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Lobster · Posted: Mon 11 Jul 2011, 04:51 Post subject:

plugged in an Ethernet cable.

Got connected
xchat OK
Most programs seemed there and OK Smile

Tried sound - went through the first two suggestions (from the sound set up wizard)
- without getting sound.
Good little wizard - much potential . . .
The CPU usage has now gone very high and the screen seems to have locked up
- ctrl + alt + backspace did not activate - so a solid freeze . . .
(I will be blaming bugman as per usual) Wink

I hope the controversial slickpet feature is developed further.
I say controversial because some will not appreciate the necessity
for Puppy to be connected.
Check for yourself.

Just a small point on the slickpet menu - last one about sfs-experimental
(not sfs-experimantal (that spelling is in the latest Lucid too)
tips on spelling from moi? Oh well . . .

Smile

Puppy Slacko
Hang loose

peebee · Joined: 21 Sep 2008 Posts: 910 Location: Malvern, Worcs, UK

Hi Mick

Some feedback for you....from my HP550 laptop

- sound was muted at first until I enabled Master and PCM in retrovol full screen

- FlSynclient doesn't work for me - see screenie - so I haven't got a scroll wheel and my touchpad is too sensitive to random finger movements

- I think I may still have wifi persistence problems and not being maintained thru reboot using SNS but need to do more experimenting

- Samba via Pnethood worked great and nice and quick

Cheers
Peter

01micko · Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 7018 Location: qld

Hi peebee

Good to see the broadcom connected ok, and pnethood works too.

Try running xorgwizard to see if that cures synaptics woes. I have a compaq a little older (2008) and synaptics is ok.

HTH

Cheers

pemasu · Joined: 08 Jul 2009 Posts: 5169 Location: Finland

First impressions. Md5sum ok.
http://repository.slacky.eu/ seems to be down. Updating databases failed when trying to connect to it.
Messing with .packagges files caused that PPM does not even start now. It is my success, not the problem with spup.

Boots to the desktop. Finds drivers when I noticed to add z...driver sfs, lol. Intel graphics driver configured and found. Great.
SNS works. Ath9k driver loaded automatically and connects with SNS ok.

Synaptics to work seems to need full xorg.conf.
Flsynclient configures but .flSynclient seems to be overwritten with default with every X restart.

Now first essential missing peace. No any kind gui hash checking application. Libmhash was missing also. I copied it from lucid puppy and installed gtkhash and rox right clicks.
Rox right clicks is nice additional pet which could be included. Don570 has done good work with it. It is small pet anyway.

Alsa detection and Pmusic 1.92. I have demanding hw so probably just my problem. Asoundstate not created at bootup. It looks like 10alsa script goes awol with my hw. Normal situation for me. I used my alsafix script and asoundstate created. Now pupradio plays finnish rock station just fine. Pmusic 1.92 seems to load now database without clickable choices. Loads stations ok, starts to play station but no sound. I remember I had this problem also with Pmusic version prior 1.83, 1.83 fixed the sound problem.
But as I have told, I have demanding hw.

I include my alsafix script which is just a way to have asoundstat file created, nothing fancy. I have it at /etc/init.d in my puppies.
Remove the phony .gz. It fools this great forum upload mechanism

Stripe · Posted: Mon 11 Jul 2011, 06:21 Post subject:

Hi all

booted straight to desktop on all 3 of my machines without problem

running on a multisession dvd without problems

noticed you have included pmusic 1.9.2, will give it a good test

thanks 01micko you are the man Wink

stripe

01micko · Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 7018 Location: qld

A tip Stripe.. use the "Wings" setting in Pmusic Wink

peebee · Joined: 21 Sep 2008 Posts: 910 Location: Malvern, Worcs, UK

01micko · Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 7018 Location: qld

Billtoo · Joined: 07 Apr 2009 Posts: 1496 Location: Ontario Canada

I did a manual frugal install of 310-37 and installed the devx.
I set up sound by right clicking on retrovol in the tray and doing the
configuration etc.
I setup the equalizer in the multimedia menu section.
I installed the qt473 spup pets that I made a while ago and then
downloaded and compiled umplayer.
I installed the nvidia driver using slickpet:

Mon 11 Jul 2011 Operating System: Slacko Puppy-310.37 Linux 2.6.37.6
0.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GT216 [GeForce GT 220] (rev a2)
oem: NVIDIA product: GT216 Board - 0682vb12 Chip Rev

X Server: Xorg Driver: nvidia
X.Org version: 1.9.5
dimensions: 1280x1024 pixels (342x271 millimeters)
depth of root window: 24 planes

Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E4500
Core 0: 1200 1: 1200 MHz

...the above also recorded at '/tmp/root/report-video-glx'.
# glxgears
24910 frames in 5.0 seconds = 4982.000 FPS
31395 frames in 5.0 seconds = 6279.000 FPS
31351 frames in 5.0 seconds = 6270.200 FPS

Looking good so far, will test more.

pemasu · Joined: 08 Jul 2009 Posts: 5169 Location: Finland

Flsynclient keeps the settings now for me also after rebooting and using savefile.

New wallpapers are nice.

Not yet sound from Pmusic but that is my problem, I think.

Overall, great improvements so far. Xorg works much better.

Kernel seems to behave with my usual doing. Good work !!!!

01micko · Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 7018 Location: qld

pemasu

Thanks for testing

If you look in the pequalizer code (/usr/local/pequalizer) you will see a 'first run' file. Some of the tips in there may help because we aren't using a standard alsa.conf here. I did expect some troubles Shocked

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It was designed to trap cases where if you tried to run pequalizer or pmusic and the alsaequal failed. (lack of $HOME/.alsaequal.bin should indicate this) .

Hopefully if you browse that code it can be of some use to you. I was flying blind because it worked on my 5 test boxes, only 2 had mute sound and they often have mute sound in any pup.

-

Billtoo,

I guess you noticed the nvidia driver is the full enchilada. It does run glxgears much smoother and also gives better frame rates.

The kernel source is in the second post if you want to try your ati gear.

Cheers

Billtoo · Joined: 07 Apr 2009 Posts: 1496 Location: Ontario Canada

Brown Mouse · Posted: Mon 11 Jul 2011, 08:29 Post subject:

Hi Micko

All running fine here at the moment.
Got the Nvidia driver installed fine and glxgears are spinning as they should.
No sign of any browser freeze's yet.

Great job as ever Smile

Lobster · Posted: Mon 11 Jul 2011, 10:12 Post subject:

Tasgarth · Joined: 06 Oct 2008 Posts: 197 Location: France, Besancon

Test Slacko :

1) CDRom , pfix=ram :Desktop OK -> Slickpet -> NVidia driver : OK (I only downloaded it )
2) Personalize Settings : fr, Europe/Paris; UTC Azerty; Numlock; 1600x1200;Utf-8.... : OK
But Numlock is bad (even after reboot)
3) Wizard -> Choose -> Nvidia... -> glxgears : OK.
glxgears :
45315 frames in 5.0 seconds

Slckpet : French language : OK Wink

SOUND : retrovol is bad. retrovol tray slider displays good but sound is always ... MAXI and 'config window' or 'full window' do nothing.
So all players without sound slider are bad (pmusic,pupradio streaming)

except Numlock and retrovol, everything looks good on the desktop and everything is working wonderfully.

But testing is very difficult . Here it's summer... birds are singing and girls are beautifull on the beach... Smile

Congratulations