I've just installed Salix 14.1 Mate, 32-bit version, and it's a series of problems.
1. To start with, X wouldn't start and the log stated that there'd been a segfault. I'd had that problem with Mint recently, so I tried the solution I'd used there: switch from gdm to xdm. That got me "x1 respawning too fast". I wondered if there was a problem with the SiS video (that's motherboard: I don't have a card) so I created a monitor.conf file and specified VESA. This solved the problem, so there would seem to be a bug in the SiS driver.
2. A number of programs just don't run, such as LibreOffice and gslapt. Launching from the CLI gave me "can't open the display". What could be the solution to that?
3. From the point of view of new-comers to Linux, I don't think panels with no applets on them are a good idea!
SOLVED Mate 14.1 woes
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DavidMcCann
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SOLVED Mate 14.1 woes
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Re: Mate 14.1 woes
Hi David,
If it doesn't, then most probably you have several left over settings in your home dir that interfere with panel settings (and possibly other stuff that you haven't noticed yet). Create a new user and try with that.
Unless you had a bad CD burn, or the installation was interrupted somehow (which I guess wasn't), there may indeed be a problem with the SiS driver. If it is, it's a problem that is there in slackware as well though. I don't have any SiS graphics cards and since this didn't come up before, I'm guessing very few people do. Even more since nobody seems to have caught the same problem in slackware. Even if we did establish that this is a problem with the SiS driver, I very much doubt that Pat Volkerding would care to do anything about it for slackware 14.1 at least. I wouldn't mind providing a package that works in Salix alone, but once more, I have no means of testing anything.DavidMcCann wrote:1. To start with, X wouldn't start and the log stated that there'd been a segfault. I'd had that problem with Mint recently, so I tried the solution I'd used there: switch from gdm to xdm. That got me "x1 respawning too fast". I wondered if there was a problem with the SiS video (that's motherboard: I don't have a card) so I created a monitor.conf file and specified VESA. This solved the problem, so there would seem to be a bug in the SiS driver.
This definitely doesn't happen in a standard salix installation. If you're still using xdm, remove it and use gdm again. It might just be it. Otherwise, it's some other setting in your home directory that is left over by a previous installation. I'm betting you used an old home directory with stuff from other distributions/installations in it, because...DavidMcCann wrote:2. A number of programs just don't run, such as LibreOffice and gslapt. Launching from the CLI gave me "can't open the display". What could be the solution to that?
... of this. This is what a fresh installation of salix mate 14.1 should look like: http://salixos.org/screenshots/Salix-Mate-14.1-01.pngDavidMcCann wrote:3. From the point of view of new-comers to Linux, I don't think panels with no applets on them are a good idea!
If it doesn't, then most probably you have several left over settings in your home dir that interfere with panel settings (and possibly other stuff that you haven't noticed yet). Create a new user and try with that.
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DavidMcCann
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Re: Mate 14.1 woes
Success: I've switched back to gdm and that gets LibreOffice etc working. I suspect that xdm may be behind the unpopulated panel, but I'm too lazy to investigate further. As for SiS, as you say, there are not many of us left without video cards, and VESA does fine.
This was a clean install for review purposes: my working Salix is the Xfce version on another computer. It's turned out to be an excellent implementation of Mate: none of the bugs I had in Mint 17!
This was a clean install for review purposes: my working Salix is the Xfce version on another computer. It's turned out to be an excellent implementation of Mate: none of the bugs I had in Mint 17!