Hi again, jrb.
jrb wrote:Uh Oh, busted.
I swear your honour, I meant to give full credit. Actually on one of my YAD adaptations I did write your name in the credit list, can't remember which one it was though. I must confess, everything I know about YAD I owe to you, and its been very useful!
Nah, you're OK..! Don't sweat it. I was just browsing a bit earlier, got reading, then thought to myself, "I dunno; that kinda looks familiar. Mm.....yup, I recognise that.."
Okay. Initial report...
On first boot, totally as expected, it reported the nouveau driver was in use (I'm using a 'cooking', Asus GeForce GT710; first time I've been able to run a discrete GPU, 'cos the single PCI-ex16 slot in the old Compaq was damaged), but.....only vesa resolutions available. Not surprised. Also; no audio. Again; not surprised. Had the same issue with both your Tahr64-lite
and Phil's 'official' Tahr64 606; the audio card is nearly 4 years newer than that 3-series kernel, so how's the kernel expected to know about it?
And the screen brightness/tint control didn't work. Sheesh.
So; I've pulled the same stunt I employed with the other two. Did a swap with Xenialpup64's k4.9.58 kernel. Fixed the lot; screen resolution is now correct (which gives me a shot at installing the official Nvidia driver). Audio works. First time I've tried Fred's yRadio, though I think I prefer DogRadio, even so. I'll probably install Oscar's Deadbeef-0.72, as well, 'cos this lets me play my RadioTunes 'stream' via the .pls function.
The screen brightness/tint control is behaving itself, so I may see if Fred's 'redshift-lite' portable will work.....which I prefer, 'cos it adjusts automatically via its geo-location stuff, and it's still very lightweight. Following 15 years of working at the family firm's plant, processing waste 'fly-ash' from our indigenous coal-fired power stations, it's left me with permanently sensitive eyes, so the various 'red-tint' apps have proved a real boon in recent years....
radky's JWM DeskManager will find its way on here, too; it's just so much easier than all that older way of having to bring everything up separately. And before you say it, yah; I know. I'm not really keeping to the spirit of things, but then this new machine is just
so much more capable than the old one, especially now I've got 8 GB of DDR4 plugged in. I can't resist 'tarting' things up a little..!
And my Vivaldi64-portable is running without issues, as well. Posting from it now. I'll see how many of the other 64-bit portables I threw together will behave themselves on here; I'll report back on these.
I'll see how I get on with the CUPS install. And I'll see how many of my library of 64-bit AppImages will run, too.
Nice one, mate.
Very sweet. Definitely got Uncle Mike's 'seal of approval'!
Mike.