earlier searches about that error and what the fix was. I'll do some more digging.

According to the help during kernel menuconfig:

CONFIG_X86_POWERNOW_K8:
This adds the CPUFreq driver for K8/K10 Opteron/Athlon64 processors.