9/05/03 too many broken things, rolling back to 4/5/03

[beforewisdom]

Hi;

I upgraded my hdd install from 4/5/03 to 9/05/03.

I noticed changes, not all for the better.

I uninstalled 9/05/03, did a clean reinstall just to check and then reinstalled 4/5/03.

I have new hardware. I bought my system in March 2003.

4/05/03 detected and configured all of my hardware perfectly without any effort from me.

9/05/03:

- didn't quite get my monitor (multisyncy lcd 1530v ) right. When I hit the
autoconfigure on the monitor the words became blurry and half of my
"screen" shot off to the right horizontally. 4/05/03 worked perfectly
with the autoconfigure.

- 4/05/03 all I had to do to get xine working was to dowload the dvd cracker
libs mentioned in the faq. No fuss, no muss. 9/05/03 set /dev/dvd to
"Knoppix/dev/dvd". It also could not detect my dvd player properly
running dmesg produced all sorts of errors. Trying to start xine made
it and the terminal hang.

- using XMMS to play a cd resulted in XMMS trying to play my radio
card instead. no such problem in 4/05/03.

- icewm 1.2.12 is BUGGY.


I don't want to complain for no reason.

If someone who has the power to change knoppix wants to work with me to figure out this apparent step backwards I will be glad to keep my system as it is for a few days to try to debug things so Knoppix can keep getting better with newer versions.

Thanks in advance

Steve

[Fabianx]

Hi;

I upgraded my hdd install from 4/5/03 to 9/05/03.

I noticed changes, not all for the better.

I uninstalled 9/05/03, did a clean reinstall just to check and then reinstalled 4/5/03.

I have new hardware. I bought my system in March 2003.

4/05/03 detected and configured all of my hardware perfectly without any effort from me.

9/05/03:

- didn't quite get my monitor (multisyncy lcd 1530v ) right. When I hit the
autoconfigure on the monitor the words became blurry and half of my
"screen" shot off to the right horizontally. 4/05/03 worked perfectly
with the autoconfigure.

- 4/05/03 all I had to do to get xine working was to dowload the dvd cracker
libs mentioned in the faq. No fuss, no muss. 9/05/03 set /dev/dvd to
"Knoppix/dev/dvd". It also could not detect my dvd player properly
running dmesg produced all sorts of errors. Trying to start xine made
it and the terminal hang.

- using XMMS to play a cd resulted in XMMS trying to play my radio
card instead. no such problem in 4/05/03.

- icewm 1.2.12 is BUGGY.


I don't want to complain for no reason.

If someone who has the power to change knoppix wants to work with me to figure out this apparent step backwards I will be glad to keep my system as it is for a few days to try to debug things so Knoppix can keep getting better with newer versions.

Thanks in advance

Steve

For the last one with icewm, thats a problem of debian ... Anyway good to know ...

The /dev/dvd-Problem did I introduce ... Sorry for that.

Just do as root:

rm -f /dev/dvd
ln -s /dev/cdrom /dev/dvd

rm -f /dev/cdaudio
ln -s /dev/cdrom /dev/cdaudio

And dvd and audio should work again ...

Hm, for the monitor problem, could you try to boot the CD with "knoppix noddc" or "knoppix xvrefresh=75" or "knoppix xvrefresh=60" ...

Then if you have a working configuration copy /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 to /yourrootpart/etc/X11/XF86Config-4 ...

Yes, we did change something in X-Detection-Process ... (So that some people can work with 100 Hz )

Please report a bug for that last one ...

Kano deserves it

cu

Fabian

[beforewisdom]

For the last one with icewm, thats a problem of debian ... Anyway good to know ...

The /dev/dvd-Problem did I introduce ... Sorry for that.

Just do as root:

rm -f /dev/dvd
ln -s /dev/cdrom /dev/dvd

rm -f /dev/cdaudio
ln -s /dev/cdrom /dev/cdaudio

And dvd and audio should work again ...

Hm, for the monitor problem, could you try to boot the CD with "knoppix noddc" or "knoppix xvrefresh=75" or "knoppix xvrefresh=60" ...

Then if you have a working configuration copy /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 to /yourrootpart/etc/X11/XF86Config-4 ...

Yes, we did change something in X-Detection-Process ... (So that some people can work with 100 Hz )

Please report a bug for that last one ...

Kano deserves it

cu

Fabian

None of that helped.

I can roll back to a June release of Knoppix I have that works out of the box.

However, I would like to help debug 9/5/03.

Working through the forum is kind of slow and frustrating.

I would be willing to make an appointment to meet via IM ( or private irc channel ) sometime this weekend to help debug all of this...........if that is helpful to you/the knoppix people.

If it isn't let me know and I will just roll back.

If you think it would be helpful to future knoppix releases post some times you can do it this weekend. I am in the eastern time zone in the US.

Steve