David Hare wrote:
The bad
is when I logout things go black and I have to press and hold
the
power button to shutdown or reboot, nothing else will work, using SMXI
to
install the nvidia driver did not help.
The live CD has a stock Squeeze kernel and nothing is modified in core
system areas. Some packages might be missing though.
Some machines might need firmware-linux-nonfree.
This sounds like a "nouveau" issue (some info on smxi forums). Try
adding "nomodeset 3" on grub kernel boot options line. It will boot
without X, then you can run sgfxi for nvidia.
See above where I said I had already installed the nvidia driver and it
did not help!
I had to
add "gksu synaptic" to the menu to get synaptic to start, just
using "run as a different user" did not work.
The kmenu was rearranged for this live build.. Root apps (including
synaptic) are in system> root application.
There are some kdesudo-trinity related issues (and fixes), see other
threads.
I included a (optional) post-install script to remove kdesudo
altogether and automatically fix the menu to use kdesu
Using the su filemanager to edit a config file is
a pain because I have
to
keep telling it what app to use and clicking the box to save the
settings is
not working.
kdesu/kdesudo kwrite. Has own filebrowser dialogue
Also, not a big problem, using wallpaper.svg is
not displaying proper,
the
image is all black, possibly can be fixed by adding a svg package, I
don't
know for sure.
There is a limit to what can be squashed to 700MB! (e.g. a full
Trinity install) . Please note also aptitude is missing, add yourself
if wanted (I use only apt-get)
That stuff is part of a working desktop system, they are not optional
and I don't see any of those problems my Debian installs!
I know
all most of this stuff is inherited from Trinity and not your
fault,
but I just can't use this system the way it is, maybe you can play with
it
and get some of the stuff fixed, if you need some info from me or want
me to
test some stuff just let me know.
I mentioned adding
http://debian-multimedia.org/ to the repos, you may
want
to add
http://security.debian.org/ to the list too.
debian-multimedia breaks stuff (vlc....) and has legal issues.. please
add yourself if you need it
security.debian.org.. goes in later when Squeeze is stable
Other distros add debian-multimedia they just leave it remarked out. As
far as it breaking Squeeze, this is the first I've heard, if you have
some bugs it would help to report them!
Security.debian is working now, volatile is what is not working the last
time I checked!
I'm not here to have a pissing contest with you, have fun with your cd,
I won't be testing it any more!
Regards,
--
Jimmy Johnson
SimplyMEPIS 11.0 RC-1 EXT4 64-Bit at sda2
Registered Linux User #380263
Just a friendly reminder to please keep it civil on these lists.
Also, I know from experience how difficult it is to squash the filesystem
down to 700MB. I would recommend using deborphan to see if there are any
extra libraries that can be removed.
Tim