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majorfoo · Joined: 07 Mar 2011 Posts: 449 Location: Wish I knew

Full Install of Slacko RC 5.29.5
ext4 partition
Everything that I have tried works OTB
Very fast boot
No problems to report

majorfoo

aarf · Joined: 30 Aug 2007 Posts: 3613 Location: around the bend

Slacko RC++ (112 MB )http://www.brainwavedesigncentral.net/micko01/stuff/puppy/spup/RC/slacko-5.29.6-SCSI.iso
http://www.brainwavedesigncentral.net/micko01/stuff/puppy/spup/RC/slacko-5.29.6-SCSI.iso.md5.txt check ok.

slacko-4.99.7.iso___slacko-5.29.6-SCSI.iso.delta is 100+MB so am not going to post it.

manual frugal.
need to self manual start firewall if choosing frisbee on startup. connected and posting in pre-installed portable opera-next.

mavrothal · Joined: 24 Aug 2009 Posts: 2964

That is ridiculous, after updating to RC I do not have anything co complain about Laughing

Oh wait,... I do. Actually is an old issue. Probably a woof issue.
The update script does not check for sfs compatibility (devx) , or calls the boot manager after an update.
The old devx is loaded for example, even if it is not compatible.
Even worse bootmanager/sfs_load show an sfs loaded even if you have deleted it!
I think that particularly now with 2 parallel Slacko versions, it may create issues down the road. Specially with the devx sfs

Latter. On other old news, settings is still prompting for an unnecessary X restart when only the timezone is changed, and frisbee is still misbehaving on the XO-1.

Even latter. Xorgwizard window is suffering from the same issue as the connection wizard in early builds before fixed. When a higher Xft.dpi is set the window is not scaling

Lobster · Posted: Sat 08 Oct 2011, 02:19 Post subject:

Hi Micko - has he gone fishing again Smile

fellow Slackers

In b5++ (as far as I remember) it told me ATI graphic acceleration was not supported or available. Now it is.
Watching movies - luvly Smile

Screen desktop fonts - 'orrible Crying or Very sad

The FPS has shot up Smile

tried changing settings
in the video xorg.conf file
I noticed that drivers for radeon and vesa were activated
disabled vesa - no difference
tried ATI crystal graphics settings - nope, can not get it Embarassed

tried xvidtune (even though it warned I might damage my graphic card and monitor)
no luck
monitor and graphic card survived Wink

Not sure what to try next? Confused

Thanks guys Cool

James C · Joined: 26 Mar 2009 Posts: 6717 Location: Kentucky

Been busy but....fresh frugal install of 5.29.5 on the regular Athlon XP box.All good so far. Smile

# glxgears
Running synchronized to the vertical refresh. The framerate should be
approximately the same as the monitor refresh rate.
29592 frames in 5.0 seconds = 5918.375 FPS
33197 frames in 5.0 seconds = 6639.258 FPS
33872 frames in 5.0 seconds = 6774.290 FPS
32364 frames in 5.0 seconds = 6472.610 FPS
33655 frames in 5.0 seconds = 6730.995 FPS
32456 frames in 5.0 seconds = 6491.091 FPS

VIDEO REPORT: Slacko Puppy, version 5.29.5

Chip description:
oem: NVidia
product: NV18 () Board Chip Rev A2

Driver used by Xorg:
nvidia

Video mode used by Xorg:
Resolution: " 1440x900 " Depth: Depth 24

...the above also recorded in /tmp/report-video
#

James C · Joined: 26 Mar 2009 Posts: 6717 Location: Kentucky

Part of the reason I was busy........ Laughing

Puppeteer · Joined: 05 Sep 2010 Posts: 35

SlackoRC (slacko-5.29.5.iso)

General Info
Fresh frugal install, AMD Athlon64 @2300 MHz, 1Gb RAM,
1900x1200 on GeForce 6600 using nv driver, Xorgwizard autodetect working

Audio
Sound is working well in Pmusic, which gives a nice clear sound without any background hiss with MP3 music playback.
MPlayer, on the other hand, has a background hiss with MP3 playback (which is not present in Three-Headed Dog).
DeaDBeeF-0.5.1 doesn't work (no sound), but works perfectly in Three-Headed Dog.
Audio on Youtube and Grooveshark are hiss-free.

The background hiss is associated with the choice of sound card. Choosing "auto" provides hiss-free playback, while choosing "ALSA-analog" (HDA0: Creative CA-0110 Analog) gives the irritating hiss (like onboard audio).
In MPlayer, I get no audio if I choose ALSA as output, but default does give audio, albeit with the hiss. Weird.

Network / Wireless
Tempestuous' extra wireless firmware for the ath9k_htc driver (which is already present by default in the kernel) is apparently not included though, as my TP-Link TL-WN821Nv3 USB dongle was not detected. See: http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=555425#555425
Installing that .pet worked, but I had to get online first to be able to access it, so having the firmware included from the get go would be great.

All in all, looking very good so far! Well done!

Icyos · Joined: 28 Jun 2011 Posts: 92 Location: UK

Hi All

Fresh Frugal install on me Lenovo A85 Desktop sweet as a nut no issues at all, have started me full seies on it on me tube so head on over and check em out, massive thanks to Micko and all who contributed to spot, hugs u all.

http://youtu.be/IEE5gCX12kQ Spot Video 5.3 Smile

Sage · Joined: 04 Oct 2005 Posts: 5370 Location: GB

Confirm SiS grief continues, regardless of driver choice - using VESA temporarily. Even Wary has no trouble with SiS.
Panel display of Woofwoof shows after X restart following locale selections but no sound emanates.
A FULL upgrade still deletes the existing GRUB file, but no specific warning is included in the verbiage about GRUB that pops up after upgrading.
Still got the right-click sr0 feature which either displays the wrong Menu menu or overlaps the 'delete sr0 icon' facility. Still no 'Mount' icon on desktop.
Otherwise rather nice and, fast.

emil · Joined: 10 Nov 2009 Posts: 630 Location: Austria

I think the download link in the first post for slacko RC++ is not working.

wuwei · Posted: Sat 08 Oct 2011, 05:58 Post subject:

Wonderful....

pupsave file used in B3, B4, B5 was updated to RC and guess what? The poweroff feature now works.

Great accomplishment Mick!

aarf · Joined: 30 Aug 2007 Posts: 3613 Location: around the bend

from http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=484726&sid=0b36c076e4b6187de1ace35b18fab8f1#484726

Lobster · Posted: Sat 08 Oct 2011, 06:11 Post subject:

chrismt · Joined: 21 Apr 2010 Posts: 255

Can someone tell me where I can get JAVA for Slacko?

How to install them?