Elive Forum - Hacks

[solved] Code not loaded, installer fails (no replies)

runlevel0 — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 01:48:00 -0700

That's a small problem that can however cause some headache:

The installer crashes after downloading the installer code and trying to resume the installation.

The message shows something like "installer stopped unexpectedly with return code 1"

The reason and the solutions are rather silly:

When Firefox / Icewasel downloads the installer code it puts it into /root/Download/Firefox, from where it's not accessible.

The solution is as simple as telling Firefox do download to the desktop; the installer will find it automatically and the installation will work like a charm.

Note: This problem/hack may seem and is indeed trivial in the case of normal installs, but it may be a mayor PIA when you are doing an install from an USB stick into a netbook (Acer Aspire One in my case).

Silent boot splash (1 reply)

Last_Dino — Thu, 14 May 2009 03:27:37 -0700

How can I change the splash screen that I see at startup? It says something about the system starting up, but I also see the screen briefly during shutdown, which makes no sense.

install elive desktop over debian (no replies)

atphalix — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 06:51:00 -0700

As Elive is built over debian lenny,you can install all elive package on your computer, if you already have debian lenny just by adding elive repository:

deb [us.repository.elive-systems.com] lenny main elive drivers tests efl ports
to your /etc/apt/sources.list
and run as root

aptitude update

to update your repository and then just install the packages that you want through synaptic.

Program Middle Mouse Button? (no replies)

LoL — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 13:00:23 -0800

Using XP, I have replaced the standard explorer shell with Emerge Desktop

I've programmed my mouse so that the middle mouse button sends a particular keystroke

Emerge Desktop traps that keystroke and pops up my menu for me ... wherever I click the mouse - It makes no difference whether I click on the desktop, in a folder, in an application window, on a button or other menu ... I always have access to my menu

Is it possible to do the same thing under eLive, so that I get the same menu I get when I left-click on the desktop?

Cheers

EDIT

OK ... I can do it under 1.9.16_unstable, but not GEM/1.0

So, I guess I'll have to wait for the next stable release

Instalación de Temas (2 replies)

CHO — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 21:26:14 -0800

Hola amigos, estoy hace más de un més usando elive en mi computadora y la verdad es que no me cambio, para mi es lo mejor de linux que he visto y probado, luego de esto va mi duda

¿Como puedo hacer que un tema bajado desde la página www.get-e.org cargue en mi entorno?

Según la página dice que sólo basta con copiar el archivo en cierta carpeta y luego está disponible pero nada sucede ("just copy them to ~/.e/e/themes and choose your favorite theme ") .

Bueno , gracias de antemano, saludos.

Pruebas / Tests (8 replies)

figueroa — Tue, 27 May 2008 02:40:12 -0700

Hoy que tuve tiempo me senté con mi vieja computadora con elive y empece a probar elive, primero estoy probando el tiempo de que dura cargando el sistema, y el tiempo que dura cargando una aplicación
Primero voy a definr el equipo

Procesador: 		Petium 2 400mhz
RAM: 			128MB
Video:			STB velocity 128 NV3T 8MB 
Audio : 			inboard
Motherboard: 		unknow (intel)
Primary IDE Master: 	10GB HD Quantum Fireball EL10.2A-(PM)
Primary IDE Salve: 	NONE
Secondary IDE Master: 	CDROM FX320S-SM
Secondary IDE Slave:	IOMEGA ZIP 100-SS

Definir las pruebas:

1. La primera Medición(Med1) va desde el botón de arranque hasta la
pantalla del GRUB.
2. La segunda Medición(Med2) va desde la pantalla del GRUB hasta la
pantalla de login,
aqui va incluido los 24s de la pantalla de seleccion.
3. En la pantalla de Login, acceso via ssh al equipo y guardo lainfo del TOP (Tp1).
4. La tercera Medición(Med3) va desde la pantalla de login hasta el
desktop.
5. Desde la consola de ssh guardo la info del TOP(Tp2).
6. La cuarta Medición(Med4) va desde el desktop hasta la carga final
del firefox.
7. Desde la consola de ssh guardo la info del TOP(Tp3) y cierro el firefox
8. La quinta Medición(Med5) va desde el desktop hasta volver a carga
el firefox.
9. y cierro el firefox
10. La sexta Medición(Med6) va desde el desktop hasta volver a carga el
firefox.
11. Cierro el firefox y desde la consola de ssh guardo la info del TOP (Tp4).
12. Salgo del desktop a la pantalla de login y desde la consola de ssh guardo la info del TOP(Tp5).
13. Apago la computadora.

Automatix2 on Elive (4 replies)

MoOsTiCk — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 16:41:01 -0700

Hi folks,

For those of you wishing to install things like Google Earth, Picasa, Real Player and lots more, just do as follows :

The simplest way seemed doing as on an Ubuntu by installing the Automatix 2 scripts.
- At first, make sure you have non-free & contrib repositories in your /etc/apt/sources.list, like this :

deb [ftp.fr.debian.org] etch main non-free contrib

(you may adapt to your location, not everybody has the luck to live in France ;-) ).

- Update your package database, if you have to :
# apt-get update

Then proceed as follows for installing automatix2 :

# echo "deb [www.getautomatix.com] etch main" | tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list

# wget [www.getautomatix.com]

# gpg --import automatix2.key

# gpg --export --armor E23C5FC3 | sudo apt-key add -

... Update your packages database again :
# apt-get update

... and finally install automatix :
# apt-get install automatix2

... This is not quite over ! You need to modify a file that makes automatix check the distro version at startup. Go to /usr/lib/automatix2/, and ;

# cd /usr/lib/automatix2/
# cp distro_helpers.py distro_helpers.py-original
vim distro_helpers.py

... and once there, locate the string :
versions = (('6.06','6.06'),('6.10','6.10'),('7.04','7.04'),('4.0r0','4.0r0'))
... and replace it to :
versions = (('6.06','6.06'),('6.10','6.10'),('7.04','7.04'),('4.0','4.0r0'))

...That's it. Save and run automatix as root :
# automatix2

... and choose in the list the programs you wish to install in the list.

I tried this succesfully on two different setups of Elive on a Dell Laptop and a Arsrock-based PC. I hope this will help.

Yours,

improve performances for desktops (no replies)

assasukasse — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 01:53:12 -0800

Hello
there are still some minor tweaks that can be done to improve performance of elive on desktops, don't expect too much since the system is pumped alot already, but is still possible to decrease lag time during charging applications.

There are a few tricks that can be done:

1) profiling the boot sequence
This is very easy to do, at the bootup add at the end of the boot command (you see it in the bar at the end during the graphical grub) the word

profile

then it will take slightly longer to boot since everything will be checked and arranged in order to have a faster bootup.
This must be done only once, but can be issued again in case of heavy updates.

2) prelinking executables
This is another easy way to improve slightly the performance of the system.
To do this you should install prelinking, via

apt-get install prelink

then you should edit /etc/default/prelink
changing

PRELINKING=unknown to PRELINKING=yes
and this too PRELINKING_OPTS=-avmfR

After this you should issue this command:

/etc/cron.daily/prelink

and wait till its done.
you don't need to invoke anymore since from them will be automatic.

3)If you have alot of RAM you can consider also preload or readahead.
I use more preload than readahead but both work similarly.
just an

apt-get install preload

would do the trick.

4) last thing you need is sysv-rc-conf, a daemon commander.
It is very simple to install it:

apt-get install sysv-rc-conf

then is possible to invoke it by

sysv-rc-conf

From there you can disable all the unneeded services, for example if you have a modern system u can disable apm and apmd, and other stuff that u might not need.
Be careful not to disable necessary services!

That's all.
from then you system would work at the maximum it can. Be careful not to use the point 3 on very old system or when you have little ram.

Moreover, in order to improve the life of HDD on servers and other workstations that are on 24/24 you can add this command to your rc.local (/etc/rc.local)

hdparm -B 255 /dev/(hda or sda) depending how your disk are called

This will disable spinoff of drives, and they will live far longer!

That's all

Change Eterm size (no replies)

TSloth — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 10:34:50 -0700

A Howto and a few requests below. If someone has a better way to do this, please reply.

To change the size of an Eterm, do this:
1. Right-click on the Eterm window bar. A Window Options menu should appear.
2. In the last item, called Miscellaneous, click on the sub-item called Toggle Fixed size.

Future Eterms you open will be adjustable by grabbing the left, right, and bottom edges of the window.

Requests:
* Windows should have adjustable sizes by default.
* Toggle items should have some indication of which way they are currently toggled, and should give some feedback that they have been toggled. (currently you just have to assume that the setting has changed.)
* Please apply the change to the current window in addition to future windows.

bootcd and iso compression (1 reply)

metalklesk — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 13:06:44 -0800

hi, i'm trying to remaster my own personalized version of elive, i'm using bootcd for that task.

First i've removed all the app's that i don't want, then run bootcdwrite as root to see what happens and it creates an iso image, but this iso image is 670 mb of size but i uninstalled almost everything so i don't understand why is the iso so big ...

can anybody tell me how can i compress the iso ? i mean obtain an smaller iso ...

sorry for mi english, i speak spanish.

thanks!!

Login sound? (12 replies)

Stephan — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 04:28:37 -0700

How can I change the sound, which I can hear after Login?