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.

openSUSE 12.2 RC1

Well, so far it seems like all the problems I had from B1 was carried over.

The background isn't blank though, it appears as a broken picture instead. I still didn't have luck with the dual displays either.

Well, looks like I'm stuck with M2 until the official release of 12.2.

openSUSE 12.2 Beta 1 Part 2

Well, I gave up on B1 and decided to revert to M2...

One thing I found was that M2 has the correct 12.2 repositories (ones that belong to 12.2) so I suppose I actually could just use M2.

As for GRUB2 testing... well, i'm gonna have to wait on that... or whenever I burn B1 again with K3b (with Melty)

AMD FX 3

Okay, so I stuck that new PSU with Lie-chan and no problems. So my assumption is that the rail for the extra 4 pins of the 8-pin CPU connector is faulty, since Lie-chan only needs the original 4 pins. So I think I'm just gonna save myself the trouble of contacting them and waiting for a replacement and sending that back.

Anyway, onto the main reason why I came to type (hopefully I can finish quickly). She finally has a name! Melty Do Granite from Shining Hearts. I went through about 17000 characters on ACDB, came up with 9 candidates, narrowed it down to 3 and did a 17-round elimination where Melty would generate a number between 1 and 99...

Well, I'll finish up later... In a thunderstorm and the internet went out...

2014 update: I actually forgot to finish this comment/post (v1/v2), and now it's way too late to remember what I was going to write.

openSUSE 12.2 Beta 1 Part 1

Well, so far my experience isn't very good. First the background isn't working, second I can't get the other monitor to extend the desktop, third everything in Yast is broken.

Now I know the ISO itself is good, but it also could have been a bad burn maybe... I dunno....

Well, if I'm up to it later I may turn Mei-chan on and burn it with K3B and not Brasero.

AMD FX 2

Well, got the case yesterday and transferred everything over except the PSU. I saw that the new PSU had a built in PCIe rail and decided to use that instead of the one that was in the old case that didn't have one. Got everything good to go and whatnot and then went to sleep then work.

So after I come home, I decided to install Linux Mint 13 (after burning it while in LM 11)... Which for some reason installed a broken GRUB2... So I had to reinstall LM11...

After that, decided to boot into Windows and right before the login screen, the computer shuts off. I tinkered a bit, tried again (doing this for several times; dragging the computer back and forth in the process) before finally coming to the conclusion it was the new PSU that was faulty.

Sometime during those attempts (I think toward the end), I pulled the PSU I was using out and noticed something was catching... Holy friggin' crap! There's the built in PCIe rail that I thought wasn't there. I must have hidden it so well from myself that I forgot about it... Then again, I didn't need it for Lie-chan since there was a molex connector on the motherboard for the PCIe slot.

Anyway, after swapping the PSUs (and just lazily reconnecting everything and not undoing some of my tinkering), I turned it on, got into Windows and started doing stuff... while expecting for something to happen. Luckily nothing so far (I'm typing this on the first boot XD).

I may return the fans (except the side fan and front fan) to the motherboard and see if that does anything (not to mention it makes it a bit neater.... sorta anyway).

One of the other hypotheses I had was that the 8-pin CPU plug extension cable I used to route it behind the mobo may have been the culprit... Nope, I was wrong, but I think I'll leave it as is. I really don't feel like messing with it any more for at least the first half of this month. I will also try that with the fans as well.

Well time to do a quick "stress test" to make sure everything's fine and dandy now... Hopefully I remember to write XClio an email sometime.