Hm, after reading the tribulations of others I feel almost blessed. Xorg works oki for me after an edit (or three, but that was just hardoffs before I got a save in). Basically the same display gripes (jwm and .jpg narrows it) as in q003. gmplayer works (audio CD and vidCD, it had issue with a few cheapo DvD where it couldn't find the stream or something so gave up on it) but fails after awhile .. seems like a feedback-freeze of some kind, no spikes or extreme load noticed just keens and freezes.
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firstlook (pfix=ram usw) - xorg still messes up on my hwr, just not quite as badly (and luckily I had the scrap of paper from q003 listing items from a known-good xorg.conf so I could edit the almost-right guessing of xorg and move on with only one hardoff). It's GOOD to see a 'normal' geany after stardust
thanks, BK. One of the main items I'd like to see if fixed is the .jpg issue before even thinking of trying a disc-switch upgrade (I see the alpha-trans is still not so good in jwm icon display..). Ah, nico251
Retrovol .. almost too many controls in rclick 'advanced' (File->configure poofs it
, but it comes back after re-X *whew*).
hardoff/redo-xorg (PLEASE have the Xvesa simple option up-front, xorg is a pitb to go thru when a pup crashes just to get a display or it fouls up - even when you have the cribsheet) after audio crash with a CD in gnome/mplayer. another hardoff with pcd (please, please please Xvesa up front, I'm starting to not like Xorg all over again..). Oki - forget all multimedia junk for now. Install a known-good player or get a save in first so I don't have to Xorg every %#&@ time...
Kill roxpin. Try a bg setter (hsetroot) with a .jpg .. oki, missing a lib (so what else is new) Ha, same error - a .jpg is a "bad image" of course .. good to know I didn't do all those .jpg-to-.png in q003 for nothing. Or it may be Imlib2 or a few components need to be different for q... among other things.
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The 'usual' fixes to retain preferred default(s), icontheme&etc plus a few others to suit. Jwm has a less-than-correct look regarding icon-alpha as noted (and also as noted in q003 test,
other wms¹ are fine). After the disc-switch upgrade and fixes, it seems more stable. pCD 'progress'bar display is static-solid at track1 (not really a progressbar or track indicator anymore); but tracks do change, the sound is good and it's stable. gmplayer does a bit better on display but relative output volume is a bit less for this player .. and it crashes (now that Xorg is hopefully done with after a few saves, hardoffs not so painful to recover from).
Idle is better (with respect to cpu) if pmount is used, it may be time to turn off 'life-support' for roxpin and driveicons. kcompmgr still sucks up an inordinate amount of resource if used in jwm(beta). Zigbert's pcc might be a good add for trimming menu(s) and services&etc once it's available for general use, pmenu especially is much improved (although favorites and the ptray system is still a user-preference imo, handy though they are the ui might be made more intuitive).
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Loaded up the liveCD multi with a fair amount of stuff in the first four savedirs and it finally went RAMFULL and 'lost its mind' after dumping wine in on the fifth (tscha, it was looking nice too..)
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After a remaster, looking good (except for the pesky jpg issue, be nice if that's fix'd in q007..) and still on liveCD multi for the moment.
kibble or walkies.., what a choice for a bit o' doggie
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..jpeg issue fixed with
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/quirky/pet_packages-quirky/libjpeg_old-6b-p4.pet - installed withoutpity's xfce wm for quirky (nice but a few caveats, nonetheless since I believe he may have touched a 3rd rail or two in getting thunar to clickmount drives - after install not only didn't that happen, but xarchiver had some anomalies and some mounting was messed up a bit
). Anyways, got to fussing about zapping all the pngs I made from jpgs that now worked proper
, redoing all that mess, fixing menus and all (xfce still doesn't pull straight from the jwm xdg, or withoutpity had to do some hacks? that resulted in less tidy and a few dupes .. it's much better than most of pup menu being in "other" xfce category
). Shaking it down .. somewhere in there I noticed .sfs files weren't click-mounting as usual in rox and some mimetypes didn't look right (xfe wasn't affected, other than it's
not getting bumped for rendering thumbs since the jpg fix). Jwm still messes the alpha on icons, though (it may be scaling or just smallish icons, dunno).
All going fairly well, then I stuck a CD in to listen to and ... oh well, session lost (should know better since 006 has nipped me more than once or twice with any multimedia playback).
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May just roll back to redo or rethink desireability of xfce4. It may be me, but too much is going wrong since I added it. Mostly the '3rd rail' of mounting, specifically click-mounting sfs files in a rox window but also optical discs - got the sfs for the xfce doc package, but if it can't be easily mounted
'prefer' Thunar is something I'd rather not and 'auto'mounting is .. call me paranoid and/or conservative take your pick. One of the reasons I use multiple file managers is that each does well in its niche according to the task at hand.
Speaking of documentation, local docs may still need to be manually searched for or attempts made to get a viable workaround to
this issue if the local doc is there, but fails to be read properly
For better or worse, afaik 6oo6|e ain't on
my local machine…
@dejan555 - yep, xorg
almost gets it right with ati cards (but sometimes almost is still a dark hole or some time spent running it down to most folk). A known-good xorg from a recent pup that works on the particular hwr and a bit of editing at initial boot(s) seems to be the best way to set the bad guessing right as far as xorg, radeon, ati, RV280 or ATI Technologies, Inc is concerned - not sure about more recent, but both my 9200 and 9200 SE confuse this xorg a bit.
¹ - afterstep, blackbox, e16, fluxbox, openbox, pekwm, wmx and
now xfce4 (probably should have tried icewm since it's fairly decorative, but enh)