Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

[TLM]

Hello, Thanks for Slacky. I have always liked Slackware and derivatives. Slacky is working good for me. Is there any way I can get thunar file manager? Not seeing it in any of the repos. Is there a pet?

[James C]

Been running my AntiX/ Macpup P3 tonight so Slacko 5.30 (2.6.37.6) live pfix=ram. Display and internet good on initial boot....audio was muted. Simple enough to unmute though.


VIDEO REPORT: Slacko Puppy, version 5.3

Chip description:
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82815 Chipset Graphics Controller (CGC) (rev 04)

Driver used by Xorg:
intel

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

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


-Computer-
Processor : Pentium III (Coppermine)
Memory : 512MB (172MB used)
Operating System : Unknown distribution
User Name : root (root)
Date/Time : Mon 31 Oct 2011 04:07:23 AM CDT
-Display-
Resolution : 1024x768 pixels
OpenGL Renderer : Unknown
X11 Vendor : The X.Org Foundation
-Multimedia-
Audio Adapter : ICH - Intel 82801BA-ICH2

Multimedia audio controller : Intel Corporation 82801BA/BAM AC'97 Audio Controller
Ethernet controller : 3Com Corporation 3c905C-TX/TX-M [Tornado]
VGA compatible controller : Intel Corporation 82815 Chipset Graphics Controller

# free
total used free shared buffers
Mem: 512972 496256 16716 0 68700
Swap: 1075196 0 1075196
Total: 1588168 496256 1091912
#

Appears to be working fine.

[jim3630]

[Sylvander]

@rcrsn51
Regarding this reply of yours to me:
SUCCESS!
I installed that PET within Slacko-5.3, and it fixed the problem I explained in my post here.

[DaveS]

Hi Mick... I know you said you wanted to 'test Opera to death', so here is a funny little system bug: lets say you have a script attached to a keybinding to do something, typically to launch a browser, it might look something like this:

[ICPUG]

For those having problems with Touchpad settings in flsynclient:

I found to get any decent speed of the pointer I had to set the min and max speed at maximum - With Lupu, a speed of 1.0 was perfectly OK.

Tapping problems.

In addition to having the touchpad mode ON one has to go into the tapping tab.

First set the tap time to something (225 for me)

New to Slacko:

On the top right of the tab there are settings for one finger, two finger, three finger, ...

In Slacko these are diabled.

Make sure you set the top 3 to something. Mine are set to left button, right button, center button.

Only after you do this does tapping work for me.

These settings were already there in Lupu. With Slacko they aren't and have to be made manually.

Any idea why things are different in Slacko, 01Micko? It's not very user friendly.

Edit: to correct what I originally wrote from memory.

[Jasper]

Hi 01micko et al,

Great news from here:

[rcrsn51]

[Jim1911]

[MoebusNet]

I know that glxgears is not a benchmark, but even so I notice a difference between Lucid 5.28, 3HDv2t2 & Slacko 5.3:

Lucid Puppy 5.28 w/Update 2 RC 2 & Xorg_High

sh-4.1# glxgears
1444 frames in 5.0 seconds
1473 frames in 5.0 seconds
1483 frames in 5.0 seconds
1483 frames in 5.0 seconds
1476 frames in 5.0 seconds
1474 frames in 5.0 seconds

3HDv2t2 w/ Xorg_High

sh-4.1# glxgears
1469 frames in 5.0 seconds
1479 frames in 5.0 seconds
1477 frames in 5.0 seconds
1495 frames in 5.0 seconds
1489 frames in 5.0 seconds
1488 frames in 5.0 seconds

Slacko 5.3 w/mesa-7.10.2-s

# glxgears
Running synchronized to the vertical refresh. The framerate should be
approximately the same as the monitor refresh rate.
301 frames in 5.0 seconds = 60.197 FPS
300 frames in 5.0 seconds = 59.957 FPS
300 frames in 5.0 seconds = 59.957 FPS
300 frames in 5.0 seconds = 59.957 FPS
300 frames in 5.0 seconds = 59.958 FPS
300 frames in 5.0 seconds = 59.957 FPS

Did I neglect to do something?

EDIT: corrected mesa xorg extras including gl

[James C]

Jumping into the new browser wars......

In descending order my preferences are 1.) SeaMonkey, 2.) Firefox, 3.) Opera and 4.) doesn't matter...I'll just install the one I want anyway.

[jim3630]

opera doesn't save passwords here either.

[James C]

[soundNICK]

01micko01

good news and bad news... the good news is, Ive tried both 2.95 and 3
slacko-s. Other good news is, after a huge number of packages broke
in RC, all this was apparently fixed in 3... so... with lots of other
fixes, 3 was a real improvement - in example, printing worked in 5.3
with a nice link to a how-to.

Now the less good news, which is... having loaded my standard
10 applications, which all worked after loading, these began to
break as I loaded the remainder.

Gimp stayed for the ride, as did XPaint.
Inkscape-48 died... Acrobat reader died... scribus died...
the special vlc-for-slacko worked for a while, then it too died, and
it is then I gave up(!).

While these may be non-standard apps for some people, they are a
bread and butter installation for me.

The problem seems to be [file conflicts]... while one loaded file works
fine, whichever app is installed first seems to determine what can
or cannot be installed after it... dont know if this tells you
anything useful.

my best to you

soundNICK

.

[Jim1911]