Bugs

Please whatever, if you are going to post "bugs", please be specific especially with your hardware. If you do not provide that information than we have no way to confirm/deny/test/fix what you are claiming is broken. To address the items you mention:
1) I have a laptop that has "/home" as a mountpoint on a different, logical partition. My "root" partition is either /dev/hda3 or /dev/hda2 depending on which Mepis version I'm using. My "home" is on /dev/hda6. I've used both reiserfs and ext3.
2) I can't speak to this because I don't have that type of display. Can you tell us what type of video card(s) you have?
3) I don't currently use Windows, so someone else will have to answer this one.
4) I don't think "ordinary" is a bug. May I take it that you don't like how the "hardware configuration" is organized, works, is colored, what?
5) I don't have this printer and cannot say what "is very popular" means. This often times is dependent upon what part of the world you're in. I'm in the US, but many things "popular" here are next to impossible to get in Australia, for instance.

Thanks for your post, but again, bug fixing can be improved by the thousands of developers when more information is available.

Jon

Whatever, may I suggest that you read "How To Ask Questions The Smart Way" http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html and follow the advice therein while drafting your next post?

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Microsoft and Open Source can play well together. Just look at how well Orca and penguins play together.

Re 1: Youŕe dead wrong. Your / partition is used, not your /home partition for booting. I have separate logical partitions for /home for all 4 currently installed linux distros. No problems.

Re 2-5: Please give a bit more information. Nobody can address these matters if you don't provide info.

2. ..doesn't work.... What symptoms?
3. Unclear. Grub does never 'install partitions'.
4. Which 'hardware configuration GUI' do you mean ?
In what way 'ordinary' ?
5. If you are sure about that write to Canon about their abysmal (=total lack of) support for linux. Has that printer worked in any other linux distro ?

Regards, Ko

Ko Bros

Microsoft do not support Canon and I have never seen a single windows computer that can use any late model canon printer without a driver. Canon themselves provide the drivers for their hardware, so they support microsoft, not the other way around, so what makes you think it's a Linux bug?

Linux and the open source community provide the equivalent of Mt Everest in hardware support for free in comparison to Microsofts mound of dirt that you paid for next door, but due to lack of manufacturer support, Linux systems have to find alternative ways to make things work, which we have done very well with the limited amount of support we can get from some manufacturers. Canon do provide support for their latest models in Japanese, but the Germans are a clever lot and they have fugured it out, so they made Turboprint. Look it up, pony up the dough and get your canon working.

Mike P

Hi,

Thanks for the comments and mild flaming (grin).

Here is some detailed information that hopefully will help.

1. I set up (2) x ext3 partitons and (1) x swap partition. One of the ext3 paritions was selected for the home dirs. With this configuration my system would not boot, however, it may have been a monitor issue or my newbie lack of knowledge?
2. When using the standard boot selection the Samsung 172T monitor will not work at 1280 x 1024 resolution. If the menu option "use if having monitor problems" is selected the monitor works fine.
3. Grub did not seem to install properly so I could boot my Windows XP partiton. I have seen another thread on this issue so enough said.
4. I found the hardware configuration a little disjointed with two icons for hardware configuration. Also the size of the text for the icons made the text so it wasn't easily readable. Setting the icon/text size to the default settings corrected this.
5. All I am saying is a printer driver for a Canon IP5200R would be nice if it is included in the distro.

An issue I have found is I cannot select "English Australian" in the languages selection.

I look forward to the release date.

Cheers

Hi,

Thanks for the comments and mild flaming (grin).

Here is some detailed information that hopefully will help.

1. I set up (2) x ext3 partitons and (1) x swap partition. One of the ext3 paritions was selected for the home dirs. With this configuration my system would not boot, however, it may have been a monitor issue or my newbie lack of knowledge?

....Were you able to boot with the vesa-setting ("use if having monitor problems") after you installed ? If yes, then nr. 1 is solved. If no, then we need to investigate more.

2. When using the standard boot selection the Samsung 172T monitor will not work at 1280 x 1024 resolution. If the menu option "use if having monitor problems" is selected the monitor works fine.

....I guess this means that the boot-problem (see 1.) is solved.

3. Grub did not seem to install properly so I could boot my Windows XP partiton. I have seen another thread on this issue so enough said.

....Do you mean: could boot into XP only? That would indicate that you installed grub into the root partition of Mepis.
Or do you mean: could not boot into XP anymore? That would indicate you attempted to install grub into the mbr of your bootdisk and somehow it failed. Boot from the Mepis Livecd and restore grub into the MBR.

4. I found the hardware configuration a little disjointed with two icons for hardware configuration. Also the size of the text for the icons made the text so it wasn't easily readable. Setting the icon/text size to the default settings corrected this.

....Did you try "Mepis System Settings"? Or "Mepis Old OS Center"? Or kcontrol (KDE Control Center) ? There are lots of places where configs can be done; actually it is a bit 'too much', being spread out in Mepis (or is that your complaint? (Sorry, english is not my native language). I have no idea what you mean by "two icons for HW-configuration"

5. All I am saying is a printer driver for a Canon IP5200R would be nice if it is included in the distro.

....I didn't come out like that at first. There's probably no point in asking Canon. They provide no info to the linux community. Despite that a lot of Canon printers are now supported in most linux distributions; also in Mepis. But your Canon Pixma IP5200R is not. Turboprint may be your only solution, but you need to buy it. I think you can try out Turboprint for 30 days and then buy the license key if it works for you.

An issue I have found is I cannot select "English Australian" in the languages selection.

....That's true. Maybe because it's just a minor dialectic language... ? No, just kidding here. Look for '-en-au' in Synaptic to find specific Australian packages (spelling checker / hyphenation / thesaurus and such. But there's no English-Australian language available.

I look forward to the release date.

Cheers

....So do I - around July 10.

Regards, Ko

Ko Bros

1) I prefer ReiserFS to ext3.
3) I also noticed that Grub gave me two Windows boot options, one for the actual partition and once for the 5GB drive D:, which is not bootable. I merely edited menu.lst and removed the second. I couldn't tell you if the Windows XP partition will boot, however, because it has been months since I tried it. GoogleEarth for Linux removed the only remaining reason I had for booting into XP.
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GreyGeek

As a long time Field Engineer(Computer Tech), I used MS Streets and Trips to locate the EU(end user), S&T was not very good sometimes sending me to a blocked or unusable road. Along came Google Local(now called Google Maps) and it is great, I can open a map for as many EU's as I want and I have had no need for MS S&T and one less reason to boot Windows, nor have I felt a need for the large download of GoogleEarth.

regards,
Bad Dog
SimplyMEPIS 6.0-rc-2 - KDE 3.5.3 - kernel 2.6.15-25

Whatever, I think your first two issues may be explained by this: http://www.mepis.org/node/10373.

I selected a monitor before installing RC2 (I've not had problems doing that before), but when I rebooted, my system wouldn't finish booting. Initially, I solved it by simply not selecting a monitor; then I was able to fix the monitor problem by installing hwdata.