Slackware 13.37

colorpurple21859 · 03-16-2011, 10:36 AM

I also have to use the 2.6.38 for nouveau to work with my nvidia 6150se nforce430 card

Ilgar · 03-17-2011, 07:35 AM

The 32-bit stable Changlog link at slackware.com is now (14:33 GMT+2) gone and the 32-bit -current changelog is empty. Has the moment come???

allend · 03-17-2011, 07:49 AM

If St Patrick's Day can turn beer green, then ChangeLog oddities should be expected.

Alien Bob · 03-17-2011, 08:43 AM

All links to the -current changelogs work for me. What URL is dead for you?

Eric

Ilgar · 03-17-2011, 09:22 AM

Hmm, they are working now. It was the Changelogs section of the website, the 32-bit stable link wasn't there at all and the -current one displayed an empty changelog.

PS: I'm not drunk

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SpiderTux · 03-17-2011, 06:49 PM

some security news from PHP 5.3.x

tpreitzel · 03-18-2011, 01:48 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mlpa

It is possible to add the new stable kernel 2.6.38 and compile X with gallium for AMD 6000 series work?

For what I read in this thread, my idea is not going to happen at least in this release.

Yeah, I think Pat should wait another month or so too and use the 2.6.38 series as the stock kernel. The 2.6.38 series simply fixes a LOT of problems experienced by users, e.g. working remote controls and r600 GALLIUM drivers. Personally, I've compiled both mesa and libdrm versions from git for both 64 bit and 32 bit packages and the performance is so, so much better than the classic mesa driver.

Ilgar · 03-18-2011, 02:12 AM

2.6.38 may introduce some improvements for a few video cards but how about overall stability? That should be the top priority. 2.6.38 introduces too many important changes and IMHO is not mature enough. Yesterday I had a system freeze with 2.6.38, the kind of thing that was happening with 2.6.36.x. I had one such freeze with 2.6.37.1 but 37.[2-4] look fine.

dolphin77 · 03-18-2011, 06:35 AM

@ Robby Workman

Dear Robby,

First of all thank you very much for your part of the Leet cooking.

Please consider adding following configure options:
--enable-gallium-radeon \
--enable-gallium-r600 \
to the mesa.SlackBuild of mesa-7.10.1 package in /testing

Gallium is working nicely here with both 2.6.37.4 and 2.6.38 on many Radeons.

Best regards,
Vladimir

EDIT: I recall the above. After some additional testing some glitches appears after waking computer from sleep state. Not sure if it is caused by enabling gallium.

lonestar_italy · 03-18-2011, 07:00 AM

quick: after updating php to 4.3.6 my wordpress websites stopped working. Can't find a significant error in logs. Reverting to php 5.3.5 fixes it. Maybe something else needs to be recompiled?

ponce · 03-18-2011, 07:06 AM

maybe is just an option in the php configure, --with-mysql-sock=[DIR], that is by default blank.

if you set in the php.ini this option

Code:

mysql.default_socket = /var/run/mysql/mysql.sock

(also for mysqli.default_socket and pdo_mysql.default_socket, if you use them)
everything should be back to normal.

I wrote about it to Pat.

ponce · 03-18-2011, 09:21 AM

confirmed: rebuilding adding to configure

Code:

--with-mysql-sock=/var/run/mysql/mysql.sock

seems to fix it (else it looks for /tmp/mysql.sock)

hitest · 03-18-2011, 09:56 AM

Quote:

Fri Mar 18 05:49:19 UTC 2011
xap/mozilla-firefox-4.0rc1-i486-1.txz: Upgraded.
It is time to push this into the main tree. It's unlikely that we'll see
significant changes prior to Firefox 4.0 final. Probably the first security
fixes for the Firefox 4.0 branch will come with Firefox 4.0.1, which is the
branch that we'll want to be tracking in Slackware 13.37's /patches. If for
some reason you want to stick with Firefox 3.6.x, it will be tracked in
Slackware 13.1's /patches for as long as they support it upstream.

Very nice indeed! FF 4.0rc1 is a very welcome addition to -current.

Darth Vader · 03-18-2011, 10:20 AM

I am simply amazed by the hunger for memory of Firefox4.

Maybe I'm not have very nice habits, and I keep many Firefox windows open, but what in 3.X went perfectly with Firefox4 send me straight on swap.

Simply: WOW! That's a real Memory Hog!

PS. I talk about a 2G memory machine, which I use at job to supervise a bunch of servers. Still, I hope that my 8G home machine will no surrender to Firefox4.

tomtomjkw · 03-18-2011, 12:55 PM

I'm even more amazed by crappy font rendering in Firefox 4. Pathetic.