Thanks to everyone in the community who has given feedback and submitted bug reports! Keep in mind that if you are testing for MEPIS, it is best if you do not update from the pools. We have no way of knowing whether a problem you report exists in the OS or if it is a result of an update from the pools.

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I've found a solution to a problem with audio on the Intel 915 boards. I don't know if this is the only problem.

The mixer for hda-intel is very odd. The master volume has no affect. This means that unmuting the usual volume control and turning it up does nothing.

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In the next MEPIS release, which applications would you like to have in the panel?

Following is a list of apps that have been included in the panel, but feel free to suggest others. Also, please tell us which apps you would like as small icons and which as big icons.

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Hfsplus write support has always been iffy in Linux. In kernel 2.6.15 the write support for hfsplus filesystem has been disabled by the kernel team. As a result, it is no longer possible to upload songs to a Mac iPOD with MEPIS.

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If you want to delete the Weather Applet, right click in the panel and select Remove From Panel > Applet > Weather Report

If you want to change the station, right click on the Weather Applet in the panel and select Configure KWeather...

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We finally found a wireless card that demonstrated the WEP encryption problem. Different cards initialize the key mode differently.

If you have the problem, edit the file: /etc/mepis-network/wireless/default

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We have one very old machine that exhibits the problem of CDROM events not being seen and/or processed by udev. The Debian pool has an update of udev to version 0.081. I upgraded the packages in rc3+ and the CDROM works correctly now!

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It's been several months in the making, but we at MEPIS think that Simply 3.4-3 may be ready for final release. It works on our machines. However, we've heard from a few people in the community that things are not so peachy for everyone trying the latest RC. There have been a few reports that CD drives and SATA drives are not being recognized. But, try as we might, we cannot duplicate the problem.

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If you use reiserfs and had trouble installing with RC2, that problem should be solved in RC2.1. Otherwise RC2.1 is the same as RC2.

The problem with dynamic /dev taking time to settle was more widespread than I realized. Now the installer has a time delay between each and every operation that might cause the hard drive dev entries to be rebuilt. I think I got them all...

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Yes there is a RC out! Unfortunately it looks as though there will be a RC 3 just around the corner due to a few problems that have already cropped up. Please let us know if there any more bugs that need to be resolved. We will update this document as we find new problems and fixes.

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