Slackware 9.1 released

Posted Sep 30, 2003 14:33 UTC (Tue) by allesfresser (subscriber, #216) [Link]

Here's a few things I noticed in the 9.1 release (having been running it as -current for a long time):

• If you use the web interface for CUPS, the HTML files necessary have been moved to /usr/doc/cups instead of /usr/share/doc/cups; you can either move them back or change the definition of DocumentRoot in /etc/cups/cupsd.conf
• If you use CUPS, remove the lprng package; they don't seem to like each other. YMMV.
• This isn't specific to the 9.1 release or to Slackware even, but just a tip: I like to set up X by letting it look around and make itself a file: X -configure does the trick nicely. It generates an XF86Config.new file, which you can then tweak to fit your situation and copy into /etc/X11/XF86Config. I've only had to make a few adjustments to mine (font paths, monitor specs, modeline, and swapping "freetype" for "Type1" in the module loading section). Again, your mileage may vary.
• You can add fonts (TrueType, PS Type 1, etc.) on a per-user basis by putting them in ~/.fonts and running mkfontscale in that directory; this will make them available to the fontconfig/freetype/etc. libraries for Gnome/KDE. Also make sure (via a login script or whatever) that they are made available to X itself via xset +fp path commands, followed by an xset fp rehash. Finish with a nice Merlot and some expensive cheese. :-)
• Don't try to compile Mozilla from source with GCC 3.2.3 and Pentium4 optimizations (such as -O2 -march=pentium4). You'll receive a nice spectacular internal compiler error when compiling some of the JavaScript code. Use -march=i686 or other similar options.