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[Cinque Port Computers <jackdtrice@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi israel,
>From the installed in VB system I get '1920x991' from your xrandr query.
But from the Live uninstalled iso, see inline pic; hopefully a clue for you.
              


Cheers,JackT.

> Subject: Re: First Observations: RE: [Torios-dev] zsync the latest
> To: nio.wiklund@xxxxxxxxx; jackdtrice@xxxxxxxxxxx
> CC: torios-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; jackdtrice@xxxxxxxxx
> From: israeldahl@xxxxxxxxx
> Date: Sat, 6 Feb 2016 10:21:27 -0600
> 
> Hi Nio,
> (inlines)
> On 02/06/2016 02:30 AM, Nio Wiklund wrote:
> >
> > ...
> > In the previous version I had this problem with the progress window, but
> > it works correctly for me in this version. I'm testing in my Toshiba (so
> > a real computer).
> Well, we will have to investigate why this occasionally doesn't work.
> It may be some virtual box settings, perhaps, since the code looks at
> the output of xrandr.
> Via:
> xrandr|grep '*'|sed -e 's/^ *//' -e 's/ .*//'
> 
> @Jack
> Could you post the output of that command back here for us to see?
> >>> 2) Tick box to confirm final media to install to (pop-up with all the
> >>> red in) is not visible but present (I believe Nio has mentioned this
> >>> before).
> >> True, this is either GTK or Numix bug.  I have not gotten any response
> >> on G+ I will try on github
> > The modified texts helps getting around this bug.
> But this bug may be fixed soon!!! :D
> The Numix guys respond very quickly on github!
> >>> 3) Tick area for setting keyboard map once installed (in my case from
> >>> 'us' to 'gb') is not visible but present.
> >> But you now can configure your locale, and does it work persistently??
> > Yes, I can use the new feature to configure the locale, and it works,
> > but it is very slow to scroll to Swedish with the down arrow. I found no
> > quick scroll or hotkey method (page down helped a little). Please advice
> > to to manage this window in an efficient way!
> Not sure about this one.  I suppose making the window larger would help
> right?
> At least the bug is fixed.... now UX improvement, which is not a bug but
> a 'feature request'
> This is not a show stopper, so I think if everything else is good to go
> we can release this ISO.
> Of course there are other minor things to work on, so if we fix this
> before release all the better!
> >
> >>> Cheers,
> >>> JackT.
> >>>
> >> There is a bug in firstrun, that should be fixed in the upstream.  I
> >> will wait to rebuild the baseOS again until we have all the kinks out,
> >> as using export XZ_OPT=${XZ_OPT-"-e9"} takes a looooooong time to
> >> compress... but it obviously was worth it, as well as the xz compression
> >> (instead of gz) for the squashfs.
> >> I think this would make the precise version somewhere around 500MiB
> >> (since it is the pre systemd version)
> > Great that you find an effient compression method and made the iso file
> > within CD size :-)
> >
> > I think you need a good number-crunching computer for this task. If I
> > remember correctly, xz can use only one thread/processor, so you need a
> > fast processor.
> I don't have a nice computer, I only have old computers.  I get the hand
> me downs from my family that are 'too old' to be usable.
> This computer I am using is from 07, so it is slow going, but effective :D
> > -----
> >
> > * 1. But I found a bug in the OBI-installer *
> >
> > It works well to install the PAE kernel. The non-pae kernel is kept, and
> > can be booted. Previous operating systems are detected and can be booted
> > too.
> Great!
> > It works twice. The first time at the basic OBI level, and once at the
> > advanced OBI level. But next time (at the advanced OBI level) I install
> > into another ext4 partition, the previous operating systems are not
> > detected and will not be available in the grub menu. I tried several
> > times, and it just refuses to work. (It makes no difference if I install
> > the PAE kernel or not, and no difference if I select autologin or not.)
> Is this within the same session?  Or are you rebooting and trying again?
> Not sure why this could happen.
> > As usual the previous operating systems are found when I run
> >
> > sudo update-grub
> >
> > when booted into the installed system.
> At least you can boot
> > * 2. And I know of a bug in mkusb *
> >
> > mkusb can make live-only [USB] drives, but must be changed in order to
> > create persistent live drives of ToriOS-debian. I understand that I have
> > to do it, but I don't know when there will be enough time for me to
> > focus on that programming effort, maybe sooner, maybe later.
> > -----
> If you give me a quick run down of what you think needs to happen then I
> can look into it if I get a chance.
> 
> -- 
> Regards
>

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