Salix Xfce 14.0RC1

[mimosa]

Thanks laprjns. I think light is beginning to dawn. I suppose this is one of the reasons Akuna created lilosetup - not just to have a user-friendly GUI.

[mimosa]

Solving the problem with wicd was as simple as putting 'wlan0' in the Wireless interface box under Preferences/General.

The Wired box is also empty.

This problem didn't occur in the 64-bit RC1 - presumably wicd has its usual defaults of wlan0 and eth0 there. I know those aren't always right, but they usually are, and it's then one less hoop to traverse: part of wicd's charm.

No further crashes with Midori so far, so maybe that was just a one-off. Midori's ad blocking is easy to set, and appears to be effective: click on the spanner icon at top right, then go to Preferences/Extensions

[mimosa]

Isn't Gmountman going to be included as standard? It's not in the System menu.

EDIT

Gmountman in x86_64 isn't working (I don't think I tested it in i486). I reported this back at the beginning of September on the alpha thread, which is some time ago, so it seems worth repeating.

[Atip]

Having a music CD mounted and clicking in File Manager on file.wav in Audio Disk > Open With "Parole" I get error:

GStreamer backend error
No URI handler implemented for "cdda".

[witek]

I have problems with sound which is not working after installation. I had to manually generate .asoundrc in order to make it work.

[Atip]

Having a music CD mounted and clicking in File Manager on file.wav in Audio Disk > Open With "Parole" I get error:

GStreamer backend error
No URI handler implemented for "cdda".

Installed xine and no such problem. File.wav opens and plays with xine the same way where parole fails.

[gapan]

Gmountman in x86_64 isn't working (I don't think I tested it in i486). I reported this back at the beginning of September on the alpha thread, which is some time ago, so it seems worth repeating.

How is it not working?

[gapan]

Having a music CD mounted and clicking in File Manager on file.wav in Audio Disk > Open With "Parole" I get error:

GStreamer backend error
No URI handler implemented for "cdda".

Don't open audio CDs like that. Open parole and from the File menu select the option to play them.

[mimosa]

How is it not working?

Sorry to be uninformative. As far as I remember, much as when I posted about this back in September - it only sees fd0 (which doesn't exist).

However, I just tried again, and it seems to be absolutely fine. I'll post again if I can get it to misbehave. Maybe an upgrade fixed it - I can't remember when I last did, or whether I remembered to do so before installing Gmountman in this pristine RC1 install.

A new problem: I just failed to run Libre Writer in x86_64. My first attempt from the menu produced a green box that never went away; then I tried it from the command line and got no response at all. htop showed no Libre-looking processes.

Maybe I didn't wait long enough before trying to call it from the console.

I then logged out and in again, and called it from the terminal again. No output, nothing, but now htop shows two identical processes:

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/usr/lib64/libroffice3.6/program/soffice.bin --writer

Killing the terminal doesn't make them go away. They both claim to be using around 95% of CPU, so at least one must be a ghost.
When I boot back into this installation, is there anything in particular you'd like me to try?

EDIT When I clicked "Submit", the system crashed. I'm pleasantly surprised to see it sent my post off first, so no need to retype!

[toothandnail]

Installed the 64-bit version to my Lenovo T400. Everything seems pretty good so far, though I had to do a bit of building - can't do without Conky and Wbar....

So far (only been installed for 30 minutes or so) the only problem I've hit is that Cups doesn't autodetect my printer. To be honest, I can't recall whether the earlier version of Salix did or not. Printer is a Brother HL-5050 mono postscript, hung off an old Amahi server, shared as a Samba printer.

Midori will take a bit of getting used to, but I quite like it so far. Have to find out whether it will save passwords or not - didn't off when I logged into the forum.

Paul.