The driver installed in Xubuntu, but it behaves exactly the same as in PCLinuxOS; everything runs fine - including youtube and other forms of flash video - until I try playing a video file in VLC (or any other video player), whereupon it plays a couple frames and then restarts the X server. I've no ...

I guess I'll try getting Xubuntu running with it - hopefully it isn't the exact same driver PCLinuxOS uses and won't crash on video play.

I'm running Precise 5.6.1 on a Packard Bell MH35 laptop (pup-sysinfo report here ). It has an utterly, utterly awful SiS 671 video adapter that I haven't been able to run well with anything (Win7 and 8: works but flash video stutters like crazy; Debian: loads generic driver and limits resolution to ...

I have Slacko 5.5 installed on a laptop (Packard Bell MH35). If I push the power button and then suspend it it goes into sleep mode properly, but when I wake it up again it shows me a shell prompt. I can restart xwin from there, but everything I had in it is obviously lost. I'm using vesa mode, if i...

Sorry for the thread resurrection, but I'm having a similar issue, except my HD access is a lot more intense, about once per second. I can hear the heads move as something accesses data. I have a 2GB swap partition, but according to swapon -s it is currently mounted but not being used. Here they are...

Ok, but what about generic use? I have no need for superspecialized things like building stuff for Android.

I'm not a newbie, but I suppose this question is n00b-ish enough that it should go in this subforum. I can't quite figure out why I should prefer one over the other. I understand the key difference that one draws from Slackware packages and the other one from Ubuntu ones, but what does this entail f...

I have Slacko 5.3.1 installed on a USB thumbdrive. When I try to shutdown or reboot it saves to partition, then restarts the GUI. I'm forced to then shut it down by keeping the power button pressed. If I open the terminal and just give it the "halt" command it says "system halted"...

I like Puppy, and I like it a lot more since it started supporting Ubuntu packages. However, I don't use it as anything more than a quick repair system because the way it handles the desktop sends me into apoplectic fits. So, a question: can I have a normal desktop under Puppy, as in most other dist...