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I'm using Standard Desktop edition.

Note*  Ubuntu 8.10 seems to have alot of problems.  For example, you cannot play downloaded Flash Youtube videos (Vlc spits out an error message about not having codec "undf" or something like that)

Abiword: Every time you go to save a document, you have to enter the name of the file again in the file field.  The document title at the top, meanwhile, stays as "untitled"

Movie Player plays back videos too quickly.

Plus a bunch of other problems.  But I think this is related more to the base OS: Ubuntu 8.10, not Crunchbang.

I wish there was a 64-bit testing version of !# that was based on 8.04, Hardy Heron, because I really liked that the best.

Sorry to complain, but it's just that I wanted to list all the problems with 8.10 so far.

Just installed #!64.  No problems as of yet.

I will say that, here at least, it is much faster than the 32bit version and the 32bit distro is no slouch ^_^.

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oops. spoke too soon.

If you open a CNN live window and then close it, all firefox instances close as well.   Doesn't happen if you have multiple "normal" firefox windows open however.

Last edited by taintedsushi (2009-03-12 17:22:15)

I concur.  Other that that odd firefox bug which might be due to the new flash player at CNN live, #!64 seems to run very smoothly.

I noticed that every time my system crashes, it's when I'm listening to a talk show on Alsaplayer while doing something else, such as using Blender or another art program.

At any rate, the common denominator seems to be Alsaplayer.  When I'm working on a project, I like to have talk shows and news in the background, and I didn't want to use Audacity because I thought Alsaplayer would be a lightweight program.

I know it's not an issue of speed or processing power, because I used to do it on my old system all the time (listen to Alsaplayer while using Blender)

On my old system, I was using an old Compaq from year 2000, with 512 Mb RAM,  i686, with a Nvidia Geforce 8400 card 512 mb ram.  It never crashed when using Alsaplayer then.  I was using Crunchbang based on Ubuntu 8.04, 32 bit version

Now, I'm using a Gigabyte mobo with a Intel Core 2 Quad processor, 8200, 2.66 gigahertz per core, with 2 gb ram.  Video Card: AmdAti Radeon 4670

The reason why I upgraded was because I wanted to do Blender and to run more smoothly. 

On my old system, it would go too slow, but it would never freeze

On my new system, it runs real smoothly and fast, but freezes up all of a sudden.  And it's always when using Alsaplayer.  I know it's not processor or speed or resources, because I got plenty of them.  I think its Alsaplayer.

I wonder if Audacity would work better?

Last edited by kwabena38 (2009-03-13 06:12:32)

Firefox is 32-bit so your plugins also have to be 32-bit afaik.

Flash seems to work OK on my system.  In fact, when I tried regular Ubuntu 8.10 AMD 64 Intrepid, I had to go and manually install the flash player by clicking and dragging the plugin into my .mozilla floder and it worked.

But in Crunchbang AMD 64, I didn't even have to do that.  Youtube videos just played after I first booted in, so the flash player was added automatically.  I don't know if they're 32 bit or 64 bit, as I'm still learning about this 32 bit/64 bit stuff.

Anyway, one great thing I can say about this Crunchbang is that youtube videos play great.  On my earlier version of Crunchbang, based on Hardy, 32 bit, youtube videos would flicker and sometimes not even load at all.  But on AMD 64, they play flawlessly.

rho, you're welcome, glad it helped. I also like the idea of root windows having a different appearance, I'm not half as smart as I sometimes think I am and it's good to have the equivalent of giant flashing signs saying HEY WHAT'S GOING ON IN THIS WINDOW HERE IS IMPORTANT SO DON'T SCREW IT UP.

flicck: nice one! I will keep an eye on your progress and packages. Keep up the good work

Hello kwabena38

I could be wrong, but from what you have described, I think the problems you are experiencing could well be hardware related. I think I would be inclined to run some diagnostic tests to check everything is working as it should. Something like Inquisitor may be of interest.

Good luck, I hope you manage to diagnose the problem.

corenominal : packages are all built, successfully, in my PPA. One problem : your build of lxpanel totally supersedes mine, despite the lower version number. My best guess is : you have it as priority : optional, I built mine with priority : extra. Is my guess correct? If so, I'll work on updating/correcting that on my end. Should be the last bit of trouble with this. Thanks for all your help, links, and encouragement!

Excellent work! I will check out the packages as soon as possible. Regarding the priority of packages, I believe this is due to the APT pinning which gives priority to packages in the CrunchBang repository. I will look at moving your packages into the testing repository. Thank you again!

Hello dreamwork I have started preparing for the Jaunty release. The script does not, should not currently work as I am still in the process of merging packages. I will post as soon as the script is working.

Hmm, does this help?