Mepis 11 lreaving Alpha Stages, Going Beta

[Saist]

The father of the LiveCD as a usable LiveCD, not just as a tech demo, is entering the Alpha testing stage and entering Beta.

Mepis 11 Beta 1 was released a couple of days ago. We would appreciate as many people as possible testing the distribution.

Bug reports and feedback can be made here: http://forum.mepiscommunity.org/view...p?f=20&t=29230

Couple of general issues that we know of so far. There seem to problems with the LiveCD booting and dropping to a black screen on session load.

Simply drop to command prompt (control alt F1)

Log in as root (root / root)

run dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg

Most of the time this will set up a proper display for the end user.

Mepis 11 Beta 1 can be downloaded through: http://www.mepis.org/mirrors

And to go ahead and shoot down the F.U.D. before it gets a chance to start, you do not need a financial subscription to download, install, use, interact with, or give copies to your friends.

[Kano]

That hack sounds weird because the tool does not write any config file for oss drivers now. More likely that restarting kdm would work.

[Saist]

That hack sounds weird because the tool does not write any config file for oss drivers now. More likely that restarting kdm would work.

I'll be glad for a tech reason on why it works / doesn't work Kano.

That hack just used to be my old trick for Nvidia systems on older Mepis Releases.

So first black-screen I got, I gave it a whirl, and I got something back.

[Kano]

That command did only write something until Debian lenny, but not with Debian squeeze, so it is completely useless now.