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Old 12-14-2008, 03:55 AM   #16
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Yeah, life's a bitch when there's nothing to complain about.
 
Old 12-14-2008, 04:08 AM   #17
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Two ethernet cards I have (both Realtek) have to have their speed explicitly defined using ethtool, and will not work at all without specifying that. Very annoying. I had the same problem in Windows, so I definitely blame Realtek and not Linux.
I had this problem as well with a Realtek card and solved it the same way, with an ethtool line in rc.local. But also had this problem with Broadcom 4401 (b44 driver) and a Via-Rhine on-board card.
 
Old 12-14-2008, 05:18 AM   #18
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I installed Slackware 12.2 last night, and would like to make a complaint about it:

Everything works.

My camera was detected and I could view the photos in Konqueror... without any of the fun...

Proper Slackware woulda had me downloading and compiling stuff.

What am I supposed to do now?
Was it better in the past ?

My neebie experience tells it has alway been as bad since 12.0 game out !
 
Old 12-14-2008, 05:31 AM   #19
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If you tell me that your video card was NVIDIA and you had no problems, then I'm jumping.
Actually, the NVidia driver did give me some problems, but that's because I'm running an older card which requires the use of their "legacy" driver - which hasn't been updated for use with Linux 2.6.27...

But a few minutes' searching yielded this patch:

http://kanotix.com/files/173.14.12/N...2_2.6.27.patch

Which can easily be applied to the driver with this command:

Code:
NVIDIA-Linux-x86-173.14.12-pkg0.run --apply-patch NVIDIA_173.14.12_2.6.27.patch
Then, it was a simple matter of running the custom file generated by the above command to install the driver.

Once the driver was installed (but before changing to runlevel 4), I ran the command: nvidia-xconfig

And that was it. Job done.

None of this was related to Slackware, though. It was because NVidia haven't updated the older drivers for use with Linux 2.6.27. They want you to buy a new card... But this patch works, so they can go and take a flying leap.

And that was the ONLY problem I've encountered in Slackware-12.2 so far. I had set aside the whole day to configure things... but since I didn't have to do much, I went outside and fixed my bike instead!

Last edited by rkelsen; 12-14-2008 at 05:38 AM.
 
Old 12-14-2008, 11:57 AM   #20
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Mmm Nvidia - I just used the slackbuilds.org scripts so I wouldn't obliterate my xorg drivers.

More importantly, more than often a computer problem is user error... Even when a program crashes. You obviously shouldn't have done that! like close down all running 'audacious' now type 'audacious --play' see! why did you do that! there isn't anything to play! of course it is going to display segmentation fault!...


But seriously O.o
I guess my situations are unique when things don't work. My wireless on my laptop uses b43legacy so of course I need to download firmware or ndiswrapper to make it work. And, though I'm not ready to install it yet, I have an M-Audio Oxegen 8 mini piano keyboard that also requires firmware. There should be a note somewhere, telling those that haven't dealt with the issue, "If a device is autodetected and a driver is loaded but it still doesn't work, find out if your device requires dynamically loaded firmware!" Other than that, everything works on my end... Now to install gnuCash! (somebody please shoot me)
 
Old 12-14-2008, 01:08 PM   #21
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Play with the Buntu's

Have had a similar experience. Installed Slackware 12.2 and took 30 mins to configure it.

Installed Kubuntu and took 3 days to get sound and flash working right. Am I doing something wrong LOL?
 
Old 12-14-2008, 01:21 PM   #22
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LOL I hear you. But guess what? Now you get to do something PRODUCTIVE with the computer! You know, what we're all supposed to be doing when not fiddling with Linux!

Kudos to Slackware 12.2! My external hard drive works, external USB speakers work, Logitech QuickCam Pro 9000 works, and I installed fresh to a LVM setup without any problems. That and for once, the only mod that I need to do to the default kernel (generic-smp) is to disable vesafb so that intelfb can grab the FB device and I can actually get a decent frame rate.

Kudos to Slackware 12.2! Now to help test / debug a music notation project so that maybe we can start writing sheet music on Linux! (Don't bother replying, I know what projects exist for this, and I'll go use one lol)

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I installed Slackware 12.2 last night, and would like to make a complaint about it:

Everything works.

My camera was detected and I could view the photos in Konqueror... without any of the fun...

Proper Slackware woulda had me downloading and compiling stuff.

What am I supposed to do now?
 
Old 12-14-2008, 03:21 PM   #23
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Damn thing's installed on my desktop with no problems now! Help!!! Everything works OK!!!
 
Old 12-15-2008, 03:36 PM   #24
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The tricks is to never preserve any confuguration files. Eriting them again for the n'th time keeps you sharp.
 
Old 12-15-2008, 04:32 PM   #25
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Although I have encountered zero problems, I can always find something to break^H^H^H^H^H tinker with.
 
Old 12-16-2008, 11:50 AM   #26
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Talking

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The tricks is to never preserve any confuguration files. Eriting them again for the n'th time keeps you sharp.
LOL....why does it seem so much harder to get it working AGAIN than it was to get it working the first time??

Last edited by jmhet42; 12-16-2008 at 11:52 AM.
 
Old 12-16-2008, 12:18 PM   #27
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If you tell me that your video card was NVIDIA and you had no problems, then I'm jumping.
My Dell XPS has a nVidia e-Geoforce 8400GS and works with 12.2 without an issue.
I'm using the 177.82 driver.
 
Old 12-17-2008, 09:57 AM   #28
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Damn... I was hoping that my 3D accelleration wouldn't work... but it works without an issue. I was also hoping that I would have to spend hours making my World of Warcraft install functional, but that too worked without a hitch... Jeez... I guess I'll have to start erasing files in /etc/ for some fun.
 
Old 12-17-2008, 09:10 PM   #29
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For sure the Pat and the Slackware team have done an awesome job on 12.2
Thanks! I try other distros and they are not as easy. Slackware is the best for me. Ubuntu was giving me headaches with the Monitor Resolution on old and new hardware changing at reboot. I am done running around in circles.
ROCK ON Slackware!
 
Old 12-18-2008, 07:58 AM   #30
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There I was in my Slack 12.0 world feeling happy about life after, recompiling kernels, configuring bootsplash, compiling gnome, manually configuring my wifi network after compiling drivers, microcode etc, installing ntfs-3g and fuse to write to my Windows partions. Imagine my utter disbelief and disappointment when uprading to Slack 12.2 and viewing references to ntfs-3g right there in the installer!!! It gets worse, upon login in that annoying KDE startup notification blared out without good old "alsaconf" and "lsmod" dislpayed iwl3945 in the loaded modules list!!! What's next, IE 8 ? Gulp!
 
  


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