My experiences with ubuntu MATE 16.04.1 LTS Live USB
Posted: Wed Dec 28, 2016 8:19 pm
Hi guys,
First thanks for the work you do. I know its all volunteer.
I have spent a week off and on now trying to make a decent working installation on my X5000. I am not Linux expert but been developing for a long time. I just screwed something up that has forced me back to reinstall as I try to make a working environment. (My development work is on separate partition). As I repeat the process I figured a nice documented list of issues would be helpful.
Here is what I encountered so far.
1. Bug in GParted that defaults to unusable state unless you guess to set correct alignment "cylinders".
2. Normal Installer does not work and Alternative install script that does not create a installation. It copies a "USB live session" onto hard drive. I could not figure out how to remove "Live User Session" satisfactorily nor have system think it was installed. The welcome page keeps greeting me with install option that does not work.
3. No 3D hardware support. This boot parameter "radeon.pcie_gen2=1" does nothing as far as I can not see as the "radeon" driver is not in the kernel. " modinfo -p radeon"
4. Having to boot off off USB drive since UBOOT cant read AmigaOS 4 partition table.
For me right now 3/2 are probably the most annoying issues that limits the usefulness of hardware so anything I can do to assist/test please reach out to me.
Thanks for allowing my feedback
Doug Stastny
First thanks for the work you do. I know its all volunteer.
I have spent a week off and on now trying to make a decent working installation on my X5000. I am not Linux expert but been developing for a long time. I just screwed something up that has forced me back to reinstall as I try to make a working environment. (My development work is on separate partition). As I repeat the process I figured a nice documented list of issues would be helpful.
Here is what I encountered so far.
1. Bug in GParted that defaults to unusable state unless you guess to set correct alignment "cylinders".
2. Normal Installer does not work and Alternative install script that does not create a installation. It copies a "USB live session" onto hard drive. I could not figure out how to remove "Live User Session" satisfactorily nor have system think it was installed. The welcome page keeps greeting me with install option that does not work.
3. No 3D hardware support. This boot parameter "radeon.pcie_gen2=1" does nothing as far as I can not see as the "radeon" driver is not in the kernel. " modinfo -p radeon"
4. Having to boot off off USB drive since UBOOT cant read AmigaOS 4 partition table.
For me right now 3/2 are probably the most annoying issues that limits the usefulness of hardware so anything I can do to assist/test please reach out to me.
Thanks for allowing my feedback
Doug Stastny