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KrispyKritter wrote:...No cheats needed...

With the roadblock install, the nomodeset video=uvesafb:mode_option=640x480-24,mtrr=3,scroll=ywrap items are cheats, the Kubuntu install isn't using any though. I wonder if that video=blahblah cheat works with M12?

I see that see the Kubuntu install is using a 3.11 kernel, have you tried MX-14? It also uses a 3.11 kernel.

kernel is 3.12 in B2

Jerry3904 wrote:kernel is 3.12 in B2

oops

kmathern wrote:

Jerry3904 wrote:kernel is 3.12 in B2

oops

The default Mepis kernel is 3.9.8-1 not 3.12,
3.12 is installable from Wheezy-Backports, but it is not the default.

He was talking about the MX-14 default, which is 3.12 in Beta 2

kmathern wrote:

KrispyKritter wrote:...No cheats needed...

With the roadblock install, the nomodeset video=uvesafb:mode_option=640x480-24,mtrr=3,scroll=ywrap items are cheats, the Kubuntu install isn't using any though. I wonder if that video=blahblah cheat works with M12?

I see that see the Kubuntu install is using a 3.11 kernel, have you tried MX-14? It also uses a 3.11 kernel.

I tried that cheat code and it didn't work. I would expect this problem if I had a NVIDA card, but not with ATI. I am also surprised that the NVIDA people have not had any problems. If memory again serves me right the black screen usually would appear when the DVD first started loading and you could not even get to the boot screen.

From this thread I appear to be the only person that has had any video problems, because no one has mentioned it.

I guess I should go and see if I can get MX14b2 downloaded and see what happens with it.

Warren does a keyboard/display configuration during the load process and I see the font change on the display, but not the size which tells me the screen resolution does not changed (the nomodeset is holding) just the font is changed. When I get to the blinking cusor my keyboard is not enabled. Don't know what is going on there.

Steve

uncle mark wrote:

malspa wrote:Is there any M12 development going on that anyone's aware of?

Don't count on it.

I'm a bit confused (sorry if I have missed some important announcement that explains it all, but I have tried and looked around): does that mean that M12 has been abandoned and replaced with MX-14? Will there be a KDE version of MX-14? Or is there hope and we should just lie low and wait for the real McCoy? Again, sorry if this is completely obvious to the oldtimers, but I have been waiting for the new version for what feels like a very long time...

pindar wrote:

uncle mark wrote:

malspa wrote:Is there any M12 development going on that anyone's aware of?

Don't count on it.

I'm a bit confused (sorry if I have missed some important announcement that explains it all, but I have tried and looked around): does that mean that M12 has been abandoned and replaced with MX-14? Will there be a KDE version of MX-14? Or is there hope and we should just lie low and wait for the real McCoy? Again, sorry if this is completely obvious to the oldtimers, but I have been waiting for the new version for what feels like a very long time...

Warren has communicated that Mepis Linux is not dead. At the present time he is involved in time consuming activities like making a living. He will from time to time publish package updates, but when a final release will be issued is unsure.
In the mean time several users are using the latest M12 beta as their daily OS.

richb wrote: Warren has communicated that Mepis Linux is not dead. At the present time he is involved in time consuming activities like making a living. He will from time to time publish package updates, but when a final release will be issued is unsure.
In the mean time several users are using the latest M12 beta as their daily OS.

Thank you, that explains the status. So I will patiently wait and see if M12 gets released, sooner or later...

Will there be a KDE version of MX-14?

You can install KDE on it with a single click, but there are no plans (and no interest AFAIK) to do a dedicated KDE version.