Elive Forum

Default application (no replies)

Zorino — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 05:03:17 -0700

Hi,

I would like to know how do we change default applications in Elive, thank you.

Virtual Screen resolution (no replies)

Torsten — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 15:16:04 -0700

Hello,

I have installed elive on a notebook IBM Thinkpad R50e with max. resolution of 1024x768.
Now I have a program that needs at least 1280x1024 resolution.

Is it possible to set a higher resolution than 1024x768 e.g. by defining a virtual resolution 1280x1024? If possible, where do I have to define this ?

Regards Torsten

Put direct access in engage (1 reply)

desmolinux — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 16:14:45 -0700

Hello, I am using Aimp2 through Wine, the program run perfect.
Now I wanna to put a Icon in the Dock (engage) that run Aimp2 with Wine.
How can I do it?
Thanks.

How many times I have to pay you? (no replies)

Jocky — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 16:44:33 -0700

In March after downloading Elive in order to install it I payed you and I got installation module file which I used to made few installations. Today I tried to do another installation and the system shows me that the installation module is invalid and asks me to obtain a new one but forcing me to pay again! So how many times I have to pay you in order to be able to install Elive?

P.S. I have response today by e-mail from Thanatermesis so it works this way - each installation module works for one machine!

Ver pc's conectadas en red con elive (no replies)

Neomito — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 10:56:51 -0700

buenas tengan todos ustedes, les vengo con una duda muy interesante si con elive se puede ver redes de windows?, es que quiero llevar a elive a otro nivel ia no para uso personal, sino para administrar una red y siesque pudieran ayudarme se los agradeceria muchisimo, si es mucho pedir con algunas imagenes, como muchos dicen una imagen vale por mil palabras.
saludos

Google Earth (1 reply)

rockerman — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 02:47:03 -0700

Whats the best way to install google earth in elive?

thanks

Ron

Using 3G PPP Devices (no replies)

chepe263 — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 18:55:41 -0700

I use elive several years ago and i fell in love with the desktop so now i'm using ubuntu and i installed elightment on it

The only problem is that i don't know how connect to internet. I have a ZTE MF626 device but i can't find any option on the elightment desktop such as a network manager or something like that to connect to the internet. I was expecting you guys can help me.

THanks!

chepe263

fglrx ATI drivers (no replies)

worstfrost — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 12:49:51 -0700

Hello!
I tried install of proprietary driver, but attempt has not crowned success:
I installed nassesary package.
linux-headers-2.6.30.9-elive-686, gcc and linux-source-2.6.30.9-elive-686
follow:

cd /usr/src
tar jxvf linux-source-2.6.30.9-elive-686.tar.bz2
ln -s linux-source-2.6.30.9-elive-686 linux
cd ./linux
make oldconfig && make prepare

and compile the package:

# sh ati-driver-installer-10-6-x86.x86_64.run --buildpkg Debian/lenny
Created directory fglrx-install.VXyTCu
Verifying archive integrity... All good.
Uncompressing ATI Catalyst(TM) Proprietary Linux Driver-8.741.........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
==================================================
 ATI Technologies Linux Driver Installer/Packager 
==================================================
Generating package: Debian/lenny
cp: cannot stat `/home/frost/Downloads/fglrx-install.VXyTCu/x710/*': No such file or directory
Package build failed!
Package build utility output:
dpkg-buildpackage: set CFLAGS to default value: -g -O2
dpkg-buildpackage: set CPPFLAGS to default value: 
dpkg-buildpackage: set LDFLAGS to default value: 
dpkg-buildpackage: set FFLAGS to default value: -g -O2
dpkg-buildpackage: set CXXFLAGS to default value: -g -O2
dpkg-buildpackage: source package fglrx-installer
dpkg-buildpackage: source version 8.741-1
dpkg-buildpackage: source changed by ATI Technologies Inc. [ati.amd.com]
 debian/rules build
dpkg-buildpackage: host architecture i386
dh_testdir
# move licenses away from binary dir
if [ ! -d usr/share/doc/fglrx ]; then \
	  mkdir -p usr/share/doc/fglrx; \
	  mv usr/X11R6/bin/LICENSE.* usr/share/doc/fglrx; \
	fi
# set executable on user apps
find usr/X11R6/bin -type f | xargs chmod a+x
# remove exec bit from files that don't deserve it
find usr/X11R6/include \
	     usr/X11R6/lib \
	     usr/X11R6/lib64 \
	     usr/share usr/src     -type f | xargs chmod -x
find: `usr/X11R6/lib64': No such file or directory
find lib -not -name "*.sh" -type f | xargs chmod -x
find lib      -name "*.sh" -type f | xargs chmod +x
# set proper permissions on /etc files
if [ -d etc/ati ]; then			\
		chmod 755 etc/ati ;			\
		chmod 644 etc/ati/* ;		\
		chmod a+x etc/ati/*.sh ;	\
	fi
if [ -f debian/fglrx.default ]; then \
	  mv -v debian/fglrx.default debian/fglrx; \
	fi
`debian/fglrx.default' -> `debian/fglrx'
 debian/rules binary
dh_testdir
# move licenses away from binary dir
if [ ! -d usr/share/doc/fglrx ]; then \
	  mkdir -p usr/share/doc/fglrx; \
	  mv usr/X11R6/bin/LICENSE.* usr/share/doc/fglrx; \
	fi
# set executable on user apps
find usr/X11R6/bin -type f | xargs chmod a+x
# remove exec bit from files that don't deserve it
find usr/X11R6/include \
	     usr/X11R6/lib \
	     usr/X11R6/lib64 \
	     usr/share usr/src     -type f | xargs chmod -x
find: `usr/X11R6/lib64': No such file or directory
find lib -not -name "*.sh" -type f | xargs chmod -x
find lib      -name "*.sh" -type f | xargs chmod +x
# set proper permissions on /etc files
if [ -d etc/ati ]; then			\
		chmod 755 etc/ati ;			\
		chmod 644 etc/ati/* ;		\
		chmod a+x etc/ati/*.sh ;	\
	fi
if [ -f debian/fglrx.default ]; then \
	  mv -v debian/fglrx.default debian/fglrx; \
	fi
dh_testdir
dh_testroot
dh_clean -k
dh_installdirs
# Create the directories to install into
dh_installdirs -pfglrx-driver \
		usr \
		usr/lib/xorg \
		usr/lib/xorg/modules \
		usr/lib/dri \
		usr/bin \
		usr/sbin \
		etc/acpi \
		etc/acpi/events \
		etc/default \
		etc/X11/Xsession.d
dh_installdirs -pfglrx-driver-dev \
		usr \
		usr/include \
		usr/lib
dh_installdirs -pfglrx-kernel-src \
		usr/src/modules/fglrx \
		usr/src/modules/fglrx/debian
dh_installdirs -A -pfglrx-amdcccle \
		usr \
		usr/bin \
		usr/share \
		usr/share/applnk \
		usr/share/applications \
		usr/share/icons \
		usr/share/pixmaps
dh_installdirs -p \
		usr/src
dh_install
ldconfig -n usr/X11R6/lib/
dh_install -pfglrx-driver "usr/X11R6/bin/fgl*"      "usr/bin"
dh_install -pfglrx-driver "usr/X11R6/bin/aticonfig" "usr/bin"
dh_install -pfglrx-driver "usr/sbin/atieventsd"     "usr/sbin"
dh_installman -pfglrx-driver "usr/share/man/man8/atieventsd.8"
# amd64 needs some library redirection
dh_install -pfglrx-driver "usr/X11R6/lib/*.so*"           "usr/lib"
dh_install -pfglrx-driver "usr/X11R6/lib/modules/dri"     "usr/lib"
dh_install -pfglrx-driver "usr/X11R6/lib/modules/linux"   "usr/lib/xorg/modules"
cp: cannot stat `./usr/X11R6/lib/modules/linux': No such file or directory
dh_install: command returned error code 256
make: *** [binary] Error 1
dpkg-buildpackage: failure: debian/rules binary gave error exit status 2
Removing temporary directory: fglrx-install.VXyTCu

help me!

is Ureadahead working with elive Topas (2 replies)

emka — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 05:53:03 -0700

Hi Elivees,
I was changing recently from an Ubuntu System to elive Topas und would like to use ureadahead with Elive too.
But since there's no possibilty to install it with the lenny/elive repo's, i don't dare to do it.

Is Ureadahead working with elive to and which repo's should i use ?

By the Way:
How's Elive reacting to sid's repositories ?

Greetings, eMKa

WLAN Connection breaks after reanimating from sleeping mode (no replies)

emka — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 09:57:29 -0700

Hi Elivees,
after switching from debian- and ubuntu-systems to elive, I've got the following Problem:

After starting my ASUS UL30A-Laptop from sleeping Mode, my WLAN-Connection's not only broken, but can't be reanimated at all.
Sometimes new configuration in the Connection-Wizard is helping, mostly only rebooting works...

Is this an already known issue and are there any ideas to solve the Problem ?

Greetings, eMKa

(EE) no device detected (no replies)

pola — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 06:33:17 -0700

Bueno. Acá estoy nuevamente molestando.
Tengo problemas al iniciar la Live de Topaz.
me tira este error
(EE) no device detected
y me da para reconfigurar el Xorg

No inicia ni con problemas visuales, ni cambiando resolución ni ninguna otra opcion.
Solo puede instalar en modo consola (cosa que detesto es la consola), o reiniciar la maquina...

Estoy con una Notebook HP
con gráfica INTEL HD GRAPHICS

alguien sabe como solventar esto?
Desde ya muchas gracias

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]

roadmap for development (no replies)

mnzt42yd — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 13:08:07 -0700

just wondering if this is happening as doesnt seem to be any movement and no details

Paypal link outdated (no replies)

the_leander — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 07:51:26 -0700

I was an avid user of Elive on my previous system. Gem didn't work on the new laptop so I waited for 2.0 with anticipation.

I'll not comment on the ethics of paying for elive as I think others have covered it better already. But I knew the software to be good enough to warrant paying for it.

Testing on the laptop went ok(ish) and after a little bit of mucking around I decided it was good enough to install.

Imagine my surprise and disappointment however when I found that thanks to no one bothering to maintain the install module paypal page, you now get an error stating that it's out of date.

/rant mode on

It does beg the question though, if you can't be bothered to even maintain your income stream, is anyone still working on Elive? The near complete lack of support noted on these pages doesn't exactly inspire confidence either, as a non paying community you might expect to have to look around, but as a paying customer you are changing the balance of expectations by quite a bit.

I was prepared to jump through some hoops to get this distro. But come on!

/rant mode off

Gadgets (2 replies)

pola — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 16:38:50 -0700

Hola gente. quería saber si alguien sabe como poner otros gadgets (por ejemplo un reloj mas bonito) y esas cosas. Ya que los que trae Topaz son muy limitados.

Claro. También donde conseguirlos :$

Conect TV to elive (4 replies)

desmolinux — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 05:10:49 -0700

Hi, again, I'm trying to expand the elive desktop to my Tv to see movies in the TV. When I had Win Xp and ubuntu I could see the movies in Tv, but with elive I don't know how to do it.
It. is posible in elive? How?
Thanks.

Problem to play CD audio (5 replies)

desmolinux — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 14:10:04 -0700

Hello again,I have made this question in spanish forum and now I do it here too.
Is that I went to hear an audio cd
and has not opened the audacius but I get this error:
""org.freedesktop.Dbus.error.unknownmethod
Method "mount" with signature "sass" on interface "or.fredesktop.hal.device.volume" doesn't exist ""
then open the SoundJuicer and sometimes makes
play the CD and sometimes not.
What can I do to fix this problem?
Thanks.

how to activate network settings to connect to wireless router. (1 reply)

murx — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 15:05:35 -0700

Hi all,

I have just purchased and installed elive 2.0 on an acer laptop.

I did have a previous version installed and that worked fine, I would connect to the wireless router by going into elapanel and then into network connections.

How do do this in the latest version of elive? I can not seem to find elpanel anywhere and I can not find an icon to activate the network connections.

I know that elive 2.0 can connect to my router so this is clearly a hardware matter to deal with.

I love the look of elpanel btw.

Elive on EEEpc, but not if I pay again. (no replies)

hobocaver — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 16:23:33 -0700

Hi This is not a rant, but is intended as a compliment. Elive Topaz is very impressive, the hardware detection was amazing, since I have a quirky Toshiba Satellite laptop. Everything works, and works nicely. The graphics are great. I would have tried to put this on USB so it could be installed onto an eeepc; but I will not pay twice for the same software, even Microsoft will let you use their overpriced junk on 3 pcs. Ubuntu Netbook went on, it works well, but I would have preferred Elive. Again, this is not a rant but a backhanded compliment. Hope to see some updates.

Problema al reproducir CD audio (no replies)

desmolinux — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 09:28:45 -0700

Hola de nuevo, resulta que he ido a escuchar un cd de audio y no se ha abierto el audacius sino me ha salido este error:
can't mount device
org.freedesktop.Dbus.error.unknownmethod
Method "mount" with signature "sass" on interface "or.fredesktop.hal.device.volume" doesn't exist

luego se abre el soundjuicer y algunas veces se pone a reproducir el CD y otras no.
A que se debe este problema? que puedo hacer para solucionarlo?
Gracias.

Actualizar repositorios Elive a debian squeeze (2 replies)

desmolinux — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 09:25:05 -0700

Hola de nuevo a todos, me alegro mucho de haber encontrado este foro en español sobre el elive, y viendo que hay un par de expertos aprovecho a ver si soluciono algunos problemas.
Como el elive esta basado en debian lenny sus repos son antiguos, no hay versiones recientes de ninguna aplicacion, a mi me gustaria actualizar aplicaciones como gimp, wine,synaptic, etc, como puedo hacer para actualizar el sources.list, que lineas tendria que añadir para que el elive siga funcionando tan bien como ahora.
Gracias a todos.

"cannot create \root\..." (no replies)

Hazzarel — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 20:09:13 -0700

Hola. para comentarles que tengo un problema.

Sucede que desde hace un tiempo probe el live cd de elive 2.0, y me ha agradado verdaderamente, le he probado primero en un desktop y me corre perfectamente, sin embargo, al probarle en una laptop, simplemente no puede iniciar, me dice "cannot create \root\..." y al parecer soy el unico en internet que se encuentra en este embrollo.

la portatil es una hp pavilion dv1000 a 1.73ghz con 512 ram, que supuestamente la informacion de la misma pagina de elive, debe correrlo perfectamente.

se agradece cualquier apoyo.

por su atencion muchas gracias.

Cambiar /home de disco. (3 replies)

pola — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 09:18:13 -0700

Bueno. Me encontre con una trampita en esto.
Primero realize las particiones, acostumbrado a usar solo 3 parciones, "/" "swap" y "/home", segui con mi costumbre.
al empezar a instalar. me pidio un /boot y no me quedo mas remedio que instalarlo en lo que estaba pensado para /home

a si que me quedo / y /home en una sola parcion.
La idea es achicar /boot que actualmente tiene 50GB. y realizar una nueva particion /home.
obviamente, tengo que mover todo y declarar el nuevo /home.

como hago esto?

Pasos a seguir para obtener el modulo (4 replies)

pola — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 01:01:34 -0700

Quería preguntar como hago para conseguir el modulo?
no tengo tarjeta de crédito, y de tenerla, ni loco la meto en paypal.
Viendo que conseguir una invitación es imposible (nadie responde los mails), me veo obligado a pagar para usar software ¿Libre o gratuito?...

Como serian los pasos a seguir?
y sobre todo.. como cargo el modulo a la hora de instalar?
un saludo a todos

Opera 10.60 Beta (1 reply)

down8ve — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 22:49:38 -0700

Using the beta of the upcoming Opera 10.60.. Very, very nice, seems faster than chrome on my system.

Twin view in Topaz (4 replies)

pi3573 — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 04:29:10 -0700

Hey guys, So far so good. I think this is a great distro! I got one prob. i cant seem to find nv control panel or nvidia-settings or anything else to alow me to setup twin view. I thought I had gotten nvidia-settings installed but cant find it anywhere.

Im on an Asus g60vx laptop and the nvidia drivers are in but all i see is a resolution setting. Thanks for your help guys!

Again... Great distrol Thana

Live USB on Dell Mini 1012 producing an error on boot... (no replies)

Isthmus — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 06:28:06 -0700

Hi folks, Just joined and this is my first question in your fine forum.

I bought a Dell Mini 1012 for the express purpose of installing Elive 2.0 on it as it's principal OS. I made a live USB of Elive and ran it on my old Dell Inspiron 700m laptop, where it loaded and ran perfectly. When running it on the new Mini 1012, the USB goes through the entire boot up sequence and ultimately fails at a point where it gives me a graphical system error. The error is as follows:

Problem running the Graphical System
(EE) No devices detected

It then sends me to a screen titled "Graphical System Finished" which gives me the following options:

* Start X - Restart your graphical session
* reconfigure - reconfigure your graphical system and launch it
* install - Install Elive in your computer
* console - Boot login console
* reboot - reboot your computer
* shutdown - shutdown your computer

I chose "reconfigure your graphical system and launch it" and reset the screen resolution manually to 1024x600; hit ok and got the same error.

The hardware specs on the machine are as follows:

* Processor: Intel Atom Processor N450 (1.66GHz, 512K L2 Cache)
* RAM: 1 GB DDR2 SDRAM 800MHz (1 DIMM)
* HD: 160GB SATA Hard Drive (5400RPM)
* Video: Intel NM10 Express
* Network Card: Dell 1397 802.11B/G Wireless Mini Card
* 6 Cell Primary Battery
* 10.1 inch Widescreen Display (1024x600)

If anyone has any idea what could be going on and how I might go about solving this I would appreciate it greatly. I REALLY loved Elive on my tests and think it woud be perfect on this machine, if I can get it running.

Thanks in advance for your help.

¡¡ Some instructions for Elive !! (1 reply)

verdegal37 — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 12:05:30 -0700

It has seemed me interesting to put this forum .

I have recently noticed that the users with poor knowledge's of gnu/linux (in other words, that never has tried it), doesn't know How to boot Elive in their computers, so this is why i have added a new entry in the Howto's section with the instructions about how to boot your computer with Elive. It is meant to perfectly explained everything so that anybody be able to run Elive on his computer, you are welcome to suggest anything to add anything on it by simply sending me an email.

The idea still the same, that any kind of user be able to use Elive, without previous knowledge about gnu/linux or other things, if you know other things that needs to be more easy for a new end-user, you can suggest me it by for example reporting it as feature request in the BTS (bugs) website.

I profite also this entry to say that the development of Elive continues, of course, I say that because there's a lot of people in the IRC channel that doesn't see me anymore on it, the reason is simple: IRC takes a lot of time and i prefer to use this time for develop Elive, IRC makes me to lost a lot of time, so I don't expect to return really much on the IRC for now :). If you don't see any update recently is just because im rewriting ALL my personal tools, ways of work, automations, more stable and controled processes... everything, even my new Home structure system that is basically finished. I will try to finish these things as soon as possible and do an update of the actual Topaz version with minor fixes, and starting to work in the new kernel and updating all the packages, I can't say any date, just that ASAP :)

Have a nice day!

Extracted from here:
[www.elivecd.org]

Greetings:
Agust

Compartir Módulo, ¿Se puede? (2 replies)

Wasausky — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 16:48:30 -0700

Despues de buscar tanto en el foro y no encontrar la respuesta a mi pregunta decidí a poner un post.

Yo desde hace como 5 meses que quiero pagar el Módulo de instalación pero no lo voy a hacer hasta que no sepa si se puede compartir. Ya que hay algo que no me quedó claro al leer de pies a cabeza todo lo de la página de Elive.. dice en una parte de :[www.elivecd.org] (Click al link para ir a la sección de la página)

"Basically, in Elive you can:
Install Elive in your mom's computer.
Give or sell copies of Elive to friends or anybody. "

No entiendo eso de que se puede instalar en la computadora de mi mamá, eso es con el mismo módulo de instalación ¿no?. ¿Y para qué vender o dar copias de Elive si no se puede instalar? Y además f.sánchez no me contesta mi mensaje (en inglés) que le envié, más difícil me la hace, y si estoy interesadísimo en utilizárlo.

De antemano muchas gracias por su tiempo

Live USB on Dell Mini 1012 producing an error on boot... (10 replies)

Isthmus — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 14:23:23 -0700