Comments: Hands on VidaLinux Desktop OS

David,

Check out:

http://fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=18522

for a solution to enabling software mixing for ALSA, which is what VidaLinux uses.

Seth

Posted by Seth Kinast at January 30, 2005 7:04 AM

Thanks Seth! That solved the problem with the sound card. However, it still doesn't work properly with multiple logins.

Posted by David Tenser at January 30, 2005 6:35 PM

I tried it out just now, and I couldn't get it to work with my wireless LAN. Apart from that, it was better than I had hoped for.

Posted by Foxtrot at January 30, 2005 6:51 PM

Sorry David, I forgot to note that ALSA-based configs have problems with user switching as well.

Here is a link to help you fix that problem :)
http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-kde/2004-Jun/0182.html

Basically you're changing permissions from 600 to 660 on your audio devices.

This may help as well:
http://slforums.typo3-factory.net/index.php?act=ST&f=4&t=10338

Seth

Posted by Seth Kinast at January 30, 2005 11:09 PM

Nice wallpaper, dude. ;-)

Posted by Lim Chee Aun at January 31, 2005 3:43 PM

Looks good. I gave it a try on my laptop. The sound and pcmcia were a no go. That's not terribly surprising though. I'm still waiting for a Linux install to just get it right like windows does.

If I were more comfortable with Linux like I am with FreeBSD, I'd be all about hacking kernels and getting it all to run.

For the curious, the laptop is a Sager 5660; about 2 years old.

Posted by Chris at January 31, 2005 7:37 PM

I wonder, is this the $30 version?

Posted by Gerald at February 1, 2005 7:01 AM

Gerald, it's the free version. I would never pay for software that I could get (legally) for free.

Posted by David Tenser at February 1, 2005 9:22 AM

David, just for sure... is both of the users members of groups audio,users and wheel? this can cause why is not sound working .)

Posted by bassaq at February 1, 2005 1:44 PM

"Sofie actually likes Paris Hilton, so she has no problem with it either."

I like Paris Hilton too, but some of us read this at work and weren't expecting to have a slut in underwear on our screens. Fortunately no one was walking by at the time, but I'd prefer something G-Rated next time.

Posted by Joe Grossberg at February 1, 2005 8:29 PM

Seeing this review, I decided to try VidaLinux as well (used to run Fedora 1).
I am having a horrible experience! After the install, network wasn't working, and I get errors logging into Gnome, something about two applets crashing.
I read VidaLinux forums, where a number of users have reported that their network wasn't working after the install. Following their suggestions, I got the network to work by manually editing the conf.d/net file - and because I had to specify the exact IP of the gateway my laptop probably will not connect to any network other than the one I have at home.
Then I did "emerge -u world" (as suggested in the forums). That took 5 hours!
The free version of VidaLinux doesn't come with anything! Decided to try to install firefox using emerge - it is now taking more than half hour and is still not finished.
I have no sound. Will have to search the forums to try to figure out why.
I think very soon I'm going to dump this and install Fedora.

Posted by Leo at February 5, 2005 9:58 PM