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[Agitator]

Thanks stevewal looks nice!

After playing a little with this some things that do not work for me are

1. Virtual Keyboard not working for me if i want loopback install!
2. If i do a loopback install i cant start it!
3. Is the 2gb loopback limit fixed?

please help me what do i wrong?

[stevewal]

Agitator
could you start it in terminal by typing:-  xvkbd.sh  (and hit return).
Then give me the errors it shows.

[bassquake]

Hi.

Thought Id add my findings after very briefly playing around:

• When shutdown, the background stays as it is, and the 'shutdown' text writes over it. Dont know if this is intentional but being blue text makes it difficult to read.
• Mouse Config stays on value 6. Itll apply the new value, but when Ok then open again, its back to 6. So cant change mouse speed.
• Why does a circle line appear when right click on desktop icons? Its a bit ugly.
• Icons arent as nice as 0.6 but dont know if thats because of the theme used.
• Firefox tends to sometimes just quit or hang when watching youtube videos.
• Eject button on the CD mount box stays down sometimes and have to press it twice and often doesnt mount CD, says "too many mounted file systems" but only hd55 is mounted.

Overall, its a good start!  

ps. Sorry for the hijack but I finally found how to get digital sound out to the optical (or coax if youve done my mod!). Go here for how: http://forums.xbox-s...howtopic=668663

[stevewal]

bassquake,
Just to answer a few questions.

The Shutdown Background has now been solved for the next release

The mouse config app only appears on number 6 but does actually work. This app is down to dsl and not me. I might try to make it more intuative when I get some time.

The circle is dfm file manager which is now the default for dsl desktop

The icons are dfm too

Firefox Does seem to crash a bit more than the last version. Sometimes it's just a scrolling function in jwm (scrolling on the window margin will cause it to shade). Flash player is always a problem with firefox, and this browser more than the last one. But as this is a newer one you can install addons like flashblock which can block the flash adverts in youtube etc

The eject button stays down signalling the tray has been ejected. Press again for the tray to automatically close. (I might change this though)

Cheers,
Steve.

[run088]

When I run the apt-get update out of the tips and tricks section you posted Steve I get a problem everytime about some pcmcia-cs configuration.This happens in version6.6 and beta 7.I have been searching for answers and am turning up little of anything myself.


Can you or anybody come up with anything to help me out?

[stevewal]

hi run,
I think I've had the same bug but I can't remember how to get it. If your trying to upgrade to sarge or etch, it probably won't work now as dsl has changed quite alot and is'nt so compatible with debian. however you can get many etch apps to work by downloading the debian files manually and extracting them into the filesystem, and looking for dependancies, and repeating untill either the app works or it does'nt.

If you give me the exact senario, I can have a look too, but I'm not sure I will get any further than you.

Cheers,
Steve.

[run088]

I guess it is kind of weird.I figured out how to get around the pcmcia-cs error.I had to install a blank file in etc/init.d/pcmcia    It was trying to update a file that was not there once I made it the pcmcia error stops.

This will get around that but there are still 3 more packages to be installed that wont because of the next error I get.Either way it seems you can still get use out of apt-get without them installed I did it on a build all the way to ecth and these where the only 3 that has problems.Anyway it says it is having trouble overwriting /bin/chgrp

That file exists but if I try the same trick it still throws the error.This is a little different because it points out that that file also exist in coreutilities package.I just have not found out where that is as of yet to give a look.

The 3 packages left are

fileutils
shellutils
textutils

Fileutils is what is giving the error.

[run088]

The other 2 packages are both related to the coreutils as well.Both the textutils and the shellutils give errors just like the fileutils does about overwriting a file.I ran an upgrade individually for each so I could see there snag.All 3 have overwriting errors to files that have links to the coreutils package.I already gave the problem file for fileutils even tried for an upgrade on the coreutils package but it said it was up to date.
The others are for

textutils    =      /bin/cat

shellutils   =      /bin/date


It seems to all tie into coreutils but that is as far as I can get so far.

I tried copying the files elsewhere then deleteing them because it said it had a problem overwriting them but it did no good the errors were still there.I also tried a blank file and that did not work either.There is definitly something up with the error and the coreutils package.

Does this tell you anything?

I am going to do a little research on the coreutils package and see if I cant find a way to shed a little light on the problem.



On another note.The current vnc that comes with the build does not work for me.I can however grab another newer version from mydsl that does work but whenever you push the icon on build 6 or beta 7 it does not respond.You can run this command however to start it up

/usr/local/bin/vnc4x.sh

or

/user/local/bin/vnc4x0.sh

My question is why when you download and install this app why does it give both of these versions?Either one seems to work from what I can tell.

And how do you make the icon work instead of having to type the command?

Also how do you get rid of icons also that you dont want or that dont work?

And lastly how do I share files?

I have been racking my brain for days on how to do these things.I have found linux is not so hard to learn it is just hard to find the answers in a way you can understand without learning by trial and error which consumes massive amounts of time.Then again if it was to easy I know I would not have as much interest in learning it anyway.

[stevewal]

HI.
I'VE RUN INTO A BIT OF A SNAG HERE.
my hard drive with all my development stuff just gave up. Constant clicking is all I get out of it now. So I've lost about a months worth of work.

Oh well I'm sure worse things happen at sea. But it's back to the drawing board here.

Run, Keep me informed of any progress there. Cus it would be great to upgrade. You can make an icon as described in the dsl wiki in the link I've put on the top bar in firefox. For 0.7 just right click on a desktop icon and click create

[Vejita]

QUOTE(Opoth @ Dec 19 2008, 05:50 PM)

Try throwing the HDD in the freezer overnight.  It should give you about 15-20 minutes to pull anything off that you need once you reconnect it.  I've used this trick 2 or 3 times and its worked great.

I second Opoths advice. The HDD in the freezer has also worked for me and its a well known trick to use on a dead hard drive to get it working again for a short period of time to pull important data off.

[donofrio]

Anyone else getting weird lockup's once flash9 is installed?  Also how do I get the 2gb loop back file system to work like the 56mb loop back setup does?

--This is for my boys systems (only need flash and openoffice w/cups and all should be good)

[stevewal]

Hi,
Flash player has always been unstable on xdsl/dsl. It's only recently that anyone has got it to work at all. If you getting lock ups in the whole system and not just firefox, then please start firefox in the terminal and give me the error message when the crash happens. You could try switching to fluxbox window manager instead of jwm (look in the exit options) this might help. There is a problem with jwm where firefox does'nt shut down properly when flash crashes firefox. Issue the command "killall firefox-bin" to make sure there's no firefox process left in the background.

[stevewal]

OK I've finally got my sh-t together after loosing all my work twice, yes twice. Just bad luck unfortunately. I'm backing everything up (in a slightly paranoid way) now lol.

Anyway I've tried to iron out some of the bugs for this next release. The next beta download is available on the xdsl site.

I'm sorry I'm not able to help out with all the problems here as I'm really no linux genius. I'm just an average linux user who uses Xdsl all the time, and hopefully gradually improves it.

Fluxbox on this release is now fully featured and, may be a better alternative to joes window manager (default). lunuxrc has been updated. Firefox gtk2 and flashplayer scrips have been updated to take in changes to download site changes. Unfortunately flasplayer has been relegated to the macromedia archives, which take a long time to download but at least we still have a functioning flash player. the firefox script has been updated to use the debian sid mplayer plugin. This is a big improvement on the old plugin that flickered all over the place if it came up too large for the screen.

Firefox is still crashing with flash, as it always has done in xdsl but anoyingly staying running in the background. For now I've added an item in the start menu to kill firefox, which does the trick.

oh and the tray button on the dock will reset for eject or close.

Xvkbd (keyboard) will unfortunately not stay on top in jwm and needs to be focused for each new window. For those people without a usb keyboard, it may be easier to switch to fluxbox window manager (click exit on start menu)

Cheers,
Steve.

[donofrio]

does anyone know why I cannot mount both hda55 and hdb55 on my xdsl boot session (live loopback stock mode)  I'd like to quickly transfer files back and fourth and so far I'm stuck in ftp for the requirement....

[brandogg]

Yeah that's the only problem, and I thought I could get around it - using a G partition as well. I made a G partition using XBPartitioner, and copied all my Apps, etc to G. Then I chose native install, because it says it will only wipe out and format your F partition...well that's not exactly true, it will also delete any other partitions above F and format the remainder of your drive as one big F partition. Is there any way to change the XDSL setup to install to G instead? That would be much better.