Greetings, I currently have a few minor glitches I was wondering if I could get a hand with. None of these are really major but I strive for a near-perfect linux install as I am sure most of you do so I wanted to try and squash as many of these as possible.
I currently have 8.10 (I'd assume RC via the updates at this point), running on an HP Pavillion laptop model: dv9610us, which is the AMD Turion64 dual-core model with the onboard nvidia video. Aside from needing to use fwcutter to get my wifi working, everything else seems to be working just fine (thumbs up to you dev guys!). As I stated, I have a few minor glitches so let me get to the list then.
1) For some reason, on boot I am required to repeatedly press or hold enter (holding CTRL or most any other key seems to give me the same effect), in order for my boot to go through. I've inspected my kern.0.log, to find no real error to speak of. It may actually happen in two places though only one I can seem to be near definite on, which is somewhere during the USB configs. Most I can figure is that it sort of just "sits there", when I hold CTRL (or any other key), the HD access light begins to blink vigorously before eventually resetting the progress bar to where it does it's final sweep before switching to KDE's loading screen. There are no real errors to speak of unless they'd show somewhere other than the kernel log but I'd love it if I could boot/reboot my system without needing to hold a random key.
2) CTRL-ALT-F1 -> F6 does not work. I just get a black screen, but no terminal access to speak of. This doesn't really bother me too much since I can still boot into "safe mode" then to shell if there's anything I need to fix, but it does add extra steps I normally shouldn't have to do to get the same results. Especially since I can't (re)start KDM via "/etc/init.d/kdm restart" while messing with KDE. I've come across a few posts around the net stating that this is some sort of frame buffer issue but none of the "fixes" I've found thus far have worked. So it'd be pretty awesome of I could get that remedied.
3) The last problem I have is just sort of... odd... I've seen it mentioned before but no-one seems to have an answer so I've just kinda been waiting for the final release to see if it gets fixed but I figured I'd ask anyway. Sometimes the icons in the system tray turn black, disappear partially or have transparency issues. Again, not that big an issue, just kinda been hoping it fixes itself but if someone else has a fix... again I figured I'd ask.
That's about it... everything else works like a dream. Even have my Intuos3 Tablet installed properly and fully functional. I've attached my kernel log in case it helps anyone. Many thanks in advance.
~Aaron
I currently have 8.10 (I'd assume RC via the updates at this point), running on an HP Pavillion laptop model: dv9610us, which is the AMD Turion64 dual-core model with the onboard nvidia video. Aside from needing to use fwcutter to get my wifi working, everything else seems to be working just fine (thumbs up to you dev guys!). As I stated, I have a few minor glitches so let me get to the list then.
1) For some reason, on boot I am required to repeatedly press or hold enter (holding CTRL or most any other key seems to give me the same effect), in order for my boot to go through. I've inspected my kern.0.log, to find no real error to speak of. It may actually happen in two places though only one I can seem to be near definite on, which is somewhere during the USB configs. Most I can figure is that it sort of just "sits there", when I hold CTRL (or any other key), the HD access light begins to blink vigorously before eventually resetting the progress bar to where it does it's final sweep before switching to KDE's loading screen. There are no real errors to speak of unless they'd show somewhere other than the kernel log but I'd love it if I could boot/reboot my system without needing to hold a random key.
2) CTRL-ALT-F1 -> F6 does not work. I just get a black screen, but no terminal access to speak of. This doesn't really bother me too much since I can still boot into "safe mode" then to shell if there's anything I need to fix, but it does add extra steps I normally shouldn't have to do to get the same results. Especially since I can't (re)start KDM via "/etc/init.d/kdm restart" while messing with KDE. I've come across a few posts around the net stating that this is some sort of frame buffer issue but none of the "fixes" I've found thus far have worked. So it'd be pretty awesome of I could get that remedied.
3) The last problem I have is just sort of... odd... I've seen it mentioned before but no-one seems to have an answer so I've just kinda been waiting for the final release to see if it gets fixed but I figured I'd ask anyway. Sometimes the icons in the system tray turn black, disappear partially or have transparency issues. Again, not that big an issue, just kinda been hoping it fixes itself but if someone else has a fix... again I figured I'd ask.
That's about it... everything else works like a dream. Even have my Intuos3 Tablet installed properly and fully functional. I've attached my kernel log in case it helps anyone. Many thanks in advance.
~Aaron
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