Elive Forum - Configurations and Hardware Solutions

XRandr Extension missing (2 replies)

Gnimmelf — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 12:25:25 -0800

Hi all,

just installed Elive, and it's looking good!

But for some reason I can't adjust my screen resolution, it gives me the message

"Your X Display Server is missing support for the XRandR extension. You cannot change the screen resolutions without the support of this extension. It could be that at the time the ecore was buildt, there was no XRandR support detected."

-What do I do to solve this? -I'm pretty much a linux newbie, and googling didn't give me anything to go by.

Thanks,
Flemming

(Solved!) NVidia could not open the device after Systemcrash (3 replies)

bohnor — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 18:50:05 -0700

I´m using Elive 2.0 new kernel.

At copying Mediafiles to my USB-Stick comes an Enlightenment Error with Systemcrash and now i can´t Start Elive again.
Elive booting is normal, but after the Login, started the Loginscreen again and what ever i make (Default, Enlightment Failsafe) i have only the Login Screen.

Password is correct and Keyboardlayout too.

If i want start Elive Nurse, i have following Error-Messages:

NVidia could not open the device file /dev/nvidia0 (input/output error)

(EE) Nvidia0: Failed to initialize the NVidia graphics device PCI:1:0:0.
(EE) NVidia0: Please check your system's kernel Log for additional error
(EE) NVidia0: Message and refer to Chapter 8: Common problems in the
Readme for additional information
(EE) NVidia0: Failed to initialize the NVidia graphics device!
(EE) Screen(s) found, but non have a usable configuration

Fatal server error:
No screens found

Waiting for xserver to begin accepting connection
Giving up
xinit: Connection reset by peer (errno 104)
xinit: No such process (errno 3): server error

And so is it unable to use the Nurse-mode. Rebuild of xorg.conf make no result.
My Graphic card is the Palit GTX 240 with 512mb ram. Installed NVidia Graphic-driverversion is 185.18.36-2

Please, help me i don´t know enough about linux.
Regards Norbert

(Solved!) Disable sound on wakeup (2 replies)

jschall — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 19:19:37 -0700

So, I finally got my eeePC to suspend reliably on lid close, but now I am annoyed by a voice announcement:

"eLive System - restored"

every time I wake it up.

I don't need to hear that, it's just annoying for those around me.

How do I turn off the wakeup sound?

(SOLVED!) Dual Boot with Windows (XP, Vista, 7) (55 replies)

rasta — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 06:55:08 -0800

Using USB Live:
With the Installer I have gone as far as formatting my hard drive to Linux Swap (40gb D drive, other drive is 60 GB (Windows XP).
Bailed out of the install at this stage as I was not sure if by installing Elive on (D) with Windows on (C) that I would still be able to boot windows XP at start up.
Have I formatted the (D) correctly -and will I still be able to dual boot XP.
Cheers Rasta

(Solved!) Keyboard/Language Layouts (13 replies)

Andrius — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 04:17:40 -0800

Hi folks, I know that's probably basic, but how do you add more than one keyboard layout and how do you switch between them without e17 self reboot???

I use Elive 2.0

(Solved!) Elive v2, enable Compiz ? (2 replies)

wunderschatz — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 17:50:24 -0700

After having been without linux for a couple of years, I have lately been looking around for a distro that really appeals to me. Well, I found Elive, tried the live CD (in my case USB), and I really really like it. Last night I made the donation and installed V2.
Anyway, I am a little confused because I cannot seem to get the compiz-like effects as shown in the promo video on this web site. I am not sure if I am missing a setting or if I need to install additional software?!?
Can anyone point me in the right direction? Compiz runs flawlessly on other distros.
I have a ASUS G50vt laptop, 2.1 GHz dual-core Intel CPU, NVidia 9800m (512MB), dual boot with Vista 64 bit.

Thank you in advance!

(SOLVED!) CPUFreq. Live and Install mode different ? (3 replies)

Sigmun — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 02:14:14 -0700

Hi,

I just install elive 2.0 new kernel up002 on my EeePC 901 and my surprise is that configuration are not the same in Live and Installed mode. For example, the CPUFreq cannot be used in Automatique mode anymore, and the available frequencies are wrong, as the installer detected a wrong type of pc.

What can I do ? Does anybody have the same ?

Sigmun

elive Kdenlive sid Upgrade Install (6 replies)

xetaprime — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 11:08:17 -0700

It's been a long week and a half!!!

Hey Hello!

A week and a half ago (seems like an eternity) I left my PCLinuxOS KDE 3.5 which has been my home for the last 6+ years because they went all KDE 4 on me. Just something about KDE4 that really bugs me. Well, and, I couldn't install Kdenlive either. While searching for a new distro I learned of e17 and of course elive among others. First I tried elive by downloading it then learned I couldn't install it so I went all Zeitgeist! Of course I found I couldn't install Kdenlive there either easily so I quickly jumped to GOS, OpenGeu, Ubuntu with e17, Mint 9 lxde with e17, MoonOS and even PCLinuxOSE17... well, you know how it goes- if it's not one thing it's another! I had MoonOS all setup and watching videos online froze my pc. The same thing happened with PCLinux and then Ubuntu and Mint... argghh! I wanted Kdenlive dammit!

Last night I bit the bullet and made the donation and installed elive. Getting Kdenlive installed went very well but took a long long time. First I updated the system. Then added the ftp.de.debian.org/debian main sid (deb and src) to synaptic repositories. That reloaded fine and even showed Kdenlive 7.7.1. However upon trying to install it it wanted to remove e17. So I didn't use synaptic. I used 'aptitude safe-upgrade' in the terminal- hoping I wouldn't break the system. And it upgraded and I didn't lose the system! Then I went back to synaptic and tried Kdenlive again but had errors about ffmpeg and others that 'were not going to be installed. I added the 'debian-multimedia.org sid main' and 'debian-multimedia.org testing main' and went straight to the terminal- aptitude install kdenlive- I think. For a week and a half I've been trying one thing after another so don't quote me. Anyway- it went in! At one point during the initial 'safe-upgrade' I got the desktop failure window but the console was still working in the background so I waited until all was finished.

I'm not sure it's stable. I don't much care at the moment. I'm a long time Linux user and am not so happy about all this 'no root gui login paranoia' stuff. Having a root login has taught me so much. It really urks me when someone says I shouldn't log in as root. But that's another story :0

Gonna go play now- ehh I haven't tried watching video online yet- I'll let you know (fingers crossed).

Best wishes,
xetaprime

disable touchpad (1 reply)

Jedidyah — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 13:31:29 -0700

My touchpad was driving me nuts, cursor jumping all over, never knew where I was going to end up when I started typing. I finally broke down and googled it, this seems to work well for me. So I'm sharing, just in case somebody else is at the point of mayhem.
[www.matt-helps.com]

(SOLVED!) GRUB /(duall) Boot failures (16 replies)

Jedidyah — Tue, 17 May 2011 20:21:12 -0700

edit: here you will find different solved and merged topics, releated to botting and grub
---

Hi
I have a Dell Inspiron 1545. I was dual booting with Vista/Mint 8 when a grub2 conflict nearly ate my BIOS. I was able to recover Vista by installing grub from Puppy, but Puppy doesn't see my wireless. I like the looks of this distro, but before I install it, wanted to know if it will run into conflict. I'd appreciate your input.
Thanks

CPUFreq reduce CPU speed to minimum (3 replies)

archwndas — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 12:02:34 -0800

Dear all,
thank you for the wonderful Elive 2 stable. I tried it on my laptop and everything seems to be working fine except one little detail that has a hard time to work in several development versions. This is the CPU frequency scaling module of Elive. My CPU is an Intel Centrino 2 Duo and can go from 800MHz 1600MHz 2100 MHz 2800MHz. However the emodule can only switch from 2.1GHz to 2.8GHz. Although I am trying to set it to 800MHz it is impossible. In Debian, everything is fine.

Any ideas how can I fix this?

Apart from that does anybody know how to instruct Elive, or E17 to scan the disk for new applications that were installed after the installation of Elive? One such is nvidia-settings which doesn't appear in the menu after I have installed it nor does it appear on the Add Application when I try to add new applications to the iBar.

Best wishes,
Archwn.

(SOLVED!) Windows mount settings ? / RW (4 replies)

bandario — Sat, 12 Mar 2011 03:14:51 -0800

Greetings,

I really liked the way that elive 2.0 could use my wireless internet key out of the box and managed to mount my windows drive, usb keys, cds etc with no hassles. Not to mention everything just working out of the box! So I bought it. And promptly broke it.

The only thing that went wrong with my install was that elive grub did not manage to create a working link to my windows xp install. After much messing around which involved re-installing xp and making manual adjustments to the grub config so that it actually knew my xp install was on hd0,2 I am now happily back to dual booting.

Somewhere along the line though, elive has lost the ability to automount my windows drive at startup.

Also, trying to re-establish it manually as I would in most other releases:

mount -t NTFS -o nls=utf8, umask=0222 /dev/sda3 /mnt/Windows

gives me this:
mount: unkown filesystem type 'NTFS'

I would dearly love to avoid re-installing elive just so it can see my windows drive again.
Any help greatly appreciated. I have tried thunar advanced settings + file--> hal tab in config with no joy.

(Solved!) Elive-2 Topaz and wlan with RaLink RT2561/RT61 802.11g PCI (no replies)

gs — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 10:41:31 -0800

on a desktop computer with RaLink RT2561/RT61 802.11g PCI net-connector is not working - neither in live mode nor after harddisk installation.
After a longer period of trying I connected to my router by LAN. So I had connection to the internet. I then removed net-connector and installed wicd.
After reboot, wicd connected to the Ralink-PCI without problems.

(SOLVED!) ntpdate not running / auto set time (3 replies)

martinwprior — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 05:15:22 -0700

At each boot I have to reset the time to my local time manually, even though the timezone is set to Africa/Cairo. When I use the "set time & date dialog" It shows that Africa/Cairo is selected, but I get the message that ntpdate is not installed. Actually it is.

If I run it manually I get the error :
10 Mar 06:34:15 ntpdate[5075]: no servers can be used, exciting

any help appreciated.

(SOLVED!) Shutdown problem (19 replies)

EricMGB1974 — Sun, 03 Jul 2011 18:52:07 -0700

This is more in the nature of an annoyance than a real problem, but once I installed elive 2.0 on my laptop it will no longer shut down. After clicking on the shutdown command the screen becomes garbled and then it hangs & won't complete the shutdown. I need to power off with the power button on the laptop. When I try to reboot the same garbled screen appears, but it does reboot. When shutting down from the log in screen the screen does not become garbled but it does still hang before finishing shutting down. This did not happen running from the live version on the USB stick. Any thoughts on what's happening & how to fix it? Thanks.
Eric

(SOLVED!) remove startup audio (3 replies)

Rita G. — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:30:59 -0800

elive 1.9.60

anybody know how to get rid of the startup audio intro?

(SOLVED!) - No internet access! (5 replies)

wmichaelb — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 05:57:19 -0700

Hi, I just installed Elive, and in general, I'm impressed. But neither Iceweasel nor the package manager have internet access. The network configuration panel says that eth0 is active, but it's not acquiring an IP address via DHCP from my router. I have both an Intellinet PCI NIC card, and the onboard ethernet port, if that means anything; but neither give access, other than what is shown above. The internet connection worked when I was running Vector Linux on this same machine, and I have other machines happily connecting through this same hub and router. Is there something else I'm missing? Is there a program on Elive that will give configuration info?

Thanks in advance.

- Michael B. in Cincinnati

As a follow-up, I've tried ifconfig and dhclient to no avail; no connection. I've also tried setting up a static IP address in both my router and through the Elive configuration client (computer icon). It will NOT connect, and the distribution is useless without internet access; I can't update the system, nor add software. It's a shame, because this is a nice system. But I've read lots of entries in the forum and on the bug list about this same problem.

Has the problem with Realtec chip sets been resolved? My NIC card has this chip set.

Thanks for any responses in advance.

Update: I finally traced this to a bad NIC card. I tested it in another machine, and it also was inop there. It was apparently DOA out of the box! I replaced it with an older unit from the other machine, and now things are running fine.

Alex, thanks for your kind help and concern!

(SOLVED!) - Stop autoopen flash's & cd's.. (3 replies)

jtwdyp — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 06:50:49 -0800

I never ever did like my computer to try to guess what I want it to do without my having expressly told it to...

If I stick a cd or dvd in the drive I not only don't want it to be automaticaly opened/mounted/played I don't want some pop-up process to jump in my way demanding to know what I'm going to do with it. (if I was going to "play" the disk I'd expicitly start a player, {And I don't always choose to use the same one})

If I connect a flash drive to a usb port, I don't want it automatically added. And I certainly don't want it mounted on
/media/something... There are two flahdrives I'm likely to add. As well as an salvaged ide drive in a usb drive encloseure with one partition dedicated to storeing all my music files that I want access to from any "normal" user login and several archival partitions that I'd selectively mount as root when needed. I actualy have /etc/fstab entries to let me use the command line to to mount three user access items as a user (usualy with the help of midnight commander which lets me quickly select the mountpoint and type:
"mount +" I really don't want to find them already mounted someplace else...

/dev/disk/by-id/usb-USB_Flash_Disk_2008032800001952-0:0-part1        /drv-zip/usbZipShuttle/gray  auto user,noauto     0       0
/dev/disk/by-id/usb-TOSHIBA_TransMemory_5B8603000081-0:0-part1        /drv-zip/usbZipShuttle/white  auto user,noauto     0       0
/dev/disk/by-id/usb-WDC_WD16_00AAJB-00WRA0___________-0:0-part2        /home/MusicStuff/theMusicStuff  auto user,noauto     0       0

So anyway, how do I convince elive to WAIT for me to tell it I'm ready to do something instead of jumping in my way simply because it detects something freshly inserted/connected?????????

Thanks in advance!

--
jtwdyp

(Solved!) Wireless problems / Wicd install / Gem (12 replies)

ndegekubwa — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 19:29:46 -0700

Hi,
I am new to Elive and am trying it out on my laptop (HP Pavillion dv2000) to see how it works. I am having a problem getting the wireless to work. I have installed ndiswrapper and the driver that works for a broadcom b4311 card. I have also installed wifi-wiz so that I can log on to my home wireless router which uses a WPA encryption.

When I start wifi-wiz, I hit the scan button and it scans the area and finds both mine and my neighbor's wireless routers. However, when I try to log into my router or any other wireless router, I get the following message in terminal:

Exception in thread Thread-l:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "threading.py", line 442, in __bootstrap self.run()
File "/usr/bin/wifi-wiz", line 1367, in run update("threaded")
File "/usr/bin/wifi-wiz", line 594, in update return update2(inuput)
File "/usr/bin/wifi-wiz", line 493, in update2 curip=line[line.index('addr:')+5:line.indes(' B')]
ValueError: substring not found

up:error fetching interface information: Device not found

I am unable to log into any wireless network, it seems that the wireless card is working but it isn't interfacing with the operating system. I don't know if there is some additional configuration that I must do to get the wireless working that I don't know about. I hope the information above is a help to solve this problem. I would like to get the wireless working on this laptop but will need some help.

Thanks

(Solved!) Webcams failed @1.9.xx dev / GSPCA Drivers (11 replies)

babel — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 06:51:46 -0800

Hi there, i have an Eeepc 1000ha and everything seems to work just fine. I installed dev 1.9.26 and even the webcam (attached to the frame of the screen) worked, but when i updated my system (i don't know when or how), the webcam stoped working. Now i tryed dev 1.9.28 and 1.9.29 and webcam still doesn't work, so i assume there's something new that is bugging the function of the cam. what should i do? is there a way to configure it?

Problem with the Loggin (1 reply)

kalel53 — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 09:45:07 -0800

hi, everybody, i had intall, elive 1.0 but i forgot my username and password i can into with root , it anybody can tell me how to get back my username and password or i have to re-install ? please help

Tethering Blackberry Storm (no replies)

berry_blue — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 04:22:01 -0800

Hi

I've just figured out how to tether (use as a modem) my Blackberry Storm to Elive Gem.

I wrote the tutorial here;

[www.blackberryforums.com]

Sorry but I REALLY don't want to re-write it here. Since the formating is diff i cant just copy paste. :S

configure time zone, locales and keymap (4 replies)

kor — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:31:54 -0800

como configuro elive para zona horaria,mapa del teclado y locales es_mx

(Solved!) Resolution / Display setings (6 replies)

XYPEROX — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 06:02:08 -0700

Hello,
I just installed Elive.
This the first time that i use linux and first time with elive. So that means first time i tried something another then windows.

I want to change resolution to 1680x1050 but there is list to change up to 1024. How to expand that list?
Thanks
I click left click>configuration>configuration panel>Screen/Display Settings

Kind regards.

(SOLVED!) gdm keyboard problem (2 replies)

rah — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 13:56:33 -0700

I've changed the default login manager from entrance to gdm.

Every time I start gdm, keyboard is completetly off, is impossible to login because I cannot type. The only way is autologin.
When I logoff (mouse does work), then the X session is restarted and keyboard works again (in gdm and ever).

I tried this is in two computers and both behalf the same.

Is there any special configuration in Xsession or somewhere else that could cause this effect?

(SOLVED!) - eterm problem (1 reply)

elflavio — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 07:47:48 -0700

Hi. I am having some problems with a couple programs in Elive. First, when ever I open a DEB package with gdebi and press install, gdebi crashes. Second, I cannot get eterm to work. I keep getting a "Enlightenment was unable to start the application." error message. Can somebody help me?

I am using the latest unstable release of elive 1.8.2

(Solved!) No Internet / Ethernet card (32 replies)

rashwan — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 23:46:15 -0700

hello,
i have D-Link DWL-G510 that uses RT61 chipset dont seemed to be defined on GEN
when i lunch network properties from control center it freezes
any suggestion ?

(Solved!) hp sound-hda-intel; No sound problem (4 replies)

voxorb — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 09:23:29 -0800

Quote

Original Text:

I have an HP tx1119us (tx1000) laptop. I've managed to get everything but the wireless card (not a priority at the moment) and the sound to work.

dmesg output:
htt://files.voxorb.net/dmesgout.txt

The issue:
Elive things it can play and has all the symptoms of playing. Mixer works and the visual aids show frequency output from elive. But the laptop thinks it's muted (the light on the onboard mute button is red).

Part way through boot (livecd or installed) it goes from blue to red and I'm unable to figure out why.

Any help or suggestions would be welcomed. Elive works with everything else I have (even my printer) and could easily become my favorite Linux distribution.

Upgraded my alsa to 1.0.16. For those of you who have similar issues you may need to do the same. FYI - Install GCC-3.4.0 before compiling the alsa-driver, alsa-util, alsa-tools and alsa-firmware source codes.

ADSL in elive (no replies)

maceiras — Sun, 18 May 2008 05:45:45 -0700

To setup the connection to the Internet in Elive and Debian-based distros, use (as root) pppoeconf, not pppoe-setup (this is included in Elive but does not match properly. pppoe-setup works good in Slackware-based distros like Zenwalk, and others.

(Solved!) Nvidia driver installation (1 reply)

svgt — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 15:46:10 -0800

I have got an Nvidia 6600GT graphic card. How I have to install it?

regards, Svgt