ke4nt1
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Posted: Aug. 01 2004,22:35 |
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From what I know of the changes to DSL over the past 2 minor version upgrades,
the icons and menus should not even be an issue..
I have spent considerable time upgrading the 80 + user contribs posted so far
in the repository so that they will be ready for the upcoming DSL 0.8 version,
which is testing out nicely at the moment.
If there is an issue with a particular extension, it's certainly possible I've made
a typo in a file, or left a owner/permission out of whack when rebuilding one.
I've been receiving new ones every day, and sometimes I get behind in
making improvements or rebuilding older titles.
To follow up on your post, I've installed a fresh 0.7.3 to a HD, with a serial
mouse, 233 cpu, pcmcia net card, and 96 megs ram for this test.
The fix for this computers serial mouse seems to be successful by
adding these lines to your bootlocal.sh file.
"rm /dev/mouse" <-- which removes the link to /dev/psaux
"ln -s /dev/ttyS0 /dev/mouse" <-- which makes the com1 port active
This fix sticks, reboot after reboot, with no xsetup.sh required.
This issue may have been caused by the new autodetection feature.
Since this is in beta, some corrections are expected.
The idea is to have it behaving nicely by 0.8 release time.
Your feedback is welcome, as we test HDInstalls the least of all.
DSL's strength is in making the best 50 MB Bootable Live CD.
As for the .dsl's, I could only test 2 of the three programs you listed.
Gimp and Samba. Samba has been revised several times by roberts, the
contributor of samba, to make it easier to use for folks not familiar with the
"linux" way of setting up shares.
My install, which I did from the myDSLgui desktop installer, shows both
icon and menu items available and working. Same with Gimp..
MPlayer runs fine on my big box, but for this little laptop, no-go..
I didn't see MPlayer in your screenshot either.... Only Gimp & Samba..
Again, on my big box, MPlayer shows both icons and menu options, and
they both work... ( MPlayer may not like the XFBdev server on this laptop )
So far, I'm good-to-go with this quick&dirty HDInstall...
Are there any other issues you are having?
Please let me know if 0.7.1 or 0.7.2 change the behavior of the extensions
DSL 0.7.1 still used "damnsmall" , and 0.7.2 used the simlink to "dsl"
Same goes for 0.7.3, as it is still symlinked.
There could still be some"damnsmall" left in some of the extensions...
73
ke4nt
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) just to be clear, the test machine here is an EPIA M10000 with 256MB RAM and 20GB HDD. The box does not have a second mouse. I managed to find the PS/2 mouse, plugged it in and it works. Don't really want to go back to the serial mouse.
