Yes, this happens in some cases but, fortunately, does not affect the installation process.
This happens sometimes when installing ROSA in a virtual machine or onto a dist without a partition table. Just try once more, select "Erase and use entire disk" (if the disk is empty) or "Custom disk partitioning". The problem should not show up again.
"Configure Graphics Card" utility (XFdrake in the command line) should be used to install the appropriate graphics drivers.
In case of NVidia graphics, one can alternatively install the experimental driver without using that utility. The driver however does not support hybrid graphics (NVidia + Intel). If you would like to install this driver, it will be enough to install x11-driver-video-nvidia-current package. This might also be helpful if XFdrake suggests the system has hybrid graphics while the system actually does not.
XFdrake ("Configure Graphics Card") sets up the hybrid graphics correctly in most cases. However, the system will not use the discrete GPU automatically. To launch an application using that GPU, use primusrun or optirun commands. For example,
primusrun glxinfo|grep OpenGL
will show which OpenGL implementation and, therefore, which GPU is used.
If there are problems with Intel graphics on your system like graphics-related errors, no OpenGL acceleration, artifacts, etc.), you can switch to an older but sometimes more reliable acceleration method. In order to do so, please install x11-driver-video-intel-config-uxa package and then reboot the system.
The following custom drivers are available for some of such network adapters, you can give them a try:
MT7601U chip is quite common in the low-cost USB WiFi devices. Note that the current version of the drivers does not support AP (Access Point) mode.
ROSA R8.1 does not support WiFi devices based on MT7610U or MT7612U chips by Mediatek at the moment.
The proprietary driver (wl) is used by default and should be sufficient in most cases. You can also try b43 driver provided by the kernel if the driver it your hardware. Note that BCM4313/BCM4727 adapters are not supported by b43.
To switch to b43, you can install b43-firmware package, remove dkms-broadcom-wl and reboot the system.
Switching languages does not work with some wireless keyboards. Open the settings, change the keyboard model to "wireless". The problem should disappear now.
For Windows and ROSA Linux to co-exist on a machine, it is recommended to turn off "quick start" feature in Windows. This feature is similar to suspend-to-disk in ROSA. ROSA avoids meddling with the partitions where Windows "sleeps" this way, to prevent possible problems.
powercfg -h off
ntfsfix /dev/<name_of_ntfs_partition>(sda, sdb)
The root of the problem is either "quick start" feature or abnormal termination of Windows followed by the update of the kernel, drivers or the boot loader in ROSA.
The boot loader does not mount the NTFS partitions where Windows "sleeps" or the ones that need checking. To fix this:
The desktop settings might be corrupted for some reason (abnormal termination of the system before?). Launch krunner (alt+F2) and then run
kde4-reset
Your desktop settings will be returned to the defaults.
The RPM data base might be corrupted. To restore it, execute the following command as an administrator:
rpm-restore
You might have turned ROSA Freeze on. Turn it off.
In order to make "bibliography database" service work in LibreOffice, you should install LibreOffice Base ({pkg|libreoffice-base}} package) and OpenJDK. To save space, we have removed these packages from ROSA Desktop Fresh installation image.
Install libreoffice-openclipart package.