Slackware

Slackware 13.1 RC1
The changelog today says it's pretty frozen, so get the bug reports in now. Kernel is now up to 2.6.33.4 Michael ... 15 May 2010 12:35

devede problem
Hi, I have a downloaded video that I am trying to burn to a dvd. I finally got devede to work, and it made what looks like the appropriate files but it made an .iso file out of them. My dvd player would not read the resulting dvd disk, nor would vlc. I had to mount the .iso file for vlc to read it. After unscr... 15 May 2010 07:12

rc.wireless does not recognize wireless interface (Slackware 13).
I have a notebook Asus with Slackware 13 whith the wireless network adapter AR9285. With my old laptop I used wpa_supplicant with the normal Slackware 12.2 NIC PV's activation chain (rc.inet1 -> rc.wireless). With the Asus, wpa_supplicant works if I run it from command line with: wpa_supplicant -iwlan0 ... 20 May 2010 14:58

Cross compiler for MIPS under slackware
Hello, do you know how to install a cross compile environment for MIPS under slackware? Thanks -- Kevin ... 17 May 2010 09:05

Firefox 3.6.3 AWFUL on Slack 13.0 x86_64
Hi, I'm running Slack 13.0 x86_64 with 4Gb RAM and a Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E6550 @ 2.33GHz Firefox 3.6.3 takes 90 seconds to start. And process firefox-bin is using 1.2Gb RAM according to system monitor - when it's doing nothing. This is awful slow compared with Firefox 3.0.19 on Slack 12.2 32bit on the same P... 13 May 2010 16:00

pcre unicode properties
Hi, I dont know if its the right place for asking for enhancements of slackbuilds. is there a bugtracker for slackware or something ? it would be nice that the official pcre pkg would compile with -- enable-unicode-properties to match e.g. umlauts (\pL etc..). Heres a diff of the pcre.SlackBuild from current... 14 May 2010 02:59

Alt.OS.Linux.Slackware FAQ pointer
Posted-By: auto-faq 3.3.1 (Perl 5.010) Archive-name: aolsfaq Current-maintainer: aolsfaq-maintainer(a)therockgarden.ca FAQ last updated: Fri Dec 4 01:11:57 EST 2009 This is a periodic pointer to the Frequently-Asked Questions list (FAQ) for the alt.os.linux.slackware newsgroup. The FAQ which may be frequent... 13 May 2010 03:57

KDE 4.4.3 and How to fix Akonadi errors
Hi, KDE 4.4.3 does an automatic migration of your kontacts to akonadi, which can't be turned off easily. If the migration fails, you won't be able to use kaddressbook and it will be difficult to disable akonadi completly. If you experience problems during the akonadi start, try the following options : If ... 15 May 2010 18:03

Compress Kernel Modules with lzma (xz)
On Fri, 30 Apr 2010 14:27:39 +0000, Douglas Mayne wrote: I see that recent kernels have the ability to handle various compression methods. For example, I assume that these kernel options allow the kernel to decompress modules using various compression methods: CONFIG_DECOMPRESS_GZIP=y CONFIG_DECOMP... 8 May 2010 12:17

kdesu in kde4.4.3
Has anybody been able to run kdesu in current Don ... 8 May 2010 13:23