[SoaS] SoaS 4 - Mango Lassi is out.

[Peter Robinson]

On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 4:10 PM, Matt Wronkiewicz <matt at wronkiewicz.net> wrote:
> Thank you, that explains the problems I was seeing as well.

Make sure you add any extra details for devices that don't work so we
can get the details added upstream and have them supported soon via a
kernel update.

Peter

> Matt
>
> On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 8:47 AM, Peter Robinson <pbrobinson at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Please when detailing technical issues strip off non relevant lists so
>> we don't spam them.
>>
>> On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 9:24 AM, Raffael Reichelt
>> <raffael.reichelt at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>> Great! I just tried the 64bit version on my old MacBookAir and for the first
>>> time with SOAS it tries to boot. Thr bootsplash pops upand it is offrering
>>> thr bootmenu ... unfortunatly then nothing else happens. Is there a chance
>>> to get it to work completly? I would love it!
>>
>> That's a problem with the graphics mapping on the Apple devices. We
>> need to add the details to the kernel to support it. If you can run
>> the command that's provided in the following bug comment
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=528232#c20 and the either
>> add a comment to the bug with the details or provide the details here
>> and we can organise to get the problem fixed.
>>
>> Peter
>>
>>
>>> 2010/11/3 Thomas C Gilliard <satellit at bendbroadband.com>
>>>>
>>>> Great News;
>>>>
>>>> Fedora-14-x86_64-Live-SoaS CD Boots fine on an Apple MacBook Air with an
>>>> external hp-DVD/CD usb drive.
>>>>
>>>> Hold "C"  and tap power button keep holding the "C" key down until the
>>>> blue fedora boot screen appears
>>>> Select Boot (Basic Video)-second line
>>>> boots to bar display Fedora 14; (Name_____); Choose password for new
>>>> keyring; hit cancel 6 times.
>>>> F3 Ring appears
>>>>
>>>> Use the usb to cat 5 Air dongle ( applesmc.78) as Network Manager does not
>>>> recognize the Mac Air's wireless hardware.
>>>> f1 neighborhood will be full of xxxxxxxxxx at jabber.sugarlabs.org names
>>>>
>>>> To fix this go to drop down / My settings /About me. change colors and
>>>> restart. On restart the names will be correct.
>>>> ONLY IF you enter the key chain password you entered 1 time when you
>>>> started sugar.
>>>>
>>>> These are known bugs
>>>>  http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick_Bugs#Current_Bugs
>>>>
>>>> ALSO
>>>>
>>>> There is a new Boot CD for Macs and computers that cannot boot from USB
>>>>
>>>> Boot helper CD for Fedora-14-i686-Live-SoaS:
>>>> <http://www.wronkiewicz.net/soas-4-boot-test.iso>
>>>>
>>>>> Matt
>>>>>
>>>>> On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 9:45 PM, Matt Wronkiewicz <matt at wronkiewicz.net>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> > If anyone else is interested, I put together a boot helper for
>>>>>> > Mirabelle. Burned to a CD, it enabled booting a USB stick on my
>>>>>> > MacBook Pro. The stick was partitioned with the plain old MBR format
>>>>>> > and labeled "FEDORA". I also got both VMware Fusion and VirtualBox to
>>>>>> > boot the USB stick using this boot helper ISO. The soas-2-boot ISO
>>>>>> > sort of works with Mirabelle sticks, but they have different kernel
>>>>>> > versions so modules don't load, thus no networking. That is fixed in
>>>>>> > this build.
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > <http://www.wronkiewicz.net/soas-3-boot-test.iso>
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > Matt
>>>>>> >
>>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Please Test these result on other MAC's and report here in wiki:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Talk:Sugar_on_a_Stick_release_process#Macintosh_Testing
>>>>
>>>> Congratulations to all
>>>>
>>>> Enjoy;
>>>>
>>>> Tom Gilliard
>>>> satellit
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Peter Robinson wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi All,
>>>>>
>>>>> This is the non announcement announcement of the release of Sugar on a
>>>>> Stick 4 Mango Lassi is out.
>>>>>
>>>>> You can download both the 32 and 64 bit version from
>>>>> http://spins.fedoraproject.org/soas/
>>>>>
>>>>> There's an outline of some common bugs in Fedora 14 and hence Fedora
>>>>> 14 outlined here
>>>>> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F14_bugs
>>>>>
>>>>> Some of the notable enhancements include:
>>>>> - Sugar 0.90
>>>>> - Support for more wireless adapters including the rtl2xxx series of
>>>>> adapters that are common in eee PCs
>>>>> - Improved Apple Mac support (still needs SoaS verification as
>>>>> apparently its a major problem but I could only find Fedora people to
>>>>> test it for me)
>>>>> - Quite a lot of things that I can't remember
>>>>>
>>>>> I would like to thank Sebastian, Mel, Simon, Thomas and everyone else
>>>>> who has contributed to this release.
>>>>>
>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>> Peter
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