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If you are updating and still using lilo (as opposed to elilo) You will want to edit /etc/lilo.conf to not include a line that has "vga=771" or something similar. Delete such a line the run lilo. Reboot. Enjoy practical screen resolutions. :-) List of recent updates: Saturday, 02/15/2020 a/zerofree-...

Why kernel is not being updated: From: https://linuxreviews.org/Linux_5.5-rc4_Released_With_Few_Changes There are three changes to Intels i915 kernel driver for Intel iGPUs in this release. Using 5.5-rc3 on a notebook with a Intel CPU/iGPU has worked better than any kernel since 5.0.21 and these 3 a...

Still sticking with 4.19.x kernel due to i915 problems, python3 jump to 3.8 necessitated a lot of repackaging, including pyQt5... which takes me overnight :-) Saturday, 01/04/2020 l/python-soupsieve-1.9.5-x86_64-1AL.txz ***Added*** l/python_BeautifulSoup4-4.6.1-x86_64-1AL.txz ***Removed*** a/brotli-...

Thursday, 12/19/2019 * Absolute is not updating to the 5.4 series kernel, as it does not properly support * the intel i915 chipset. (A very common GPU.) * I believe this will be remedied in the 5.5 series due out in February. a/file-5.38-x86_64-1.txz a/kernel-firmware-20191218_c4586ff-noarch-1.txz a...

NOTE: When using gslapt to update, -> Update -> Mark All Upgrades -> File -> Mark Obsolete (View marked, Un-mark any you want to keep) -> View -> Available (For any NEW packages) Then Execute Saturday, 12/14/2019 ***** kernel reverted to 4.x series: ***** i915 drivers do not work. ***** hacking xorg...

Portions of LibreOffice were not working due to dependency Avahi. so I did some updating, you will need to restart to get avahi and libdaemon running. Updates 12/09/2019 a/etc-15.0-x86_64-20191209AL.txz Avahi usr/group added, as well as updated /etc/rc.d/rc.local and /etc/rc.d/rc.local_shutdown ap/a...

Bit of a lapse in updating the forum, but I've been keeping up on updates. Among other things I keep trying different browsers and derivatives... I get kinda miffed by big brother and/or politics. (I was really hoping Falkon did real plugins as that's the closest I came to being content without Fire...

---------------------------------------------------------------- due to reported boot error on install... absolute64-20190811 Snapshot released -- Wednesday, 08/13/2019 ---------------------------------------------------------------- Wednesday, 08/14/2019 l/webkitgtk3-2.4.11-x86_64-2AL.txz Tuesday, ...

A month's worth of updates... falling behind Slackware updates... but due to detailed updates of user interface (created custom icon theme for gtk2 and gtk3) -- and summer relatives visiting :-) Saturday, 08/03/2019 xap/unetbootin-661-x86_64-1AL.txz Friday, 08/02/2019 a/etc-15.0-x86_64-20190801AL.tx...

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