M12 11.9.92

[GDixon]

No kidding on a new record...I've always been done with a fresh install in 10 to 15 min tops

But patience paid off.

Had to hunt down firmware for the Hauppauge 2250 tuner but got it into the /lib/firmware directory and am now watching tv with kaffeine. next step is to hook it up to the real tv and see whats what .

[uncle mark]

I've found a newer thread on this. Fixes for some elantech touchpad issues have been accepted into the mainline 3.11 kernel. Ubuntu kernels (and headers) with the relevant patches have been built for Precise (3.2), Quantal (3.5) , Raring (3. & Saucy (3.10). Could be worth a try.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sour ... mments/100

Thanks for your interest, Tim, but that stuff is above my pay grade.

Niece is getting a load of Mint KDE 15. (Mint KDE 13 LTS had the same problem.) Posting from it now. I've been impressed with it before, and did in fact use it for a new desktop build I did for a paying customer recently. Yes, I'd prefer to use MEPIS or even straight Debian, but sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do. At least with Linux we've got a lot of good choices.

[richb]

I've found a newer thread on this. Fixes for some elantech touchpad issues have been accepted into the mainline 3.11 kernel. Ubuntu kernels (and headers) with the relevant patches have been built for Precise (3.2), Quantal (3.5) , Raring (3. & Saucy (3.10). Could be worth a try.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sour ... mments/100

Thanks for your interest, Tim, but that stuff is above my pay grade.

Niece is getting a load of Mint KDE 15. (Mint KDE 13 LTS had the same problem.) Posting from it now. I've been impressed with it before, and did in fact use it for a new desktop build I did for a paying customer recently. Yes, I'd prefer to use MEPIS or even straight Debian, but sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do. At least with Linux we've got a lot of good choices.

The problem is not distro related but kernel related. I have it in Kubuntu 13.04. I tried that kernel but had the same problem. UM you just install the debs and update-grub. I also installed a 3.10 kernel and no fix.

EDIT: Actually probably kernel/driver/xorg or evdev related.

[uncle mark]

The problem is not distro related but kernel related. I have it in Kubuntu 13.04.
(...)
EDIT: Actually probably kernel/driver/xorg or evdev related.

I get that. All I can tell you is Wheezy and Mint 13 have the problem; Mint 15 does not. (Odd that Kub 13.04 has it, since Mint 15 is based of Ub 13.04.)

[richb]

The problem is not distro related but kernel related. I have it in Kubuntu 13.04.
(...)
EDIT: Actually probably kernel/driver/xorg or evdev related.

I get that. All I can tell you is Wheezy and Mint 13 have the problem; Mint 15 does not. (Odd that Kub 13.04 has it, since Mint 15 is based of Ub 13.04.)

What kernel and xorg server is Mint 15 using? Does it have an xorg.conf file? And is there an options.conf file in etc/modeprobe.d? I was able to get basic functions (cursor movement and clicks) to work by adding an options.conf file to /etc/modprobe.d with the line "options psmouse proto=imps". It causes the clickpad to be recognized as a mouse.

[GDixon]

I found the problem with boot and install times with the sandisk cuzer blade 8g flash key..
Do not use unetbootin to make a bottable key.
After getting everything working and working very well indeed on this new system I popped the key in and re did it using the Mepis usb key maker and problem solved.

bootable key times are now as one would expect in both booting and installing.

Has anyone try the talking clock yet? It seems jovie still has unresolved bugs?

[Jerry3904]

I've run into a curious problem but don't know if it is a M12 B2 problem or what. I am now using the second beta as a production OS, and have it pretty well working as I would like. I upgraded LibreOffice this morning, created a link to soffice in the menu so I could remove all the other entries and just get the portal, and that works both from the menu and from a terminal. I then unlocked widgets, dragged that soffice link to my Quicklaunch, but clicking on that icon gives me an error:

Unable to run the command specified. The file or folder file:///home/jb/.local/share/applications/LibreOffice%25204.desktop does not exist.

I checked for the file, and it is there (assuming %2520 is coding for the space) with the following content:

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[Desktop Entry]
Comment=
Exec=/opt/libreoffice4.1/program/soffice
GenericName=Office suite
Icon=libreoffice4
Name=LibreOffice 4.1
NoDisplay=false
Path[$e]=
StartupNotify=true
Terminal=0
TerminalOptions=
Type=Application
X-KDE-SubstituteUID=false
X-KDE-Username=

Clicking on that entry also fires up the portal screen. I tried logging out and in, but no change. Any thoughts?

EDIT: finally reinstalled after deleting the desktop file, now works as usual.

[BurtHulland]

M 11.9.92-64 bit won't run Google Earth ; M 11.9.91-64 bit will. I had remarked on this in another thread, but I thought at that time it was some change in the libraries that was causing the problem.

But I have now located a USB key with the M 11.9.91-64b ISO still on it and installed it to a spare partition. GE still works on that; but does not on .92. So the problem must be in the M 11.9.92-64b ISO.

M 11.9.92-32b is fine with GE.

Burt

[lucky9]

It appears that something was different in the 64 bit version. There have been other problems noted.

[BurtHulland]

Apparently the problem with GE in the 64-bit version is in "ia32-libs" itself. I have tried to figure out how to copy that package from .91, but so far no joy.

Burt