The current alpha comes with xbacklight installed, which is a program for controlling backlight brightness. xbacklight does not work on my Eee PC 1001PX or on my ThinkPad T400. I have found a working replacement in brightnessctl. I would like to request adding it.

My impression is that xbacklight has poor compatibility. The Arch wiki seems to agree. So I would actually suggest removing xbacklight and only shipping brightnessctl.

Upon boot I see the ConnMan connection app with my wifi detected.  As I had to reboot my PC to get back online, this note is done from a  memory that might not be accurate.  Network manager usually detects possible network names followed by a window to enter the network password.  DSL is not going to be too popular if the wifi setup isn't simple, easily understood and quickly executed.

My help request is a walk-through for the ConnMan Tray.  I can see advantages of ConnMan. This is the first Linux distro that I've run into that uses it.  Sell me on it!

Need to put the ConnMan info in the FAQ folder. 

 I would also include the user name is "demo" with password "demo" and "root" is the password for the superuser root. If the user wants to play in the terminal and use connmanctl commands, they will soon need the passwords.

Don't mean to be a grump and feel free to flame me if I should have found the info somewhere in a help section.

Tried
apt update
apt upgrade

I noticed that the the icons on the EXIT menu were now colored button instead of grey squares.

I could not longer could start the terminal. from the status line.
It would open from inside the file Manager.

Restarted and investigating with only update no upgrade.
HP MINI https://www.manua.ls/hp/mini-110/specifications
2G

I'm not a virtual machine type of user and wifi works fine for LinuxMint and Tails (live) on my PC.   With DSL booting fine into Legacy mode, the wifi is an issue.

ConnMan window shows ethernet and wifi "on" but not connected.  Tried typing in my home network, router address, router password, etc. into various buttons but no joy.  Iwconfig command shows the wifi available.  Did ConnMan search and got a techie avalanche.  You can assume all the home network wifi is working on a variety of operating systems. Need a walk-through how to understand the ConnMan UI in terms a lazy Slackware refugee can understand

Installed it on an really old  EEE PC 4G :-) which run DSL already a long long time ago!
had some little Problems...
Start from USB Stick didn´t work first, had to use Save Video Mode.
only english keyboard available in the boot options
The original resolution 800x480 is not available, only 640x480.
Touchpad is very slow, switching to an external mouse works much better
apt-get update says: at least one list file is missing
System takes 3.12 GB Space without anything additional installed

Hope this informations are usefull,
Thanks for the efforts bringing DSL back!

Hi there.
Is working from Boot-CD on old Apple IMac 2006 (the white ones) and 2007 (Alu IMac).
Even wlan is working! Very good!
I tried to install on 2007 - use entire internal disk - shows 'Windows' boot disk (also boot cd shows 'Windows'), but does not boot the internal installation?
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I then tried it on 2006 IMac - this time did NOT use entire disk - used EFI and spare partition - not touching Mac OSX 10.6 partion.
This time an boot menu, Mac OSX partion was shown and dsl 'Windows' partion.
And this time 'Windows' booted into dsl 2024.

Wish Apple, there are many things that must be meet correctly, to be able to boot - so this needs some more investigation some time..

Many thanks, for revival of the good old dsl ;-)
I like the CD max 700MB approach as well as the nice background image.

Now the next question will be, howto install a usable, actual web browser into the hdd installation.

Thx, Peter

This looks like a nice forum, but I think some important features are missing. I would like to request them:

1. A mobile theme. It is inconvenient to check the forum on a phone.
   
2. A BBCode tag for inline code. The "[code]" tag that is currently available creates a code block. It is "<pre><code>" in HTML, and I would like a "<code>" tag without the "<pre>". In other words, "[code]" is like "```" in Markdown; what I am asking for is "`". I have used "font=Courier New" for monospace text. The issue with this is that it doesn't work on systems without the Courier New font, which include desktop Linux with no Microsoft core fonts. It is also not semantic like "<code>", meaning potentially worse accessibility.
   
3. Maybe a "<details>" tag for hiding longer snippets of code, logs, etc. embedded in the text of a post. While I used an attachment for my X log, my first thought was to look for a way to create a folding code block.
   
4. A favicon. :-) There is currently no favicon. It makes my KeePassXC sad. You could symlink the PNG logo to "/favicon.ico" on the server.
   

I just wanted to take a moment to thank everyone who has taken the time to download and try out the the Alpha release.  Your feedback will really help speed along development.

Hi! It has been a long time, DSL. :-)

I have just tried the current alpha (MD5 c9941fab32e9a6d1962a8119b85a8e85) on my old netbook, an Asus Eee PC 1001PX. It's a model from 2010. It has an x86-64 CPU, 1 GiB of RAM, Intel GMA 3150, and a 1024×600 screen. I have recently installed Debian 12 on it (64-bit), where everything seems to work.

The test went like this. I booted off the USB drive and chose to boot the DSL ISO in Ventoy's normal mode. In DSL's boot menu I also chose the default option. When the system got to graphics, it became stuck in a loop restarting Xorg. Xorg started, stopped with a fatal server error (see the attached log), then started again. I rebooted DSL in safe video mode, and Xorg worked.

Here is a screenshot. 800×600 was the only resolution available in ARandR.



I connected to Wi-Fi without issue and was able to use a USB keyboard and the built-in SD card reader. It seemed like everything but video worked normally. A pretty good start.

I have attached my Xorg.0.log from when DSL got stuck in an Xorg restart loop. (I like that this forum runs MyBB instead of phpBB or SMF.)

Attached Files

  Xorg.0.log.txt (Size: 16.54 KB / Downloads: 7)

Hi everybody. unfortunately making a bootable Usb Stick from the Iso does not work. I used the Antix USBmaker. Any suggestions?