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Now for the bad news...
 
Now for the bad news...
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- On the text consoles and on reboot for some settings changes, there's
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- On the text consoles and on reboot for some settings changes, there's a login prompt at which one has to guess that the username is trisquel and the password is [Enter]. Autologin would be better.
  a login prompt at which one has to guess that the username is trisquel
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  and the password is [Enter]. Autologin would be better.
      
and it shares two hardware-specific bugs with the other Sugar Live systems:
 
and it shares two hardware-specific bugs with the other Sugar Live systems:
- With some nVidia video cards, Xorg's "nouveau" DRI driver bug which makes  
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- With some nVidia video cards, Xorg's "nouveau" DRI driver bug which makes github.com/login go all gray and affects other websites including gmail.com The simplest and least invasive fix is to delete ```/usr/lib/*-linux-gnu/dri/nouveau_dri.so```<BR>Hot fix on Live System: ```CTRL-ALT-F2 trisquel [Enter] [Enter] sudo rm /usr/lib/*-linux-gnu/dri/nouveau_dri.so; killall Xorg``` then login as ```trisquel [Enter] [Enter]```)<BR>For gory details see github.com/sugarlabs/sugar-live-build/issues/20
  github.com/login go all gray and affects other websites including gmail.com
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- The alsa "Headphone" control is muted, so no sound comes out of external speakers. "alsactl init" fixes this but also halves the main audio volume, while "amixer set Headphone unmute" makes it work. That leaves the Headphone volume at 0 but some sound still comes out of the headphone socket.<BR>Hot fix: ```CTRL-ALT-F2 trisquel [Enter] [Enter] alsactl init [Enter] CTRL-ALT-F7```  
  The simplest and least invasive fix is to delete
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  ```/usr/lib/*-linux-gnu/dri/nouveau_dri.so```<BR>Hot fix on Live System:
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  ```CTRL-ALT-F2 trisquel [Enter] [Enter] sudo rm /usr/lib/*-linux-gnu/dri/nouveau_dri.so; killall Xorg``` then login as ```trisquel [Enter] [Enter]```)<BR>
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  For gory details see github.com/sugarlabs/sugar-live-build/issues/20
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- The alsa "Headphone" control is muted, so no sound comes out of
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  external speakers. "alsactl init" fixes this but also halves the main
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  audio volume, while "amixer set Headphone unmute" makes it work.
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  That leaves the Headphone volume at 0 but some sound still comes out
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  of the headphone socket.<BR>Hot fix:
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  ```CTRL-ALT-F2 trisquel [Enter] [Enter] alsactl init [Enter] CTRL-ALT-F7```  
      
I guess I'm lucky to use an ancient laptop with a crummy video chip and
 
I guess I'm lucky to use an ancient laptop with a crummy video chip and
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