I had trouble with my 1998 PC, and needed to load a module in Slacko5.x.

"dmesg" output identified the sound card:
isapnp: scanning for PnP cards:
00:01: card 'CS4236B'

"lsmod |grep -i 4236" produced no output, so module wasn't loaded.

modprobe snd-cs4236

"lsmod |grep -i 4236" showed the module ...

I had no sound on Slacko, and this fixed it:

run "retrovol"
click boxes to select functions
click on red areas to boost volume (indicated by amount of yellow)

After doing that for all functions, I deselected them one by one until left with just 2 that were necessary. From memory, I think it was ...

I run Slacko5.5 on a 500MHz PC.

Actually, I run Slacko5.5-PAE, even though the PAE isn't necessary on the old machine. It's just nice to have the same version running on the old and new machines.

It's great that Slacko5.5 supports both a current machine and a 1998 PC.

TeamViewer is free, and works well for remote desktop support:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TeamViewer

You can also transfer files within a TeamViewer session.

I'm running it on slacko-PAE-5.5:

TeamViewer: 7.0.9377

I use it to support someone with a PC on Win 7.

I had a problem with looping/stuttering sound on slacko5.4.

I never rebooted, just quit Firefox and the problem cleared.

For other reasons, I tried slacko5.4-PAE and have never had the problem (uptime=75 days).

The PC was always near max memory use, now on PAE "free" shows 7495788 used, way more ...

@Tote: It doesn't look like this "feature" can be disabled. Thanks for the reply.

@anikin: Thanks for pointing out that thread. I would have gone through life thinking it was a bug. Now I know it's a "feature".

Thanks for the replies.

EDIT: This is a feature, not a bug!
Thanks to anikin for pointing out the thread where this has been discussed. I don't like this feature, but the change in behavior is too trivial to gripe about.


A trivial issue with slacko5.5-PAE (no user changes made after bootup), not seen in slacko5.4-PAE ...

FORUM ADMIN:

Please delete this post, it was meant for the Slacko5.5 feedback thread. I've copied this post to there. Thank you.

EDIT: since this might not be removed, at least I should change the title to be more specific.

EDIT: thanks to anikin for the info:
This is a feature, not a bug!

This ...

I wasn't monitoring the Bugs forum, so I missed the announcement of Slacko5.5 on March 4th

Seems there should be an announcement in the Users forum.

Anyway, I'm posting this from my 1998 500MHz P-III (Katmai) Dell Optiplex GX1 (768MB RAM), running Slacko5.5-PAE.

I don't find a problem with PAE ...

the package manager lists all programs contained in the separate 'devx.sfs' as installed, whether the actual devx is installed or not. the devx contains python, hence it showing as installed in the ppm.

@666philb: Thanks for this. I don't understand the thinking behind the PPM's design. It does ...

Running slacko-5.4 PAE (3.4.17-PAE), no modifications or user installed packages.

I wanted to learn about Puppy Package Manager, so ran this:

/usr/local/petget/pkg_chooser.sh

From the GUI, I searched for Python, selecting the slackware-14.0 repository.

To my surprise, it showed Python already ...

I've been running the PAE version for several days (file slacko-5.4-opera-PAE.iso).

Other than installing firefox, this has been a hassle free change from the non-PAE version of slacko-5.4.

I used to download files to hard drive, but now treat RAM as a RAMDISK.

It's nice to have access to all the ...

If it's true that shutdownconfig is only about saving session data, what follows is the wrong approach. As you said, just don't call shutdownconfig.

But if there is any other cleanup in shutdowconfig, then this could be useful and have fewest side effects:


Tested, and this works the way I like it ...

Say I want to remove all trace of opera (or any unwanted app).

Is there a commandline procedure for doing this? I could try to 'find' all relevant files, but might miss some. Maybe the package manager used to install this could tell me where all the files are located.

I avoid package managers ...

I've been very happy with slacko 5.4, but "free" shows most of RAM is in use:

$ free
......total........used......free
Mem:..3360644......3261312...99332

This download was:

slacko-5.4-firefox-4g.iso

Thinking to try the PAE version to allow use of more RAM, the only choice was:

slacko-5.4-opera ...

npierce,

Thank you for your help and very informative post.

There are many useful tidbits in your post, and they are sure to be helpful to many.

Thanks for your time and effort in making this valuable contribution.

If you want to use the Windows key as a modifier then I read that the mask value is "4" but I can't get it to work.


I'd like to know where you found that vital info. It is correct, but I couldn't find any reference to a mask value of 4 in the docs.


So to run HTOP by pressing Win and h:
<Key ...

Running slacko5.4 (Linux puppypc23129 3.2.33-4g)

"jwm -v":
JWM vsvn-581 by Joe Wingbermuehle
compiled options: confirm fribidi icons png shape xft xinerama xpm xrender
system configuration: /etc/system.jwmrc

Goal: to use the "windows" key in a manner like Alt and Ctrl keys (as modifier key ...

npierce wrote:

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<Key mask="A" key="Super_L">showdesktop</Key>

npierce, that worked!

Your explanation was helpful.

Thank you!

.jwm-tray has this:

<TrayButton popup="Show Desktop" icon="mini-desktop.xpm">showdesktop</TrayButton>

This allows you to minimize all windows and showdesktop by clicking the icon.

Apparently, showdesktop is not a command.

I'd like to do this without needing the mouse. Is there a command for this ...