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

Jérôme Warnier ha scritto:
> [..]
> 
>>>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.
> 
> 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>

This is normal if it happens only once at boot. It is due to geom_label
system which helps us to recognize the correct cdrom device that is booting.

>>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.

Run xkbdlayout.sh, it's under /usr/local/sbin. As I said, we've not
prepared all those fancy automatisms yet.

Bye and thanks for the report,
Dario

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