ripcrd6
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Posted: Aug. 05 2004,14:46 |
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Here goes:
I tested on my laptop last night and had some successes.
Since sound was working,
barrage - works Is it possible to make a menu item for launching it? This would make it more usable for kids and friends you give DSL to.
Sweep - works It is very cool. I played a sound file and a section of a sound file.
freebirth - works I couldn't figure out how to use it, but a guy in my LUG recognized what some of the controls do. You might want to have your DSL add a bookmark URL to docs for this if possible or put that link in the .info file. Looks like a complicated program.
Quake 2 - I didn't get my pak0.pak file in time to make it into the ISO last night, but I've got it now and will rebuild w/ it today.
sox-12.17.3 - In the ISO, but I forgot to test it when a guy was chewing my ear off at my LUG meeting about SAMBA.
xscreensaver is still hosed, but you knew that. I would put it in the testing area until fixed.
t-bird - I saw the postings before I left about it's broken-ness so I pulled it out. Maybe Balsa or some other mail client could be DSLed. I'll look for some other possiblities today if I have time. There are tons of mail clients and at least a few of them are good and simple. I would actually like to see Sylpheed pulled out of Damnsmall and a .dsl made of it. but that is just me talking and wishing it were even more modular. John wouldn't want it out.
amsn - I got the new version to work. It comes up to the licensing, and then the login screen and everything. Alas, I was again not on a network as I forgot my long Cat5 cable and my wireless card was not working.
I need to install DSL to a HDD so that I can compile the source for my SMC wireless card. That or Damnsmall needs to have an exact kernel match with a 2.4.x kernel in a version of Knoppix that I can get, like a current one. My tiny little rant. I had the same problem w/ Morphix months ago and had to install to HDD to fix.
freeciv - danger, danger, danger Will Robinson! I installed this and then ran form the menu item and boom, the magic smoke came out. Well, not that bad, but the fluxbox menu got completely hosed. All that was left was restart, exit and xterm. Only xterm worked. Big bad scary monsters here. If it is only to be run from the CLI, then let us know and remove the menu item.
x-chat - still broke, but I thought I'd test on another machine.
I loaded some .nes roms on the ISO this time, but for got to test them. I tested the 1943 rom that comes w/ xmame and played a quicky game to show the guys in the LUG. vba (visual boy) and zsnes both work too. I like xmame better though.
xvc - I did unpack it prior to building the ISO so that it should work, but I forgot to test it. Too many people talking to me at once.
Still need to test ion2.
I grabbed edna.dsl and ran it, but I didn't have a network connection and couldn't remember exactly how to start it. I'll try it next time, just to see if I can get it running etc.
I added a few .pdf, .doc, .mp3, .mpeg files to my ISO. I did this before to test the players and the docs are to test the converters. We'll see if I can make stuff work.
I got a hard system lock after trying to use Rox. The laptop has 128MB ram, but I may have had too much stuff loaded at that point. I had to power down the system to fix.
| Quote | I'm looking into getting the libGTK files for both xscreensaver and xchat ?
( is that right ? ) |
Remember that xscreensaver also has a libXrandr problem.
What did you think of my thoughts on renaming a few pkgs? Basically rename them to what they are called after they are installed to save confusion. (e.g. blue-theme rename to almostX or fix the menu item. There is a "blue" theme in Damnsmall already.)
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