New Slack Install, a couple of Praises and Concerns
Hello Everyone,
I have now had Slack 12.1 installed on my lappy for a week now and have had a good chance to explore everything. On the whole, I am extremely pleased I made the decision to install it. I had not regularly used Slack since 10.1 over two years ago, and 12.1 is a HUGE step forward. But I have one question and two concerns (minor, for me). Question: I have looked at the install scripts on Robby Workman's site (am not a coder, so don't understand all of it.) I did install OpenOffice using his script. This was a 147mb binary, so I wanted to learn HOW 147mb is properly installed within seconds using this script and "installpkg". A binary this large on any other distro would take several minutes to install. Sorry if my lack of knowledge shows through in this question, but I just want to know all I can about the goodness in Slack. Concerns: When using KDE, I generally have no issues. But, I prefer XFCE most of the time, and I don't seem to be able to use it as I get lock-ups and freezes when using firefox, and, for some reason, occasionally when using a terminal. I don't get any of this KDE. I am begining to suspect hardware issues because these are some of the major issues I had trying to use Ubuntu on this laptop. The system logs do not reveal anything. My second concern is a little more serious. My CPU temps are considerably HOTTER in Slackware than in Ubuntu. It constantly runs in the 50-60 degree range, where it runs in the 35-45 degree range in Ubuntu. This is definitely not a situation I would have expected from Slack. I am running the 2.6.24.5-smp kernel on a dual core AMD. I can find a lot of information about CPU temps, but was just curious what I could check to try and remedy this in Slackware. As I said, overall, set-up and fine tuning was extremely easy: fglrx, flash, codecs, all the goodies installed and set-up painlessly. Thanks for any replies. Bob |
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Yes, when I used to use Slack 10.1 I always wanted to investigate that, but just never asked the question. Now that I have a little more time to study such things, I would really like to know...
Bob |
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Thank you, Takia, I had considered that and had already done modprobe powernow-k8 and modprobe_ondemand. But I am still getting "command not found" when I run cpufreq-info. I have never had to deal with this before because, as you noted, the "hand-holding" distros did that for me. I have more to learn..I'll keep searching.
Thanks again. Bob |
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mingdao@paul:~$ less /backup2/ftp/pub/Linux/Slackware/slackware-12.1/CHANGES_AND_HINTS.TXT |
Takla: Thank you, the link to wiki solved my problem. I had stupidly forgot to un-comment the powernow-k8 in /etc/rc.modules. Follow the instructions the wiki got cpu scaling turned and the temps have dropped 10 degrees.
Bruce Hill: Thank you, that is exactly what I needed. I can't believe I read the Hints and Tips both before and after installing and missed that. Thank you very much. Welllll! No concerns/issues left. I am indeed a happy SLACKER! Bob |
Everything else has been answered, but thought I would respond, ignorantly, I might add, to this:
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Hi Bob!
That used to be a fun and well-practiced drinking-game back in the day. You'd watch Bob Newhart episodes and anytime someone said 'Hi Bob' on the show you had to take a drink. LOL. I'm showing my age for sure, but I DO love Bob Newhart. Glad to see you got everything worked out. Slackware is the best! Dig |
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Also, while the pkgtools do not do any dependency resolution they do some sanity checks. For instance, when you removepkg files are not removed if they are a part of another package. The tools are very quick and, as such, it seems to me that the main time limiting factor (on big packages like OOo at least) is how fast your CPU can untar the package file. |
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Slackware package installs are very little more than a tar -zxf with a bit of logging thrown in.
They're incredibly fast to process becuase of this. Package removes on the other hand a quite slow as they do a lot of processing. |
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