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    MEPIS 8.5 KDE 4.3 Alpha Released

    Discussion in 'Linux Compatibility and Software' started by theZoid, Nov 23, 2009.

  1. theZoid

    theZoid Notebook Savant

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    at DW. I booted up the live Cd being a MEPIS enthusiast, and for an alpha it seemed very stable. I was surprised that my BT mouse starting working without any intervention on my part. Looks pretty nice. Warren Woodford's "alpha" is someone else's "beta" so I would expect it to be pretty stable.
     
    theZoid, Nov 23, 2009
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  2. Changturkey

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    I'm thinking 9.0 will be based on Squeeze then? I've always liked Mepis for a Debian-KDE install.
     
    Changturkey, Nov 23, 2009
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    I'm thinking about installing it...but Xubuntu Karmic is working so well I can't see the point. Only problem I had it that won't recognize my multimedia keys OTB like Xubuntu, but I can probably make that work.
     
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    Sound works out of the box on my M17x - wireless, however, well its Broadcom. *sigh*
     
    Ethrem, Nov 23, 2009
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    MEPIS uses 'assistants'....have you gone into Network Assistant under Setup from the main menu? I'd check it out.
     
    theZoid, Nov 24, 2009
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    Broadcom works out of the box on Fedora 12 thank to opensource firmware :)
     
    Thomas, Nov 24, 2009
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    No, I haven't. I'm trying various distros. So far, sound is detected as nVidia HDA but does not work on: Ubuntu, Sabayon 5, FC12 and Linux Mint. It works on Mepis so far. I'm downloading PCLOS 2009.2 right now and I just burned openSUSE 11.2 and I'm going to try that out...

    FC12 has a huge bug with my system... it boots and the graphics are terrible. It inverts all the colors and it uses the wrong refresh rate on my laptop screen, causing lots of flickering...
     
    Ethrem, Nov 24, 2009
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    :O that's weird, Perhaps these could help:
    http://www.techspot.com/vb/all/windows/t-138392-Installation-of-Nvidia-graphics-card-on-Linux-Fedora-12-SOLVED.html
    http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=141586
     
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    The problem is that the graphic corruption starts as soon as the bootsplash comes up... its a mess... And sound doesn't work anyway so its not worth it.

    I get sound on openSUSE and Mepis. Nothing else, even though it detects it...
     
    Ethrem, Nov 24, 2009
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  10. Changturkey

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    If you get sound on Mepis, why don't you try figuring out the Wireless issue there? You could try their forums.
     
    Changturkey, Nov 25, 2009
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    The Mepis wireless assistant has been poor for as long as I remember. Maybe, it's not very good at supporting a wide range of wireless hardware, not sure. I have had Mepis on my desktop for a while. You could try WICD or ceni which Mepis has in one of their repositories. Those two wireless apps seem to work okay.
     
    puter1, Nov 25, 2009
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    Yeah, that wireless assitant is outdated...Warren really needs to bring those up to speed. But, that said, they've always worked for me. I like Ceni...it just works so damn well!
     
    theZoid, Nov 25, 2009
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