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* SlackE17

Here are two screenshots of E17 running on Slackware 11.0:

Enlightenment installed from slacke17.sf.net
Xorg with nvidia beta drivers: xorg.conf – I had to change it a bit to use get the mouse wheel working. And it is with norwegian nynorsk (nn_NO.UTF8) settings for keyboard and locale. And set them in the configuration panel for Enlightenment.

Also composite stuff is loaded and the ‘Bling’ module in enlightenment enabled which makes fancy transparency and things like that.

I used the nvidia config tool while compiling and installing the driver(you find it at nvidia.com under support -> driver -> unix/linux/freebsd or something like that).

To activate composite:

$ nvidia-xconfig –composite

see ‘info nvidia-xconfig’ for fancy options I never used.

~/.xinitrc:

ssh-agent dbus-launch –exit-with-session enlightenment_start

Then you will have dbus and ssh-agent for your ssh keys.

~/.xsession:

/usr/bin/xfce-mcs-manager

But recently I had problems starting X so I loaded xfce-mcs-manager by hand afterwards. I think it starts before Enlightenment is ready. Sets up the gtk themes and icons properly. I used gnome-themer to configure the theme.

I use Thunar for file management.

ntfs-3g for ntfs drives and usb ntfs drive(which shows up in Thunar, but i mount it manually as root).

Most packages I found on linuxpackages.net
I also have Dropline Gnome installed.

The web camera doesn’t work yet, but there is work being done syntekdriver.sourceforge.net. But it is unusable at this point. I installed the module and I had to use the rescue disk to remove it.

The wireless card works fine if you install the firmware, see: bcm43xx.berlios.de and use the firmware cutter tool to extract it from bcmwl5.sys which you will find somewhere under your windows dir. I use some version around 3.100.****. But I change a bit since it is a bit unstable. Put the files in /lib/firmware.

I use the slackware 2.6.18 kernel. I set the module ‘battery’ to be loaded automatically. I have no USB devices(including mouse) connected before after the boot, otherwise ACPI freezes the whole thing on boot. The alternative is to not load acpi, ‘acpi=off’ to kernel options in either lilo or grub configuration file.

Changes to /etc/rc.d/rc.modules-2.6.18:

Uncomment: /sbin/modprobe acpi-cpufreq
Uncomment: /sbin/modprobe cpufreq_ondemand, but of course you can use one of the others.
Append: /sbin/modprobe battery

In case the link isn’t updated:

$ rm /etc/rc.modules
$ ln -s /etc/rc.modules-2.6.18 /etc/rc.modules

To save the sound level add ‘alsactl store’ to /etc/rc.K, but before things start to get killed:

[...]
# Set the path.
PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin

# save alsa sound level
alsactl store

# Load any needed keyboard mappings:
if [ -x /etc/rc.d/rc.keymap ]; then
[...]

Other:
slapt-get – package manager with norwegian mirror, updates and upgrades and installs packages from (possible multiple) repositories you add.
Mine, /etc/slapt-get/slapt-getrc:

WORKINGDIR=/var/slapt-get
EXCLUDE=x86_64
SOURCE=ftp://ftp.slackware.no/pub/linux/slackware/slackware-11.0/
# SOURCE=ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-11.0/
SOURCE=http://software.jaos.org/slackpacks/11.0/

- gaute