@Cecca: answered you in the other Italian topic
The browser is my fault... I forgot to put it in the Live

As for the volume contro, please upgrade your system (there has been some important E17 updates since I uploaded the iso) and then try the new mixer module. The one you are using is already configurable in any way. Add the Echo module (why isn't it there? Weird..) and set it up

The device problem maybe related to your fstab configuration file..

Is it possible to installa software or upgrading the system running the live version? More important for me is the upgrade since the missing software (the browser) can be accessed on the SD card I use on my 701....

Today i had time to mess around with fstab.. being completely unfamiliar with editing this stuff it was all trial an error (i am still learning) and i have now managed to get the sd reader to auto-mount and read/write (successfully copied a.png file to it and retrieved it)but still working on getting it to be able to unmount automatically when the card is removed.

because i did a fresh re-install i had to

sudo chmod a+s /bin/mount
sudo chmod a+s /bin/umount

then i edited out the cd-rom reference in /etc/fstab and changed it to a usable filesystem... most of my sd-cards are fat16 so i used a vfat reference and so far it works. you might be able to see if there is any way for me to tweak it so that it will unmount the device on removal of the card as opposed to me having to manually do it in a terminal window.

here is my (somewhat) working /etc/fstab

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
proc            /proc           proc    defaults        0       0
# /dev/sda1
UUID=9ce43260-27a4-40ee-8a80-9a1fe51ba94a /               ext3    relatime,errors=remount-ro 0       1
# /dev/sda5
UUID=6fa68c6c-deb0-48c8-a410-433c12cdd4bb none            swap    sw              0       0
/dev/sdb1       /media/sdb1     vfat                 user,noauto     0       0

this was the one auto selected upon installation with a usb drive that wouldn't work.

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
proc            /proc           proc    defaults        0       0
# /dev/sda1
UUID=9ce43260-27a4-40ee-8a80-9a1fe51ba94a /               ext3    relatime,errors=remount-ro 0       1
# /dev/sda5
UUID=6fa68c6c-deb0-48c8-a410-433c12cdd4bb none            swap    sw              0       0
/dev/sdb1       /media/cdrom0   udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0       0

thanks

**edit** I forgot i had to also create the folder /media/sdb1 in terminal in order to get it to work properly.. I did that with "sudo mkdir /media/sdb1"

thanks again

Last edited by crb247 (2008-10-25 10:59:30 pm)

Hi, I love opengeeeu on my 701 eee pc, it is beautiful, I have one problem, I have to wtype in different languages and can not find how to switch from english to another language and then back to english again?
There is also no configuration for to ad different keylayouts, or I am missing something?

Does anybody know where I can get this?  The download links on their page are not working and two torrents I've tried have no seeds?  I'd love to try this!

I don't see a way to install this on an eee pc - I don't have any cd drive.

http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/ (Unetbootin: USB installation)

Sheng-Chieh

I'm trying out Opengeeeu on my 701 EEE, but can't get it to boot.

I d/l the opengeeeu-8.04.1-desktop-i386.iso file, and tried to install it on a USB drive using unetbootin. I copied the ISO to the USB drive and then used unetbootin to create a bootable USB drive out of it (the same USB thumb drive, it's a 4GB drive so plenty of space). Unetbootin doesn't recognise the drive right away but selecting /dev/sdc manually it works.

When booting my EEE with the ESC key pressed I select the USB drive, then get the unetbootin selection window where I can select various ways to boot it. Nothing works. Whichever option I choose I go back to the boot screen, and the counter starts at 10 again. The automatic boot also doesn't work.

When pressing <TAB> on the Default option I get the following line:
> /ubnkern initrd=/ubninit file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper quiet splash --

Now there is no file /cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed but there is a file /preseed/ubuntu.seed present on the USB so I edit this - still no luck.

I'm completely at a loss here what could be the matter. Unetbootin appears to do the job correctly - at least the USB stick is bootable, but can't actually boot the system from there.

I already tried reformatting the USB stick ('sudo mkfs.vfat /dev/hdc'), finished in a second or so only and the drive was clean - no difference.

Any help is welcome! I'd really like to try out something else, mostly as I don't like the standard distro to use like 2.6 GB of my precious 4GB SSD space... and I always liked E16, and E17 looks so much better.

Wouter.