SimplyMEPIS 2004.06 Now Available
Morgantown, WV; December 15, 2004: MEPIS LLC has released SimplyMEPIS 2004.06. This latest CD adds font support for Simplified Chinese and Japanese. Additional CJ support is planned. Other CD improvements include an updated GRUB bootloader for better hardware compatibility and updated parted and qtparted for improved disk formatting support during installation.
An updated version of alsa-modules for kernel 2.6 is preinstalled and also available in the MEPIS pool. meauto and meauto-data have been improved for better hardware compatibility, especially for sound card support. Due to a previous conflict with another package, meauto should not be updated directly. Current users of SimplyMEPIS can perform a key function update, including meauto, by running from a root commandline:
apt-get update
apt-get install simplymepis
or doing the equivalent from kpackage or synaptic. Anyone who has modified their apt configuration and anyone who has performed a "dist-upgrade" no longer has a standard MEPIS configuration and may encounter problems using the updated simplymepis metapackage.
SimplyMEPIS is a complete desktop Linux that fetures the KDE 3.2.3 desktop, OpenOffice 1.1.2, Mozilla 1.7.2, GIMP2, Xine, and many other applications to give the desktop user everything needed to quickly become productive in the SimplyMEPIS desktop Linux environment.
MEPIS site: http://www.mepis.com
MEPIS dev site: http://www.mepis.org
MEPIS mirrors: http://www.mepis.org/book/view/1462
MEPIS changelog: http://www.mepis.org/node/view/2338
MEPIS store: http://store.mepis.com
Knowledgebase: http://faq.mepis.net
Community forum: http://www.mepislovers.com




Sound progress
I installed 2004.06 with great expectations of getting sound . It recognized my SoundBlaster card finally--oboy! -- but I couldn't get any sound out of XMMS, only sound visualizations.
We're so close now, what could be missing?
Burt
This isn't Warren's fault a
This isn't Warren's fault at all.
See:
http://sander.vanzoest.com/howtos/wireless/wavelan/
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/wireless/2000/11/03/wavelan.html?page=2
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They say if you play a Microsoft CD backwards you hear satanic messages.
That's nothing. If you play it forwards, it installs Windows!
Re: Sound progress
I didn't get any sound on my 2004.04 installation until I ran alsaconfig.
HTH
upgrade simplymepis 2004.02 - thanks
Greg,
Thanks for the upgrade info. I have read many bad forum comments about upgrade but you method went very smoothly.
Vince
Vince LaPorte
Marshall, MN 56258
Try using kmix or alsamixer
Try using kmix or alsamixer to turn on the master volume, external amplifier, etc.?? 2 of 4 Mepis installations I've done have been silent until I did this.