Chakra Project

Chakra (Alpha4 - NewAge)

Today we're pleased to announce the release of Alpha4 named NewAge of our very own Chakra LiveMedias. Lot's had changed since Alpha3. We have a new KDE4 Theme by Phil Miller, Tribe can install custom mountpoints and we did a ton of fixes. KDEmod got updated to version 4.3.3. Chakra-Hardware-Detection got stripped down to fit xorg-server 1.7.1.901-2 pkg, so only nvidia drivers are the supported propertary drivers for now. On the DVD-Release we have all your goodies on, which Sascha Thier created. Thx to him for that. Please test this release wherever possible, and most of all, on real hardware. Report bugs, or even better send us patches and share your ideas. The place where all of this happens is our Bugtracker, please be sure to register on it. Also check our Wiki, a lot of questions are already answered.

With love, The Chakra Team System Requirements:

• a Intel Pentium II or higher processor for the i686 version, or
• a 64Bit-capable processor for the x86_64 version
• 384MiB of RAM for running the live system and 512MiB of RAM for the installation (the more the better)
• around 3 Gib (6GiB for DVD-Edition) of available hard disk space (the more the better)
• a screen capable of 1024 x 600 or higher resolution
• a reasonably fast internet connection, e.g. no modem (you wont have fun with this)

Most noticeable changes & additions since Alpha3:

Features:

• kernel-2.6.31.6 + fglrx-patch
• xorg-server 1.7.1.901-2
• updated KDE 4.3.3 pkgs
• chakra tools updated (aqpm, shaman, chase)
• catalyst support temp. dropped
• nvidia-190 and nvidia legancy series are the only propertary drivers atm
• vesa-force mode improved
• using ARM state 2009/11/16

Tribe:

• proper rebuild against aqpm 1.3.3.4
• will install KDEmod with Phils theme
• can mount as many custom mountpoints you like
• uses unsquashfs
• locales.gen got fixed
• hosts got fixed

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Even when we got alpha4 out we still want to fix bugs in our installer. Use normal sudo pacman -Sy kdemod-tribe to get the latest build. We almost develop tribe weekly, so we need some backtraces from you guys. Here is a little tutorial how to help us best:

First run a pacman -Q kdemod-tribe kdemod-tribe-partitionmanager to find out your running version.

If Tribe fails at any point it might be an error we don't know of. For bugtracking please start tribe from console with:

sudo tribe

Use our bugtracker for reporting bugs

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With this release we introduce forced vesa-mode. If you have a problem you can force our hardware-scripts to use vesa on bootup.
In our syslinux boot-menu you select first your language.
Press Enter-Button to switch to the next page. Choose the selection you want and press the TAB-Key
. You'll see a special line with something like this:

chakra.img quiet lang=de nonfree=no xdriver=no

Change xdriver to xdriver=vesa and hit Enter-Button. System will boot now with forced vesa driver.

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Hybrid-Live-Medias 32Bit i686 (~674MiB / 1.6GiB):

CD

TORRENT Download - chakra-minimal-i686-091116-alpha4.torrent
HTTP Download - chakra-minimal-i686-091116-alpha4.iso

DVD

TORRENT Download - chakra-dvd-i686-091116-alpha4.torrent

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Hybrid-Live-Medias 64Bit x86-64 (~687MiB / ~1.6GiB):

CD

TORRENT Download - chakra-minimal-x86_64-091116-alpha4.torrent
HTTP Download - chakra-minimal-x86_64-091116-alpha4.iso

DVD

TORRENT Download - chakra-dvd-x86_64-091116-alpha4.torrent

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To install Chakra to your USB device write the Hybrid.iso to your stick with:

dd if=chakra-[type]-[arch]-091116-alpha4.iso of=/dev/sd[x]

(where [type] is minimal or dvd, [arch] is i686 or x86_64 and [x] the device entry of your USB-stick)

Little tutorial

We assume your usb-stick is recognized as /dev/sdb. So the cmd you should use is:

dd if=chakra-minimal-i686-091116-alpha4.iso of=/dev/sdb

Also you can read this wiki-post about our Hybrid-ISO.

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chakra-minimal-i686-091116-alpha4.iso: e6f8412a608792df0efa751a1855b9f6
chakra-dvd-i686-091116-alpha4.iso: eae470cce70a342ff61b049e23f564ff
chakra-minimal-x86_64-091116-alpha4.iso: 4656df1623e50ac9b409ae2dcd021ecd
chakra-dvd-x86_64-091116-alpha4.iso: fba6aa4496f20f5d71c3c2c9abc34c53

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