Zorin 6 issues

Interested in the "restricted extras" left out for national possible laws. Are these the "Ubuntu Restricted" - but without the Unity stuff?

Hi,

check out the section about the "Medibuntu Repo", the restricted packages are already installed but you will need the extra repo for "non-free-codecs" and "libdvdcss2" etc!!.

viewtopic.php?f=5&t=2061

If you need firmware for a DVB-T/S/C device; you need the package: "linux-firmware-nonfree".

viewtopic.php?f=6&t=1661

You can install Unity if you want to, it is not installed by default!!.

Regards Wolfman

The latest version continued with the same problem ... connected but nothing loads ... unfortunately I could not install it ... I tried several ways and nothing worked ... the net is not loaded and iso ok ... hug and thank you

Epanis wrote:The latest version continued with the same problem ... connected but nothing loads ... unfortunately I could not install it ... I tried several ways and nothing worked ... the net is not loaded and iso ok ... hug and thank you

Hi,

did you burn the ISO at the slowest possible speed, if you didn't you will get read/write errors on the disk!!.

Did you boot the live CD in "Safe graphics mode" ??.

Regards Wolfman

Hi all
I downloaded & burned Zorin OS and installed it on my machine. Not everything work fine.I'm sad because of networkmanager'icon because i can't refresh the network connection if it fall.
Another thing it's about the 'Dock'...I want shrink the "Dock" because it is too wide or too high...How can i do that?

Hi,

try this guide first:

viewtopic.php?f=6&t=2054

For Docky, right click on the 3 little lines by the trashcan (or on the anchor) and open the settings menu, you can make any changes there!!.

Regards Wolfman

Hi Wolfman

Are you planing on releasing a Ultimate Version?

G'day,

I know this is probably a silly question, but I have Zorin OS 5 Premium. Is there a page where it tells dumb ol' me what benefits I get from going from Core 5 to Core 6? Looking at the web site I can't find a clear list of them.

Edit to add: - Something else I just thought of, I spent a lot of time getting the system customised, especially Fire Fox and Thunderbird is there an easy way to carry these settings and the desktop settings over from 5 to 6?

regards,

Ernest

Epanis wrote:The latest version continued with the same problem ... connected but nothing loads ... unfortunately I could not install it ... I tried several ways and nothing worked ... the net is not loaded and iso ok ... hug and thank you

Question what video card are you using? Reason I ask is because I had issues were after burning almost 20 dvd's RC would not load. It would not even get passed the main screen.. After removing my GTX 550Ti and put back in my 9800FTX+ Nvidia card it loaded no problem..

doubledragon5 wrote:

Epanis wrote:The latest version continued with the same problem ... connected but nothing loads ... unfortunately I could not install it ... I tried several ways and nothing worked ... the net is not loaded and iso ok ... hug and thank you

Question what video card are you using? Reason I ask is because I had issues were after burning almost 20 dvd's RC would not load. It would not even get passed the main screen.. After removing my GTX 550Ti and put back in my 9800FTX+ Nvidia card it loaded no problem..

Hi DD,

I have filed a bug report about Nvidia cards so I hope it will get fixed soon!!.

Ultimate is now available.

Regards Wolfman

Thanks wolfman, I was just trying to help him out.. Ya I will be purchasing ultimate probably today...

after using zorin since 3 i have come to rely on its dependability and stability 5.2 was by far the best when i saw 6 was out i immediately downloaded and installed it ...i like its smoothness i like its layout but i have 2 complaints so far 1. it runs quite slow and takes a while to open programs and 2 i cant open folders with the mouse ...i have to click on the folder then press enter .... cant drag and drop ..... cant copy and paste ... its like im clicking on an empty space

I do not know the specs of your computer so I cannot comment about the speed. Could you please provide said specs?
However, the fact that you cannot open folders with the mouse is surely a problem.

Just to be sure, do the following:
Plug an ethernet cable on your PC/laptop to get internet (not through wifi).
Reboot and from grub menu select the recovery mode (usually 2nd option).
From the new menu that will open select "dpkg" and let it run.

This will update and upgrade your system plus will repair broken packages (if any).
So, try this first and let us know.

Acer Aspire Z5610
Intel® Core™2 Duo CPU E7500 @ 2.93GHz × 2 64bit
Memory 4GB
ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4500 Series 512mb memory

zorin did not detect the ethernet card

First of all did you do the "dpkg" thing I mention above?

Your laptop's specs are very good. I would not expect zorin 6 to run slowly in such a laptop.
How did you install Zorin? Was it through a live usb with persistent space? Have you tried the live USB in other laptops and made any changes before installing Zorin to your Acer laptop?

Was your ethernet card detected when you were in live mode (before installing)? If you don't know, boot up a live USB/CD and test it.
During installation, did you have an ethernet cable plugged in or you made all upgrades (during installation) through wifi?

Also, have you tried enabling the recomended (closed) ATI drivers from additional drivers to see if that fixes your problem when opening the folders?

i will try the live cd again brb

Ethernet not detected with live CD
ati/amd propriety FGLRX driver IS ACTIVATED

sometimes the folders open with the mouse when the machine is first started then after a while it stops working .... also it stops selecting links in the web browser too (Google Chrome) i close the browser and reopen it and it works for about 20 mins i will try a reinstall
after reinstall still same .... did a check on what networks i have ... i did as root lshw -class network

and got

-network
description: Wireless interface
product: RT3090 Wireless 802.11n 1T/1R PCIe
vendor: Ralink corp.
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:07:00.0
logical name: wlan0
version: 00
serial: 00:0d:f0:7c:39:09
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=rt2800pci driverversion=3.2.0-25-generic firmware=0.34 ip=192.168.0.2 latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11bgn
resources: irq:17 memory:fc300000-fc30ffff

did not detect wired ethernet

Please post the results of:

Code:

lspci
rfkill list all

-Aspire-Z5610:~$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 4 Series Chipset DRAM Controller (rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 4 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port (rev 03)
00:1a.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4
00:1a.1 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5
00:1a.2 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #6
00:1a.7 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) HD Audio Controller
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) PCI Express Root Port 1
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) PCI Express Port 2
00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) PCI Express Root Port 3
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) PCI Express Root Port 4
00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) PCI Express Root Port 5
00:1c.5 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) PCI Express Root Port 6
00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1
00:1d.1 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2
00:1d.2 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3
00:1d.7 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev 90)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801JIB (ICH10) LPC Interface Controller
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) SATA AHCI Controller
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) SMBus Controller
00:1f.6 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) Thermal Subsystem
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI RV710 [Mobility Radeon HD 4500/5100 Series]
07:00.0 Network controller: Ralink corp. RT3090 Wireless 802.11n 1T/1R PCIe
0b:00.0 System peripheral: JMicron Technology Corp. SD/MMC Host Controller
0b:00.2 SD Host controller: JMicron Technology Corp. Standard SD Host Controller
0b:00.3 System peripheral: JMicron Technology Corp. MS Host Controller
cupola@cupola-Aspire-Z5610:~$ rfkill list all
0: hci0: Bluetooth
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
1: phy0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no

if at anytime you want or like to remote my machine you can email me .....i have teamveiwer there is nothing on the machine as it is a clean install if it helps anyway

Hi RB,

did you burn the disk at the slowest possible speed??. If you didn't, you may well get read/write errors on the disk and this is another reason why your network card is not being recognised!!.

Regards Wolfman

i burn everything at 2 speed simply because of the read errors i have also installed using usb pendrive i used linux to burn off and windows(sorry didnt mean to mention the W word) to burn off

note:
no linux distro has detected the network card not even zorin 3,4,or 5 its no biggy as the wireless works fine
thank you for all your time in helping me

i was thinking of getting a usb-network adapter just in case of wireless failure