[Mageia-discuss] Release candidate trial

Tue May 22 07:41:11 CEST 2012

Dell XPS m1730, Intel Core Duo 2, x86_64, nvidia graphics.
+Mageia 1 running perfectly.
+
+Have at last got round to installing RC-2.  Thought it wise to
+experiment with an old laptop as my Magaeia 2 system is now my main
+workstation.  The installation went very smoothly but the display
+would not work - flashing red, green, blue, white, black screens
+forever.  Fell back on the nv driver and booted into GNOME Classic OK.
+No wireless so over to ethernet.  OK.
+
+One minor problem was no backspace to start with.  After switching to
+gdm that went away.
+
+The main problem at this stage is no media updates.  The DVD appears
+in the list as the only update medium and any attempt to add the full
+list of sources hits this error:
+
+"...retrieving failed, curl failed, exited with 9"
+
+"Unable to access the distribution medium (no media.cfg file found)"
+
+Using aria2 as downloader gives error 4 and wget error 8.
+
+/etc/release = Mageia 2 release (Cauldron) for x86_64
+/etc/urpmi contains mediacfg.d => Devel and Official
+Devel,,, contains media.cfg
+
+Does media.cfg need to be copied down the tree?
+
+I guess these things need to be reported as bugs but I am not sure where
+to start.  The release notes imply that some firmware updates may be
+required, for older hardware (?), so I was hoping to download the
+specified package.
+
+Len
+
+