VL-5.9-STD Bugs/annoyances

[kidd]

Well, you know what's that thread about, don't you?

- vasmCC does not start the FileSystem->Partition program

- /usr/bin/X  points to a non-existent dir named Xorg

- /usr/bin/X11  points to iteslf (this may be for compatibility issues but well, I report just in case..)

[el_bot]

(Sorry by my English... It's not my native language)
Hi.I don't know if this problem persists in the last version. Can someone check it? (I have little time these days).
In 192.168.2.2 is running sshd (I run it manually whith: /etc/rc.d/rc.sshd start )
$ sftp bot@192.168.2.2
Connecting to 192.168.2.2...
bot@192.168.2.2's password:
Received message too long 458960945

I think the problem is in scripts who echoes messages and don't check if stdout is a terminal (~/.bashrc or /etc/profile.d/*.sh ? ).

[blurymind]

vl-hot doesnt want to mount cds/dvds (tried with mont /dev/... and the xfce mount plugin)
Hal mounts cds/dvds, but doesnt want to unmount them,giving me the following:

Given device "/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/storage_model_HL_DT_ST_GCE_8526B" is not a volume or drive.

only way over this is goint root and issuing umount

Other than that i have encountered numerous bugs at vpackager. (which i believe should be reported elsewhere)

its possible for this bug to go away after a reboot? I have to test again with vl-hot.

[Dweeberkitty]

vl-hot doesnt want to mount cds/dvds (tried with mont /dev/... and the xfce mount plugin)
Hal mounts cds/dvds, but doesnt want to unmount them,giving me the following:

Given device "/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/storage_model_HL_DT_ST_GCE_8526B" is not a volume or drive.

only way over this is goint root and issuing umount

Same problem here. I reported this back in RC1 or so but apparently it never got fixed.

I installed this on a Dell Dimension 2350 and which had a VL 5.8 SOHO install on it. During the configuration part of the install, the screen went blank (when configuring X) and stayed that way. Well, I shut the thing down and finished the configuration later. Since then, if I switch vt or go from init 4 to init 2, I get that same black screen. This machine has an integrated Intel card 82845G/GL. Also some of the icons look strange, all faded out and with little dots. Especially with VasmCC.

So, to try to get away from the Intel card and go back to my old friend Nvidia, I put an Nvidia Geforce FX 5200 pci card in there. After switching the BIOS to use the PCI card over the integrated one, I began to boot up VL. However, when it got to "Starting udev" it froze up. I rebooted again and tried again only this time looked at the text it outputted. When it got to "Performing Coldplugging" a whole bunch of text was spit out, which looked liked the Kernel had crashed. I think it did crash because it wouldn't reboot or do anything. I'll see if I can get a copy of the text that it outputted. Any suggestions? I would very much like to use the Nvidia card because the Intel drivers seem to have some major problems.

[rang501]

Some problems:
1. X servers auto configuration option dont work at all, I chosed it and after reboot X won't start.
2. My touchpad is not useable fully(scrolling button dont work, can't drag window by using only touchpad).
3. No GIMP    

Anyway, shutdown speed is good, only startup speed is a bit slow(winXP is faster). Keep up the good work
Happy new year to everyone!

[InTheWoods]

wireless problems
Vasm cc inserts driver into ndiswrapper but
ndiswrapper -l
shows it as an invalid driver

attempt
ndiswrapper -r drivername.inf
couldn't delete /etc/ndiswrapper/net5416.inf: No such file or directory

removed driver with thunar and ran
ndiswrapper -i drivername.inf
driver now recognized

still unable to use vasm to set up wireless with Vasm cc.
'unable to find internet address'
Set up using Easuter's How to. with the following change
INTERFACES="eth0"
is changed to
INTERFACES="eth0 wlan0"
in 5.9
/etc/ifplugd/ifplugd.conf
instead of
/etc/ifplug.d/ifplugd.conf
as in Vec 5.8



Proprietary fglrx ATI Driver included is too new for my card (9250)! Installing the proper one [8.28.8] failed.

Code:

sh ati-driver-installer-8.28.8.run

Detected configuration:
Architecture: i686 (32-bit)
which: no XFree86 in (/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/opt/bin:/usr/X11/bin:/usr/local/games:/usr/games:/opt/Adobe/Reader8/bin/:/usr/lib/java/bin:/usr/lib/java/jre/bin:/usr/lib/qt/bin:/opt/seamonkey/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin)
X Server: unable to detect
Removing temporary directory: fglrx-install

The problem is the latest available driver for this card does not work with Xorg 7.3
The card does work with both of the provided open source drivers but poorly! Slow and less resolution.

Thunar seems terribly slow on my machine!

[raymac46]

I think there might be a problem with the newest 2.6 kernel and acpi on old hardware.
Kernel 2.6.18.5 in VL 5.8 starts and runs the cooling fan on my 1999 Compaq Armada. The installation of 5.9 could not complete because the fan didn't start. The CPU got to a critcal 98 degrees C and the laptop shut down.
I have reinstalled 5.8 and everything is OK.

[nubcnubdo]

raymac46 wrote:

I think there might be a problem with the newest 2.6 kernel and acpi on old hardware.

The workaround is to disable both ACPI and APM in BIOS, then append lilo.conf for APM power management. The kernel and BIOS compete for control of power management; consequently both abandon PM and the fan stops. Appending lilo.conf passes parameters to the kernel at boot time. See this HOWTO...

http://www.vectorlinux.com/forum2/index.php?topic=4795.0

Here is the line of code that appends lilo.conf for APM

Code:

append="apm=on apm=power-off"

After appending lilo.conf, you must run the command "lilo -v" as root from terminal.

sample

Code:

image=/vmlinuz
    label=linux
    root=/dev/hda1
    append="apm=on apm=power-off"

[raymac46]

Hard to modify the BIOS on this old machine because the hard drive was replaced and the partition containing the BIOS parameters was wiped off. The Compaq laptop does support acpi and powers off correctly.
I did try appending "acpi=off apm=on apm=power-off" to lilo.conf.
This stops the fan in Vector 5.8 which I don't want.
The issue is that VL 5.8 does run the fan with acpi enabled and VL 5.9 does not. I'll just stay with VL 5.8 and be happy I guess.

[nubcnubdo]

raymac46,
I realize you've reached a stopping place in your efforts. You can reinstall Compaq Setup by generating 3 floppy disks for that purpose. Just plug in the laptop's model number at HP support and find driver downloads for your laptop. There you will find the software for reinstalling Setup. If you reinstall Setup, you will lose all data on the hard disk. On laptops as old as you (didn't) describe, APM works better than ACPI, as ACPI was somewhat flakey in early versions. If you ever get the time and resolve to try again, I'm fairly confident you can find the proper combination to fix power management, ie. the fan stopping.

[Pita]

I just found that gslapt is not installed and looking for it in
http://vectorlinux.osuosl.org/veclinux-5.9/packages/
I can't find it there either, the same holds true for vasmcc. Ain't that strange?
According to the PACKAGES.TXT gslapt should be found in ./net.

[kidd]

not installed???

open a console and try:

Code:

kdesu gslapt

and see what happens... It should work.... For me it does (and I have it in my xfce menu)

[Pita]

It is not in the box. 'Whereis gslapt' returns nothing so does locate and I just run updatedb. Is there another repository?

[uelsk8s]

Pita,
Gslapt as well as gamin and kdelibs are on the 5.9 gold ISO.
how did you install?
if you used an older RC cd to install the Gold iso it will not install all of the packages because of some installer changes.

[Pita]

I thought I installed VL5.9-STD-Gold.iso and just checked gslapt is not in http://ftp://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/vectorlinux/veclinux-5.9/packages/ as well.

gslapt is not in /var/log/packages.

Where do I find what I installed?

Yes I used the oldest RC or Beta to install Gold. So I really have to burn Gold to a CD.