Re: New FreeSBIE beta releases (Was: OOo startup time)

Le lundi 19 décembre 2005 à 09:54 +0100, Jérôme Warnier a écrit :
> [..]
> > > Well, I must admit that I tested it (version 1.1) on many different PC,
> > > and all but my laptop failed, mostly because of display problems
> > > (garbage, and impossible to see anything, or seeing just the mouse
> > > pointer, but impossible to move it and nothing else ever appears on the
> > > screen). I would guess they are graphics adapters-related.
> > > One of those is a Matrox MGA G200 AGP, another is a S3 Trio3D, and the
> > > last one is an nVidia TNT chipset. If I can help in fixing those...
> > > 
> > > My laptop is an IBM T23, with a Savage adapter.
> > 
> > Ok, you can download the beta from the torrent:
> > http://torrent.freesbie.org/FreeSBIE-default-i386-20051218.iso.torrent
> 
> I tried it. On my PC with a Matrox MGA G200, it works nicely, detecting
> the card without any problem, and no more graphics memory corruption.
> On this PC, which has only 64MB RAM, starting OOo is *extremely* slow.
I added 64MB, and it seems to be quite better, but still not blazingly
fast as on my laptop with FreeSBIE 1.1.

> On my laptop (IBM T23), it seems it has a real big problem to read from
> the DVD drive, so it is _extremely_ slooow to boot, and unusable
> afterwards anyway.
> I can read the following error line during bootup:
> acd0: FAILURE - READ_BIG ILLEGAL REQUEST ... error=4<ABORTED>
It is probably not the cause, as my other PC, described before is
showing the same message, but is reading quite fast from its DVD.


> > You can log in as user "freesbie" (no password) and try startxfce4 or
> > startfluxbox. You won't find the preconfigured menus and settings as
> > dave's still working on them, but you can run `openoffice.org' from a
> > terminal.
> > 
> > All you readers are strongly welcome if you can give it a test and
> > report a feedback, we are working hard for the new release ;)
> 
> Where should I change the keyboard mapping? It doesn't ask for anything,
> but the result is that it does not get alone to a graphical environment,
> nor does allow to change the keyboard mapping at boot.
> 
> Also, the motd is not yet personalized.

If sudo was installed and configured, one could poweroff or reboot the
machine from XFCE.

> > Bye and thanks
> Hope it helps
> 

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