openSUSE 12.2 Revival Part 4

The window theme goes away eventually... Oh well... I guess I'll just deal with it. (:/)

openSUSE 12.2 Revival Part 3

Found a bit of a fix... But it breaks again if I switch between them or possibly logout. luckily, the fix for that is to just reboot. (XP)

In other words, I don't touch it or log out, and I'll be fine. (XD)

If I care enough later, I'll find a real fix.

openSUSE 12.2 Revival Part 2

Installing 12.2 to a USB hard drive worked well, and I got it to not break (installed FGLRX), so I installed it over Sabayon on the main drive, and did the same, but the problem was still there; I had to switch between GNOME and IceWM.

Well, I got almost everything to work, though the window theme isn't working right, but maybe I can find another window theme that will?

I had to look at the X error logs and installed stuff that it said it couldn't find, which helped out most of it, but then it went back to the "something went wrong" screen, so I had to go back into IceWM to install more things and decided to install LXDE as well.

GNOME was still broken, so I decided to switch to LXDE, which was a bad idea, as I wasn't able to do anything - it was just a black screen and a cursor. So after some run-arounds... I popped in the LM11 disk to edit the display manager file to disable the auto login (it kept booting me into LXDE) so I can get to IceWM to read the log file...

After rebooting, I got to the login screen and the background was there! So instead of booting into IceWM, I booted into GNOME instead, and had no problems!

Well, minus the fact that the window part of the theme isn't working, but oh well. I'll have to see if I can fix that since it seems that it might be the CSS sheets in the theme that's causing it to not work (there's a whole slew of errors from the CSS sheets in the X session errors log).

Needless to say, I'm back with openSUSE completely.

Oh, setting up dual screen was funny. I had to set it up in Catalyst Control Center first, reboot, then set it up in the regular display setting in the control panel. Whatever works I guess XD

I think Melty has definitely earned her worth as a tsundere. (XP)

openSUSE 12.2 Revival Part 1, Sabayon 9 Revival, Mandriva, and Mageia 3

So after sticking the 12.2 disk in Mei-chan, I noticed there wasn't a problem at all with the background (meaning it's not the GPU causing the problem). So I swapped out the hard drive to test out GRUB2 (I installed LM10 before installing 12.2), and it worked like it was supposed to. Yay!

There's a GUI interface to configure GRUB2 with 12.2, which is really nice... Well, a bit expected seeing that it was in the same "place" as the GRUB1 configuration tool.

So I've forgone the installation for Triela, Mei-chan, and Lie-chan.

I've also tried Mandriva, which wasn't all that great... it was really slow compared to Mageia.

I reinstalled Mageia, and used the Cauldron repository to attempt to install Firefox 15, but it kept doing weird errors (saying I need such and such packages), and I somehow got it to install; I was attempting to install something else, but it did the same thing, so I said screw it and went back to Sabayon.

Well, I think I kept looking at other distributions before giving up and going back to Sabayon. Regardless, it's installed now.

I've tinkered with xorg.conf without much success, and at the moment, I've got the other monitor turned off by settings. I managed to obtain the xorg.conf file from Mei-chan before installing 12.2. I've tweaked it a bit, and tried it without avail. (:/)

Well, I do know now that the problem is not the GPU since Mei-chan and Melty have the same GPU... So it's either the AMD FX chip that's causing problems, or openSUSE isn't properly setting something.

What I'd like to try is a test install of 12.2 to see what video driver it's using with whatever is similar to eselect opengl list. The only problem is that I've already settled into Sabayon a bit, so the only other real option is to install it onto a USB hard drive, and hope it'll boot properly (if I remember right, last time I attempted it, it didn't work well).

If my suspicions are correct, openSUSE might be setting my video mode to the wrong driver, so it breaks as soon as it gets to the desktop. It's really the only plausible explanation, since I really don't think the FX chip has anything to do with it.

Well, at the very least, it's nice to know that I don't have to abandon openSUSE altogether. Hopefully I figure out a fix for Melty...

Oh, I tried Mageia 3 alpha 1, and it hung while booting (:/)

An Entry of My Recent Journey

After Mageia, I went back to Sabayon against my better judgement. Sabayon has come a long way since I originally downloaded it for an "out of the box" solution.

However, while attempting to get dual-screening to work, I killed the video driver, so it doesn't boot into Sabayon (GRUB2 is unaffected however). What I remember from the install slides for Sabayon was "extreme this, and extreme that", so in an attempt of (possibly) bad humour... Extreme breaking! (XD)

Anyway, as a suggestion from Rei (the owner/coder of ACDB) I downloaded PureOS. After booting the live CD, it notified me that my video card might be outdated and that it has reverted to classic GNOME.

There is no f*ing way that a AMD Radeon HD 6770 is outdated!


If I had an incinerator, that would be where the disk is headed.

Anyway, I've just downloaded a net-install version of Arch Linux (the full ISO itself is almost a full DVD), and may try it tomorrow.

But it is another interesting journey to find another distribution, since I don't feel like waiting for openSUSE 12.2 to fully mature or to wait for 12.3 to see if they fixed the problem.

Well, from DistroWatch's list, 12.2 is a tad bit behind the package versions.... Sure I could use Factory, but I'd like to stay decently stable, since I don't want things to come crashing down like Mageia did.

Perhaps I just need to find a filler and wait to see what Mageia becomes, or find a fix to make dual-screen work. I am unsure.

I do know that I would like to find something decently quick. I don't want to spend the entire month downloading, installing, testing, and tossing distributions left and right.

Mageia 2 Part 4

Well, after fiddling around with SCIM and other things... I got it to work in LibreOffice... Which I thought was good enough, since it's better to copy/paste than not have it at all.

But sometime after syncing my Firefox and attempting to install Adblock Plus, Firefox closed and segmentation faulted. (-_-;;)

Mageia 3 alpha 1 is out, so it should probably be a couple months or so before the final release.

I had a feeling I was a bit premature with Mageia, but at least I know Mageia is more than likely viable. I'm gonna wait for 3 and do what I did here and see what happens.

For now, I'm downloading Sabayon 9, since it's the next similar thing (kernel 3.x and GNOME 3.x) that I can easily find.

Mageia 2 Part 3

Got the dual-screen to work... I switched from the FGLRX HD 6200-6400 driver to the HD 6400+ driver (my card's an AMD Radeon HD 6770), which actually didn't do anything. After getting all the updates and restarting, FGLRX no longer worked (for whatever reason), so it switched to ati-radeon... Which allowed for my dual-scren to work. (:D)

My media keys control Rhythmbox like it used to in openSUSE 11.3, so that's also another plus. Though, for some reason, some of the songs get cut off early and it goes to the next one... not sure exactly sure what the problem might be, but it could become a problem... It seems to only be when I use the updater... (>_>)

CPU fan went back up... so something in 3.3.8 is causing it to kick it to 100%. luckily, after shutting my parent's bedroom door, it's inaudible from the pillows on the bed, so it's the least of my worries.

To edit fstab, I had to do it the copy/edit/overwrite way... I was unable to log into root or use gedit via su.

Well, it seems like the connection is being closed for certain songs... so it's erring out for whatever reason... if anything, I'll have to make a copy of my music somewhere and edit the XML preferences to reflect that.

I was forced to install GRUB 1, and I re-installed LM11 to get GRUB 2, but it just messed up Mageia... But! Windows is detected, and that's really all I was after... If I remember, there's a way to chain-load GRUB 1 and 2, I just don't remember the order... and I'm not sure how to do it.

I didn't find the scanner program, even though it's technically installed, and if it's like 12.2 RC1, I'm gonna have to use LM... And with the above problem, I'm probably gonna have to use it live (I'm pretty sure that SANE is usable on the live CD).

VLC was installable (after selecting the non-free repository), and it works just fine. Nothing really more to say there.

Oh! I realized that I haven't installed SCIM. I'll do that now XD

Hmm... having problems with SCIM.. I think I'll end it here for now

Mageia 2 Part 2

Well, from the live version, it seems to be pretty good... I think it's what openSUSE 12.x was supposed to be... before something went horribly wrong.

I couldn't get dual-monitors to work... but perhaps installing it might work... I'll have to hope for the best.

I got my window theme to work, so that's also another good thing. The background also isn't broken as well (:D)

I can't install things from the live CD, since the install/remove software is limited to what's on the CD itself... So I'm not exactly sure what packages are there, though I'm sure there will be support for what I want.

My CPU fan isn't going nuts for no reason (:D)

Everything feels snappy for a Live CD, which is something I'm not used to. Ah, okay, I just checked the system monitor, and there's about 630MB of ram used... so I'm guessing it dumped the Live CD to the RAM. Though it did this, I'm still expecting it to be relatively quick when installed.

Hmm... there's NTP support, though I'm probably going to have to configure it via command line :/

According to DistroWatch, it uses GRUB 1, but I might do a test install on a separate disk to see if it detects other OS's... (:/) Screw it, I'll stay with LM and GRUB2. (LOL)

There seems to be a file-sharing type thing (partition sharer I think it was called), so maybe it's like an FTP? If so, and it works well, then it will make sharing files easy again (instead of awkwardly doing it with Filezilla.

Terminal feels the same in terms of su. Sudo doesn't exist apparently, but at least it's not clunky like Fedora where I use su, then use sudo. (-_-;;)

I'm liking it so far, just gotta install and test it out (just gotta remember to backup the themes and Rhythmbox preferences beforehand XD).

Mageia 2 Part 1

So I was poking around DistroWatch out of boredom... and saw that in the past 6 months, Mageia had taken #2 spot in page hit rankings (dethroning everything except Linux Mint).

It's a fork of Mandriva, but I'm willing to try it, since I'm kinda upset with openSUSE 12.2.

Maybe it's time for me to move on again (:/) If Mageia works out well, I may say goodbye to openSUSE, since Radeon/FGLRX is no longer a problem with the 3.x kernel.

Well, I won't abandon the openSUSE 11.3 installations I currently have though, that's just stupid. (XD)

openSUSE 12.2

Well, it was finally released yesterday. I finally got around to downloading it today and burning it...

The "firefly" loading screen is refreshing and nice to look at. But the background is still screwed up... So it seems that I won't be installing it anytime soon... What I'm gonna have to do is to just stay with what I have now and upgrade certain packages manually... *sigh*

Another annoying thing I've noticed with the 3.x kernel is that the CPU fan is kicked up to max. :/

Well, there's really not much more to say.