3. ensure that the fat32 partition, or EFI Boot partition, or EFI System Partition is mounted on /boot/efi how do I check for this? I do get the option to modify the partition table, is it anything extra I need to do to achieve this step? If you boot Salix in UEFI mode, the installer would automati...

I have just tried installing Salix 14.1 64bit XFCE to a UEFI computer. and success on the first trial to boot in UEFI computer. After navigating for a while, here I shall show you the two key points for your reference. yes I downloaded and burned the image to a DVD as you say, however I'm not sure i...

I have a question..

Will this wireless dongle works out of the box?

WiFi USB dongle RTL8188CU (802.11b/g/n)

thanks

BTW how do I change on the panel the clock to 24 hour format. I hate that am/pm bit. Not being really a friend of KDE that ads to my dislike if such a trival thing is not easy to change, unles I am too dumb. ;) @Atip, try this: right click the clock widget on panel Digital Clock Setting Appearance ...

hello mimosa, thanks for the direction.. OK so I tried using terminal command, ignore the 'locks' on kernel-source and kernel-headers in Gslapt package manager... typing commands out , because I might need to refer to it again.. :) wayne@darkstar:~$ uname -r 3.2.29-smp wayne@darkstar:~$ su Password:...

Just download the RC2 and tried installed onto a Desktop. prepare usb flash with dd during installation process, I notice a file showing error.. did not take note, sorry went ahead to install, complete without error then install codec, firefox, vlc as usual, quick test on playing media via vlc, no i...

mimosa, just trying to play only.. 1. on terminal do wayne[~]$ /usr/bin/ibus-setup 2. on pop up windows ibus preferences, click input method. 3. click select method >> chinese >>and add a few for my playing, I added chinese-pinyin chinese -py (m17n) chinese - hanyu pinyin (m17n) http://i45.tinypic.c...

Watson wrote:

wayne wrote: You need to install the kernel-source package from repository (~70 mb).

Thank you very much Watson. It worked!!

Tried out RC3. Used unetbootin to prepare bootable USB stick, no issue booting computer and install on a partition. I used Lilo to install onto root partition without issue. Added codec, somehow parole did not like to play mp4 file. Added vlc, no issue to play most media files, including mp4. Have b...

May be you 'accidentally' enable numlock during your installation on your laptop? :mrgreen: if that is the case, just find your numlock key, and toggle it ( which means disable it ) and you should be OK :idea: read this http://www.salixos.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=1031&p=7009&hilit=...