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[01micko]

[JustGreg]

I have tried the two new beta Slacko versions on my EeePc Model 1201HAB. The 5.4.0.3-PAE version did work and I got x server to work with use of xorgwizard.

After booting from either a CDROM or USB flash drive with the PAE version, the x server failed. At console, you have to start xorgwizard. Use the "Choose" button to select "modesetting" driver. A probe will be done to determine resolutions. I normally select the 16 bit color. If one does the test of the configuration, then the graphics screen will have a large block mouse cursor. The upper left hand corner is the point of the normal arrow cursor used to select objects. After exiting xorgwizard, one starts the x server with xwin command. The script to fix the mouse cursor starts and press enter to correct the cursor and restart the x server. After the restart, the cursor is normal arrow and the other setup scripts are run. After the completion of setup, everything work on my system.

The 5.4.0.3-4G version did not work on my EeePc. I did try a couple of things without any luck. My advice if you are going to use Slacko on a EeePc then use the PAE version. The Intel Atom processor does have PAE capability so there is no problem. The Intel Atom is a 32 bit processor, so a 64 bit Linux fail to even start with error message on the processor type.

I hope this helps.

[SFR]

RE: KDE-Games + broken pinboard

I too can recreate the issue, here's how I have accomplished that:
1. I downloaded kdegames + all deps through PPM and started to install'em one by one.
2. After installing kdelibs-4.8.5-i486-1.txz an icon from PPM info window (the one saying that "package has been successfully installed") disappeared.
3. After restarting X - all icons broken.

Short investigation revealed that in the above package, /install/dotinst.sh contains the following line:

[Sage]

03: Completely unable to generate a picture with an old GeF2/64 with default, nouveau or nv, pfix, nox - all the usual subterfuges. No problems with latest Precise - ootb.

[Billtoo]

[pemasu]

update-mime-database binary is lonely without his friend /usr/share/mime/packages/freedesktop.org.xml
I suggest family reunion. One possible fix is:
yes|shared-mime-info||exe,dev>exe
Or just by including the missing friend to the base sfs.
Cheers.

[vicmz]

[01micko]

vicmz

Please read the changelog

[vicmz]

[don570]

The Abispell dictionaries worked on Slacko when I tested them.
(see image for French test)
They are easy to install. Just click on the corresponding pet package
and make sure that Abiword has spell checking "ON" in preferences.
$LANG must be French for French spell testing to work.


Available for download HERE




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[Jades]

The newest stable version of Gnumeric is 1.12.0 - see http://projects.gnome.org/gnumeric/ for details.

[puppyto]

Hello, is there support for ar9271 drivers, I tried with 5.4 (2 diciembre-2012) and does not recognize such chipset, compiling give me the next error ( I meant compiling compat_wireless):

#make
make -C /lib/modules/3.2.33-4g/build M=/mnt/sda1/compat modules
make: *** /lib/modules/3.2.33-4g/build: No such file or directory. Stop
make: *** [modules] Error 2
#
Thanks

[majorfoo]

[01micko]

Jades, majorfoo... trouble with gnumeric, and latest abiword is that they now use gtk3, that shift was quite awhile ago, it is much bloated with more gnome dependencies needed.

[Sage]

Slacko still struggles with nV cards but immediately runs in ATI. Tried a bunch of cheat codes but none are reliable. Choose doesn't work either.
Yesterday found an odd feature: sometimes an lhs click on the sr0 icon in 03 puts me back to the prompt. xwin returns to screen and sr0 in tact.