[Mageia-discuss] beta testing - GNOME live CD

Fri Apr 20 11:07:30 CEST 2012

Option: boot from CD
+
+Alienware X51 - i7 - 8Gb - nVidia GTX 555
+
+After all the preliminaries this came up with a display squashed into
+the left half of the screen with three colours out of registration
+making the tiny text almost illegible.  Obviously a driver problem.  I
+would have expected it to try the VESA driver which worked fine under
+Mageia 1.  GNOME 3 failed to load - the message was something like
+"your hardware is not capable of delivering the Gnome 3 experience".
+I had to abandon it.
+
+Dell Inspiron 580 - i3 - 4Gb - nVidia GeForce 310
+
+This is my production machine.  The system started to boot and seemed
+to be getting ready to switch to the gui and reported "the driver has
+changed" and ejected the CD and asked me to reboot.  End of story.
+
+So it looks like I cannot even test it.  I have no experience of live
+CDs so maybe there is a way to make it work.  For instance, in the
+second experiment I tried pressing F5 before booting because there was
+a menu with the item "F5 : driver" but all that did was move the
+selection down to "Install from CD".
+
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