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AV Linux 4.2 released!

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Hi,

For those interested AV Linux 4.2 has been released, please stop by and have a detailed look here:
http://www.remastersys.com/forums/index ... pic=1162.0
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I tried to register over at the Remastersys forum to ask you a question, but the registration form doens't work. Always tells me I didn't answer the questions correctly. :(

Anyways, I just installed 4.1, do you recommend a dist-upgrade or new install from ISO?
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Hi,

To be clear the AV Linux forum is a guest on the Remastersys forum and although I am an admin I don't set up the membership security mechanism. We recently have had to tighten things up due to an unprecedented amount of Spammers and although our membership is growing steadily daily I have had a few other complaints of folks having difficulties so my apologies to you, certainly that is not an intended side-effect.

To remedy that I suggest you go to the Remastersys homepage here: http://www.remastersys.com/
Click on the 'Contact' link and say GMaq suggested you email and briefly describe the registering problem you have and fragadelic the primary forum admin should help you sort it out. Again my apologies for the extra inconvenience you have been caused.

Now to your question.

AV Linux is image-based (think a Debian Dyne:bolic) and has no dedicated repository system so dist-upgrading is not a possible scenario. I realize to big-box Linux users this seems strange but once you have used AV Linux for a while and gotten comfortable with using the Remastersys tools and recommended System setup it will make more sense. You will need to install 4.2 from the ISO but I think you will find it worth it.

Thank you for your interest in AV Linux, I sincerely hope the forum issue can be remedied for you quickly.

-GLEN
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Just installed 4.2 and I like the changes from 4.1. Clementine is awesome, and the kernel upgrade is even better. :)

The realtimeconfigurationscan script you include fails in a few spots(noatime, rtc readable by audio group, and cpu governor).
http://wiki.linuxmusicians.com/doku.php ... cdf2cc362c

My CPU-0 is getting set to performance but CPU-1 is set to ondemand. :/
The default Jack is Jack1, so does that mean it doesn't do SMP? In that case the 2nd core doesn't matter and won't cause XRuns?


Another thing is the mounting of drives. My extra partitions are getting auto mounted to /media which I like, but I want to change the names of the mount points. Where is that configured?
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Hi,

Yes, the realtime config is there for precisely that reason, not all those mods are possible on a distributable LiveDVD so the scan shows you where you need to finish the tweaking as the system admin. Of course the new Kernel is not -rt so that will particular item will fail, but it's proof is in the performance...

JACK1 is default because it is happy with many of the 3rd party packages (Clam-Chordata, linuxsampler, etc.) so JACK uses 1 thread you are correct. JACK2 is available via Synaptic but will rip out some 3rd party stuff to meet it's dependencies, if it's stuff you don't use then it won't matter.

See this HowTO for CPU: http://www.remastersys.com/forums/index ... pic=1138.0

Drive labels could be created or changed with GParted, but if you share these drives with another OS then that may not be a wise thing to tinker with.
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Performance so far on the new kernel and Jack1 is great. I think I will let that be. :)

The drive label thing worked, thanks for that.

I am running two screens, my laptop screen and an external LCD, and all windows default to opening on the wrong one. :/ Do you know what sets the default for new windows? LXDE? Xorg? Openbox?

The perferred applications app in the control panel never seems to retain my selection. But my choices seem to work, Chrome for browser and Evolution for mail, except for links inside Evolution e-mails give me an error:

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Could not open the link.
No application is registered as handling this file
I tried setting the x-www-browser(sp?) with xdg-mime and that didn't work. Can't find any settings within Evolution. Never had this problem running Gnome, so I'm a little lost here. The googles is no help so far.
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Fixed the Evolution link association. I thought I was setting my BROWSER enviroment variable, but apparently that and a few other things were commented out in my ~/.bashrc
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