Hi All!
I've got M8 running quite nicely on an IBM Thinkpad 570
It has a pcmcia wireless card which has worked flawlessly since first install.
Getting the sound working was a bit of a hassle, as it needs the CS46xx driver,
which is no longer included in the debian distro of alsa as it contains some proprietary code . . .
I read somewhere on the internet that if you recompiled ALSA from source packages it would include
the CS46xx driver - unfortunately ALSA doesn't want to compile on the latest kernels. Argh.
Eventually I found that you could just compile the ALSA drivers from source (and they compile happily on later kernels -phew!) - and keep ALSA from the synaptics package. The sound now works great.

I've installed XFree86 and got rid of xorg. Why? This laptop has a Neomagic NM2200 card in it, in my experience the XFree86 drivers are faster than the XOrg drivers. I get glxgears at about 90fps with XFree86, I get some awful looking o/p with XOrg.

I tried to get rox-desktop running. Oroborox keeps crashing. All the menus and toolbars are unpopulated.
So I am sticking with ICEwm for now. What I would really like is a trashcan and desktop CDROM/DVDROM icons.

I can play full-screen AVIs from DVDrips using mplayer and they look great. DVDs don't want to play yet for some reason.

Jon

Welcome to antiX jon.

Thanks for the information regarding sound and xfree.
How did you install xfree86? Any problems?

About dvd playback, make sure you have libdvdcss2 installed.

You can use rox-desktop with icewm or fluxbox and have dvd/cd icons on the screen.
You can also install the trash can from rox and put it on the desktop.

It was actually remarkably easy to install XFree - just follow the instructions on the XFree86 website. That's it! Everything still works afterwards - just the fonts look a bit different. This is the only linux distro I've used where you can do this with no problem (this is certainly not the case with Ubuntu. Well, antix is not Ubuntu).

Of course you can't use synaptic to install XFree86 as it is no longer supported due to licensing issues I think.

Probably stupid question - how can I get rox-desktop to run in ICEwm and to migrate the menus etc?

Thanks for a great distro

Jon

For rox-desktop, simply uncomment this line in ~/.fluxbox/startup
### rox -pinboard=antiX &
or add it to ~/.icewm/startup

Restart or logout/login and you have a desktop background.

Here is some info from the antiX-FAQ:


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jon_the_id,

I'm delighted to hear that you got your NM220 256AV card running. I'm working on the same audio/video setup right now but am having some problems (i.e., I can't get the soundcard working, see this thread:
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I, too, compiled Alsa from source and added the nm256 module to the kernel. But it didn't work. Any jujitsu necessary? What were the magic commands?

I'll be following up on axing Xorg, thanks for the tip.

glass.dimly