DSL 4

Forum: User Feedback
Topic: DSL 4
started by: newOldUser

Posted by newOldUser on July 18 2007,00:05

I just booted up DSL 4 alpha from a live-CD and I think it's looking great.

I booted on an old 133mhz Pentium with 80 megs of ram and 126 meg swap partition. It will not win any speed records but it's very usable.

The old video card is running with better resolution then it ever had. The network card came up automatically. The sound card had a problem but it's always had a linux problem and I need to do a 'sudo modprobe sb' to get that working, but it is working. To test it you can start xmms and right-click, select 'play location' and then enter tone://2000
TURN THE VOLUME DOWN FIRST

I had been using the JWM windows manger and I like it.

The DFM file manager is new to me and will take some getting use to. I need to figure out how to open script files (with the .sh extentions) in the beaver editor. If I click 'open' it runs them. I'm sure it's just my lack of knowledge on the product.

I recommend to anyone that they download it and give it a try. Use the 'DSL base norestore' boot and you shouldn't have any problems overlaying your current DSL setup (I hope... someone please correct me if I'm wrong)

All-in-all, I must congratulate Robert on his fine work and thank him once again for all his effort. I think he's on the right track with this one.

Here's an edited version of my system stats file:

Code Sample

dsl-4.0_alpha1 Tue Jul 17 19:39:29 2007
processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 5
model : 2
cpu MHz : 132.956
bogomips : 264.60

total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached:
Mem: 80015360 77172736 2842624 0 2555904 50708480
Swap: 131600384 2220032 129380352

0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 430VX - 82437VX TVX [Triton VX] (rev 02)
0000:00:07.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82371SB PIIX3 ISA [Natoma/Triton II] (rev 01)
0000:00:07.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82371SB PIIX3 IDE [Natoma/Triton II]
0000:00:12.0 VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc. 86c764/765 [Trio32/64/64V+] (rev 54)
0000:00:14.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)

LANG="C"
COUNTRY="us"
LANGUAGE="us"
CHARSET="iso8859-1"
KEYTABLE="us"
XKEYBOARD="us"
NETCARD_FULLNAME="Realtek|RTL-8139"
NETCARD_DRIVER="8139too"
MOUSE_FULLNAME="Generic PS/2 Wheel Mouse"
MOUSE_DEVICE="/dev/psaux"
XSERVER="XFree86"
XMODULE="vesa"
XDESC="86c764/765 [Trio32/64/64V+]"
FLOPPY_FULLNAME='3.5" 1.44MB floppy drive'
FLOPPY_DEVICE="/dev/fd0"
FLOPPY_DRIVER="unknown"
DESKTOP="jwm"
ramdisk_size=100000
init=/etc/init
lang=us
apm=power-off
vga=791
initrd=minirt24.gz
nomce
noapic
quiet
BOOT_IMAGE=knoppix
BOOT_IMAGE=linux24
base
norestore

Posted by ^thehatsrule^ on July 18 2007,00:58

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I need to figure out how to open script files (with the .sh extentions) in the beaver editor. If I click 'open' it runs them. I'm sure it's just my lack of knowledge on the product.

If you want all .sh files to open in beaver via double click, you can change it by right-click on a .sh: Options: Change shell command to: beaver !0! (or manually add your line in .dfmext). However, if you just need to edit the odd file, you can just use drag & drop on Apps>Editors>Beaver

Would it be better to continue this in the 4.0 alpha1 thread? I think it was suggested to keep everything in there...

Posted by newOldUser on July 18 2007,01:41

Hey thanks for the help.

I didn't post this in the Release Candidates thread because I just wanted to send a "NICE JOB" out to Robert and didn't want to trash up some of the more serious techno stuff that's going on in that thread. If the moderator wants to move or delete this I will not be upset.

Posted by roberts on July 18 2007,02:33

Thanks for the feedback and nice comments.

I would drag the .sh or other executable script, e.g. lua, perl, etc, onto my favorite editor icon.

Copy your favorite application icons to the desktop and they will persist upon backup/restore. Then you can experience drag and drop.

Alternatively you can change the default behaviour of the double clicking and choose not to run executeable scripts and edit them, as ^thehatsrule^ has suggested.

Posted by ^thehatsrule^ on July 18 2007,06:20

Another alternative... from the manpage,

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You can edit the ".dfmext" file using a normal text editor. It contains a list with the extensions of filenames, the names of the associated icons and the action that has to be taken when activated by clicking or dropping. The format is "extension;icon;command&command&...". DFM will take the first line that fits the extension.

Then you could use the right-click .sh > Open <whichever command>.

Could use Options and edit Shellcommand to "command&command" instead...

Posted by Key on July 18 2007,19:47

Unfortunately it still doesn't run on my new computer yet.
Same as at the 3.x versions.

I have burned the 4.0 alpha image to a CD.

Messages during booting:

Scanning for USB devices .. Done.
Can't find Knoppix filesystem, sorry.
Dropping you to a (very limited) shell.

DVD drive is connected via a SATA connection.

Is it possible to solve this problem with some added parameters in the boot-menu? But which parameters? I thought I have tried this also in 3.x without success.

Hope there is a solution for this.

Posted by ^thehatsrule^ on July 18 2007,21:35

You could try the initrd versions with 3.x for now...

For DSL versions with 2.4.3x kernels, if you need a module that's needed for probing on boot, you can add it in the minirt

Posted by roberts on July 18 2007,23:09

DSL 4 is still supporting the old scsi modules, therefore to support SATA require the sata boot option as was implemented in DSL v2.1b.

Please use the Release Candidate area and not Feedback.
DSL 4 is not a released version.