Slacko RC2
Nvidia driver
Confirmed nvidia-glx-sdl-285.05.09-slacko.sfs works both on Slacko-RC2 and on Slacko-RC2++.
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=72405
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Re: yaf-splash and gtkdialog-splash
Thank you shinobar!shinobar wrote:The /usr/bin/gtkdialog-splash in Warry-511-01q may solve the problem.8-bit wrote:the '-font "8x16"' argument that makes yaf-splash to look for the old yaf-splash.
# 4jan11 shinobar: interprete '-font' option as like '-fontsize', never use old yaf-splash.
edit...............................
Ignore the following, /sbin/pup_event_frontend_d works as it is.
The only change then is to replace /usr/bin/gtkdialog-splash with the one shinobar supplied a few posts up.
So again, ignore the rest of this post.
That got us part way, but the line that gets the pid of yaf-splash is still wrong.
So here are the changes in /sbin/pup_event_frontend_d.
change line 522 from "YAFPID=$!" without the quotes to " YAFPID=`pidof "yaf-splash"`" ,again without the end quotes.
That one line change and the use of the "gtkdialog-splash" file shinobar so kindly provided should take care of at least having that splash message disappear when the save is complete.
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hi all
just spent 3 hours downloading the devx, then it tells me it cant download to that location please try somewhere else, no sign of the devx in temp or anywhere else on the system, anybody any idea as where it could be hiding as I dont fancy waiting another 3 hours for it to tell me the same thing
cheers
Don
just spent 3 hours downloading the devx, then it tells me it cant download to that location please try somewhere else, no sign of the devx in temp or anywhere else on the system, anybody any idea as where it could be hiding as I dont fancy waiting another 3 hours for it to tell me the same thing
cheers
Don
Hi 01micko
as posted in the rc1 thread, Alsawizard is not working! was fine in the beta's.
This has been confirmed by 4 people in puppy chat. Please check yourself.
Quite a biggy as some people need to run it to get sound.
cheers 666philb
as posted in the rc1 thread, Alsawizard is not working! was fine in the beta's.
This has been confirmed by 4 people in puppy chat. Please check yourself.
Quite a biggy as some people need to run it to get sound.
cheers 666philb
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Despite the helpful little panel that springs up warning about SiS chipset issues, neither 'Yes' + dedicated drivers nor 'No' produces an XOrg picture. VESA works, though. This continues to be the only variant, or any other distro including Slackcentral, that refuses to detect/work with the SiS Mirage chipset. There must be a simple answer somewhere? Sadly not my department to understand these matters.
Retrovol settings are half-cock: please turn everything ON by default. Notwithstanding, Woofwoof still doesn't work when I turn up the wick. I noticed that this stopped working on new Wary and reported it. Must be a Woof issue?
Confirm that ALSAWizard not working, vide supra.
Third time of asking: please can the localisation panel be cast with consistency: presently, we have US peripherals with Perth time. Is it asking too much to settle on GMT, even for an American developer! That does not make things easy for Brits if that causes mental strife for Yankies because we are on BST right now.
Retrovol settings are half-cock: please turn everything ON by default. Notwithstanding, Woofwoof still doesn't work when I turn up the wick. I noticed that this stopped working on new Wary and reported it. Must be a Woof issue?
Confirm that ALSAWizard not working, vide supra.
Third time of asking: please can the localisation panel be cast with consistency: presently, we have US peripherals with Perth time. Is it asking too much to settle on GMT, even for an American developer! That does not make things easy for Brits if that causes mental strife for Yankies because we are on BST right now.
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Slacko RC2
I did a manual frugal install to a 4gb flash drive which had been
formatted ext4,boot flag set, and grub4dos installed.
I installed devx + kernel source sfs + NVIDIA-Linux-x86-285.05.09.run
Sat 22 Oct 2011 Operating System: Slacko Puppy-5.2.97 Linux 2.6.39.4
0.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GF108 [GeForce GT 430] (rev a1)
oem: NVIDIA product: GF108 Board - 1071v0p1 Chip Rev
X Server: Xorg Driver: nvidia
X.Org version: 1.9.5
dimensions: 1920x1080 pixels (524x292 millimeters)
depth of root window: 24 planes
AMD Phenom(tm) II X6 1045T Processor
Core 0: 2699 1: 2699 2: 2699 3: 2699 4: 2699 5: 2699 MHz
Computer
Processor 6x AMD Phenom(tm) II X6 1045T Processor
Memory 8310MB (283MB used)
I had to choose vesa at a low resolution on first bootup but sound and
wired network were good.
RC2++ is working good so far.
EDIT:
I've been playing for a few hours with rc2++ and it's working well, I added wbar to it which I like.
formatted ext4,boot flag set, and grub4dos installed.
I installed devx + kernel source sfs + NVIDIA-Linux-x86-285.05.09.run
Sat 22 Oct 2011 Operating System: Slacko Puppy-5.2.97 Linux 2.6.39.4
0.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GF108 [GeForce GT 430] (rev a1)
oem: NVIDIA product: GF108 Board - 1071v0p1 Chip Rev
X Server: Xorg Driver: nvidia
X.Org version: 1.9.5
dimensions: 1920x1080 pixels (524x292 millimeters)
depth of root window: 24 planes
AMD Phenom(tm) II X6 1045T Processor
Core 0: 2699 1: 2699 2: 2699 3: 2699 4: 2699 5: 2699 MHz
Computer
Processor 6x AMD Phenom(tm) II X6 1045T Processor
Memory 8310MB (283MB used)
I had to choose vesa at a low resolution on first bootup but sound and
wired network were good.
RC2++ is working good so far.
EDIT:
I've been playing for a few hours with rc2++ and it's working well, I added wbar to it which I like.
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Bring it on!
The faster it is released, the better it is for the following releases, which will iron out all those small annoying bugs Puppy had in all its .0 versions.
I'm doing some porting work at the moment with the long-term goal of porting Puppy to any architecture, maybe I could test this on Slacko.
I'm writing build scripts for all the "common" packages and all the applications/window manager/etc' are ready - it is possible to build my latest puplet's desktop from source, on top of any wooflet that has a kernel X, GTK, CUPS, etc' - just the basics.
Now I'm improving it, so all the PET packages Puppy depends on can be built too. I have about half of all the build scripts ready, the rest are so old (they originate in Puppy 2.x) you can't build them on today's Puppy - that's something I'll have to find a way around.
This way, we can take x86_64 or ARM packages from Slackware, Debian, etc', as we did so far, but instead of relying on the x86 PET packages, all of them can be built on top of that base automatically, which means ... we'll be able to port 5.3 to ... anything.
So, it goes like this:
1) We take Slacko, the way it is.
2) We replace the string "i486" with "x86_64"
3) We build a 64-bit Slacko with 32-bit compatibility libraries
4) We build 64-bit versions of all the 32-bit packages in Slacko
5) We dump the 32-bit libraries
6) A 64-bit native Slacko64
We could also use a cross-compiler (or just build all those packages inside a 64-bit Slackware, then rebuild in Slacko).
Anyway, time for me to shut up.
Good job, 01micko - running Slacko on my NVIDIA machine and it works 100%.
The faster it is released, the better it is for the following releases, which will iron out all those small annoying bugs Puppy had in all its .0 versions.
I'm doing some porting work at the moment with the long-term goal of porting Puppy to any architecture, maybe I could test this on Slacko.
I'm writing build scripts for all the "common" packages and all the applications/window manager/etc' are ready - it is possible to build my latest puplet's desktop from source, on top of any wooflet that has a kernel X, GTK, CUPS, etc' - just the basics.
Now I'm improving it, so all the PET packages Puppy depends on can be built too. I have about half of all the build scripts ready, the rest are so old (they originate in Puppy 2.x) you can't build them on today's Puppy - that's something I'll have to find a way around.
This way, we can take x86_64 or ARM packages from Slackware, Debian, etc', as we did so far, but instead of relying on the x86 PET packages, all of them can be built on top of that base automatically, which means ... we'll be able to port 5.3 to ... anything.
So, it goes like this:
1) We take Slacko, the way it is.
2) We replace the string "i486" with "x86_64"
3) We build a 64-bit Slacko with 32-bit compatibility libraries
4) We build 64-bit versions of all the 32-bit packages in Slacko
5) We dump the 32-bit libraries
6) A 64-bit native Slacko64
We could also use a cross-compiler (or just build all those packages inside a 64-bit Slackware, then rebuild in Slacko).
Anyway, time for me to shut up.
Good job, 01micko - running Slacko on my NVIDIA machine and it works 100%.
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Re: Nvidia driver
Understanding that some run Live media (CD/DVD), what is a good recommended approach for upgrading nvidia driver so that it carries over when the session is saved to media prior to reboot? I not so sure a SFS is a solution, is it?shinobar wrote:Confirmed nvidia-glx-sdl-285.05.09-slacko.sfs works both on Slacko-RC2 and on Slacko-RC2++.
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=72405
Thanks in advance
Edit: Recommedned steps might be a better wording than recommended approach. Sorry.
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Since you are approaching "final", just a couple of details mentioned before.
Here they are all together.
1) There is not really any need to restart X at the initial setup if the only thing changed is the timezone
2) The desktop icon fonts look really bad with Xvesa(w/o or w/mesa) at any size (image). Maybe try a more vesa-friendly default font?
3) Xorgvideowizard window does not scale with fonts (image)
Little things, but we not make an even better first impression
Beyond that Slacko RC2 looks really-good on my Mac-VM, 6-year old (V4000) laptop and the XOs
Here they are all together.
1) There is not really any need to restart X at the initial setup if the only thing changed is the timezone
2) The desktop icon fonts look really bad with Xvesa(w/o or w/mesa) at any size (image). Maybe try a more vesa-friendly default font?
3) Xorgvideowizard window does not scale with fonts (image)
Little things, but we not make an even better first impression
Beyond that Slacko RC2 looks really-good on my Mac-VM, 6-year old (V4000) laptop and the XOs
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Iguwe'll be able to port 5.3 to ... anything.
Originally Slacko was going to be released in 32 bit and 64 bit
64 bit was dropped . . . maybe after release we could have a 64 bit version . . .?
Slacko ARM is also a great idea
The Raspberry Pi people are trying to find an Alpha board for Puppy
. . . the actual Raspberry Pi boards will be out soon and already we have potential developers and testers getting the hardware.
This is an important step for Puppy - it makes us very mobile and assures us a future on tomorrows energy efficient processors.
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Desktop icon templates
Hi 01micko et al,
I am not sure if it should be possible to save two or more different sets of customized desktop icon layouts, but the picture below does show a minor inconsistency.
My regards
I am not sure if it should be possible to save two or more different sets of customized desktop icon layouts, but the picture below does show a minor inconsistency.
My regards
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Hi Mick,
on Laptop with siliconmotion video:
same results on RC2 as on earlier RC;
running xorgwizard: upon "Silicon* enhancement" box, if answered <YES>, then xorgwizard stops and outputs to prompt without any comment nor message;
see also details here: running an xorgwizards earlier version (i.e. the one from 4.99.1 or wary 514) at that step drives to X working with the smi driver.
/usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/siliconmotion_drv.so (109K) seems to be an earlier version than the one (119K) proposed for Xorg 1.7.5 in a previous post.
Cheers, Charlie
on Laptop with siliconmotion video:
same results on RC2 as on earlier RC;
running xorgwizard: upon "Silicon* enhancement" box, if answered <YES>, then xorgwizard stops and outputs to prompt without any comment nor message;
see also details here: running an xorgwizards earlier version (i.e. the one from 4.99.1 or wary 514) at that step drives to X working with the smi driver.
/usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/siliconmotion_drv.so (109K) seems to be an earlier version than the one (119K) proposed for Xorg 1.7.5 in a previous post.
Cheers, Charlie
o1micko wrote:
shinobar wrote :
Thanks
No it is not necessary. The shinobar's sfs is goodTasgarth, does your card need a later driver? The 275 for pae kernel is "certified'...
shinobar wrote :
Yes your Nvidia sfs is good for Rc2 SCSI-PAE. Perhaps a little slower but I'm not sure of this statement.Confirmed nvidia-glx-sdl-285.05.09-slacko.sfs works both on Slacko-RC2 and on Slacko-RC2++.
Thanks
Hi 01micko,
Frugal installation on an ext4 partition is working great including your nvidia-280-13-k2.6.37.6-s.pet, installed via slickpet. However, I installed shinobar’s excellent pupsave config-1.9.9.pet so that a 4fs save file is created and rebooted before installing any other software, also I had to install
hplip_scan-3.11.3.pet so that my scanner is recognized. All software including extras that I’ve added is working fine. The sound volume was a little low which is corrected by changing most Retrovol default settings to maximum.
Extra applications:
Bibletime_lucid-2.7.2a.sfs Bible study
devx_slacko_5.2.97.sfs
jre-1.6.0.27.sfs
LibreOffice-3.4.3_en-US.sfs Office Suite
pupsaveconfig-1.9.9 PupSave personal storage setup
nvidia-280.13-k2.6.37.6-s Configure NVIDIA X Server Settings
hplip_scan-3.11.3 HP scanner drivers
Acrobat_Reader-9.3.3-Lucid Adobe Acrobat Reader PDF application
BibleAnaayzerl-4.1.0 Bible study
edit_sfs-2.1 Edit .sfs files
eSword-9 e-Sword
expositor-a The Expositor's Bible
get_libreoffice-0.10 Get LibreOffice download and install LibreOffice
LHP_sys_info-0.6 LHP System Information & Video Report
Pet_Maker-2.1 Utility to make a PET & SFS
pulpit-c The Pulpit Commentary
PupApps-1.5.6 PupApps launcher
PupClockset-1.6.1 PupClockset manager
PupControl-1.7.5 PupControl panel
PupShutdown-1.7.4 PupShutdown manager
PupSnap-1.6.2 PupSnap screen capture
Startmount-0.5.5 Startmount Mount drives and programs at start
theWord-3.2.1 theWord
wine-1.3.30-i486_v1 Wine Windows Program Loader
pwidgets-2.3.7 Pwidgets tiny desktop apps
firefox-aurora-7.0.1-spup Firefox Aurora Web Browser
It’s so fast and stable that I’ve moved it to the top of my Menu.lst.
Cheers,
Jim
System: BFG NVIDIA Geforce 8400 GS 512MB, Asus P6T Motherboard, Intel core i7-920 (8MB Cache, 2.66 GHz), DDR3 3GB 1333MHz ram, Pioneer DVR-2910 DVD+-RW Dual Layer Burner, Realtek ALC1200 Audio, HP Photosmart C5280 All-in-One
Frugal installation on an ext4 partition is working great including your nvidia-280-13-k2.6.37.6-s.pet, installed via slickpet. However, I installed shinobar’s excellent pupsave config-1.9.9.pet so that a 4fs save file is created and rebooted before installing any other software, also I had to install
hplip_scan-3.11.3.pet so that my scanner is recognized. All software including extras that I’ve added is working fine. The sound volume was a little low which is corrected by changing most Retrovol default settings to maximum.
Extra applications:
Bibletime_lucid-2.7.2a.sfs Bible study
devx_slacko_5.2.97.sfs
jre-1.6.0.27.sfs
LibreOffice-3.4.3_en-US.sfs Office Suite
pupsaveconfig-1.9.9 PupSave personal storage setup
nvidia-280.13-k2.6.37.6-s Configure NVIDIA X Server Settings
hplip_scan-3.11.3 HP scanner drivers
Acrobat_Reader-9.3.3-Lucid Adobe Acrobat Reader PDF application
BibleAnaayzerl-4.1.0 Bible study
edit_sfs-2.1 Edit .sfs files
eSword-9 e-Sword
expositor-a The Expositor's Bible
get_libreoffice-0.10 Get LibreOffice download and install LibreOffice
LHP_sys_info-0.6 LHP System Information & Video Report
Pet_Maker-2.1 Utility to make a PET & SFS
pulpit-c The Pulpit Commentary
PupApps-1.5.6 PupApps launcher
PupClockset-1.6.1 PupClockset manager
PupControl-1.7.5 PupControl panel
PupShutdown-1.7.4 PupShutdown manager
PupSnap-1.6.2 PupSnap screen capture
Startmount-0.5.5 Startmount Mount drives and programs at start
theWord-3.2.1 theWord
wine-1.3.30-i486_v1 Wine Windows Program Loader
pwidgets-2.3.7 Pwidgets tiny desktop apps
firefox-aurora-7.0.1-spup Firefox Aurora Web Browser
It’s so fast and stable that I’ve moved it to the top of my Menu.lst.
Cheers,
Jim
System: BFG NVIDIA Geforce 8400 GS 512MB, Asus P6T Motherboard, Intel core i7-920 (8MB Cache, 2.66 GHz), DDR3 3GB 1333MHz ram, Pioneer DVR-2910 DVD+-RW Dual Layer Burner, Realtek ALC1200 Audio, HP Photosmart C5280 All-in-One
Works great!
SlackoRC2++ (slacko-5.2.97-SCSI-PAE-HIGHMEM.iso)
System Info
Fresh frugal install (on NTFS partition)
AMD Athlon64 @2300 MHz, 1Gb RAM
GeForce 6600 @1900x1200 using nv driver, Xorgwizard autodetect working
Haven't got round to testing Nvidia blob yet though.
Audio
Sound is working well in DeaDBeef-0.51, Pmusic, and Flash (Youtube). Same problems with Mplayer as before (which I do not have in THD with the 2.6.37.6 kernel). Browsing the directories using Pmusic is a bit laggy (as previously).
Network / Wireless
My TP-Link TL-WN821Nv3 USB dongle was detected and is working, thanks to the Atheros in-kernel ath9k_htc driver, as well as the now apparently also included appropriate firmware (which is not present in the 2.6.37.6 kernel).
Software
Installed Firefox 7.01 (Aurora): works. DeaDBeef works. Also tested some portable Linux apps (from http://portablelinuxapps.org) which all worked flawlessly (e.g. Peazip 3.9, KeePassX 0.4.3).
E2fsck:ed two old .3fs files from other Puppies just for the hell of it, of course with no issues.
Looking forward to the final release!
System Info
Fresh frugal install (on NTFS partition)
AMD Athlon64 @2300 MHz, 1Gb RAM
GeForce 6600 @1900x1200 using nv driver, Xorgwizard autodetect working
Haven't got round to testing Nvidia blob yet though.
Audio
Sound is working well in DeaDBeef-0.51, Pmusic, and Flash (Youtube). Same problems with Mplayer as before (which I do not have in THD with the 2.6.37.6 kernel). Browsing the directories using Pmusic is a bit laggy (as previously).
Network / Wireless
My TP-Link TL-WN821Nv3 USB dongle was detected and is working, thanks to the Atheros in-kernel ath9k_htc driver, as well as the now apparently also included appropriate firmware (which is not present in the 2.6.37.6 kernel).
Software
Installed Firefox 7.01 (Aurora): works. DeaDBeef works. Also tested some portable Linux apps (from http://portablelinuxapps.org) which all worked flawlessly (e.g. Peazip 3.9, KeePassX 0.4.3).
E2fsck:ed two old .3fs files from other Puppies just for the hell of it, of course with no issues.
Looking forward to the final release!
Re: Nvidia driver SFS for live CD boot
gcmartin wrote:Understanding that some run Live media (CD/DVD), what is a good recommended steps for upgrading nvidia driver so that it carries over when the session is saved to media prior to reboot?
- Boot Slacko off from the live CD. At this point of time, X can start up with 'nv' driver.
- Download nvidia-glx-sdl-285.05.09-slacko.sfs to the top level of the partition or a subdirectory, say '/slacko', where you want to save the session.
http://shino.pos.to/party/bridge.cgi?puppy/opt/pup5/ - Right click the sfs and select sfs_load.
- Run xorgwizard. It may automatically take the nvidia driver.
- Reboot PC to save the session to the partition you predetermined. I recommend to change folder to say '/slacko'.
- Make a live CD with the nvidia-glx-sdl-285.05.09-slacko.sfs. You can do it editing the iso or remaster and burn it without finalization.
- Boot Slacko off from this CD.
- Load the nvidia-glx-sdl-285.05.09-slacko.sfs on the CD. You can copy the sfs to the hard disk or not.
- Reboot PC to save the session back to the CD.
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