liveslak with Plasma5...
I just put this (the latest from Alienbob's site) onto my flashdrive and booted into it.
It ran nice and quick, compared to the couple of times I'd tried it in the past few years. Nothing really special though, except of course KDE has changed a few niggling things (to me), but no show stopper. What *IS* the showstopper for me though, is that the sound must be pulseaudio. 5.1 stereo setup doesn't work, nor 4.1 or anything else except 2.0 stereo, all on my old soundblaster Live. I saw good ol' 'kmix' in the menu and thought, this will fix things! Nope...click on kmix and nothing happens, but if you go down the menu of the multimedia, there's the pulseaudio thing, click on it and it pops q window right up. Thing is, it's nothing different than what's in the system setup thing, so it was no help, as usual. Looks like I'm going to have to stay with my raggedly hax0red 14.2 x64 (to get the nasty pulseaudio crapware out of it) and my 32 bit 14.1 to play my music and movies correctly. Bummer, as I was looking forward to the latest and greatest Slackware so I could finally install some things that have a need for updated libraries that I can't put on these systems. Meh. Pulseaudio - 'We'll fix what ain't broke!'. :( |
Slackware64-current includes pure-alsa-system in /extra. Check out the README. Do those packages do what you want to do?
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I've looked all over here http://bear.alienbase.nl/mirrors/slackware-live/ if it's there, I think I'm losing my mind, because Alienbob also had to tell me where the iso2usb.sh file was to download...for some reason I'd spent at least an hour looking for it and couldn't find it for the life of me. <addendum> Meh...never mind, I found it, but it's in the 'current', not the liveslak 'current'. Maybe I'll try it anyway on the liveslak 'current' just to see what happens. If I can remember, I'll report what happens. |
Okay, I tried using the pure-alsa thing in the liveslak on both the plasma 5 and the plain current.
When I rebooted, it caused both to get me to the place where I fill in my password (live), then it would blank out for a second and come right back to that again. It would do this over and over. Even trying to pick something different in the lower left-hand corner, like Plasma 5 with Wayland, or any of the choices, that would just freeze up the susytem for a hard reset. A real bummer. There's a distro that is based off Devuan that uses alsa instead of this abortion of pulseaudio, but their live version isn't persistent. I'll see if they can somehow mkae it so though as it worked nicely when I was testing it. |
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Just because you don't like pulseaudio doesn't mean a bunch of others are going to bend over backwards to support your pure-alsa system. Be glad that Pat has provided you the option in -current. |
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However, I think your post is really important as a demonstration of what looks like being a strategical error: the very existence of pure-alsa. From what was started as an option and as "extra" alternative, now you expect that that "extra" option to be supported by every major Slackware project? Even by something really huge like Plasma5? For who? For you and others, no more than a handful ones? |
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As for all the jerks with the other posts...all I was doing was letting people who may also want or have wanted to try out the 'pure-alsa' thing too and what happened. Nothing more, nothing less. I can't be 'bummed' that it didn't work? As for the 'handful' that might have liked that it did work...an example of that would be I guess since queers and trannies are the extreme minority they shouldn't get any considerations for anything other than mainstream too (I'm neither of those, just stating a fact *YOU* seem to not care about ZhaoLin1457)? What a bunch of angry, petty little pissants you people can be at times. |
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Let's all keep things pleasant from here on, OK?
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