About 6 months ago, I sent a broken harddrive away for warranty work. That was my 80gb drive. In the meantime, I used my 60gb drive. Yesterday, I finally got around to switching back to the big drive.
I figured I'd give Slackware 12 another chance. Before, I couldn't get my video card to work properly, nor would my wireless card work. But this time was no better.
I couldn't get the Radeon drivers to work for my video card again. It's their closed-source crap. I installed it, but when I started X-windows I'd get nothing. The only way I ever got the drivers working was from a Slackware 10.2 package on linuxpackages.net. I discovered, though, that the default video drivers (DRI, I think?) on Slackware 12 now support a decent resolution (1280x1024) and seem to work good enough for 2d stuff. I can live without the 3d. So there you have it.
Then I couldn't get the drivers for my wireless ipw2200 card to work. Again, it's a closed piece of hardware, but there are opensource drivers that would fail to compile. However, when I plugged in a pcmcia wireless card I haven't used in years, it worked instantly. So that works.
I also decided to install the Firefox 3.0 beta. There are some nice things I like about it, and a few annoying things, too. You know how you get used to something, and suddenly it changes slightly and annoys you? I feel that way, anyways. To get to the forum, I always typed "x<tab><enter>" on the address bar, but that doesn't work anymore. And to get to vL's forum, I used to type "forum<tab><enter>", but that doesn't work neither. When you type in an address, it searches everything in your history, not just the beginning. That's pretty cool, I guess. It also feels faster, although that may be an illusion.
