Slacko 5.4 - FINAL 2 Dec 2012

[tlchost]

http://208.109.22.214/puppy/posting.php ... daa3f448b8
works fine in Slacko 5.4 on bootable USB.

[Billtoo]

Manual frugal install to a 4gb flash drive running on an emachines
D620 laptop pc.
Report Video 1.4 - Tue 30 Oct 2012 on Slacko Puppy 5.3.6.5-Linux 3.2.31-4g i686

Chip description:
5.0 VGA compatible controller:ATI Technologies IncRS690M[Radeon X1200 Series]
oem: ATI ATOMBIOS
product: RS690 01.00

X Server: Xorg Driver used: radeon

X.Org version: 1.12.3
dimensions: 1280x800 pixels (338x211 millimeters)
depth of root window: 24 planes
OpenGL
Vendor X.Org R300 Project
Renderer Gallium 0.4 on ATI RS690
Version 2.1 Mesa 8.0.4
Direct Rendering Yes
# glxgears
Running synchronized to the vertical refresh. The framerate should be
approximately the same as the monitor refresh rate.
48 frames in 5.1 seconds = 9.421 FPS
53 frames in 5.0 seconds = 10.572 FPS
56 frames in 5.0 seconds = 11.169 FPS
Computer
Processor AMD Athlon(tm) Processor 2650e
Memory 1812MB (101MB used)
Network controller Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY

The FPS is really low but videos play fine in VLC and GnomeMplayer.

EDIT: It is working great on this laptop.

[majorfoo]

Billto - Beautiful picture on above post. Can you provide link. I would like to add to my collection

thanks

[Billtoo]

Billto - Beautiful picture on above post. Can you provide link. I would like to add to my collection

thanks

Hi majorfoo, here's the link:

http://nature.desktopnexus.com/wallpaper/1222684/

[Sage]

Thanks, Bill. With enormous restraint, I'll resist the temptation to make the obvious suggestion. However, judging by recent feedback, a lot of correspondents are going to thank you for this link.

[James C]

Had another old box off the shelf so...... Slacko 5.3.6.5 live..... P3..... 256 mb ram ......no swap.

Sound,internet and display working on boot. A bit slow booting but not bad once loaded.

# report-video
Report Video 1.4 - Thu 1 Nov 2012 on Slacko Puppy 5.3.6.5 - Linux 3.2.31-4g i686

Chip description:
1.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82810 (CGC) Chipset Graphics Controller (rev 03)
oem: Intel(R) 8xx Chipset Video BIOS
product: Intel(R) 8xx Chipset Hardware Version 0.0

X Server: Xorg Driver used: intel

X.Org version: 1.12.3
dimensions: 1024x768 pixels (321x241 millimeters)
depth of root window: 24 planes

...the above also recorded in /tmp/root/ as report-video,
and archived with xorg.conf and Xorg.0.log as report-video-full.gz

-Computer-
Processor : Celeron (Coppermine)
Memory : 253MB (146MB used)
Operating System : Unknown distribution
User Name : root (root)
Date/Time : Thu 01 Nov 2012 01:32:15 AM CDT
-Display-
Resolution : 1024x768 pixels
OpenGL Renderer : Gallium 0.4 on softpipe
X11 Vendor : The X.Org Foundation
-Multimedia-
Audio Adapter : ICH - Intel 82801AA-ICH


-Processor-
Name : Celeron (Coppermine)
Family, model, stepping : 6, 8, 6 (Pentium III/Pentium III Xeon/Celeron)
Vendor : Intel
-Configuration-
Cache Size : 128kb
Frequency : 797.50MHz
BogoMIPS : 1595.46
Byte Order : Little Endian

# free
total used free shared buffers
Mem: 253220 245672 7548 0 19684
-/+ buffers: 225988 27232
Swap: 0 0 0
#

[Sage]

Nice test, James. They don't come nastier, cheaper and slower than an 800Celery, esp. with Intel graphics. Somewhere around here I've got an A850. I'll give it a spin in the coming weeks, but I've avoided discrete Intel video cards, so we'll see if we get any nV or Radeon issues! Hope for the future now that AMD have formed an alliance with ARM. Only commercial and mobile stuff initially, but who knows...
[Generally, as reported elsewhere, Precise has also been better than average on my tests. Those default graphics are doomed to send away neophytes, though; it's an unnecessary distraction for those of us who know how to change them.] Slacko & Carolina are shaping up really well, too.

[withoutpity]

Hi micko, I compiled lxpanel and xfce4-panel in this slacko version, but got confused. Some menu items got multiple lines, while in slacko beta1[5.4] both are fine .
I have not get any idea about it . And libunique can not be compile in neither this slacko version or precise puppy 5.4. Maybe woof 's error ?

[01micko]

Hi micko, I compiled lxpanel and xfce4-panel in this slacko version, but got confused. Some menu items got multiple lines, while in slacko beta1[5.4] both are fine .
I have not get any idea about it . And libunique can not be compile in neither this slacko version or precise puppy 5.4. Maybe woof 's error ?

In /usr/share/applications delete the kde4 symlink, it was a bad idea and is going in the next version. That might fix your menu woes.

As for libunique.. what errors are you getting trying to compile it? As long as depends are satisfied I can't see why it wont work. Take a look at slackbuilds,org and see if a slackbuild exists. They work fine but they don't build a final slackware package unless you install pkgtools from the PPM.

[bigpup]

Slacko beta2 k3.2.31 [opera, NO PAE]

PupRadio

Select help button.
Get no response, nothing.

[Billtoo]

Manual frugal install to a 4gb flash drive running on an acer aspire
one netbook pc.
Report Video 1.4 - Fri 2 Nov 2012 on Slacko Puppy 5.3.6.5 -Linux 3.2.31-4g i686

Chip description:
5.0 VGA compatible controller:ATITechnologiesIncM880G[Mobility Radeon HD4200]
oem: ATI ATOMBIOS
product: RS880M 01.00

X Server: Xorg Driver used: fglrx

X.Org version: 1.12.3
dimensions: 1024x600 pixels (270x158 millimeters)
depth of root window: 24 planes
OpenGL
Vendor Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
Renderer ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4200 Series
Version 3.3.11653 Compatibility Profile Context
Direct Rendering Yes
# glxgears
7228 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1445.563 FPS
7606 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1521.170 FPS
7265 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1450.555 FPS
Computer
Processor AMD Athlon(tm) II Neo K125 Processor
Memory 1812MB (155MB used)
Network controller Broadcom Corporation BCM43225 802.11b/g/n
No problems.
EDIT:I made some changes, kept jwm but added wbar and some other stuff then copied it all to a 16gb flash drive.

[withoutpity]

In /usr/share/applications delete the kde4 symlink, it was a bad idea and is going in the next version. That might fix your menu woes.

As for libunique.. what errors are you getting trying to compile it? As long as depends are satisfied I can't see why it wont work. Take a look at slackbuilds,org and see if a slackbuild exists. They work fine but they don't build a final slackware package unless you install pkgtools from the PPM.

Yes micko,after deleting the kde4 symlink in /usr/share/applications, ether menu items in lxpanel or xfce-panel are corect now.
Libunique still can not be compiled. I found the slackbuild and run configure with parameters in the slackbuild, but still failed.

[01micko]

Libunique still can not be compiled. I found the slackbuild and run configure with parameters in the slackbuild, but still failed.

It can if you use the SlackBuild

• download http://slackbuilds.org/slackbuilds/14.0 ... que.tar.gz .. the slackbuild tarball, extract it
• download http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/ ... .6.tar.bz2 .. DON'T extract it, but move it to the ./libunique directory
• cd into the ./libunique dir and run ./libunique.SlackBuild (iirc)

You will find in /tmp/SBo a dir with the name libunique-package or similar and in it will be the compiled code, unless you install pkgtools from PPM in which case you will get a tgz package in /tmp.

NOTE: the SlackBuild tarball contains a critical patch, probably why it would not compile for you.

SlackBuilds have a very high success rate for me. If I ever get stuck it's the first place to look.

[withoutpity]

It can if you use the SlackBuild

• download http://slackbuilds.org/slackbuilds/14.0 ... que.tar.gz .. the slackbuild tarball, extract it
• download http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/ ... .6.tar.bz2 .. DON'T extract it, but move it to the ./libunique directory
• cd into the ./libunique dir and run ./libunique.SlackBuild (iirc)

You will find in /tmp/SBo a dir with the name libunique-package or similar and in it will be the compiled code, unless you install pkgtools from PPM in which case you will get a tgz package in /tmp.

NOTE: the SlackBuild tarball contains a critical patch, probably why it would not compile for you.

SlackBuilds have a very high success rate for me. If I ever get stuck it's the first place to look.

Oh thank you micko, with two patch in slackbuild I compiled libunique. Many thanks to you !

[bigpup]

Shutdown problems when not saving to a save file.
Saving to entire partition.

Barry has posted a fix.
http://bkhome.org/blog2/?viewDetailed=00006

[bigpup]

Slacko beta2 k3.2.31 [opera, NO PAE]

Pmusic-> help->Dependency Check

Get this for result of check..

[James C]

Another different Nvidia card ..... another quick test of 5.3.65. Sound,internet and display all correct on initial boot.


# report-video
Report Video 1.4 - Mon 5 Nov 2012 on Slacko Puppy 5.3.6.5 - Linux 3.2.31-4g i686

Chip description:
0.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV44A [GeForce 6200] (rev a1)
oem: NVIDIA
product: nv44 Board - p382h1 Chip Rev

X Server: Xorg Driver used: nouveau

X.Org version: 1.12.3
dimensions: 1024x768 pixels (270x203 millimeters)
depth of root window: 24 planes

...the above also recorded in /tmp/root/ as report-video,
and archived with xorg.conf and Xorg.0.log as report-video-full.gz
# glxgears
nvfx_screen_get_param:95 - Warning: unknown PIPE_CAP 30
nvfx_screen_get_param:95 - Warning: unknown PIPE_CAP 30
nvfx_screen_get_param:95 - Warning: unknown PIPE_CAP 55
nvfx_screen_get_param:95 - Warning: unknown PIPE_CAP 56
nvfx_screen_get_param:95 - Warning: unknown PIPE_CAP 59
nvfx_screen_get_param:95 - Warning: unknown PIPE_CAP 58
nvfx_screen_get_param:95 - Warning: unknown PIPE_CAP 30
Running synchronized to the vertical refresh. The framerate should be
approximately the same as the monitor refresh rate.
3135 frames in 5.0 seconds = 626.868 FPS
3607 frames in 5.0 seconds = 721.311 FPS
3666 frames in 5.0 seconds = 733.109 FPS
3486 frames in 5.0 seconds = 697.136 FPS
3586 frames in 5.0 seconds = 717.079 FPS

-Computer-
Processor : Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.00GHz
Memory : 1554MB (231MB used)
Operating System : Unknown distribution
User Name : root (root)
Date/Time : Mon 05 Nov 2012 01:35:23 AM CST
-Display-
Resolution : 1024x768 pixels
OpenGL Renderer : Gallium 0.4 on NV4A
X11 Vendor : The X.Org Foundation
-Multimedia-
Audio Adapter : ICH - Intel 82801BA-ICH2
Audio Adapter : MPU-401 UART - MPU-401 UART
No problems with the basics.

[01micko]

Coming soon.....

from the changelog....

BETA (3)
added premote-0.9.3 (mcewanw --missed it last time)
added libdbusmenu-qt (PITA!)
added network_roxapp-0.5
added YASSM-2.5.1 (rcrsn51)
added broadcom firmware (pemasu, woof)

readded 915resolution (tempestuous)

removed pnethood

update pmusic-2.9.10 (zigbert)
update pequalizer-0.9.0 (me)
update pburn-3.7.6 (zigbert)
update pfilesearch-1.3.3 (zigbert)
update pclock-0.7.1 (zigbert)
update pfind-5.04 (zigbert)
update pmirror-0.6.1 (zigbert)
update pproces-2.3.2 (zigbert)
update pschedule-1.0.3 (zigbert)
update ptiming-0.8.1 (zigbert)
update snap2 (lstandish)
update PupControl-2.2.2 (radky)
update pavrecord-0.9.2 (mcewanw)
update precord-8.1.4 (mcewanw)
update screeny-0.8 (me)
update update-manager-0.2 (me)
update mpscan-0.1.0 (kirk)
update sys-info-1.4.2 (tazoc)

update k3.2.33 (4g) compiled module usbip
update k3.4.17 (PAE) compiled module usbip

bugfix bibletime deps (repo)
bugfix full installs (replace /etc/rc.d/rc.update busybox depmod call with \
depmod call)
bugfix revert create a circular symlink kde4 > applications \
and patch jwm_menu-create instead
bugfix remove %u in firefox

woof-121105

NOTE: subject to change!

tomorrow with any luck

[bigpup]

Convert-pupsave
Nice little program for working with save files.
Needs some updating and probably tweaking to work with latest Puppies, but would be a nice program to have.
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 587#662587

This program resizes and/or changes the encryption mode and/or changes the file system of your
pupsave, by generating a new one from your currently-booted pupsave. It leaves the old one
untouched. With this tool, the following tasks can be accomplished:

1) Resize the pupsave larger or smaller (within reason). Size does not have to be a power of 2; if
you want a 439MB pupsave, you can have it.

2) Change from using the default cleartext pupsave to an encrypted one.

3) Change from using an encrypted pupsave back to a cleartext one (perhaps for reasons of
maintenance), or change which encryption algorithm is used.

4) Change the password on your encrypted pupsave (by simply generating another encrypted pupsave
with a different password).

5) Change from an ext3 to an ext2 pupsave, or vice-versa.

More than one change can be done at once. Needless to say, you have to be using a pupsave FILE in
the first place for this to apply. It is not for full-install Puppies, nor for multisession, nor
for the case where the user information is stored on a partition.

[bigpup]

Zigbert will correct Pmusic dependency check message in version 3.0
Stated here in Pmusic topic.
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 584#662584