[Mageia-discuss] beta testing - GNOME live CD

Fri Apr 20 21:07:30 CEST 2012

On 20/04/12 17:54, Philippe DIDIER wrote:
+> Len Lawrence a écrit :
+>>   On 20/04/12 11:35, Manuel Hiebel wrote:
+>>> Le 20/04/2012 11:07, Len Lawrence a écrit :
+>>>> 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.
+>>> Have you read the blog post, the download page or the errata ?
+>>>
+>>> "Please note there is a bug about LiveCDs and NVIDIA graphic cards. A
+>>> workarround can be found in the Errata"
+>>>
+>>> https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Mageia_2_Errata#LiveCD_and_Nvidia_card
+>> Thanks, that was very useful.  The system displayed perfectly with the
+>> nouveau driver.  But.  GNOME 3; horrible.  Cannot work with it, ever.
+>> More to say on the forums.
+>>
+>> Len
+>>
+> Just try KDE beta3 liveCD : it's wonderful (after the workaround for
+> nvidia graphic card problem)
+> quite everything is OK
+> you just need to add the repo in CCM rpmdrake and validate the non-free
+> and tainted repo if you want to read multimedia files : the gstreamer
+> plugins rpm and dependancies will be automagicaly downloaded
+>
+> never used such a good LiveCD (better than fedora, debian, opensuse !)
+>
+> Philippe
+>
+>
+I suppose I ought to try KDE but have little hope of liking it.  The 
+couple of times I tried it in the past I felt totally lost, as I do in 
+GNOME 3.  My main interest is development and for a new release I would 
+want to make sure that I can run all my home grown ruby scripts OK 
+because they effectively define a big chunk of what I do and I have no 
+idea how to go about installing a persistent development environment in 
+a live CD session.  I could not see immediately how to access my hard 
+disk from the live CD either.
+
+Len
+
+