I'd like to thank the people who put the live CD togther for their great work. The final release of 6.4 Live is really something. After I was unable to get one of the betas to start for me from my USB stick, this one does. And it works great - WLan out of the box (Broadcomm43xxx chip), streaming mp3 playback out of the box (had to tinker a bit to get sound), flash out of the box... It works better than Ubuntu 10.04 (which is pretty easy since that won't run longer than a few seconds on my laptop).
Actually, that reminds me of one issue that I have - the live CD/USB won't shut down properly. I click on Shutdown, the desktop goes blank - only the wallpaper remains - and that's it. The bottom panel usually also remains behind as a black rectangle. Have to perform a hard reset to continue.
Still, I'm very happy about Zenwalk live.
Now if only I could save the settings...

Thanks for the feedback. I am glad to hear ZenLive works better than Ubuntu!

Regarding the persistent changes, it is supported by the slackware-live-scripts, but I did not enabled it in ZenLive by default as this would only work when installing ZenLive onto USB stick and will change some init-scripts. If you would like to enable this feature, please install zenlive onto USB using the installer and then recreate the initrd using the -lilomad option (see build-slackware-live.sh for howto use)


BTW: can you specify your laptops hardware details? I wonder if the problem is related to broken acpi support from BIOS or from integrated video card...

I think I figured out the shutdown issue - as long as I leave "Save Session" enabled, it appears to shut down fine. But when I disable it - it doesn't seem to make sense for a live image, and I don't like to save sessions anyway - ZW live crashes upon shutdown.

I cannot reproduce this error, and I tried it on different machines with different hardware and configuration.
Please give me more details about your hardware, what exactly happens and when it hangs.


P.S. If you have an Inten intergrated GMA card you might want try the following and see if you still have the shutdown error:

at bootprompt select language, then press TAB and enter the following at the end of the bootparameterline

After some more testing I realized that I have the shutdown problem on 2 machines, and that it works fine on 3 other ones (EeePC 1005 HAB, HP Pavilion zx5000, Motion J3500 [the Eee and the Motion have integrated Intel graphics, the HP has an ATI Radeon Mobility 9600]).
It's not working so well on one tablet with Core2Duo SU9400, Intel GS45 Chipset, Intel ICH9M SFF I/O Controller Hub, Mobile Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 4500MD, IDT 92DC71B7 audio controller, 64 GB SSD, and on another tablet with with Core2Duo L7400, Intel 945GM Express chipset, Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 950, Intel High Definition Audio, 80 GB hd. And I don't really have anything to add - as I said, it just hangs there and all you see is the wallpaper and a black box for the bottom icon bar/dock.

Something else - I noticed that ZW Live is not automatically picking up hard drive partitions - not NTFS, not Ext3. My USB flash drive from which I'm booting ZW is there, but that's all. Am I overlooking something obvious?

Did you tried to add the following bootoption at boot prompt?

i915.modeset=0

That should fix some issues with Intel Graphic cards.




Yes that is right, ZenLive is a live system and the author of Slackware-Live-Scripts and me sharing the same opinion, that per default a live system should *RUN* on a host but actually not use or change the hosts filesystems! So for now you have to su to root and mount stuff manually, in next version, we might detect partitions automatically, putting them into fstab, so that they can be mounted manually without su to root, but the current version don't has this feature. Anyway, there will be no automount of hosts harddiskdrives, don't ask for such a feature!