Slacko Puppy 5.3.1

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Slacko Puppy 5.3

#221 Post by Billtoo »

I made the new 5.3.0.2 iso and did a manual frugal install with it.
I copied my 5.3 save file into the directory and it was updated on
first bootup.
I ran bootmanager and had it remove the 5.3 devx and added the renamed 5.3.0.2
devx and rebooted.

Thu 17 Nov 2011 Operating System: Slacko Puppy-5.3.0.2 Linux 2.6.39.4
5.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RS690M [Radeon X1200 Series]
oem: ATI ATOMBIOS product: RS690 01.00

X Server: Xorg Driver: radeon
X.Org version: 1.9.5
dimensions: 1280x800 pixels (338x211 millimeters)
depth of root window: 24 planes

direct rendering: Yes
server glx vendor string: SGI
server glx version string: 1.4
OpenGL vendor string: Mesa Project
OpenGL renderer string: Software Rasterizer
OpenGL version string: 2.1 Mesa 7.10.2

AMD Athlon(tm) Processor 2650e
Core 0: 1596 MHz

My desksetup template settings were lost when the save file was
updated I guess but I reran it and the settings were correct on the
next bootup.

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#222 Post by 8-bit »

01micko,
Thank you for making delta files for this update!
It saves a lot of download time and bandwidth for those with a slower internet connection as well as updating their previously downloaded ISO files.

Just as a matter of opinion, I think all updates to Puppy versions should be offered as delta files as an update offered as a pet file or a tar.gz file tends to be lost down the line and makes it hard to remember what updates one has to reinstall when installing on another computer.

There was one other update Barry had made that was to /usr/sbin/filemnt that allowed one to mount and encrypted save file directly.
Was that perchance included?

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#223 Post by nooby »

When I use Slacko 5.3 on Asus EeePC 900 then the CPU temperature
goes up the whole time.

I will make similar test using Snow Pup Lupu 513 and Puppeee 44
I use Google Search on Puppy Forum
not an ideal solution though

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#224 Post by 8-bit »

Have you installed the menu-system-CPU frequency scaling on it?
I have no experience with that PC and am curious if it is supported.
I now that I have an older Toshiba Satellite that gives me a message of the CPU frequency being fixed.
In other words, the CPU frequency cannot be changed with the scaling tool.

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#225 Post by nooby »

Good comment there 8-bit now that you remind me
was it pemasu or somebody telling one should write
something in terminal to activate it. What command
was it one should write then and should one restart
xwin and xorg after that change then maybe?
But how does that scaling works then. Is it automatically
sensing and readjusting itself or should learn about scaling
and test different values something?
My computer Asus 900 has a Celeron CPU as I get it.
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not an ideal solution though

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#226 Post by gerry »

Thinkpad T60p. I can only get one video resolution, 1680x1050. This is because this computer is using the radeon driver, but actually needs radeonhd (as far as I can find out). Any one know where to get it?

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#227 Post by 8-bit »

I just updated my frugal slacko 5.3 install to slacko 5.3.1.
The update went fine and the reboot caused no problems.

But...

I then figured I would try booting with pfix=ram and creating a encrypted save file.

What I saw that was different was that I saw the word Pausing a number of times, before it was once, and it loaded my existing pupsave file.
That is not supposed to happen when booting with a pfix=ram parameter.

I renamed my existing pupsave file so it would not be picked up and tried again with pfix=ram.

This time, it loaded like a fresh boot with no pupsave.
I set up, selected reboot, and chose to make a encrypted pupsave in my subdirectory.

I got a message that the file was being created, but no message that my settings were being saved.
Also, on rebooting, no encrypted pupsave file existed.

This is a major problem and needs verification of both not using an existing pupsave when the pfix=ram parameter is given and also the problem of a encrypted pupsave file not being created when chosen.

I do not know how much was changed with this update, but I am going back to the original slacko 5.3 main.

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#228 Post by 01micko »

gerry wrote:Thinkpad T60p. I can only get one video resolution, 1680x1050. This is because this computer is using the radeon driver, but actually needs radeonhd (as far as I can find out). Any one know where to get it?
gerry, this is direct from slackware http://slackware.cs.utah.edu/pub/slackw ... i486-2.txz

Let me know if it works
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#229 Post by bigpup »

This is a major problem and needs verification of both not using an existing pupsave when the pfix=ram parameter is given
The proper command is puppy pfix=ram
By chance the problem?
The things they do not tell you, are usually the clue to solving the problem.
When I was a kid I wanted to be older.... This is not what I expected :shock:
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#230 Post by bigpup »

gerry wrote:Thinkpad T60p. I can only get one video resolution, 1680x1050. This is because this computer is using the radeon driver, but actually needs radeonhd (as far as I can find out). Any one know where to get it?
What resolution do you want?
How are you trying to change it?
Could you run this command in the console and post its output.

xrandr
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#231 Post by 8-bit »

bigpup,
The case where you do not use puppy with the parameter is in a temporary edit of the menu.lst entry of the kernel line.
I realize that puppy pfix=ram should be used when booting from CD.

When I reverted to the original puppy_slack_5.3.sfs file and added the patch to it using SFSedit, and rebooted, all was right with the world and I could make a encrypted pupsave file with my settings saved.
As a matter of fact, that encrypted file is in use as I type this.

If you have the time and inclination, try my test for yourself.

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#232 Post by gerry »

I don't know how to post the result.

But to answer your questions:

Present resolution is 1680x1050

Range is from 1680x1050 down to 640x480

I'm trying to change it using xorgwizard. How else to do it. Never occurred to me that xorgwizard wouldn't do it. I'll have a look at xorg.conf.

I'd like to try 1280x800

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#233 Post by 01micko »

8-bit

I gather you did a cheat frugal? Did you swap the initrd.gz too? I can not reproduce your problem. I have no problem with heavy or light encryption on 3 machines.
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#234 Post by gerry »

@bigpup- Thanks for the kick- I've done it, modified /etc/X11/xorg.conf

I just assumed that if xorgwizard couldn't do it, then it was impossible.

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#235 Post by 8-bit »

01micko,
I did swap out both the initrd.gz and the slacko SFS file before booting.
But I will try it again without a pupsave in a fresh directory to make sure that the existing pupsave did not mess things up.

Edited:

It must have been the slacosave file that I already had that messed things up.
I created a new frugal install and this time, everything worked.
So I would call it a false alarm.
Sorry if I alarmed anyone.

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Slacko Puppy 5.3

#236 Post by Billtoo »

I did a manual frugal install of the 5.3.0.2 iso to my acer laptop.
I copied my 5.3.0.2 save file from my emachines laptop to the directory.
I used SNS to set up the wireless network connection.

Thu 17 Nov 2011 Operating System: Slacko Puppy-5.3.0.2 Linux 2.6.39.4
0.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Manhattan [Mobility Radeon HD 5000 Series]
oem: ATI ATOMBIOS product: PARK 01.00

X Server: Xorg Driver: radeon
X.Org version: 1.9.5
dimensions: 1600x900 pixels (423x238 millimeters)
depth of root window: 24 planes

direct rendering: Yes
server glx vendor string: SGI
server glx version string: 1.4
OpenGL vendor string: Mesa Project
OpenGL renderer string: Software Rasterizer
OpenGL version string: 2.1 Mesa 7.10.2

Intel(R) Core(TM) i5 CPU M 430
Core 0: 1199 1: 1199 2: 1199 3: 1199 MHz
# glxgears
2559 frames in 5.0 seconds = 511.772 FPS
2526 frames in 5.0 seconds = 505.118 FPS
2601 frames in 5.0 seconds = 520.079 FPS

Ethernet controller Broadcom Corporation NetLink BCM57780 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe
Network controller Atheros Communications Inc. AR928X Wireless Network Adapter

It's working well.
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#237 Post by jim3630 »

Delta patch 5.3.0.1 applied to 5.3Main then installed a frugal manually to ext4 pfix=ram on Pentium M Dell latitude D610.

mesa downloaded from slickpet. gears shows jerking halting even in small size window. although, it will play a movie. phony gz on report.

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after couple reboots gears is not as jerky. pic is small then expanded full screen.
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#238 Post by 01micko »

8-bit wrote:I just updated my frugal slacko 5.3 install to slacko 5.3.1.
The update went fine and the reboot caused no problems.

But...

I then figured I would try booting with pfix=ram and creating a encrypted save file.

What I saw that was different was that I saw the word Pausing a number of times, before it was once, and it loaded my existing pupsave file.
That is not supposed to happen when booting with a pfix=ram parameter.

I renamed my existing pupsave file so it would not be picked up and tried again with pfix=ram.

This time, it loaded like a fresh boot with no pupsave.
I set up, selected reboot, and chose to make a encrypted pupsave in my subdirectory.

I got a message that the file was being created, but no message that my settings were being saved.
Also, on rebooting, no encrypted pupsave file existed.

This is a major problem and needs verification of both not using an existing pupsave when the pfix=ram parameter is given and also the problem of a encrypted pupsave file not being created when chosen.

I do not know how much was changed with this update, but I am going back to the original slacko 5.3 main.
Ok, so this is basically sorted, but I did have a minor glitch myself, rather annoying. I upgraded a frugal on sda6. All went fine but on reboot I got the "PAUSING" messages then a list of all the slackosaves on sda6! (About 10 in my case). That's not supposed to happen. The work-around was to add pdev1=sda6 on the kernel line.

The reason it happens is that in the upgrade something gets lost in the translation, somewhere. The evidence of this is in /etc/rc.d/PUPSTATE.

The PDEV1 variable is empty..

Code: Select all

PDEV1=''
should be

Code: Select all

PDEV1='sda6'
.. also the DEV1FS var is missing. With the pdev1=sda6 on the kernel line (in menu.lst) the PDEV1 var returns.

Manually inserting the PDEV var does not work.(as I didn't think it would, the problem occurs earlier and the value is the result)

Intriguing.
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#239 Post by 01micko »

I also missed grub4dos-config update (1.7.1), will be in.

Also, the update of the internet connection wizard with the hostname box was missed, fixed.

We need some packages folks. I am onto openshot and samba (hopefully, with gcmartin's help)
Openshot 1.4 does run from the slacky repo, misses deps though, notably python, ..plus anything with a .csh extension in /etc/profile.d needs deleting, fix will be to pet up openshot and remove those in the pinstall.sh..edit, better idea, I'll patch petget to remove them.. rm -f /etc/profile.d/*.csh

We probably need some updated music apps, maybe aqualung, deadbeef , .. some one want to package blender? Anyone try gtk-recordmydesktop?.. it's in Slacky repo, needs python, which often isn't listed as a dep as it's in the devx, but probably needs python modules too, such as py-gtk, py-cairo etc, when you run it and get errors check them, they are useful :wink:

Anyone? :) (how can you resist that smiley eh?)

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#240 Post by zigbert »

01micko wrote:Shooting for 5.3.1 on Sunday/Monday
I see you got Pmusic (hopefully 2.2.2), but please also include pfilesearch 1.28 which makes Pmusic work better.


Thank you
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