Slacko B5

[James C]

I have KDE running nicely in my full install of one of the very early slacko alphas..

Me too........

[Lobster]

OK just been running and the fishes never caught me . . .

. . . mystery of missing root save solved
the Lighthouse Sys Info file is saved in /tmp/root . . .
and I thought I was just in root as root was in the dialog box

The fishes are giggling at me again

I enclose my system details for the record

Incidentally Lighthouse is 32bit and 64bit, and complete with all the trimmings . . .
http://www.lhpup.org/index.php

[tasmod]

gcmartin,

I have jre 1.6.0.27 as an sfs which I load and it causes no problems. maybe that's the way to go. Can't be sure but I think it came from Barrys site.

The point being I have it in /mnt/home and that way whichever iso I'm using can load it.

Mick,

No real issues but I did notice a slight icon mouse 'focus' issue sometimes. i.e. click on icon on desktop and nothing happens unless I'm dead centre of icon.

[aarf]

slacko-4.99.6.iso___slacko-4.99.7.iso.delta

md5sum a57da18a74817aa31833b0568abaf1d3

Size: 8.72 MB

[Jim1911]

(I'll be away for some days as of tomorrow.. recharge the batteries before the final assault )

You need to get that recharge started.

Cheers,
Jim

[charlie6]

Hi,
last edited: summary:
Xorgwizard behaves as if something has changed in it since Slacko4.99.4 and later, that brings xorg.conf not being configured automaticaly as earlier.

All this happens here on laptop (Medion LT9399 ... Asus made) featured with siliconmotion SM720 video set, upon live-cd bootup and xorgwizard setup:
Story
X was working OK on 312.37 (except that Xkblayout keeps fixed to 'us' whatever the Personalize settings change to 'fr azerty' or 'be-latin1') as early reported in the post here:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 7d425a0cf8
That Laptop was also booting up as well with Slacko 4.99.1 and 4.99.2 but with the persisting keyboard layout problem as above.

Got a try now with Slacko B5: X or xorgwizard hangs up upon live-cd boot after manual driver type and resolution choices.

Thanks for any advice
Charlie

edited 29 sept 2011: here are further testings on that Laptop:
Since slacko 4.99.4 till 4.99.7, Xorgwizard cannot configure anymore upon live-cd boot (blackscreen after having manualy choosen the siliconmotion driver and set the display resolution even if manualy set using option 'Z'). Till B1 and B2 X does start: I meanwhile created a slackosave-B1.3fs file for further use and updating with later slacko version.

Updating Slacko from B1 or B2 slackosave file:
Slacko B5 boots up frugal on a slackosave-B1.3fs and updates it nice; but the keyboard layout problem remains: the keyboard keeps set on 'us'.

attached are some documentation files (renamed adding .gz - delete .gz to read them as text)

edited sept 30 sept 2011:
country keyboard setup hopefully solved: (do not know is this is enough ?) by editing xorg.conf and adding the missing Section Device
at the end:

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Section "InputDevice"
   Identifier  "Keyboard0"
   Driver      "kbd"
   Option      "XkbRules" "xorg"
   Option      "XkbModel" "pc102"
   Option      "XkbLayout" "be"
EndSection

Now xorg.conf looks like:

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#Special base config file used in Puppy Linux.
# **********************************************************************
# Module section -- this  section  is used to specify
# which dynamically loadable modules to load.
# **********************************************************************
#
Section "Module"
   Load "synaptics"
# This loads the DBE extension module.
    Load        "dbe"     # Double buffer extension
# This loads the miscellaneous extensions module, and disables
# initialisation of the XFree86-DGA extension within that module.
    SubSection  "extmod"
      Option    "omit xfree86-dga"   # don't initialise the DGA extension
    EndSubSection
# This loads the font modules
#    Load        "type1"
#    Load        "freetype"
# This loads xtrap extension, used by xrandr
#    Load       "xtrap"
# This loads the GLX module (if present). xorg 7.4/5 need explicit disable to disable...
    Disable    "glx" #LOADGLX
# This loads dri module (if present). 7.4 loads it by default, have to disable...
#    Load       "dri" #LOADDRI
#    Disable "dri"
EndSection
# **********************************************************************
# Files section.  This allows default font paths to be set
# **********************************************************************

Section "Files"
# Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (which are concatenated together),
# as well as specifying multiple comma-separated entries in one FontPath
# command (or a combination of both methods)
    FontPath   "/usr/share/X11/fonts/misc/"
    FontPath   "/usr/share/X11/fonts/Type1/"
    FontPath   "/usr/share/X11/fonts/TTF/"
EndSection
#
*********************************************************************
# Server flags section.
# **********************************************************************
Section "ServerFlags"
# Uncomment this to disable the <Crtl><Alt><Fn> VT switch sequence
# (where n is 1 through 12).  This allows clients to receive these key
# events.
#    Option "DontVTSwitch"
# Enables mode switching with xrandr
# There is a report that this can cause Xorg not to work on some
# video hardware, so default is commented-out...
# but i want to use it in xorgwizard so leave on...
    Option "RandR" "on"
# With this, Xorg won't talk to HAL to add evdev devices and you'll be back
# with the old Xorg behavior (pre-7.4)...
    Option "AutoAddDevices" "false"
# For no-Hal, kirk also suggests this...
#    Option "AllowMouseOpenFail" "true"
# Xorg 7.4, Ubuntu Jaunty, CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE is disabled by default...
    Option "DontZap" "false"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
   Identifier  "Keyboard0"
   Driver      "kbd"
   Option      "XkbRules" "xorg"
   Option      "XkbModel" "pc102"
   Option      "XkbLayout" "be"
EndSection

#everything past here is auto-generated by Puppy's Xorg Wizard...
#PuppyHardwareProfile=Silicon_Motion_SM720

Remainig problem: on that Laptop xorgwizard hangs up from Slacko 4.99.4 till 4.99.7 upon live-cd fresh bootup (all versions tested).

[aarf]

lost the "save file" dialog in opera-next. had to restart x before i could proceed to save.

[mavrothal]

What is this?... an intelligence test to figure out when the next beta is out?...

B5 looks really nice and works fine too.
I guess next should be an RC.

As usually VM update and SlaXO update and fresh build was smooth.
The shutdown bug is gone in the SlaXO/vfat case (without BK's change of rc.shutdown) and updating to JWM 505 had no issues.

I have a strange bug though. Frisbee works fine in the XO-1.5 but not in the XO-1 I get "failed to set ssid" and indeed /usr/lical/Frisbee/iface is empty.
I guess something is tripped by the XO-1 wifi module.
Does not appear to be the presence of the msh interface because "ignoring" if or bring it down it does not change things. dhcpd also is fine with other connection tools.
wpa_cli or supplicant maybe.(?)

The problem is also present in B4.
The original jemimah's frisbee does not have this problem in XOpup. I guess I'll check it to see how it behaves in SlaXO...
..... No it does not work

[tater]

Manual frugal install of slacko B5.

Pburn freezes at the end of burning an iso. CTRL ALT Backspace to close it.

I had the same problem in Beta 4.

[DaveS]

No problem with latest JWM. F11 bug fixed.

[pemasu]

Dave S. I remember that you opened thread somewhere about F11 bug. Could you post the solution to the end of that thread.

[DaveS]

Dave S. I remember that you opened thread somewhere about F11 bug. Could you post the solution to the end of that thread.

Done

[Jim1911]

Successfully copied DVD using Pburn in Slacko B5, first time that I've ever been able to copy a DVD without a problem.

[Jasper]

Hi 01micko et al,

A shining example of style and clarity and more useful and, to me, more pleasing than a Picasso.

JWM users could try it in seconds.

A DGmod theme pet for other Puppies would be good if anyone has the skill and the time. .

My regards

ADDED:

I see a DGmod pet is available in the jwm section @
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/dis ... es-slacko/

I have not tested if it works in Puppies other than Slacko.


FURTHER ADDED:

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I believe it used to be possible to do ascending or descending column sorts e.g. by date or by size in the pet/sfs lists after using a link such as given above. I found that extremely convenient and I wonder if it might be reinstated?

[Sage]

Is there a clever coder around at this time that could oblige us with a .pet for 'Cheese', please. Quite a nice little webcam utility that seems to detect just about everything without the grief of opening the case to find the sensor chip in the plethora of own-brand/no brand clone devices! Not sure about dependencies & co? Maybe those would make it a no-go?

[muggins]

What are the Requirements?


GNOME 3.0
GStreamer
Clutter
GNOME Video Effects
a webcam
a brain

[mave]

Hi 01micko,

I tried in a MSI VR610X notebook a min pci express wlan card RT73 (because the orginal Atheros 242 didn't work all).

Under Lupu 5.2.8 this runs good, also WPA2. In Slacko network wizard are showing the wlan-interface but scans reaches no results. Log:

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Information about this interface:
 Interface: wlan0  Driver: rt73usb  Bus: usb  MacAddress: 00:0D:F0:4A:A4:34
 Description: Ralink RT73 USB Wireless LAN driver. 
 
STEP1a: ifconfig wlan0 up
ifconfig: SIOCSIFFLAGS: Operation not possible due to RF-kill

I'm not familar with rfkill (Barry told about somewhere), maybe there is a kernel issue...

Is anybody running this card?

mave

[chrismt]

Was testing Firefox 10 nightly. Doesn't load Adobe Flash. I Googled. It not its problem. It has to do with Slacko I guess.

Can anyone check it?

Thanks in advance

[Sage]

Quote:
What are the Requirements?


GNOME 3.0
GStreamer
Clutter
GNOME Video Effects
a webcam
a brain

Yes - I saw that, too.
If it were that easy, I wouldn't have asked.

[rcrsn51]

Quite a nice little webcam utility that seems to detect just about everything without the grief of opening the case to find the sensor chip in the plethora of own-brand/no brand clone devices!

Have you run this on another Puppy?