Errata ROSA Marathon X1
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Installation
Boot from hardisk does not work
If your bootloader is located not on the first physical disk, this option will not working.
System boots into the 'Live' mode after reboot
After system installation is complete and you reboot the machine, do not forget to eject your installation DVD or USB media, since by default the 'Live' mode will activated. Alternatively, you can change the priority of boot devices or choose 'Boot from hard drive' when booting from the installation media.
If installed from USB Flash, the system displays a message about 'Emergency mode'
If you install the system from USB Flash, you can a message about 'Emergency mode' after removing installation media rebooting. If this is the case, just insert the USB Flash back, load from it, choose 'Boot from hard drive' and finalize the installation (there will be several question from wizard). After that, you will be able to boot the system normally.
If you have Windows partitions, you may need to load Windows and run scandisk.
Incorrect resolution with Intel graphics cards
If you have a modern Intel graphics card, you may need to delete the following parameter from the boot loader menu entry:
nomodeset
Hardware
After update to 2012 Marathon sound is disabled
Delete .pulse directory in you home folder.
Impossible to activate video driver for graphics cards on 82945G/GZ chipsets
To load Intel video driver for cards on 82945G/GZ chipsets, one should perform the following actions:
- Open ROSA Control Center and choose "Boot->Configure boot steps->Set up boot system"
- Add pci=noacpi to kernel options and reboot the system
- Now you can enable Intel video driver for your graphics card
Please refer to bug 198 for more details.
KDE4
KDE4 boots for too long
On some machines KDE4 startup takes quite a long time (40-60 sec). To fix this, you should add ROSA media and update to KDE 4.8.2.
Users software
Unable to remove Klipper from the system tray
By default possibility to remove Klipper from tray is disabled. You can enable it by modifying corresponding configuration file.
Just add/update corresponding parameter in the [General] seciton on
AutoStart=false
Caution: Use this solution at your own risk! (see comment).
