[ Closed ] 64bit testing (Page 7 of 7)

Sorry about that, thought it is a bug because it worked well for a few times after installation.

Don t hesitate to delete this posts :-)

Hello, everyone.
Thought I might share my experiences with installing and using "crunch64", as I like to call it:

I've used the 9.04.01 installer on top of an Ubuntu 9.04 minimal install with much success!
This install is on an ASUS M50Vm-X1 laptop. There are a few caveats with this model which require additional setup for GNU/Linux in general, but these things aren't really #!'s fault, so I'll leave that part out.
(If anyone is interested I could provide a how-to since it really is a pain to figure these things out by yourself.)

There were some hiccups, however...
As mentioned elsewhere on the forums, there seems to be a problem with the Crunchbang GDM theme which causes GDM to hang most of the time while it is loading. Switching to another theme fixes this problem.

With the nfs-client tools installed (I believe the nfs-common package leaves the server out, although I could be mistaken), the system hangs while attempting to load the nfs module. At this point one can switch to a different terminal and uninstall nfs to force the system to continue loading, but this is certainly not a fix. This is a severe problem for me as I map a large hard-drive to this laptop for all of my music/movies/data/etc.

My only qualm with this version of Crunchbang is the inclusion of bmpanel by default. It is simply too ugly. Lxpanel would have been my first choice if version 0.4 were available in the repos (refer to this for the bug I am referring to).
I used corenominal's "Howto replace lxpanel with tint2 & trayer" how-to, which resulted in a much more aesthetically pleasing desktop.
I have two complaints about this setup:
1. I can't figure out how to force trayer to sit behind windows that collide with it. I couldn't find anything which would alter this behavior in the man page.
2. The clock doesn't count seconds. It always stays at "00".

Other than these relatively minor problems (with the exclusion of the nfs thing), this is definitely the most solid OS I've managed to get running on this hardware. I can finally utilize all 4GB of RAM!!!

Obligatory screenshot:
snazzy, eh?

Awesome find!
Thanks for the link, anonymous.

EDIT: I now have lxpanel 0.4.1 working perfectly.

Last edited by callinyouin (2009-06-12 03:13:12)

Hey Callin,

Me and you are running the same hardware and I agree about BMPanel.

Tint2 does include its own useful tray now (might give it a try) if you like it.  I personally went and stuck with tint2.  I think lxpanel had a few graphical glitches.

You also are going to run into problems with your headphone jack if we have near identical Realtek HD Audio Codec ACxxx.  It doesn't seem to get a sound level amplification.

I have found no fix so far.

Last edited by cain (2009-07-07 17:10:49)

You have to reinstall with a 64 bit disk. There is no way to upgrade to 64 bit from a 32 bit installation.

Hello, I don't see many new post on that section, I guess not to many trouble with 64bit version!!
I put Statler alpha 2 amd64 on my pc and working like charm, really like the job you made with openbox,
I have everything working and I can also print from windows by VirtualBox on my printer (Epson Stylus S21) trought my home network with driver on #!
At least, I'm very appy with all this stuff