If are seeying for a kernel upgrade , i think better wait.

In two days 4.1.15 goes out

https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/12/12/156

Hi,

I wonder if with next stable we'll arrive at the point where Broadwell and Intel HD Graphics 5500 works well.
Either I have bad lack, because this setup does not work well for me, or we'll have to wait for updates of intel X driver, Mesa, kernel, X.org, libdrm, etc. I hate this situation, I remember having a machine (don't remember the exact model now) that I had to wait quite some years for the graphics to be stable. I was hoping that having hardware with Intel's graphics should make it painless experience, but it's not like that.

I'm reporting my progress here for those concerned. If you have any tips, please post it there.

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Best regards,
Andrzej Telszewski

Version 1.3.1 of urwid is out. Changelog:

2015-11-01

• Fix for screen not getting reset on exception regression (by Rian Hunter)
• AttrSpec objects are now comparable (by Random User)
• MonitoredList now has a clear method if list has a clear method (by neumond)
• Fix for BarGraph hlines sort order (by Heiko Noordhof)
• Fix for final output not appearing on exit with some terminals now that extra newline was removed (by Jared Winborne)
• Fix for a resizing bug in raw_display (by Esteban null)

I was testing urwid version 1.3.1 before willysr pointed out my SBo submission of urwid was unnecessary since it is already in Slackware... Everything seems to work as expected. Details here:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...rs-4175559165/

And you get bonus geek points for building it with LOCALCONFIG="-1.1381_SKYN12nnmp" on slaves.sky.net.

Does it work with wicd?

????

Im not build NOTHING.

linux-4.1.15 is in rc1 and goes out in one day...AS STABLE.

I say that because some one point the 4.1.14 , but , only one day for .15


Other branches same situation , but slackware goes ever in a LTS branch , then 4.1.x are the best choice.

4.2.X --> EOL --> that branch works well
4.3.X --> EOL --> that branch have a bug in ETX4 filesystems
4.4.X --> LTS BUT IN DEVELOPMENT (not good idea to go) , there same bug as in 4.3 in EXT4 filesystems.


4.1.X --> the winner


rest of branches have an update in one day

there is the 4.2.8-rc1
https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/12/13/72

there 4.3.3-rc1
https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/12/12/431

there the git developemnt 4.4 , 4.4-rc5 i think goes out tomorrow , as others.
https://github.com/torvalds/linux


I test all branches , best are 4.1.X and 4.2.x

If install 4.3 or 4.4 and see dmesg , appears messages with filesystem errors , bus error ,ata..etc etc etc.

In 4.1 and 4.2 all works well.



this is 4.3.3-rc1
[ 234.267820] ata1.00: irq_stat 0x20000000, host bus error
[ 234.267826] ata1: SError: { HostInt }

[ 420.138037] blk_update_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 34623128
[ 420.138415] blk_update_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 34621440
[ 420.138768] blk_update_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 34613248

[ 420.137080] blk_update_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 34625536
[ 420.137166] EXT4-fs warning (device sda1): ext4_end_bio:329: I/O error -5 writing to inode 1046698 (offset 0 size 8388608 starting block 4328428)
[ 420.137471] EXT4-fs warning (device sda1): ext4_end_bio:329: I/O error -5 writing to inode 1046698 (offset 0 size 8388608 starting block 4328669)

It was in reference to that Linux kernel version being listed in the Terminator movie.

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comme...linux_version/

New version of 'libcroco' (0.6.10)

http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sourc...-0.6.10.tar.xz

Also new bug fix version of gdk-pixbuf (2.32.3):

http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sourc...uf-2.32.3.news

http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sourc...-2.32.3.tar.xz

gstreamer-1.6.2 and plugins

changelog say 62 bugfixes :=)

http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src...r-1.6.2.tar.xz
http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src...e-1.6.2.tar.xz
http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src...d-1.6.2.tar.xz

I am seeing a bug in blackbox on Slackware-current. A window will sometimes lose focus immediately after receiving it. I see this bug only on 32-bit machines.

The bug is described here https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=83900

There is a patched version from Debian.
http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/colla.../blackbox.git/
http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/colla...06b69e32b2dc09

I haven't tested the fix.
Ed

With ClickToFocus model it doesn't focus sub-window at all, for example renaming a file or creating one in file manager.
This is on 64 bit -current too, I think it's probably something in new xorg that changed recently.
It never happens on 14.1

I do not use wicd. I use network manager.

Then that will have to be tested - nothing else in the tree uses urwid so far as I know.

That said, I'll point out again that NM these days is head and shoulders above wicd IMHO. It has a functional curses UI, which is/was the main reason anyone would prefer wicd as far as I'm aware.

I will test it later this afternoon. Should I post the results in this thread or a separate thread?