Problems with Live CD 6.0 rc3
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I tried the latest release of Mepis yesterday. Here are a few problems I had.
My monitor, a Viewsonic VX922, is not correctly set up. The image spills over the borders. I did try to boot setting the screen definition to 1280x1024, but the results were the same.
I found no way to save my settings on a floppy.
The keyboard I use, a Canadian CA, is not available. Sure, it's in the list, but what I get instead is a CF -- french canadian -- keyboard. (Even this one, I'm afraid doesn't work completely properly.) This is a KDE problem. Their keyboards set-up used to be perfect, as far as I am concerned. Too perfect, I suppose. Somebody had to mess things up.
I didn't really like the fact that Mepis mounts hard disks rw. I believe it's preferable to let the user mount the HD r, by clicking to read the hard disk and w, only by selecting an option.
Twice after I booted Mepis, I had problems booting one of my hard disks that I had accessed while using Mepis. The first time, I just pressed the reboot button on the computer and that made it. The second time, I checked the error message more closely and it said the HD was functional, but not available. I went to the BIOS and selected the option to automaticaly set the HDs, and it was OK afterwards.
Dunno. It might not be Mepis related, but it's the first time I experience this problem. Anybody had such an experience?
Fortunately, I have an HP printer. But I found this message rather weird:
"Next up: Printing... If you don't already have an HP printer, get one. These are by far the best supported printers when used with Linux. HP has been a long standing corporate supporter of Linux and happily distributes information about it's printers to interested software developers. With the advent of the HP Toolbox, now available by default in MEPIS, HP printers and All-In-One's are a God send."
http://www.mepis.org/node/10290
This certainly has much to do with the reason I bought an HP printer, but there are other printers that are fairly well supported by Linux.
Other than that, Mepis seems to have done a lot of progress. As far as I remember, it's the first distro that can automatically activate a connection from the router when the modem-router wasn't on while booting.