Okay, that CD is quite new but I think it's better to file this into a bug ;-) I started the CD, did 'loadkeys de' (for German keymap), run 'Xeasyconf' and called 'startx'. It started the twm which I wanted to leave with ctrl-alt-backspace. After that keystroke I got a: kernel BUG at page_alloc.c:106! vector: 0 at pc = c0038198, lr = c0038198 msr = 9032, sp = d20fddc0 [d20fdcf8] current = d20fc000, pid = 7435, comm = X mon> This bug is reproductible. Another stupid question to the livecd: How can I start Gnome? With startx it only starts twm. And it seems that gdm isn't available. Only xdm is there, but this is ugly and will start twm, too... Ah, found it: Uncomment XSESSION=Gnome in the /etc/rc.conf And is it possible that Xeasyconf runs in automagically mode so that it detects everthing by itself and starts gdm after successful detection? There should be also another, let's say better way, for the installation guide than copy and paste it from the website. I think, we have a special XSL-file for it (print-version or something like this). Stop the behaviour of the snooze-LED acting like an HDD-access-indicator. This white-flashing light on the iBook is quite cool, but only in the first minute -- after that it would make people other than myself nervous ;-) Sound isn't working on my iBook. Looks like missing kernel-modules for sound (dmasound or something like that). A graphical chat application like X-Chat would be nice. And better graphics -- a LiveCD for Gentoo testing purposes the look&feel must be cool! ;-) If the new user want's to see how good Gnome could be, it has to show transparent menus, smart window borders, nice fonts and, of course, Larry the Cow as wallpaper ;-) It's also good having some applications preconfigured. E.g. mozilla that doesn't show the stupid bar at the left and starts with a local HTML-version of the installation-guide. Enough for now. Nevertheless thanks for this first attempt of a graphical LiveCD on ppc!
thnxs for reporting. - I'll take these suggestions into account. a detailed reply follows :-)
I'm looking into the bug status with the page_alloc.c thing..
this has been reported in several other bugs as well, and I can reproduce on the kde live cd w/ my TiBook 1ghz/radeon9000/superdrive
the page_alloc problem sounds like something vm related. probably because this is a -pre kernel, kainz was looking into this, not sure if he was able to solve it. The XSESSION variable will be set to a default value for each cd. An automatic mode is currently being tested and is based on the x86 gamecd video detection code. The documentation: There will be a symlink on the desktop to the doc on livecd. I'll check if we have a print XSL stylesheet. I'm doing lynx --dump >file now The led indicator is enabled by default in latest -benh kernels. I'm looking into this. I had hoped to make a kernel patch that allows one to: disable it - or manually control it (allowing the wardriving tools to indicate if a network was found and show its strength by dimming the led accordingly.) This is probably not for next livecd unless somebody sends me a patch that does this. something wierd happened to sound. on the gnomecd /dev seems to be damaged. (no mknod, mixer device etc). the dmasound thing is enabled as a module in the kernel.config. I did emerge alsa, (which works on my pb) maybe you should try alsa. Anyway, alsa shouldn't be overriding existing modules if they exist. X-chat is added, on kdecd kirc is also available. Any other cool graphical irc clients? I'm a hardcore irssi user. The gnome suggestions are ok. What I did was to emerge most themes and gentoo-artwork. I'll have a look if I can come up with something better. I'm a gnome liker but not a gnome expert. Feel free to send me a tarball with modified configuration files. What I'm going to do probably is to mount the live environment, chroot into it and configure some applications. Mozilla will be in gnome menus too. Firebird and galeon will be on gnome cd
closing the bug - new livecds will be online soon
