User Feedback :: Bugs in current version of DSL

Quote (whiteweasel @ May 02 2006,16:42)

Thank for the note on vga=785. I guess it's good to know that it works at a reduced color depth. However, it would be nice if it worked at 24bpp as well. IMHO you've provided a good workaround but it's still a bug that should be fixed. I'd rather have the higher color depth than icons, personally. It would be nice if I could have both, especially considering it works just fine in fluxbox.

I've seen partial icons at times in JWM as well. I don't know if this is a bug that the DSL team would deal with however. It seems more like a problem for JWM development. Reduced color depth requires less video RAM, which I assumed was why it works better. I may be wrong and it could be a code matter, since, as you say, Fluxbox is OK. JWM seems to work faster and use less RAM and fewer processes overall on my machines than Fluxbox. I like having the choice though.

Icon problems are not limited to jwm. I've seen them display partially, or display only text labels, with other window managers as well. I haven't got a clue why this happens, though.

How much memory do you have?

If you're responding to me, 512M.

Also, did you format the swap as a swap (mkswap), and did you activate it with swapon?

Yes.

Also, when you set partitions, make sure you make the first one bootable, and format as ext2 because, as far as I know DSL still needs ext2 for KNOPPIX to reside on.

Yes.

DSL 2.1 worked fine. DSL 2.3 had that problem about requiring the wrong directory, the wrong version. Presumably somehow it was picking up something from another version even though I told it norestore. And when I set it up so there was no possible way to get the stuff about the old version while loading, it didn't load at all.

But Whiteweasel gets a frugal install to work.

I'll sleep on it. I guess I'll try leaving out the dma and nopcmcia since they might have some effect.

Quote (mikshaw @ May 02 2006,21:38)

Icon problems are not limited to jwm. I've seen them display partially, or display only text labels, with other window managers as well. I haven't got a clue why this happens, though.

That would seem to rule out referring this to upstream JWM developers. What app generates the icons? They seem constant across the two wms I have installed except for the dispay issue. Perhaps the issue is with that code.

The following has happened a few times with me.

I'm using a way old machine as my media box, with 12 speakers through an amp. Anyways, I would minimize xmms, (or sometimes shade it), and then when I tried to get it back, everything would slow way down, my cpu usage was between 95 and 115%, and then something would eat all my ram, leaving me with a massive rebootable brick. Of course, once I rebooted, I was fine. I've accidentally minimized the window, then pulled it back, with no glitches...hmm. So now, I try not to minimize or shade xmms.

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