Slacko Beta 1

A home for all kinds of Puppy related projects
Post Reply
Message
Author
User avatar
01micko
Posts: 8741
Joined: Sat 11 Oct 2008, 13:39
Location: qld
Contact:

Slacko Beta 1

#1 Post by 01micko »

Slacko Beta 1

Well it's beta time everybody.

http://brainwavedesigncentral.net/micko ... 4.99.1.iso

Code: Select all

wget -t0 -c http://brainwavedesigncentral.net/micko01/stuff/puppy/spup/testing/slacko-4.99.1.iso
for wgetters :wink: .. or drag and drop the link to a dir.. wget fires up automagically.. (an old Puppy trick :wink: )

checksum: 18b6856911f3ffbc5ece41ed9350738a slacko-4.99.1.iso


~
DEVX
http://brainwavedesigncentral.net/micko ... 4.99.1.sfs

checksum: 0933f8f86fecabcd8f68fcab93b6e605 devx_slacko_4.99.1.sfs

xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Changes:
  • *fix added for Brookdale Graphics, big thanks Charlie6, MHHP, cowboy, James
    *ffmpeg severe video bug fixed, thanks to ffmpeg developers (ffplay is included on ISO, confirmed fixed)
    *gnome-mplayer cd bug, thanks to sszindian and James C for reporting, fixed by Kevin, gnome-mplayer dev
    *Pmusic is now 1.9.4 Beta 1, thanks zigbert
    *USB booting with no HDD, fixed thanks BarryK
    *lots of woof enhancements from Barry
    *slickpet updated for move to ibiblio
    *lots of underlying stuff
    *we are now in "Official Beta". thanks to you guys and Barry :D
So what are you reading this for?

Get Slacko!

########################################

It has been asked.. "Why Slacko?"
Volhout wrote:I hope I don't offend anyone by asking a very basic question. What is Slacko ?? Your post #1 shows "it's time to test" but no reference in what Slacko is. I understand it is based on Slackware, but why use slackware ?[snip]
No offence taken by anybody I expect. :)
Well you got the bit right about using Slackware binaries/packages. They seem to work very well. I am happy if this thing runs on a P3 with 256 RAM all the way up to a modern machine. That said, it won't run on everything. There will be some hardware that fails, it is the nature of things. However we do our best to get it to run on everything.
Also, this showcases the power of woof. It also showcases that Puppy built form Slackware stuff is still Puppy. It's no more Slackware than Lupu is Ubuntu. There is a mindset out there that "Puppy is based on XXX distro" (XXX being whatever flavour bins are used at the time) which simply isn't true. It just uses those bins to take advantage of the repos. Don't think Slackware has much in the repo? Take a look in PPM :) .
Another thing.. Puppy needs to keep moving. The debian "Squeezed" derivatives made by Iguleder/pemasu/stu90 are great, advancing Puppy just as this is doing.
Ubuntu at the moment, for me at least is in the "too hard" basket. I chose to support this version.
I hope this goes some way to answering your query.
:wink:
Last edited by 01micko on Mon 22 Aug 2011, 22:36, edited 2 times in total.
Puppy Linux Blog - contact me for access

User avatar
01micko
Posts: 8741
Joined: Sat 11 Oct 2008, 13:39
Location: qld
Contact:

#2 Post by 01micko »

Fellow woofers..

You can duplicate this Beta release of Slacko with woof released today. See http://bkhome.org/blog/?viewDetailed=02413

You do need to delete Packages-puppy-slacko-official so that woof grabs the latest version. You also need the latest DISTRO_PKGS_SPECS-slackware-13.37.. attached.

Have fun!
Attachments
DISTRO_PKGS_SPECS-slackware-13.37.gz
(6.29 KiB) Downloaded 612 times
Puppy Linux Blog - contact me for access

User avatar
Lobster
Official Crustacean
Posts: 15522
Joined: Wed 04 May 2005, 06:06
Location: Paradox Realm
Contact:

#3 Post by Lobster »

checksum do not match - please check - downloaded twice got
md5sum 18b6856911f3ffbc5ece41ed9350738a
Puppy Raspup 8.2Final 8)
Puppy Links Page http://www.smokey01.com/bruceb/puppy.html :D

User avatar
01micko
Posts: 8741
Joined: Sat 11 Oct 2008, 13:39
Location: qld
Contact:

#4 Post by 01micko »

It does appear that the exact size matches in bytes Lobster. The server is telling me that the ISO is 128563200 bytes, [122M], same local.

Cheers, thanks for checking :)
Puppy Linux Blog - contact me for access

User avatar
01micko
Posts: 8741
Joined: Sat 11 Oct 2008, 13:39
Location: qld
Contact:

#5 Post by 01micko »

Lobster wrote:checksum do not match - please check - downloaded twice got
md5sum 18b6856911f3ffbc5ece41ed9350738a
checksum: 18b6856911f3ffbc5ece41ed9350738a slacko-4.99.1.iso
Lobster.. surface from the water BEFORE reading the monitor!
Puppy Linux Blog - contact me for access

User avatar
CatDude
Posts: 1563
Joined: Wed 03 Jan 2007, 17:49
Location: UK

#6 Post by CatDude »

Hi

Downloaded both files using wget,
md5sum's match what is posted my 01micko
  • 0933f8f86fecabcd8f68fcab93b6e605 devx_slacko_4.99.1.sfs
    18b6856911f3ffbc5ece41ed9350738a slacko-4.99.1.iso
Will give it a whirl later :wink:

CatDude
.
[img]http://www.smokey01.com/CatDude/.temp/sigs/acer-futile.gif[/img]

User avatar
wuwei
Posts: 800
Joined: Sat 15 Sep 2007, 11:59
Location: formerly de; now in tranquility

pppoe continued

#7 Post by wuwei »

Sorry to be the bearer of such bad news.

PPPoe is still not working right, but we might be halfway there.

Downloaded and manually installed Slacko beta 1.
This time the pppoe setup went through without this PDF print screen, Start went through in a few seconds.
The pppoe gui status window shows a correct connection, so does the Active Interface symbol bottom right.
Yet, neither FF nor SM connect to the internet. Both browsers are on /mnt/home and were started from there.
Without internet I can't, of course, load anything else.

Just wondering, what would be the next idea?
Attachments
pppoe-screen.jpg
(58.65 KiB) Downloaded 768 times

User avatar
rcrsn51
Posts: 13096
Joined: Tue 05 Sep 2006, 13:50
Location: Stratford, Ontario

Re: pppoe continued

#8 Post by rcrsn51 »

wuwei wrote:Sorry to be the bearer of such bad news.

PPPoe is still not working right, but we might be halfway there.

Downloaded and manually installed Slacko beta 1.
This time the pppoe setup went through without this PDF print screen, Start went through in a few seconds.
The pppoe gui status window shows a correct connection, so does the Active Interface symbol bottom right.
Yet, neither FF nor SM connect to the internet. Both browsers are on /mnt/home and were started from there.
Without internet I can't, of course, load anything else.

Just wondering, what would be the next idea?
So I guess that my suggestion here is no longer relevant. :wink:

User avatar
wuwei
Posts: 800
Joined: Sat 15 Sep 2007, 11:59
Location: formerly de; now in tranquility

#9 Post by wuwei »

Will try that as a next step (history -c).

Since it was a fresh pfix=ram install, I doubt that there could have been any history, yet. But will try...

User avatar
Billtoo
Posts: 3720
Joined: Tue 07 Apr 2009, 13:47
Location: Ontario Canada

Slacko Beta 1

#10 Post by Billtoo »

I did a manual frugal install.

Wed 17 Aug 2011 Operating System: Slacko Puppy-4.99.1 Linux 2.6.37.6
0.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G84 [GeForce 8600 GT] (rev a1)
oem: NVIDIA product: G84 Board - p402h00 Chip Rev

X Server: Xorg Driver: vesa
X.Org version: 1.9.5
dimensions: 1440x900 pixels (411x263 millimeters)
depth of root window: 24 planes

direct rendering: Yes
server glx vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
server glx version string: 1.4
OpenGL vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
OpenGL renderer string: GeForce 8600 GT/PCI/SSE2
OpenGL version string: 3.3.0 NVIDIA 280.13

Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q6600
Core 0: 1603 1: 1603 2: 1603 3: 1603 MHz
# glxgears
40994 frames in 5.0 seconds = 8198.727 FPS
49777 frames in 5.0 seconds = 9955.372 FPS
49746 frames in 5.0 seconds = 9949.029 FPS

Wired network and sound good on first bootup.
Attachments
spupscrn.jpg
(95.13 KiB) Downloaded 4346 times
Last edited by Billtoo on Wed 17 Aug 2011, 18:57, edited 1 time in total.

User avatar
playdayz
Posts: 3799
Joined: Fri 25 Apr 2008, 18:57

#11 Post by playdayz »

On my Radeon HD 3850 it was necessary to include the boot option

Code: Select all

radeon.modeset=0
in a frugal install appended to the menu.lst, or else it would not start X--I got some beautiful displays of colors ;-) but no X. With the option everything was fine.

I did not need to do this with the previous alpha 3 but I had had to do with with some earlier Spup's (055 I think and maybe later).

User avatar
Lobster
Official Crustacean
Posts: 15522
Joined: Wed 04 May 2005, 06:06
Location: Paradox Realm
Contact:

#12 Post by Lobster »

Lobster.. surface from the water
Me bad
Sorry
I must admit I don't usually bother checking . . .
Anyway distraction (this end) is now over and I will boot up - many thanks :)
Puppy Raspup 8.2Final 8)
Puppy Links Page http://www.smokey01.com/bruceb/puppy.html :D

User avatar
Béèm
Posts: 11763
Joined: Wed 22 Nov 2006, 00:47
Location: Brussels IBM Thinkpad R40, 256MB, 20GB, WiFi ipw2100. Frugal Lin'N'Win

#13 Post by Béèm »

Well, I can't turn my back for a couple of minutes and there is already another distro. :wink:

Installed FRUGAL Lin'N'Win
Activated my application environment.
Apart from following issues applications seel to work.

1 - libgtkspell library is missing. needed for pidgin.
2 - the battery icon is there but still white, as reported before.
Time savers:
Find packages in a snap and install using Puppy Package Manager (Menu).
[url=http://puppylinux.org/wikka/HomePage]Consult Wikka[/url]
Use peppyy's [url=http://wellminded.com/puppy/pupsearch.html]puppysearch[/url]

User avatar
Lobster
Official Crustacean
Posts: 15522
Joined: Wed 04 May 2005, 06:06
Location: Paradox Realm
Contact:

#14 Post by Lobster »

Could not get in using Xorg and reverted to VESA
tried probe and the first and last ATI drivers

The wikka is now updated and using the name Slacko
Puppy Raspup 8.2Final 8)
Puppy Links Page http://www.smokey01.com/bruceb/puppy.html :D

User avatar
MinHundHettePerro
Posts: 852
Joined: Thu 05 Feb 2009, 22:22
Location: SE

#15 Post by MinHundHettePerro »

First-boot report with the infamous BrookDale rev3

Booted up, personalised settings, clicked "yes" to restart X, personalise settings box came up again on restart of X - took the window and menu title texts with it and rippled the desktop background :shock: :shock:, see attached pic.
Rebooted, created a savefile, the personalise settings box came up again, but disappeared without further disruption upon closing. After this, it seems to work.


Deleted the savefile and went through the above procedure twice - both times it worked like it should :).

Unlucky 1st try, and lucky 2nd & 3rd :?:
Nah, rather a timing issue somewhere, never noticed /tmp/firstrun on the first booting debacle, only /tmp/firstrun.tmp, while 2nd and 3rd "lucky" shots produced both these files (don't know when, or from where, they're created).

hth :)/ MHHP
Attachments
slacko-4.99.1_first boot.jpg
(122.58 KiB) Downloaded 4476 times
[color=green]Celeron 2.8 GHz, 1 GB, i82845, many ptns, modes 12, 13
Dual Xeon 3.2 GHz, 1 GB, nvidia quadro nvs 285[/color]
Slackos & 214X, ... and Q6xx
[color=darkred]Nämen, vaf....[/color] [color=green]ln -s /dev/null MHHP[/color]

User avatar
Lobster
Official Crustacean
Posts: 15522
Joined: Wed 04 May 2005, 06:06
Location: Paradox Realm
Contact:

#16 Post by Lobster »

. . . once in with vesa
I was able to install the much better ATI driver with Slickpet 8)
Puppy Raspup 8.2Final 8)
Puppy Links Page http://www.smokey01.com/bruceb/puppy.html :D

nooby
Posts: 10369
Joined: Sun 29 Jun 2008, 19:05
Location: SwedenEurope

#17 Post by nooby »

I did a frugal install on Acer D250 10" small Netbook it has a single core Atom Intel CPU and intel chips for graphics.

I used pfix=ram to not catch any previous. But that was not a good thing because it totally failed to make 1024 x 768.

I ran it some 5 times and always failed to do 1024 x 768 only 1024 x 600.

I restarted the x several times but to no avail.

Then I gave up on using pfix=ram and moved the spup-312 pupsave file and renamed it to slackosave and that worked. Now I have 1024 x 768. It was difficult to get 1024 x 768 on spup too I had to retry the boot up several times.

In Lupu there never where these problems. What is different? :)
Last edited by nooby on Wed 17 Aug 2011, 16:50, edited 1 time in total.
I use Google Search on Puppy Forum
not an ideal solution though

Brown Mouse
Posts: 564
Joined: Tue 09 Jun 2009, 21:06

#18 Post by Brown Mouse »

No problems to report so far.
Sound and network connection present at boot.
Installed the Nvidia driver and now have glxgears working.
Added Opera,Chromium 15,Firefox Aurora and Thunderbird 3.1.9.
Will Firefox Aurora and Thunderbird be updatable at some stage?

Looking good :D

aarf

#19 Post by aarf »

ok fixed (attached)
Attachments
1.png
(1.65 KiB) Downloaded 1295 times

User avatar
Billtoo
Posts: 3720
Joined: Tue 07 Apr 2009, 13:47
Location: Ontario Canada

Slacko Beta 1

#20 Post by Billtoo »

Manual frugal install.
On first boot wired network and sound good,screen resolution good too.
# report-video
VIDEO REPORT: Slacko Puppy, version 4.99.1

Chip description:
02:00.0 Multimedia video controller: Conexant Systems, Inc. CX23885 PCI Video
and Audio Decoder (rev 04)

Driver used by Xorg:
radeon

Video mode used by Xorg:
Resolution: "1920x1080" Depth: Depth 24

Installed mesa glx in slickpet and needed to run xorgwizard again to
get back to the desktop, I got an error after running glx gears:
# glxgears
glxgears: error while loading shared libraries: libxcb-glx.so.0: cannot open
shared object file: No such file or directory
#
Rebooted creating save file and loading devx.

Increased size of save file from menu then edited pupsaveresize.txt in
/mnt/home to 4194304 to save many reboots.
Rebooted.

Used ati_fglrx-11.7-k2.6.37.6-s.pet from slickpet and exited to prompt as
instructed to do "aticonfig --initial" but entering "xwin" got a black screen
which required holding down the off button to shut down the computer.
During reboot it did fsck and I chose Ignore and got back to the desktop.

Installed report-video-glx-0.4.pet and got this output from it:

Wed 17 Aug 2011 Operating System: Slacko Puppy-4.99.1 Linux 2.6.37.6
0.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Redwood PRO [Radeon HD 5500 Series]
oem: ATI ATOMBIOS product: REDWOOD 01.00

X Server: Xorg Driver: vesa
X.Org version: 1.9.5
dimensions: 1920x1080 pixels (507x285 millimeters)
depth of root window: 24 planes

direct rendering: Yes
server glx vendor string: ATI
server glx version string: 1.4
OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: ATI Radeon HD 5570
OpenGL version string: 4.1.10907 Compatibility Profile Context

AMD Phenom(tm) II X4 810 Processor
Core 0: 2592 1: 2592 2: 2592 3: 2592 MHz

# glxgears
39526 frames in 5.0 seconds = 7905.149 FPS
42060 frames in 5.0 seconds = 8411.975 FPS
42111 frames in 5.0 seconds = 8422.112 FPS

It's working good now I think :)

Post Reply