Slacko Puppy 5.3.1

Please post any bugs you have found
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#201 Post by jim3630 »

thanks Mick

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#202 Post by 01micko »

Hmmmm....

getflash has been a PITA for the past few days.. but with Barry's find I managed to alter the current getflash prog and it seems to work ok. There is no ping to google, it just finds the url by parsing the flash webpage.. so if that webpage can be parsed then that's good enough to check connection! If not the loop stops.

Here it is, direct download of flashplayer.. take 3!
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#203 Post by Lobster »

Works OK for me - have added here:
http://puppylinux.org/wikka/SlackoNews

Good plan load Flash and go to Flashblock all as one option ;)
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#204 Post by chrismt »

Firefox 9 Beta or Firefox 10 Aurora

http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/channel/

Adobe Flash doesn't work

Perhaps, they are moving to HTML5 but I am not sure why. Can anyone check it out. Thanks

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#205 Post by Aitch »

chrismt....
Perhaps, they are moving to HTML5 but I am not sure why. Can anyone check it out. Thanks
correct! [And not a moment too soon, heh heh, ask Apple :wink: ]

http://internetbusinessmastermind.com/f ... from-flash

http://www.quackit.com/html/codes/html_video_codes.cfm

Aitch :)

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#206 Post by 01micko »

Well.. seems encryption is fixed in the latest woof... this was a major bug in my opinion so expect an update soon.

Posting from a heavy encrypted Slacko-save now.
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#207 Post by chrismt »

Aitch wrote:chrismt....
Perhaps, they are moving to HTML5 but I am not sure why. Can anyone check it out. Thanks
correct! [And not a moment too soon, heh heh, ask Apple :wink: ]

http://internetbusinessmastermind.com/f ... from-flash

http://www.quackit.com/html/codes/html_video_codes.cfm

Aitch :)
Thats cool but I wonder if its that easy to replace flash by all websites. Firefox 9 is too early to be flash free.

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#208 Post by chrismt »

01micko wrote:Well.. seems encryption is fixed in the latest woof... this was a major bug in my opinion so expect an update soon.

Posting from a heavy encrypted Slacko-save now.
Keeping the Faith 8)

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#209 Post by 8-bit »

01micko wrote:Well.. seems encryption is fixed in the latest woof... this was a major bug in my opinion so expect an update soon.

Posting from a heavy encrypted Slacko-save now.
I posted a temporary patch I made that works. It can be found under the Users section.
It is not needed with the latest Racy version.
But it works with Slacko if instructions in the post are followed.

It can be found here.

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Re: Xsane issue Threshold not available.

#210 Post by Béèm »

01micko wrote:
Béèm wrote:Xsane issue Threshold not available.
Having been done some testing for Peasyscan, I discovered an issue in Xsane lineart (binary) mode.

When selecting the scan mode panel, I don't have the threshold bar.
My device is epson2

I have it in Icepuppy 012 and when discussing with rsrcn51 he advised to use the libsane-epson2.so.xxx library files in /usr/lib/sane from Ice to slacko 5.3

I did so and I could use the threshold bar.

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# ls -l libsane-epson2*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     24 2011-11-10 08:17 libsane-epson2.so -> libsane-epson2.so.1.0.20
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     24 2011-11-10 08:17 libsane-epson2.so.1 -> libsane-epson2.so.1.0.20
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 162780 2011-05-26 17:18 libsane-epson2.so.1.0.20
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 160800 2011-10-24 13:39 libsane-epson2.so.1.0.21org
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     24 2011-10-24 13:32 libsane-epson2.so.1org -> libsane-epson2.so.1.0.21
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The library files ending in xxxxorg are the slacko 5.3 ones.
The others (which work) the ICE puppy 012 ones

I thought I just mention this for those who are using a epson2 backend.
Béèm

To save me downloading ice puppy can you do me the favour of tarballing the libsane-epson2.so.1.0.20 file please? I can pet it up as a z_sane_hack and it will overwrite the slacko libs in woof.

TIA.
Micko,
I have been away a lot the WE.
I added a fake .gz extension to the file, just remove it after the download.
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Re: Xsane issue Threshold not available.

#211 Post by 01micko »

Béèm wrote:
01micko wrote:
Béèm wrote:Xsane issue Threshold not available.
Having been done some testing for Peasyscan, I discovered an issue in Xsane lineart (binary) mode.

When selecting the scan mode panel, I don't have the threshold bar.
My device is epson2

I have it in Icepuppy 012 and when discussing with rsrcn51 he advised to use the libsane-epson2.so.xxx library files in /usr/lib/sane from Ice to slacko 5.3

I did so and I could use the threshold bar.

Code: Select all

# ls -l libsane-epson2*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     24 2011-11-10 08:17 libsane-epson2.so -> libsane-epson2.so.1.0.20
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     24 2011-11-10 08:17 libsane-epson2.so.1 -> libsane-epson2.so.1.0.20
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 162780 2011-05-26 17:18 libsane-epson2.so.1.0.20
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 160800 2011-10-24 13:39 libsane-epson2.so.1.0.21org
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     24 2011-10-24 13:32 libsane-epson2.so.1org -> libsane-epson2.so.1.0.21
#
The library files ending in xxxxorg are the slacko 5.3 ones.
The others (which work) the ICE puppy 012 ones

I thought I just mention this for those who are using a epson2 backend.
Béèm

To save me downloading ice puppy can you do me the favour of tarballing the libsane-epson2.so.1.0.20 file please? I can pet it up as a z_sane_hack and it will overwrite the slacko libs in woof.

TIA.
Micko,
I have been away a lot the WE.
I added a fake .gz extension to the file, just remove it after the download.
Thank you :)
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#212 Post by Gyle »

Hi, Slacko is great on DVD!
- Slacko on DVD-RW Multisession
- 2 Go slackosave.2fs file written on the DVD
- nvidia-285.05.09-k2.6.37.6-s.pet (from slickpet) managing two screens configured the TwinView way,
the laptop screen (native 1024 x 768) running 1280 x 800 mode, and LCD screen 1920 x 1080 via VGA.
- SFS-Load on-the-fly, all at once:
---devx_slacko_5.3.sfs
--- OpenOfc-3.3.0_en-US_sfs4.sfs,
--- lazarus-0.9.28.2-complete.sfs
OpenOffice and Lazarus run very fast and smoothly in ram (4 Go)
Very amazed to see lazarus compiling at first run with just a little config error message.
- Persistence of the integrity of the desktop after multiple reboots
- Persistence of the integrity of the desktop after multiple SFS files loaded
- BootFlash Puppy to USB and savesession-dvd scripts have run in a breeze
- wine-1.3.28-i486_v2.pet (from slickpet) is rock solid for my old and very trusted messagerie PocoMail, fax via PDF, Moffsoft FreeCalc a pretty calculator, and NoteTab Pro a programmable editor,
- Opera 11.52, FireFox 8.0 with FireBugs and Developper add-ons
HD just mounted and unmounted when needed for archiving.
So many thanks to 01micko and the staff,
to BK who "ads" Slacko in his blog,
and to Flash who argumented many times in the forum about running Puppy on DVD.

#report-video-glx
lun. 14 nov. 2011 Operating System: Slacko Puppy-5.3 Linux 2.6.37.6
0.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G96 [GeForce 9650M GT] (rev a1)
oem: NVIDIA product: G96 Board - 0566648a Chip Rev

X Server: Xorg Driver: vesa
X.Org version: 1.9.5
dimensions: 3200x1080 pixels (856x292 millimeters)
depth of root window: 24 planes


Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T5850
Core 0: 2167 1: 1000 MHz

...the above also recorded at '/tmp/root/report-video-glx'.
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Opera 11.52 fullscreen

#213 Post by scruffy »

Slacko 5.3 fresh frugal install.

Looks very impressive so far.....1 point to note.

Opera 11.52 full screen does not toggle correctly with F11. F11 gives fullscreen but there is no way to leave fullscreen.

This only occurs in JWM , with Openbox and Icewm it works perfectly.



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#214 Post by valer »

@Scruffy: The same thing happened to me once in Chromium. JWM is overall unimpressive and I'd like to see something better as the default, although I've heard that it has gotten much more bug-free than it used to be a while ago.

@Developers and tony: See this thread for an aufs-related bug report.

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#215 Post by 01micko »

valer wrote:@Scruffy: The same thing happened to me once in Chromium. JWM is overall unimpressive and I'd like to see something better as the default, although I've heard that it has gotten much more bug-free than it used to be a while ago.

@Developers and tony: See this thread for an aufs-related bug report.
For the next release I am sticking with JWM. Joe Wing has updated a lot recently and in the next testing verion I will release with the latest to see if those bugs are fixed.

Is this aufs bug apparent in Slacko? We use a later aufs than Lucid. To check your filesystem on pupmode=7 (using the whole stick) you would have to boot to another install somehow (either another stick or live cd) OR... if you add "pfix=fsck" to the kernel line in the sysconfig file at the root of the drive (or extlinux if you use ext2,3,4) you should be able to at least check the save filesytem every boot. (or add pfix=ram and check manually whenever you want). Note though, you wont be able to check the integrity of the drive itself using either of those methods.
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#216 Post by valer »

01micko wrote:Is this aufs bug apparent in Slacko? We use a later aufs than Lucid. To check your filesystem on pupmode=7 (using the whole stick) you would have to boot to another install somehow (either another stick or live cd) OR... if you add "pfix=fsck" to the kernel line in the sysconfig file at the root of the drive (or extlinux if you use ext2,3,4) you should be able to at least check the save filesytem every boot. (or add pfix=ram and check manually whenever you want). Note though, you wont be able to check the integrity of the drive itself using either of those methods.
Yes, I think I forgot to stress that I'm using Slacko 5.3. I don't know how often the corruption happens "spontaneously", i.e. not after a crash, and in which versions. Thanks for the pointers, I'll try it if I get in the situation again. By the way, I tried a google search with the error message that appears in /var/log/messages and every help request hit was about Puppy.

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Slacko Puppy 5.3

#217 Post by Billtoo »

I made a firefox 8.0 pet (Aurora) in spup and it's working well.
The download link is:

http://www.datafilehost.com/download-24fe0abb.html
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#218 Post by 01micko »

This is to announce a testing bugfix release only available in delta form (see link if you don't know what is or how to use delta files)

You will have to download either the slacko-MAIN or HIGHMEM-ALT iso if you don't already have it to use the delta files.

This is testing in anticipation of 5.3.1 (and perhaps for the PAE version I will name 5.3.1.1, that way you can have both without conflicts, however the later version num implies a later version, maybe not :? :?:) .. so... this is not an official release.. more or less an RC.

There are some major changes for a bugfix release. I really was in a dilemma as to whether to go with latest woof or the original 5.3 woof with bugfixes backported.. I took the easy route, at a bigger risk.

Download folder ...(includes deltas for MAIN and ALT, plus checksums)

Changes:
update pmusic -zigbert
update psync -tasmod
bugfix touchpads -xorg -woof
bugfix light and heavy encryption -woof
new firstrun "quicksetup" -woof
(shinobars first-run is more elegant/mature however the new quicksetup is
firmly entrenched in woof, bugfixes are applied -shinobar -hostname-set)
bugfix too many deps showing in PPM -me -woof
boot to desktop -woof
(this is because Barry has improved this, works on 6
out of 7 on my machines, 7th was easy to fix with xorgwizard)
improvements in flash download in /usr/sbin/delayedrun
bugfix -getflash -me, Barry
added firmware -woof
(accounts for bigger size iso)
expanded firmware -woof
bugfix complete removal of video-upgrade-wizard.desktop -me
shutdown improvements -woof
(please report if you still have usb shutdown issues, or ext4)
roll back bootmanager
bold rox pinboard labels -option in woof
bugfix sane epsom libs -Béèm

latest woof November 10
There are NO devx files posted. As NO binaries were altered the old 5.3 devx will be fine if you rename it to 5.3.0.1 or 5.3.0.2 depending on which you get, MAIN or ALT.

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#219 Post by jim3630 »

Delta patch for PAE 5.3.0.2 2.6.39.4 kernel applied. This now makes slacko the 3rd puppy to boot to correct screen
1600x900 on laptop and 1920x1080 on external monitor when have HDMI connected. Racy and 528 both do same.

frugal install to hdd ext4 pfix=ram. touchpad remains off after reboot as did prior. that is not my issue so it still does as before.
broadcom 4313 driver auto-deteced on wlan0.

Micko thanks!
hardinfo report has phony gz.

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installed mesa from slickpet. gears shows smooth seady movement ~60fps all way up to 1920x1080 on large external monitor.
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#220 Post by jim3630 »

found a project management software program that is light weight and works in 5.3.02 during my brief testing.
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=73371

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