VL-5.8-SOHO-RC3 Bugs/annoyances

[glas]

I downloaded and installed 5.8 SOHO RC3 today and so far so good except ... none of the browsers are able to play streaming video from my main news channel http://www.russiatoday.ru/test/ 

Usually Firefox has no problem with this using its MPlayer plugin.

Both SeaMonkey and Firefox try to start up but then choke. Opera won't even touch it. And Konqueror gives me a choice of tools, none of which work with this stream.

Could this be a software conflict problem? (I'm no developer).

[JohnB316]

I downloaded and installed 5.8 SOHO RC3 today and so far so good except ... none of the browsers are able to play streaming video from my main news channel http://www.russiatoday.ru/test/ 

Usually Firefox has no problem with this using its MPlayer plugin.

Both SeaMonkey and Firefox try to start up but then choke. Opera won't even touch it. And Konqueror gives me a choice of tools, none of which work with this stream.

Could this be a software conflict problem? (I'm no developer).

glas,

I merged your comments about SOHO 5.8 RC 3 with the bug report thread, since your post is more of an annoyance post than a kudo. ;-)

Cheers,
John

[Dweeberkitty]

When is the final supposed to be ready? It looks pretty close to me. 

[lagagnon]

When is the final supposed to be ready? It looks pretty close to me. 

...when it's ready is the usual Slackware distro response! 

[Dweeberkitty]

When is the final supposed to be ready? It looks pretty close to me. 

...when it's ready is the usual Slackware distro response! 

Well...Duh! I kind of figured that. Kind of hoping for a projected date though. I have some clients who are getting anxious to have their computers setup but I don't want to put an old release on their computer and then have to update.

[Triarius Fidelis]

Tell them we don't work on an upgrade treadmill basis.

[uelsk8s]

I would say Any day now

[Sty]

Good evening fellow Vectorites,

I must say, it has been a while; just no time to play these days.

I'm loving the way SOHO is shaping up.  I really love the new icon, kudos to whomever the designer is.

I do have a few little things I've run into with the limited time I've been testing it:

1) When you choose GRUB as a boot loader, all future references point to LILO, especially the part about rebooting at the end.

2) When it's time to set the Time Zone, can we fix scroll indicator?  Right now it's pretty broken which makes it very confusing when you're trying to set your timezone.  I know I'm paging up for quite some time to get to US/Mountain and the whole time it's showing that I'm at the top of the choices.  Also, I haven't checked, but are the changes to US Daylights Savings Time in V5.8SOHO?

3) In setting the partitions for various folders, i.e. /home, /usr, /opt, etc. you may set a second hard drive to one except for the Windows/Linux mount.  I always get an error of no more partitions are available.

4) Perhaps instead of using the logo during the boot up going across we can use colored orbs?  Say going from Red to Green or something else that seems to show you are "charged and ready to go?"  My fear is that our beautiful icon will be overused and lose its value.

5) This is more of a personal observation than anything, and I mean no offense by it.  In my most humble opinion, the SeaMonkey icon looks like a merger of a "pregnant Firefox" with an anorexic Thunderbird.  In fact, I was scared to click it and see what I would get.  It made sense after I opened SeaMonkey, but it seemed like a bit of a wild card.

Great job everyone who is working on this excellent edition.  I only hope things will calm down so that I may play more.

On a side note, I saw the name thread and am lacking the time to contribute, but if I were to christen Vector 5.8 SOHO, it would be Vector Complete 5.8.  Simple, clean, accurate, what more could you ask for?

Best regards,
~Sty

[JohnB316]

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2) When it's time to set the Time Zone, can we fix scroll indicator?  Right now it's pretty broken which makes it very confusing when you're trying to set your timezone.  I know I'm paging up for quite some time to get to US/Mountain and the whole time it's showing that I'm at the top of the choices.  Also, I haven't checked, but are the changes to US Daylights Savings Time in V5.8SOHO?
---snip---

Yes, VL 5.8 has the correct timezone information for the new US Daylight Saving Time law.

HTH,
John

[uelsk8s]

Also instead of scrolling through all of the timezones Try just pressing the U key and it will take you there

[saulgoode]

I have not installed RC3 but even so would wish to ask question. It is really just a curiosity and shouldn't be taken as a criticism:

Why 5.8?

Why is the fractional portion jumping from "1" to "8"? Were there internal minor versions which never were released?

Why "5" and not "6"? Under GNU versioning -- and other systems support a similar concept -- a bump in the major version is recommended when project changes affect its data/configuration files (for example, if the format of the GIMP's XCF were to change, a version bump from 2.x to 3.0 would be dictated). Under this criteria, it would seem the fact that 5.8 TLZ packages are not handled by 5.1 would recommend that they not share the same major version.

[Joe1962]

It was simple, at least at that time. Not all the elements wanted for a major version change to 6.0 were in place, but we felt waiting for so long was not warranted, as we had a Dynamite pretty much ready.

[MikeCindi]

Noticed last night that I have no PCMCIA access on my laptop. Yenta is loaded...I've not actually tried to troubleshoot this yet just noted it when I put a flash disk in the slot. Past versions of SOHO and std have had support available "out of the box".

[Yves Bellefeuille]

Here are various typing mistakes and typos during the installation. It should be fairly easy to locate where they appear; feel free to ask if anything is hard to locate.

- - -
To continue the install of VECTOR LINUX  -> To continue the installation

Welcome to the VECTOR LINUX Install -> installation

Keymap: change keymap to non US-layout -> non-US layout

es.bmap Espanol -> Spanish
(every other language name is in English)

INSTALL: Install Vector Linux into the harddisk -> onto

The basic install needs 2500 MB -> The basic installation

a vecterloper immediately pressed the [Enter] key while half a sleep -> half asleep

DONE: no more additional partition, thank's -> thanks

/tmp: small tmp may bost the speed -> boost

(On the list of developers) JohnVan (Forum Cheif) -> Chief

Otherwise, let it to localtime since most PCs are work this way  -> set it to localtime since most PCs work this way

Warning Warning
IF you get a black screen During the config test... -> If you get a black screen during the config test

... If you still get a Black screen when starting X, Then you will need to [text ends here] -> If you still get a black screen when starting X, then you will need to [and continue text]

[Yves Bellefeuille]

I have problems with the ATI drivers.

On a system with an ATI Radeon 7000/VE (Radeon RV100 QY), the fglrx driver didn't work. The radeon and ati drivers worked.

On a system with an ATI Rage 128 Pro Ultra TF, the fglrx driver didn't work; the ati driver worked. I didn't try the radeon driver.

During the installation, X configuration fails with an unhelpful error messsage to check /etc/X11/xorg.conf. I would suggest a more specific error message to try the ati driver.