Mageia 2 Beta 3 finally available for tests

[ennael]

As announced here:
http://blog.mageia.org/en/2012/04/18/la ... st-beta-3/

We finally did it . Now available for tests DVDs, dual CD and live CDs.This is really the last days before final release so we need your feedbacks.

Tests wanted:

• On live CDs: as many hardwares as possible
• On DVDs: installer, DVD content

Enjoy!

[duskfire_linux]

There still seems to be an issue when trying to use Unetbootin with the LiveCD. My CD drive doesn't work well at all, and even if I burned the CD on my wife's laptop I am not sure it will be seen on mine.
What is the best current way to create a bootable USB stick with the Live CD image? Thank you !
On my 2 year old hp pavillion (ATI card), it seems extremely slow to bring up the main cauldron image (5 minutes for the entire piece to show), then stops.

[Ken-Bergen]

There still seems to be an issue when trying to use Unetbootin with the LiveCD. My CD drive doesn't work well at all, and even if I burned the CD on my wife's laptop I am not sure it will be seen on mine.
What is the best current way to create a bootable USB stick with the Live CD image? Thank you !
On my 2 year old hp pavillion (ATI card), it seems extremely slow to bring up the main cauldron image (5 minutes for the entire piece to show), then stops.

1: Is a problem with Unetbootin, it can't handle hybrid images.
2: The best way to put the image on a stick is mandriva-seed, second best is good old dd.
3: I hear your pain with your hp pavilion, mine will not boot a 3.xx kernel, 2.6x kernels boot fine.

[duskfire_linux]

Yes, thanks, I found mandriva seed, also something called Rufus. I'll try mandriva seed first.

EDIT: The Jolicloud USB creator turned out to do the trick. Didn't find a recent enough copy of mandriva-seed. Running Beta 3 now, all good so far.

[saptech]

A few days ago, I upgraded from mga1 to mga2 and so far so good. Today I see updates coming but see these few with this message about missing signatures.

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The following packages have bad signatures:
/var/cache/urpmi/rpms/gmime-sharp-2.6.8-1.mga2.i586.rpm: Missing signature (OK ((none)))
/var/cache/urpmi/rpms/libgmime2.6_0-2.6.8-1.mga2.i586.rpm: Missing signature (OK ((none)))
/var/cache/urpmi/rpms/libkfontinst4-4.8.2-3.mga2.i586.rpm: Missing signature (OK ((none)))
/var/cache/urpmi/rpms/libkfontinstui4-4.8.2-3.mga2.i586.rpm: Missing signature (OK ((none)))
/var/cache/urpmi/rpms/libplasma_applet_system_monitor4-4.8.2-3.mga2.i586.rpm: Missing signature (OK ((none)))
/var/cache/urpmi/rpms/libusb-compat0.1_4-0.1.3-5.mga2.i586.rpm: Missing signature (OK ((none)))
/var/cache/urpmi/rpms/plasma-applet-system-monitor-hwinfo-4.8.2-3.mga2.i586.rpm: Missing signature (OK ((none)))
Do you want to continue installation ? (y/N)


Is it okay to continue?

Thnx.

[wobo]

Yes, was asked here (viewtopic.php?f=15&t=2270) just a couple of hours ago, reported as a bug and already fixed.

[tjphilly]

Going to pass on the distro for now - here's my error in case anyone else is having the problem. 32bit Gnome .iso (md5 and sha1 matched)
Both USB and Live CD - getting "system has to be rebooted due to display driver change" (cancel or abort options)

Dell XPS M1330
Intel® Core™2 Duo CPU T7250 @ 2.00GHz × 2
Nvidia Geforce 8.x
Current OS: Ubuntu 12.04/Gnome 3.4

(please don't refer me to bugzilla - spent enough time on the distro already - just wanted to help)

Tks!
TP

[jkerr82508]

The problem and work-around are described in the errata.

https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Mageia_2_Err ... vidia_card

Jim

[tjphilly]

I googled and googled some more, and searched here for a while. I'll give it another go - tks!
TP

[kennethj]

hybrid ISO, dd to a USB stick, boot but cancel the video driver warning, and away we go!

Running on an Aspire 7560-sb600

Found my wireless card, took the pass key and jumped on line.

So far no problems.

[tjphilly]

cancel didn't work for me but the added grub cmd worked. Tks Jim!

[neograven]

Everything is working pretty well, I like!

I do run in to a problem, the PPTP VPN with Network Manager doesn't work, it keeps saying connection failed. Will this be worked out by release?

[obgr_seneca]

If you file a bugreport about it and if some dev finds the bug, then perhaps.

Is it a problem only with Network Manager or also with drakconnect?

Oliver

[epilip]

First of all, thank you for all the work.
- xfce not yet an installation choice like LXDE (very bad). It should great mageia being really GUI agnostic
- no splash screen during boot, only console messages (no problem but seems old school)
- xfce "Parameters" panel does not contain the whole menu of parameters (no problem but it does not look professional)
- Title bar of active window stucked to light blue (gtk oxygen ?) (annoying grrrr)

[neograven]

This will be only Network Manager, can't check it in Drakconnect becasue it doesn't support PPTP VPN types.

[caskyline10]

Hi,
Just want to give some feedback on my own Mageia 2 Beta 3 testing.

I was able to install the 32 bit LiveCD, and boot with no problems.
I configured my brother MFC-7840W printer and it seem to work well.
I was able to configure my wireless cards and use the wireless network
Tested flash and watching video in Firefox.
Installed CrossOffice and tested running MS Office.
All seems to work well. Looking forward to RC.

This is the same system that I could not boot after installing beta 1 without setting radeon.modset=0. This time I was able to install,
and boot with no issues, then install the radeon-firmware.

My hardware: 32 bit Dell desktop with 3GB RAM

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   [root@mageiatest ~]# lspci -m
00:00.0 "Host bridge" "Intel Corporation" "82915G/P/GV/GL/PL/910GL Memory Controller Hub" -r04 "Dell" "Device 0179"
00:01.0 "PCI bridge" "Intel Corporation" "82915G/P/GV/GL/PL/910GL PCI Express Root Port" -r04 "" ""
00:1c.0 "PCI bridge" "Intel Corporation" "82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) PCI Express Port 1" -r03 "" ""
00:1c.1 "PCI bridge" "Intel Corporation" "82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) PCI Express Port 2" -r03 "" ""
00:1d.0 "USB controller" "Intel Corporation" "82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #1" -r03 "Dell" "Optiplex GX280"
00:1d.1 "USB controller" "Intel Corporation" "82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #2" -r03 "Dell" "Optiplex GX280"
00:1d.2 "USB controller" "Intel Corporation" "82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #3" -r03 "Dell" "Optiplex GX280"
00:1d.3 "USB controller" "Intel Corporation" "82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #4" -r03 "Dell" "Optiplex GX280"
00:1d.7 "USB controller" "Intel Corporation" "82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller" -r03 -p20 "Dell" "Optiplex GX280"
00:1e.0 "PCI bridge" "Intel Corporation" "82801 PCI Bridge" -rd3 -p01 "" ""
00:1e.2 "Multimedia audio controller" "Intel Corporation" "82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) AC'97 Audio Controller" -r03 "Dell" "Optiplex GX280"
00:1f.0 "ISA bridge" "Intel Corporation" "82801FB/FR (ICH6/ICH6R) LPC Interface Bridge" -r03 "" ""
00:1f.2 "IDE interface" "Intel Corporation" "82801FB/FW (ICH6/ICH6W) SATA Controller" -r03 -p80 "Dell" "Optiplex GX280"
00:1f.3 "SMBus" "Intel Corporation" "82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) SMBus Controller" -r03 "Dell" "Optiplex GX280"
01:00.0 "VGA compatible controller" "ATI Technologies Inc" "RV370 5B60 [Radeon X300 (PCIE)]" "ATI Technologies Inc" "Device 0402"
01:00.1 "Display controller" "ATI Technologies Inc" "RV370 [Radeon X300SE]" "ATI Technologies Inc" "Device 0403"
02:00.0 "Ethernet controller" "Broadcom Corporation" "NetXtreme BCM5751 Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express" -r01 "Dell" "Optiplex GX280"
04:00.0 "Network controller" "Ralink corp." "RT2760 Wireless 802.11n 1T/2R" "Alpha Networks Inc." "Device 3c8d"
04:02.0 "Network controller" "Broadcom Corporation" "BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller" -r03 "Askey Computer Corp." "Sonnet Aria Extreme PCI"

Edited by moderator, adding code-tags.

[thomas2000]

I've installed beta3 on 2 computers, 32 and 64 bit. It is working very smooth. Also non repo programs were installed without problems. On the 64 bit system unetbootin and mandriva-seed are not working.
But anyway, well done Mageia. The switch from Mandriva to Mageia is a fact.

[petrherynk]

I have a problem with grub on Mageia 2 32 bit. Is there any workaround? Thank you. I have 5 distros on my PC and the only Mageia uses grub 1.

[doktor5000]

Please open up a new thread, and please at least describe the problem a bit more. Just telling "i have a problem, [...] only Mageia uses grub 1" is no real description.

[vcg3rd]

I installed the 64 bit M2B3 DVD on my Lenovo laptop last week. No installation problems at all.

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00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core Processor Family DRAM Controller (rev 09)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 09)
00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family MEI Controller #1 (rev 04)
00:1a.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family USB Enhanced Host Controller #2 (rev 05)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family High Definition Audio Controller (rev 05)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 1 (rev b5)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 2 (rev b5)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 4 (rev b5)
00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family USB Enhanced Host Controller #1 (rev 05)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation HM65 Express Chipset Family LPC Controller (rev 05)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family 6 port SATA AHCI Controller (rev 05)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family SMBus Controller (rev 05)
02:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Centrino Wireless-N + WiMAX 6150 (rev 67)
03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 06)

No sure how much info to provide:

rocessor       : 0
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 6
model           : 42
model name      : Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2410M CPU @ 2.30GHz
stepping        : 7
microcode       : 0x25
cpu MHz         : 800.000
cache size      : 3072 KB
physical id     : 0
siblings        : 4
core id         : 0
cpu cores       : 2
apicid          : 0
initial apicid  : 0
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 13
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx rdtscp lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts nopl xtopology nonstop_tsc aperfmperf pni pclmulqdq dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm pcid sse4_1 sse4_2 x2apic popcnt tsc_deadline_timer xsave avx lahf_lm ida arat epb xsaveopt pln pts dts tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority ept vpid
bogomips        : 4589.57
clflush size    : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes   : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management:

processor       : 1
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 6
model           : 42
model name      : Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2410M CPU @ 2.30GHz
stepping        : 7
microcode       : 0x25
cpu MHz         : 800.000
cache size      : 3072 KB
physical id     : 0
siblings        : 4
core id         : 0
cpu cores       : 2
apicid          : 1
initial apicid  : 1
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 13
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx rdtscp lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts nopl xtopology nonstop_tsc aperfmperf pni pclmulqdq dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm pcid sse4_1 sse4_2 x2apic popcnt tsc_deadline_timer xsave avx lahf_lm ida arat epb xsaveopt pln pts dts tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority ept vpid
bogomips        : 4589.57
clflush size    : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes   : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management:

processor       : 2
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 6
model           : 42
model name      : Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2410M CPU @ 2.30GHz
stepping        : 7
microcode       : 0x25
cpu MHz         : 800.000
cache size      : 3072 KB
physical id     : 0
siblings        : 4
core id         : 1
cpu cores       : 2
apicid          : 2
initial apicid  : 2
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 13
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx rdtscp lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts nopl xtopology nonstop_tsc aperfmperf pni pclmulqdq dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm pcid sse4_1 sse4_2 x2apic popcnt tsc_deadline_timer xsave avx lahf_lm ida arat epb xsaveopt pln pts dts tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority ept vpid
bogomips        : 4589.57
clflush size    : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes   : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management:

processor       : 3
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 6
model           : 42
model name      : Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2410M CPU @ 2.30GHz
stepping        : 7
microcode       : 0x25
cpu MHz         : 800.000
cache size      : 3072 KB
physical id     : 0
siblings        : 4
core id         : 1
cpu cores       : 2
apicid          : 3
initial apicid  : 3
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 13
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx rdtscp lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts nopl xtopology nonstop_tsc aperfmperf pni pclmulqdq dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm pcid sse4_1 sse4_2 x2apic popcnt tsc_deadline_timer xsave avx lahf_lm ida arat epb xsaveopt pln pts dts tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority ept vpid
bogomips        : 4589.57
clflush size    : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes   : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management:

I had a little trouble getting wireless to work, but I have installed the kitchen sink, all destop/windows managers and ever 64 bit application I could find. I have had no problems.

[isadora]

Please use tagging to keep the forum readable!!!!!!
Use the Edit-function, to make it possible tagging selected text in CODE or QUOTE-formats.

Thanks in advance.

[vcg3rd]

Sorry. Didn't know.

[isadora]

Sorry. Didn't know.

No problem, thanks for editing.

Now in touch, gladly i would like to invite you:
viewtopic.php?f=5&t=15