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It crashed my sound and some programs wouldn't start after upgrading with swaret ... I guess is still a beta version or somethin'... I'm not upgrading with swaret no more...my distro is Slack 10 btw
Not to start a window manager war, but if you want a nice GUI interface for Slackware, give Dropline GNOME a try - it's been specifically tweaked to meet the needs/desires/quirks of us Slackware guys
It crashed my sound and some programs wouldn't start after upgrading with swaret ... I guess is still a beta version or somethin'... I'm not upgrading with swaret no more...my distro is Slack 10 btw
I had the same problem, both with Slack 9.1 and 10.0. Upgrading these to Current causes a problem with ALSA. The new ALSA packages were compiled with a newer kernel. Since the kernel isn't updated by default, this will cause problems. Uninstall those ALSA packages and reinstall the Slack 10 ones, and then put alsa* in your EXCLUDE list. I haven't seen any other problems with Slackware-current.
BTW, I didn't have this problem when I upgraded a 9.0 box.
you can upgrade the kernel using swaret, you just have to temporarily remove the comments that disable kernel upgrading in /etc/swaret.conf when you know that a new kernel is out and then replace the comment when you are done.
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I guess is still a beta version or somethin'... I'm not upgrading with swaret no more...my distro is Slack 10 btw
