Linux Mint 5 Elyssa RC2 (BETA 048) is out!

[Onsager]

There is a problem with the Control Center. Using the dark themes, for example the peppermint, and choosing one of the groups, causes a little display glitch: the selected group appears with white background.
A screenshot can be found here:

[Onsager]

There is a problem with the Control Center. Using the dark themes, for example the peppermint, and choosing one of the groups, causes a little display glitch: the selected group appears with white background.
A screenshot can be found here:

Sorry, once more:
http://www.mediafire.com/?njpw9m9nmfm

[Jernau]

I've been using BETA 048 as a live CD for a short time and have some initial comments...

Upon first booting into the desktop I received the following error message dialog:

Code: Select all

There was an error starting the GNOME Settings Daemon.

    Some things, such as themes, sounds, or background settings may not work correctly.

    The last error message was:

    Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.

    GNOME will still try to restart the Settings Daemon next time you log in.

This happens with the Live CD, the problem is gone in the installed system.

Thanks for the information exploder, it's great to know that this doesn't happen in the installed system. However, I think that being greeted into the desktop by an error dialog is a pretty awful first impression for someone booting Linux Mint for the first time from the live CD. It could be enough to put them off even attempting an install... so, if possible, I definitely think it's something worth fixing.

[hotweiss]

One other suggestion. Why not add the trash can on the desktop by default? We all use it, why have it hidden?

[jasonwatkins]

I was going to download and test it out but I think Flash 10 beta is a horrible idea. In the short span of one day I found that cbs wouldn't go full screen and the bbc videos wouldn't play. Why was this included?

Yes, Flash 10 is to buggy. All of my Firefox crashes have been related to Flash 10.

i can't get any flash content to work now .. i guess it could mean going back to firefox 2 ??

but then at least I managed to get XMMS compiled and running in this release .. woohoo ..

other than that, no issues at all. been running it all day and it's great. haven't experienced any problems and it's pretty nippy as well.

[jman88888]

I was going to download and test it out but I think Flash 10 beta is a horrible idea. In the short span of one day I found that cbs wouldn't go full screen and the bbc videos wouldn't play. Why was this included?

Yes, Flash 10 is to buggy. All of my Firefox crashes have been related to Flash 10.

i can't get any flash content to work now .. i guess it could mean going back to firefox 2 ??

but then at least I managed to get XMMS compiled and running in this release .. woohoo ..

other than that, no issues at all. been running it all day and it's great. haven't experienced any problems and it's pretty nippy as well.

A better solution might be to try going back to flash 9.

[Speed Demon]

Can someone PLEASE tell me this: can u upgrade from 032 to 048 then 048 to final? Or 032 to final? Please help me. I will have wasted a cd otherwise. And it was a green lightscribe disk too

[Exsecrabilus]

I would really appreciate if for Broadcom wireless cards, you would let us locate the wl_apasta file locally.

I use that to connect to the Internet, but when I tried the RC 1 out, my computer tried to download it, which it couldn't; obviously.

[AlabamaHit]

Can someone PLEASE tell me this: can u upgrade from 032 to 048 then 048 to final? Or 032 to final? Please help me. I will have wasted a cd otherwise. And it was a green lightscribe disk too

JESUS man READ the TOPIC

NOoooooooooooooooooooo

DONTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT

is this eaiser for you to notice? Since you dont like to read obviously...


SPEED DEMON <<--------------------

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

I say it like this cuase it has been asked 4 times i know of and ANSWERED yes ANSWERED ALL TIMES ASKED......

[trung]

I have downloaded it and used QEMU on Ubuntu 7.10 to verify.

Why It dont boot? It run for a moment, and stop when stop in bash command line

why?

[twodogs]

can not connect wirelessly.

Daryna was great connecting but with beta 32 and beta 48 won't connect.

i use the 'hardware drivers' icon to get things rolling. i notice that 'in use' is already green (wasn't in Daryna) for Broadcom B43 wireless driver. I am connected with wire to the internet. I click the 'enabled' box and it starts the install and I download the file off the internet. says it's done and I close the box. my wireless light is on telling me the wireless is working (I have noticed that I can not turn this light (wireless) on and off as I did before with Daryna. I click the 'network manager' icon and i see my wireless network and several other networks too. I select my network (and I have even tried all the others). i enter the key after i change from passphrase to hex. I am using wep 128. I press ok and it looks like it is trying to connect. but doesn't. I see the two dots with the swirly thing going but nothing ever happens. the box pops up again asking me for the key again. I have triple verified that i am using the right key.

i have rebooted and still doesn't work.

>lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8385 [K8T800 AGP] Host Bridge (rev 01)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 PCI bridge [K8T800/K8T890 South]
00:0a.0 CardBus bridge: ENE Technology Inc CB1410 Cardbus Controller
00:0c.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 03)
00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 80)
00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 80)
00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 80)
00:10.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 82)
00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8235 ISA Bridge
00:11.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 50)
00:11.6 Communication controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 80)
00:12.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine-II] (rev 74)
00:13.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): VIA Technologies, Inc. IEEE 1394 Host Controller (rev 80)
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV350 [Mobility Radeon 9600 M10]



>ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:03:25:10:f4:5a
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
Interrupt:19 Base address:0xc00

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:355 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:355 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:27105 (26.4 KB) TX bytes:27105 (26.4 KB)

wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:90:96:a6:39:ce
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

wmaster0 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr 00-90-96-A6-39-CE-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)



>iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

wmaster0 no wireless extensions.

wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:""
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
Tx-Power=27 dBm
Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr=2346 B
Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

I am not sure what else to do?
thanks for your help.
TwoDogS.

[mmesantos1]

Installed Beta 048. Lots of things that were issues from Beta 032 are fixed but still not able to get emerald to work. I can install emerald and open the program but after picking a theme and restarting unable to have theme work. The window decoration does not change to the emerald selected theme. If any is having same issue and knows of a fix please let me know. Thank you in advance for your help.

[Zero Prime]

Installed Beta 048. Lots of things that were issues from Beta 032 are fixed but still not able to get emerald to work. I can install emerald and open the program but after picking a theme and restarting unable to have theme work. The window decoration does not change to the emerald selected theme. If any is having same issue and knows of a fix please let me know. Thank you in advance for your help.

This is actually a bug in Emerald, not LM. an easy fix for this is to download fusion-icon. It's in the repos. You can use it to switch between window managers. It also helps to add it to sessions so that it starts automatically.

[exploder]

Zero Prime it is nice to see people post solutions to problems! Thank you!

Thanks to Clem for the massive amount of work that went into this release!

Also, thanks to Zwopper for the gthumb tip!

[merlwiz79]

I've been using BETA 048 as a live CD for a short time and have some initial comments...

Upon first booting into the desktop I received the following error message dialog:

Code: Select all

There was an error starting the GNOME Settings Daemon.

    Some things, such as themes, sounds, or background settings may not work correctly.

    The last error message was:

    Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.

    GNOME will still try to restart the Settings Daemon next time you log in.

This happens with the Live CD, the problem is gone in the installed system.

I got this problem on the 1st beta.
I burned the iso to a different disc and their was no error on the livecd.

[merlwiz79]

Burned a fresh copy of Beta 048 to a CD. Booted up, tried out some of the different themes, and notice this while using some of the darker themes. Start menu is bright, and the text is hard to read unless you hover the mouse over one of the buttons.

Note: This is while being in the Live CD.

Right click on the menu and Select Preferences.
Under Colors tab UnCheck use custom colors.
Reload the theme if needed.

[Speed Demon]

Can someone PLEASE tell me this: can u upgrade from 032 to 048 then 048 to final? Or 032 to final? Please help me. I will have wasted a cd otherwise. And it was a green lightscribe disk too

JESUS man READ the TOPIC

NOoooooooooooooooooooo

DONTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT

is this eaiser for you to notice? Since you dont like to read obviously...


SPEED DEMON <<--------------------

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

I say it like this cuase it has been asked 4 times i know of and ANSWERED yes ANSWERED ALL TIMES ASKED......

OK god no need to yell, i only saw it ASKED 4 times then most people said "Not reccomended, only go stable to stable" All i wanted to know is if i could go 032-048-Final sorry if i need to read between the lines. Please dont yell at people even if you are trying to make a point, I'm pretty sure that does not fit the "Forum Courtesy" guidelines of just about every site in the world.

[exploder]

merlwiz79, the quote from me did not show in your post. I said that the problem is gone in the installed system. I did not notice the problem in the second beta from the Live CD either.

[merlwiz79]

Can someone PLEASE tell me this: can u upgrade from 032 to 048 then 048 to final? Or 032 to final? Please help me. I will have wasted a cd otherwise. And it was a green lightscribe disk too

JESUS man READ the TOPIC

NOoooooooooooooooooooo

DONTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT

is this eaiser for you to notice? Since you dont like to read obviously...


SPEED DEMON <<--------------------

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

I say it like this cuase it has been asked 4 times i know of and ANSWERED yes ANSWERED ALL TIMES ASKED......

OK god no need to yell, i only saw it ASKED 4 times then most people said "Not reccomended, only go stable to stable" All i wanted to know is if i could go 032-048-Final sorry if i need to read between the lines. Please dont yell at people even if you are trying to make a point, I'm pretty sure that does not fit the "Forum Courtesy" guidelines of just about every site in the world.

These are for testing for bugs.
The best way to do this is fresh install each beta release.
Updating from a beta to a newer beta could cause problems that the Release doesn't have.
This would slow the release down by trying to find bugs that aren't really their.

[mmesantos1]

Thank you Zero Prime!
Now working like a charm. Once again Linux Mint forum is the best, always someone willing to help.