Slacko 5.3.3-RC2 (5.3.2.4[0])

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#421 Post by nooby »

Testing the latest RC version. The 5323 fails to boot.
Can not find the main .sfs I go test the older one again
5321? and see if that one still boots.
Yes 5321 still boots using same computer same code
for booting.

title Slacko-5323 B5 1024x768 JWM. nolapic rootnoverify (hd0,1)
find --set-root --ignore-floppies --ignore-cd /slackorc/initrd.gz
kernel /slackorc/vmlinuz psubdir=slackorc puppy i915.modeset=1 pfix=fsck
initrd /slackorc/initrd.gz



title Slacko-5321 B5 rootnoverify (hd0,1)
find --set-root --ignore-floppies --ignore-cd /slacko5321/initrd.gz
kernel /slacko5321/vmlinuz psubdir=slacko5321 puppy i915.modeset=1 pfix=fsck
initrd /slacko5321/initrd.gz


I also tested using rootnoverify (hd0,1) could still not find the .sfs
But the old one boots using it now. What could that be causing
this failure?
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#422 Post by zigbert »

Mick
Pmusic is (hopefully) fixed.


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#423 Post by nooby »

peebee wrote:Never ever had this problem before....

Attempted to do my usual pristine, manual, frugal install of 5.3.2.3...on my ntfs formatted harddisk in my HP550 laptop

Downloaded the ISO, opened it successfully, selected the 3 files, copied them to a standard directory that has booted many many times before using grub4dos standard menu.lst....

Rebooted and got 3 * red "pausing" and then a failed to find the 5.3.2.3.sfs file....

I'll try another download of the ISO....
[edit] 2nd download - same result - won't boot... :( [/edit]

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Same problem that I have. Something or somebody has changed the .sfs?


slacko-5.3.2.3-SCSI.iso 113M, RC status

but lupu reports that it has only 108MB or 112 ... see my picture
and not 113 MB
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#424 Post by peebee »

nooby wrote:Same problem that I have. Something or somebody has changed the .sfs?
Hi Nooby

Sounds like the shared culprit between us is the ntfs harddisk....

Wonder which woof mick has used? Barry has been altering the boot files I think for his internationalisation project - could this have affected ntfs support??? Just clutching at straws.

Or it could be something to do with the new compression type being used in the k3 kernels - tz instead of gz? That might also explain the different size showing in lupu which doesn't have tz???? Again talking from little knowledge here lol.

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#425 Post by nooby »

Sorry I should have explained that I boot on NTFS too.
Maybe Mick don't have that and therefore did not notice
it failed to boot? So could be what you suggest. A change in woof.
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#426 Post by 01micko »

Here's the really strange thing, I'm using exactly the same woof and kernel as 5321.. the only thing it could possibly be is aufs-util.. will try it and boot from ntfs, oh and I did boot 5321 from ntfs :)
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#427 Post by Lobster »

booting from 5323 DVD

I had some slight mix up with the previous save file
but have deleted it now (I thought it had been copied over
during the first shutdown)

Only problem so far is the mounted CD drive opens on top of the first HD icon (near menu bar bottom left) I only have two hard drives.
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#428 Post by L18L »

bugfix for jwm_param_gui:

download from
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... &start=101

save as or rename to
/usr/bin/jwm_param_gui

make executable

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chmod +x /usr/bin/jwm_param_gui
start it

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jwm_param_gui
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#429 Post by 01micko »

Ok, thanks L18L, just made it in.. I am brewing the next now.

ntfs-3g was the wrong one in the initrd.gz, my mistake. (note to self, if you document something, READ it!)
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#430 Post by nooby »

01micko wrote:Ok, thanks L18L, just made it in.. I am brewing the next now.

ntfs-3g was the wrong one in the initrd.gz, my mistake. (note to self, if you document something, READ it!)
So when do you upload the corrected version then? No hurry
but would be cool to know in case I get motivated again to test :)
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#431 Post by 01micko »

nooby,

Within the half hour I will upload, but it will take awhile to get there, so maybe 2- to 3- hours.

I'll be sleeping by then but I'll make an announce when I start the upload.. the rest will rely on patience :)

BTW, ntfs-3g works, posting from an ntfs frugal now...
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#432 Post by mavrothal »

I would say that scree capture and everything else works fine with 5.3.2.3 so far :lol:
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#433 Post by nooby »

01micko wrote:nooby,

Within the half hour I will upload, but it will take awhile to get there, so maybe 2- to 3- hours.

I'll be sleeping by then but I'll make an announce when I start the upload.. the rest will rely on patience :)

BTW, ntfs-3g works, posting from an ntfs frugal now...
Thanks. No hurry. So what was it that failed for us two then?

I am dense and confused again sorry.

I test it tomorrow or late Sunday local time
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Slacko 5.3.3-RC (5.3.2.4)

#434 Post by Billtoo »

I booted the live dvd and ran gparted, did some partition
shrinking/adding and then did a full install.
I got mesa and the nvidia driver from slickpet.
I installed an sfs and a couple of pets.

Sun 19 Feb 2012 Operating System:Slacko Puppy-5.3.2.40 Linux 3.1.10-slacko_pae
0.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation ION VGA (rev b1)
oem: NVIDIA product: MCP79 Board - hornet-0 Chip Rev

X Server: Xorg Driver: nvidia
X.Org version: 1.9.5
dimensions: 1920x1080 pixels (524x292 millimeters)
depth of root window: 24 planes

direct rendering: Yes
server glx vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
server glx version string: 1.4
OpenGL vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
OpenGL renderer string: ION/PCI/SSE2
OpenGL version string: 3.3.0 NVIDIA 290.10

Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU 330
Core 0: 1600 1: 1600 2: 1600 3: 1600 MHz

# glxgears
8158 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1631.600 FPS
9481 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1896.200 FPS
9534 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1906.800 FPS

It's working great so far :)
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Re: Slacko 5.3.3-RC (5.3.2.3)

#435 Post by Jades »

01micko wrote:RC2 5.3.2.4 Is Here .. both the normal and the PAE [and checksums]
At the time of typing, the version that link leads to seems to be 5.3.2.3 - upgrade from 5.3.2.1 seems to have gone smoothly for me so far.
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#436 Post by peebee »

Jades wrote:At the time of typing, the version that link leads to seems to be 5.3.2.3 - upgrade from 5.3.2.1 seems to have gone smoothly for me so far.
Mick has gone to bed....you just need to navigate to the 5.3.2.4 directory...the 5.3.2.4 iso is working great here.
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#437 Post by Jades »

peebee wrote:
Jades wrote:At the time of typing, the version that link leads to seems to be 5.3.2.3 - upgrade from 5.3.2.1 seems to have gone smoothly for me so far.
Mick has gone to bed....you just need to navigate to the 5.3.2.4 directory...the 5.3.2.4 iso is working great here.
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Thanks, downloading now. Not sure why there's a 5.3.2.40 ISO as well, went for the one with 5.3.2.4 in.
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#438 Post by nooby »

Yes I saw that 40 too so I took him both but only tested the .4
and it works well. Could the 40 be the PAE thing. For very modern computers with 4GB RAM and such?
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#439 Post by mavrothal »

Mick,
what's the trick with 5.3.2.3 and flash? Just falls back to gecko media player? Gnash? Other?
I ask because on the XO-1 is almost in par with the original flash (eg non-watchable..) but on the XO-1.5 is visibly worse than flash :?
Back on the flash-9 time, similar(?) hacks on the XO-1 where considerably better than flash.
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#440 Post by 01micko »

Thanks guys, link to rc2 in main post is fixed.


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mavrothal: It is pure html5, I didn't do anything. Maybe try chromium browser? On fastish machines it is better on resources than flash, my lappy in particular would get very hot with a 3 minute flash video. I notice though that chromium doesn't do the fullscreen. Seamonkey (and I presume a late model firefox) does close to fullscreen if you hit f11.

Html 5 is still in it's infancy. That said, I haven't updated some of the libs since October last year, and ffmpeg, nor do I intend to for now. Bear in mind I compile Seamonkey against those libs and mesa. Did you use mesa?

As html5 matures I'm sure it will become more efficient.

I may as well attach my Seamonkey build script.
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