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Can I safely assume that since I have been downloading all the updates I am now running A5?

If there is a way to turn it on I cannot find it.

I've loop mounted the iso and grepped the boot/isolinux/*.cfg files.

{The .cfg files are what are used for the dvd's boot menu}



The nvidia.cfg entries go with the dvd's "NVIDIA Xorg config" boot option, the append line contains the kernel options/cheats that are used with it.

For fromiso or usb/unetbootin booting it looks like you could use vga=788 quiet drvr=nvidia confx cheats for the GeForce 6600 listed in your signature.

Just got a Warren tweet officially announcing release of Beta 1. So it is a beta.

Cool!

Is anyone else seeing this please?

So far, Alpha 4 has been the only release I have been able to get to boot.

Chris

kmathern, A5/beta1 boots ok fromiso on my box.

I don't know if the order that the kernel options/cheats appear in is important or not but in my fromiso stanza I have the confx option as the last option on the line. The dvd's menu stanzas that use the confx option also all have it as the last option. If you were just adding drvr=nv to the end of the options line, you might try re-arranging things so the drvr=nv option appears before the confx option.

I note that you don't use the options such as drvr=* {vesa or nv} or confx with your fromiso stanza.

I seem to recall that I was able to do that with alpha3 and alpha4 but the resulting display wasn't very pleasing.

I think when leaving out the drvr=nv and confx options it ended up using the vesa driver and gave me a 1280X1024 @60Hz display. {60Hz maybe okay for a LCD display but it gives me a headache with my CRT}

64-bit install went smoothly on my eee using a unetbootin created flash drive, no pauses or delays. Everything works as expected from first boot.

I installed my list of apps with no issues, until I came to Skype. The only .deb packaged version from Skype for Squeeze is the Ubuntu/Debian version (which sucks because the parent is Debian, it should be in first place, while eewbuntu is the rebellious child that takes all and gives little to nothing in return). The installer claimed all dependencies were met, however, where ia32-libs was found to be installed, it really required ia32-libs-gtk. I found this out after trying to fire up Skype, which failed, so I went to check dependencies only to have any attempt to open Synaptic fail, then I found it snowballed to include any app that required root escalation. I had to reboot as logout was not sufficient, open synaptic, install ia32-libs-gtk, then I could fire up Skype without any snowballing faults.

Can I suggest that both ia32-libs and ia32-libs-gtk be preloaded on the next 64-bit iso to avoid future frustrations from badly written third party installers such as the gnome-centric Skype and possibly others that may have the same issue.

The Network-Manager icon for disconnected wireless networks in the tray is easily missed as a fault, it is a tiny dot and that's it. The icon needs to be either changed or animated to alert users of its presence because it's too easy to miss and interpret it as a fault. Other than that, the new configuration window for Network manager that is launched by it is outstanding when compared to the earlier version for the information it gives when the name of the connected interface is clicked.

Desktop effects were enabled but not functional until I used smxi to reset the graphics to Intel810 and changed to opengl.

Suspend to RAM works, wireless, webcam, card reader and audio all functional coming out of STR

Gnome Player fails on AVCHD playback with the following error
Failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau_nvidia.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or Directory
- however, changing the video playback option to anything other than VDPAU works and I only tested .mts files, no other media present at the time of testing.

The installers new option to set your timezone is fantastic, however, the Live-Linux session still resets the CMOS clock to US time, which for me is a minimum of 13 hours behind, so on first start after installation, the system "corrects" the last access time for all the installed files, which is in the future, where they should be, not "corrected" due to the system clock having been wound back by the Live-Linux session. Post install, the correct time is displayed and it is not changed when the clock in the tray is set to show the timezone for the location the user resides in, where in earlier versions, it would skew very badly. Thankfully, the clock drift is easily corrected by selecting the option to use a time server and for the first time since Mepis 3.31, for dual-booters, the correct time is displayed in Windows too, which is B****y marvelous, a job well done.

Bound to be other items I've missed or forgotten. Overall, a very good first impression, seems to still be a hangover from the previous alphas related to Nvidia being set up as the internal default GPU though.

Mike P