{"id":5,"date":"2008-06-06T23:04:08","date_gmt":"2008-06-06T21:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bassmadrigal.com\/blog\/?p=5"},"modified":"2008-06-08T01:52:28","modified_gmt":"2008-06-07T23:52:28","slug":"first-impressions-with-slackware-121","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bassmadrigal.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/first-impressions-with-slackware-121\/","title":{"rendered":"First Impressions with Slackware 12.1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I finally got around to installing Slackware 12.1 on my laptop. It is a Dell Inspiron 700m.<\/p>\n<p>Specs<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Intel Centrino 1.6GHz<\/li>\n<li>1024MB RAM<\/li>\n<li>160 WD Scorpio PATA HD<\/li>\n<li>Intel 855 Video w\/ 64MB Shared<\/li>\n<li>Intel 2200 BG Wireless<\/li>\n<li>DVD +\/- RW<\/li>\n<li>12.1&#8243; 1280&#215;800 LCD Screen<\/li>\n<li>1394a Firewire<\/li>\n<li>Broadcom 10\/100 Ethernet<\/li>\n<li>Secure Digital (SD) Card Reader<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The first thing I noticed was that the installer was the same. Fine by me, I enjoy it anyways. Always simple to use and never problematic. But after the reboot I was greeted by a lilo splashscreen with Slackware on it. Looks nice.<\/p>\n<p>OK on to the big things. After manually changing lilo to use compact (severely increases boot time), and editing my \/etc\/X11\/xorg.conf file to use the i810 driver for the video (it may have done this through one of the xorg setup programs, but I already knew what I needed), I booted into X. Surprisingly it came up at the default resolution of the monitor of 1280&#215;800. In the past I always needed to use a resolution program. Awesome.<\/p>\n<p>Then my wireless worked automatically. No downloading of firmware or recompiling of the ipw2200 or the ieee80211 modules. So far I am very impressed. I did try the SD card reader, and upon inserting the card the laptop froze. No surprise, I have never had any luck trying to get that to work.<\/p>\n<p>But I must say. Initial impressions are very high. I will post more when I get further into it.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>EDIT: Upon further investigating (transfering all my backup files and settings of an external), it seems that CPU Speedscaling isn&#8217;t working. The CPU is currently stuck at 600MHz, and as far as I can tell, there are no utilities included to change this. I guess I will have to build <a title=\"CPU Freq Daemon\" href=\"http:\/\/cpufreqd.sf.net\">CPU Freq Daemon<\/a>. I don&#8217;t mind this because I was probably going to build it any way, because I really enjoy the options it gives me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I finally got around to installing Slackware 12.1 on my laptop. It is a Dell Inspiron 700m. Specs Intel Centrino 1.6GHz 1024MB RAM 160 WD Scorpio PATA HD Intel 855 Video w\/ 64MB Shared Intel 2200 BG Wireless DVD &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bassmadrigal.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/first-impressions-with-slackware-121\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bassmadrigal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bassmadrigal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bassmadrigal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bassmadrigal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bassmadrigal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/bassmadrigal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bassmadrigal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bassmadrigal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bassmadrigal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}