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talk:slackware:beginners_guide [2013/02/09 18:42 (UTC)] – [Select UTF8 codepage] wisedraco | talk:slackware:beginners_guide [2017/11/06 10:15 (UTC)] – [Installing updates using slackpkg] bormant | ||
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after save that works and restart system, you have normal UTF8 support in your whole system ( especially in console and mc.). | after save that works and restart system, you have normal UTF8 support in your whole system ( especially in console and mc.). | ||
- | as i know, in KDE utf8 in filesystem works ok without that....\\ | + | as i know, in KDE utf8 in filesystem works ok without that....\\ |
- | --- // | + | > Hi John. you are right, this page lacks instructions about localization. Luckily we already have a complete article about that, so I will add a link to it. \\ --- // |
+ | Hello again :) | ||
+ | remember also, when i configure my servers | ||
+ | / | ||
+ | \\ | ||
+ | # Screen blanks after 15 minutes idle time, and powers down in one hour \\ | ||
+ | # if the kernel supports APM or ACPI power management: \\ | ||
+ | / | ||
+ | \\ | ||
+ | mostly comment that | ||
+ | / | ||
+ | line out, because screen goes to blank every xx minutes really annoying. when i not necessary to see what happens with system in monitor, i simply turn monitor off by power on them. maybe that turn-out blanking screen instruction | ||
+ | \\ | ||
+ | \\ | ||
+ | update: simply comment out do not work - monitor anyway going to sleep after a pause. | ||
+ | i made \\ | ||
+ | / | ||
+ | ## -powersave powerdown -powerdown 60 \\ | ||
+ | |||
+ | |||
+ | // | ||
+ | |||
+ | ====== Amendment to the Switch to a Generic Kernel Section ====== | ||
+ | |||
+ | The entry which should be added to Lilo will depend on which kernel the initrd and modules are compiled for. | ||
+ | |||
+ | For me, the modules were being compiled for the smp-kernel [[http:// | ||
+ | |[1]]]- | ||
+ | < | ||
+ | mkinitrd -c -k 3.2.29-smp -f ext4 -r /dev/sdb2 -m usb-storage: | ||
+ | </ | ||
+ | |||
+ | And if I added generic kernel to Lilo I would get the error '' | ||
+ | |[2]]]. | ||
+ | |||
+ | So I had to add to Lilo the smp-kernel- | ||
+ | < | ||
+ | image = / | ||
+ | </ | ||
+ | |||
+ | --- // | ||
+ | |||
+ | ====== Hostname ====== | ||
+ | |||
+ | Hello, I don't have an account, so I can't make this edit, but: Hostname! | ||
+ | |||
+ | If you use network manager, you need to edit / | ||
+ | |||
+ | Hostname! | ||
+ | |||
+ | ---- | ||
+ | A rather cosmetic change suggested: | ||
+ | < | ||
+ | s/file and then run < | ||
+ | </ | ||
+ | This would remove the (useless, IMHO) empty line that begins the following Code block.\\ | ||
+ | --- // | ||
+ | |||
+ | |||
+ | ====== Installing updates using slackpkg ====== | ||
+ | >>< | ||
+ | |||
+ | >> For slackpkg '' | ||
+ | |||
+ | >That is not correct, as history proves. Sometimes, a package gets added as a " | ||
+ | +--------------------------+ | ||
+ | Sat Mar 16 07:10:09 UTC 2013 | ||
+ | patches/ | ||
+ | This is needed for Psych (YAML wrapper) in the new Ruby package. | ||
+ | </ | ||
+ | |||
+ | Yes, since 8.1 (first release with versioned packages) it was only tree times by two reasons:< | ||
+ | 9.1: patches/ | ||
+ | |||
+ | 13.1: patches/ | ||
+ | 13.37: patches/ | ||
+ | </ | ||
+ | Readind ChangeLog.txt can help to discover this rare case and launch '' | ||
+ | |||
+ | Is there any reason not to delete '' | ||
+ | --- // |