Don't know what to do

randomsel · 07-07-2007, 10:13 AM

So I just made a fresh install of Slackware 12, and I allocated a weeks worth of tweaking heaven for it. Problem is, I'm out of ideas of what to do already.
List of things I've done on this computer (desktop-devel-ish):

Sound (worked out of the box)
Video (Nvidia proprietary)
Compiz (Niiice, main reason of upgrade)
HAL (stupid /etc/group automounting)
Network (no problems with the nic)
Kernel (generic and initrd ok)
Development (jdk, ruby. Oh, they come included)
LILO (used an old config I had)

Any suggestions? Still got 4 days...

Zmyrgel · 07-07-2007, 10:22 AM

Leave it at that and start using it

Add things you 'need' in it. We can't help you in that one as we don't know what you need.

guzzi · 07-07-2007, 05:27 PM

So, when I get around to ordering and finally installing the new V12, I should just plan on a week day evening of activity?

This Slackware thing is getting just too easy. Actually, I believe Slackware has come so far in this respect that other than the installation screens, it's nothing like it used to be. (Version3.x) And that's a good thing too. I actually like the standardization Pat V. has kept for a bunch of years now.

Now, what to do about all that time left over for tweaking?

randomsel · 07-07-2007, 11:39 PM

well, I'm trying to migrate the whole family to this pc, so I'll have to turn KDE into chinese media center. It's a real pain to administer when you don't know the language

Other than that, got the slackbuilds for MPlayer, LyX, OpenOffice and am as happy as a clam.

Now, if only Konqueror would read Chinese filenames correctly from a NTFS drives. (Getting esoteric here)

bioe007 · 07-08-2007, 01:42 PM

splash kernel is fun to play with, also graphical grub.. (anyone else trying grub2 ?)

dive · 07-08-2007, 06:12 PM

You can also do graphical lilo.

This is my image: http://www.wormeye.co.uk/images/lilo2.bmp

Settings in lilo.conf:

bitmap = /boot/lilo2.bmp
bmp-colors = 15,0,;15,8,
bmp-table = 500p,230p,1,3,,
bmp-timer = 550p,445p,15,0,0

erklaerbaer · 07-08-2007, 06:21 PM

randomsel: kernel patches! endless joy...

Quote:

Now, if only Konqueror would read Chinese filenames correctly from a NTFS drives. (Getting esoteric here)

Quote:

Mount options for ntfs
iocharset=name
Character set to use when returning file names. Unlike VFAT, NTFS
suppresses names that contain unconvertible characters. Depre-
cated.

nls=name
New name for the option earlier called iocharset.

utf8 Use UTF-8 for converting file names.

tried these? else i'd ask on one of the kde mailing lists

http://blog.xwings.net/?p=14 has a few pointers, too

randomsel · 07-08-2007, 08:42 PM

Thanks dive, that's the image I use on my laptop. It's great, and always impresses my classmates. I just modified it a bit to fit a few more OS (win2k and win98, go figure).

Thanks erklaerbaer, that link's real informative.

I'll try to solve the NTFS thing tomorrow with FUSE and ntfs-3g (from slackbuilds.org). It'll give me read/write access on ntfs, and has clear documentation on what to do (locale=something in fstab).