CAELinux 2011?

2011 @ virtualbox @ 2010

Post edited by: Simulant, at: 2011/10/29 13:09<br /><br />Post edited by: Simulant, at: 2011/10/29 13:15

Hello jcugnoni (and others)

Contrary (and despite the caveat) to the posting on the CAELinux website stating: &quot;At the moment most of the classical chipsets for Intel and AMD platforms are supported with some exceptions especially concerning the latest Intel Sandy Bridge and NVidia Optimus graphics adapters ...&quot;; I am happy to report that CAELinux works on my Intel Sandy Bridge, Core i7 PC.
Perhaps you meant the specific combination of the Sandy Bridge AND the NVidia Optimus graphics adapter.

I am not sure whether my graphics card falls under the NVidia Optimus category or a close relative, but I report the following:

- I used the NVIDIA GTS 450 based graphics card (MSI N450GTS-MD1GD3 GeForce GTS 450), which took some time and effort at configuring with the appropriate NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-285.05.09.run driver and for Xinerama dual display monitors.
- So far SalomeMeca2011 works and so does ASTK / CodeAster with MPI works on mumps01a.* files.
- I have not tested other software, but I thought I'd report this as a success story of your wonderful effort at packaging a beautiful collection of simulation software!

Thanks for a job so well done jcugnoni !!! smile

Regards, JMB

PS: There is one problem I discovered. Trying to install with encryption of the home directory enabled causes ubiquity to crash without completing the install. I had to abandon the idea of creating an encrypted $HOME directory.

Second problem was I could not make it work using a 2TB HardDisk. I would get a grub (&quot;out of disk&quot;) error on boot. This maybe very probably due to the BIOS of my PC, less likely Ubuntu10.04 and most probably not due to CAELinux2011. I used manual partitioning (using about 250GB of the 2TB) and it works fine. I report it here for anybody else encountering such a problem.<br /><br />Post edited by: JMB, at: 2011/10/30 15:01

Admin/Joel,
I was recently introduced to CAELinux last week and was pleasantly surprised to see the 2011 update, and some love on distrowatch.com as well. Just had a question regarding the md5 hash for the caelinux2011.iso image. I downloaded via the FTP server two seperate times (once overnight last night and again today) and did not get the same hash value listed in /distrib/caelinux2011/caelinux2011.iso.md5 . The value listed in the md5 file with the last mod date of 24Oct2011 17:53 (per FileZilla FTP listing) gives: [code:1]52a132cc1970d7f5a35871c9ab119d71[/code:1] but I get: [code:1]9d788406fe59de7c4aac40e0102d6f84[/code:1] using md5sum from pc-tools.net. The last mod date for the iso image on the FTP server lists 24Oct2011 17:48, so I wasn't sure whether I got the right file per your post on 24Oct2011. I have not burned this image to DVD yet; figured I would ask the question before wasting the media. Can't wait to try out the distro.

-John
Pennsylvania, USA

Thanks for the quick response! This makes my Sunday morning!

-John