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#1 Post by 01micko »

Well .. it's 2 minutes to midnight.. ..

Slacko

(..is late again. :lol: )

Slacko RC2 124M

devx

Checksums

Mirror

[note that version numbers for smp and pae {++} are the same]

Changes
update pmusic-2.1.9 -zigbert
update slickpet-1.6.2 -update translations, latest Psip, nvidia bugs
-rodin.s, Tasgarth, swiatmar, smokey01, Lobster
-added math sfs, emil, google_earth, me
fix usb save icon bug -woof, Barry (reports by mavrothal, bigpup, ..others)
ditch gtkam (repo) add pupcamera (works good too :))
fix usb installing pets bug -shinobar, bigpup
roll back gnome-mplayer to 1.04 -Tman (..others)
added 173 nvidia driver for k2.6.39.4
added netsurf to PPM -Jades
fixed many PPM bodgy dep checks including feh, xine-ui and others
update psync-2.6 -tasmod
added translations to PPM -shinobar, rodin.s, and all the fantastic guys(gals?) that provide translations
added scanpci -8-bit (for net_setup.sh)
bugfix net_setup.sh for gtkdialog -Barry
Latest woof 111014 (against sanity !!!)

other stuff I forget
Notes

Note that the main release is k2.6.37.6.

Why? It supports the vast majority. I have only provided "++" versions with 2.6.39.4 as demand warranted. While PAE might suck, Linus' words, supporting 2 puppy releases (essentially the same but with varying degrees of HW compatibility) can suck more! I will provide "++".. later 8) .

Not much change in this release really, which is how it should be, Woof is the biggest change but as woof goes it was a conservative update from Barry, but there are a couple of critical bugfixes.

Anyway.. have fun.. and be patient if you await "++" :wink:

Cheers!
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#3 Post by 01micko »

future announcement of Slacko RC2++ (old news :wink: )

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Future is now :wink:

http://brainwavedesigncentral.net/micko ... p/RC2PLUS/

Everything for RC2++ is there

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Mirror

http://www.smokey01.com/01micko/slacko/ ... IGHMEM.iso

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Note the devx is identical except for xz compression so if you have the orig devx you can keep it and use it with ++
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#4 Post by James C »

Downloading......should have a fresh frugal install going shortly.

24 % downloaded..... :lol:

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#5 Post by James C »

Fresh frugal install ......no problems yet.
Installed the Nvidia driver, Conky ,etc. .......everything good so far.

# report-video
VIDEO REPORT: Slacko Puppy, version 5.2.97

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


# glxgears
Running synchronized to the vertical refresh. The framerate should be
approximately the same as the monitor refresh rate.
12721 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2544.172 FPS
12979 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2595.716 FPS
12638 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2527.478 FPS
12891 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2578.086 FPS
12709 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2541.697 FPS
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#6 Post by Stripe »

Hi all

Mick have you another mirror? as the link you provided is only coming down at 5-7KB/sec and firefox is estimating 7+ hours for the download :shock:

not complaining just letting you know :lol:

cheers

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#7 Post by 01micko »

hey Stripe,

If I get time I'll upload to Smokey01 too, am uploading ++ atm, a bit slow for me today too.
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#8 Post by Stripe »

Thanks mick

Don
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#9 Post by Lobster »

not complaining just letting you know
good info for micko 8)

My download was swift but I just had to unblock my sink. So there are different bottlenecks . . . :? (nice monitor lizard)

Download OK to London
did an upgrade (by mistake) - looked OK
did a pristine boot (as I meant) looking good.

Good news - the mkv file I was having problems with in both Gnome mplayer and VLC - played perfectly in the default video (mplayer)
- notice there has been a rollback . . . maybe that solved it . . .
- I have not upgraded to crystal ATI graphic driver - so it may be that.

OK time to play.

Thanks micko :)
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#10 Post by Stripe »

Hi all

Mirrors working great thanks to mick and smokey01 :lol:

cheers

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#11 Post by 8-bit »

I am back after creating a CD and booting with it.
I had a USB flash drive plugged in that contains a slackosave.2fs file on a fat partition.
I clicked on the desktop Save button at 1:45 my time. It is now 2:00 my time and the splash message at the top of the screen which says "Saving RAM to 'pup-save' file..." is still present.
I had assumed that Barry had fixed that in the newest Woof.
Also, one would assume that that message would disappear when the save was completed. But it is not happening and that splash message has predominance as it displays on top of any other window opened.

My /tmp/xerrs.log shows the following in relation to the save attempt. I am showing it for use for further debugging as to why the splash message does not disappear.
How do I check if that procedure crashed silently?
EDIT START
It has been about 30 minutes since the first save and the Auto Save has kicked in and again I have that splash that does not disappear with a repeat of the quoted text from /tmp/xerrs.log.
EDIT END
ls: cannot access /initrd/mnt/dev_save/*.sfs: No such file or directory
GLib-GIO-Message: Using the 'memory' GSettings backend. Your settings will not be saved or shared with other applications.
Merging /initrd/pup_rw onto /initrd/pup_ro1...
cp: cannot create special file `/initrd/pup_ro1/dev/log': File exists
cp: cannot create special file `/initrd/pup_ro1/dev/vcsa4': File exists
cp: cannot create special file `/initrd/pup_ro1/dev/vcs4': File exists
cp: cannot create special file `/initrd/pup_ro1/dev/tty0': File exists
cp: cannot create special file `/initrd/pup_ro1/dev/tty4': File exists
cp: cannot create special file `/initrd/pup_ro1/dev/tty3': File exists
cp: cannot create special file `/initrd/pup_ro1/dev/vcsa3': File exists
cp: cannot create special file `/initrd/pup_ro1/dev/vcs3': File exists
cp: cannot create special file `/initrd/pup_ro1/dev/tty2': File exists
cp: cannot create special file `/initrd/pup_ro1/dev/tty1': File exists
cp: cannot create special file `/initrd/pup_ro1/dev/vcsa2': File exists
cp: cannot create special file `/initrd/pup_ro1/dev/vcs2': File exists
cp: cannot create special file `/initrd/pup_ro1/dev/audio': File exists
cp: cannot create special file `/initrd/pup_ro1/dev/dsp': File exists
cp: cannot create special file `/initrd/pup_ro1/dev/usbdev1.4': File exists
cp: cannot create special file `/initrd/pup_ro1/dev/usbdev2.5': File exists
cp: cannot create special file `/initrd/pup_ro1/dev/usbdev1.6': File exists
cp: cannot create special file `/initrd/pup_ro1/dev/usbdev2.2': File exists
cp: cannot create special file `/initrd/pup_ro1/dev/usbdev2.6': File exists
cp: cannot create special file `/initrd/pup_ro1/dev/usbdev2.4': File exists
cp: cannot create special file `/initrd/pup_ro1/dev/usbdev1.1': File exists
cp: cannot create special file `/initrd/pup_ro1/dev/usbdev2.1': File exists
cp: cannot create special file `/initrd/pup_ro1/dev/bus/usb/001/004': File exists
cp: cannot create special file `/initrd/pup_ro1/dev/bus/usb/001/006': File exists
cp: cannot create special file `/initrd/pup_ro1/dev/bus/usb/001/001': File exists
cp: cannot create special file `/initrd/pup_ro1/dev/bus/usb/002/006': File exists
cp: cannot create special file `/initrd/pup_ro1/dev/bus/usb/002/002': File exists
cp: cannot create special file `/initrd/pup_ro1/dev/bus/usb/002/004': File exists
cp: cannot create special file `/initrd/pup_ro1/dev/bus/usb/002/005': File exists
cp: cannot create special file `/initrd/pup_ro1/dev/bus/usb/002/001': File exists
cp: cannot create special file `/initrd/pup_ro1/dev/usb/hiddev0': File exists
cp: cannot create special file `/initrd/pup_ro1/dev/usb/lp1': File exists
cp: cannot create special file `/initrd/pup_ro1/dev/usb/lp0': File exists
cp: cannot create special file `/initrd/pup_ro1/dev/sequencer2': File exists
cp: cannot create special file `/initrd/pup_ro1/dev/sequencer': File exists
cp: cannot create special file `/initrd/pup_ro1/dev/input/event5': File exists
cp: cannot create special file `/initrd/pup_ro1/dev/input/event4': File exists
cp: cannot create special file `/initrd/pup_ro1/dev/input/event3': File exists
cp: cannot create special file `/initrd/pup_ro1/dev/input/event2': File exists
cp: cannot create special file `/initrd/pup_ro1/dev/input/event0': File exists
cp: cannot create special file `/initrd/pup_ro1/dev/input/event1': File exists
cp: cannot create special file `/initrd/pup_ro1/dev/snd/pcmC0D2c': File exists
cp: cannot create special file `/initrd/pup_ro1/dev/snd/controlC0': File exists
cp: cannot create special file `/initrd/pup_ro1/dev/snd/pcmC0D0c': File exists
cp: cannot create special file `/initrd/pup_ro1/dev/snd/pcmC0D0p': File exists
cp: cannot create special file `/initrd/pup_ro1/dev/snd/seq': File exists
cp: cannot create special file `/initrd/pup_ro1/dev/snd/timer': File exists
cp: cannot create special file `/initrd/pup_ro1/dev/mixer': File exists
cp: cannot create special file `/initrd/pup_ro1/dev/misc/fuse': File exists
cp: cannot create special file `/initrd/pup_ro1/dev/console': File exists
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#12 Post by 8-bit »

Almost forgot! After the auto save, a system link called "yaf-splash" appeared in /tmp and it pointed to /usr/sbin/gtkdialog3.
gtkdialog3 on Slacko is a system link to gtkdialog.
Remember that Bary is using the original gtkdialog3 and gtkdialog in slacko is gtkdialog4 to him.
I do not know if a system link that points to another system link can mess things up, but I thought it was worth mentioning.

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#13 Post by 01micko »

8-bit

Is that an old save file? If so then I'm not sure your results are relevant. Please test pfix=ram. If the results persist then surely it's a bug but with an old save too much could be on the top layer.

Thanks for being onto this issue, let's hope we get it fixed.

Cheers.

Oh, just saw your "almost forgot".. that's normal :wink: There should be no incompatibilities between gtkdialog3 and 4 in slacko.. I did say "should" :wink:

appendix: I'll do some testing tomorrow as I'll have access to wifey's macbook, best way to use the macbook is boot from CD, save to usb. I already did tests on an actual usb install and the message goes away when the process is completed, that was on a eee-701SD and my P4 brookdale.
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#14 Post by 8-bit »

I think I have found the problem.
I examined /sbin/pup_event_frontend_d and in particular lines 517 to 527.
I then copied them without a call to save to the pupsave and added a short sleep line.
Evidently the program id for yaf-splash is not being got correctly because it does not get killed as intended.

Maybe one of our members can make sense of this.

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#! /bin/bash
  yaf-splash -font "8x16" -outline 0 -margin 4 -bg orange -placement top -text "Saving RAM to 'pup_save' file..." &
  YAFPID=$!
sleep 0.5  # My added line
#  sync
#  nice -n 19 /usr/sbin/snapmergepuppy

  kill $YAFPID

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#15 Post by mavrothal »

8-bit wrote:I think I have found the problem.
I examined /sbin/pup_event_frontend_d and in particular lines 517 to 527.
I then copied them without a call to save to the pupsave and added a short sleep line.
Evidently the program id for yaf-splash is not being got correctly because it does not get killed as intended.

Maybe one of our members can make sense of this.

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#! /bin/bash
  yaf-splash -font "8x16" -outline 0 -margin 4 -bg orange -placement top -text "Saving RAM to 'pup_save' file..." &
  YAFPID=$!
sleep 0.5  # My added line
#  sync
#  nice -n 19 /usr/sbin/snapmergepuppy

  kill $YAFPID
As I mentioned in the Slacko RC thread is the

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-font "8x16"
argument that makes yaf-splash to look for the old yaf-splash. This trigers a second instance of yaf-splash so the kill $YAFPID kills the first at the end of the merging but the second stays with us.
Issuing the command without '-font "8x16"' "fixes" the problem.
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yaf-splash and gtkdialog-splash

#16 Post by shinobar »

8-bit wrote:the '-font "8x16"' argument that makes yaf-splash to look for the old yaf-splash.
The /usr/bin/gtkdialog-splash in Quickset Warry-511-01q may solve the problem.
# 4jan11 shinobar: interprete '-font' option as like '-fontsize', never use old yaf-splash.
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#17 Post by Tasgarth »

Testing RC2 and RC2-SCSI-PAE:
TestI RC2 :
Good DD-Live -> azerty Fr-fr -> Nvidia nv -> pupsave -> shutdown
TestII RC2 (Nvidia driver):
Quickpet -> driver -> Nvidia > download : OK ... etc... -> but not installed
1) shutdown -> exit to prompt -> Xorgwizard : "command not found " ->
Test III :
reboot on the pupsave -> Menu -> Setup -> Xorg Video Wizard -> XorgWizard : OK... -> glxgears : OK
-------------------------------------
Tests RC2-SCSI-PAE :
CD-Live : OK -> pupsave (sda3) : OK -> reboot ..
Quickpet -> driver -> Nvidia -> download : OK but the red "failed to install "
Is it possible to get a link in order to use wget and download Nvidia driver ?
It seems to me that "275-28--K2.6.39.4s pet" is not a good driver for my card.
I tried it directly without any sucess
But Nvidia driver (RC2 Test II and III) is good. Is it the same "275-28--K2.6.39.4s pet" ?
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#18 Post by 01micko »

Haha!

ok, thanks 8-bit, mavrothal.. I get it :wink: .. Barry didn't :( .. ah well!

I never did like the wrapper for yaf-splash. I was kind of the instigator for gtkdialog-splash in an early version of quickpet, using calls to gtkdialog with a temporary gtkrc, a technique I learned of Sigmund. Mave (forum member) ran with it and created gtkdialog-splash, for which Barry made a wrapper for the original yaf-splash, mainly because yaf-splash can't handle utf-8.. my original reason for using a custom splash. Oh well.. what goes around comes around :lol:

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Re: yaf-splash and gtkdialog-splash

#19 Post by 01micko »

shinobar wrote:
8-bit wrote:the '-font "8x16"' argument that makes yaf-splash to look for the old yaf-splash.
The /usr/bin/gtkdialog-splash in Warry-511-01q may solve the problem.
# 4jan11 shinobar: interprete '-font' option as like '-fontsize', never use old yaf-splash.
Hmmm... probably will.. thanks shino
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#20 Post by 01micko »

Tasgarth wrote:Testing RC2 and RC2-SCSI-PAE:
TestI RC2 :
Good DD-Live -> azerty Fr-fr -> Nvidia nv -> pupsave -> shutdown
TestII RC2 (Nvidia driver):
Quickpet -> driver -> Nvidia > download : OK ... etc... -> but not installed
1) shutdown -> exit to prompt -> Xorgwizard : "command not found " ->
Test III :
reboot on the pupsave -> Menu -> Setup -> Xorg Video Wizard -> XorgWizard : OK... -> glxgears : OK
-------------------------------------
Tests RC2-SCSI-PAE :
CD-Live : OK -> pupsave (sda3) : OK -> reboot ..
Quickpet -> driver -> Nvidia -> download : OK but the red "failed to install "
Is it possible to get a link in order to use wget and download Nvidia driver ?
It seems to me that "275-28--K2.6.39.4s pet" is not a good driver for my card.
I tried it directly without any sucess
But Nvidia driver (RC2 Test II and III) is good. Is it the same "275-28--K2.6.39.4s pet" ?
Yeah, must be something stupid I did... it's tricky (though it shouldn't be :roll: ) with 2 kernel versions with different driver versions.

Tasgarth, does your card need a later driver? The 275 for pae kernel is "certified', where others (at the time of compile) were not. I think I'll take no notice of proprietary "certification" in the future!

Simple solution, different kernel, same driver version. (latest :wink: )
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