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gerry · Joined: 26 Jul 2007 Posts: 944 Location: England

Explain this, someone! Using Slacko 531 on a Thinkpad T60p.
Driver is Radeon, default screen resolution is 1680x1050, but I prefer 1280x800. Whenever I succeed in getting Xorg to set to 1280x800, it reverts to the higher resolution next time it boots. However, I installed the Meta driver pet. Now somehow I have 1280x800 permanently, but Xorg.conf still shows 1680x1050. If I go to the xorg resolution changer, that shows the current resolution as 1280x800. And if I type xrandr in the terminal, that shows 1280x800 as current too.

I'm happy, got what I want, but how????

EDIT: forgot- report-video shows 1680x1050. I suppose it looks at xorg.conf.

Flash · Posted: Sun 29 Jan 2012, 22:47 Post subject:

Okay, Slacko's not a derivative of Puppy. What is it?

peebee · Joined: 21 Sep 2008 Posts: 913 Location: Malvern, Worcs, UK

Brown Mouse · Posted: Mon 30 Jan 2012, 18:57 Post subject:

Is this some kind of stupid joke or has someone lost the plot??Slacko 531 is the most up to date Puppy release and deserves it's rightful place in the Projects section.

Aitch · Joined: 04 Apr 2007 Posts: 6825 Location: Chatham, Kent, UK

Flash · Posted: Mon 30 Jan 2012, 23:36 Post subject:

Hmm. Well, Barry didn't start the Slacko thread in the Bugs section so I didn't think he had anything to do with it. Embarassed

If Slacko is the flagship of the Puppy litter (to mash a few metaphors together) then it isn't exactly a "project" any more, is it?

01micko · Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 7019 Location: qld

Well.. I started the thread originally in "Announcements" because that's exactly what it was. If you read the original post you get the gist of that and I directed people to post bugs in the slacko bug thread.

I see 2 possibilities.

1) put it back in the "announcement" forum (deleting the last 10 or so posts)
or,
2) put it in the "next puppy development" sub-forum and add "final" somewhere in the title. (one disadvantage.. may cause even more confusion!)

Cheers

Flash · Posted: Tue 31 Jan 2012, 01:35 Post subject:

Okay, it's back in Announcements. The reason I moved it from there in the first place was it grew so large it didn't look like an announcement any more. When you make an announcement, maybe you could include a link to the discussion thread, then ask me to lock the Announcement thread so people don't post there. It just doesn't look sanitary. Laughing

How important is it to everyone that a thread be in the right place in the forum?

peebee · Joined: 21 Sep 2008 Posts: 913 Location: Malvern, Worcs, UK

darkcity · Joined: 23 May 2010 Posts: 2215 Location: near here

Hi, sorry to change subject

I'm particularly interested in the audio improvements in Slacko over Lucid

8-bit · Joined: 03 Apr 2007 Posts: 3018 Location: Oregon

I had a strange experience with Slacko 5.3.1 recently. I had a persistent ghost screen image of the word Slacko from one of the desktop backgrounds that showed through in SeaMonkey and also when rebooting to other versions of Puppy. I had left the PC on overnight with the screen blanker disabled and was concerned about "burn-in" of the image to my LCD monitor.
The image seems to be gone now. But to be sure, I will have to try booting Slacko again and firing up SeaMonkey to see if a ghost image still shows through.

darkcity · Joined: 23 May 2010 Posts: 2215 Location: near here

could be burnt on to you retina ; -)

esrom02 · Joined: 31 May 2011 Posts: 8

hi, people of murga, i just want to know what's with Puppy Linux Distros that this is the only distro that worked fine with my Video card? this is the best Laughing