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PenguinPupLin · Joined: 23 Dec 2011 Posts: 126 Location: The Little Red Dot

Installed the xscreensaver-512 from the Slacko 5.3.1 repository, it said missing dependency gtkdialog. Then downloaded the gtkdialog-4.0.8.0-i486-s from PPM, yet checking dependencies still showed gtkdialog is missing.

Same for lha-114i and zoo-2.10_22 archiving utilities. I'm trying to unzip .gz file which XArchive doesn't seem to recognize, eg firstrun-1.9.6.gz

Any help appreciated.

don570 · Joined: 10 Mar 2010 Posts: 3220 Location: Ontario

The latest version of Audacity(1.3.14) worked nicely for me.
This version only works in slacko.

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=604449#604449

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PenguinPupLin · Joined: 23 Dec 2011 Posts: 126 Location: The Little Red Dot

Installed Slacko 5.3.1 for my friend's PC with Geforce FX5200 graphics card,then upgraded the nv driver to Nvidia-173 recommended by Slickpet>drivers, and glxgears was running superfast.

After that installed the xscreensavers-5.12 from PPM which also required dependencies glew-1.5.7 and mesa-7.9.2 (which i later upgraded to mesa-7.10.2-s from Slacko repo). However,this seems to break glxgears which returned "Error: couldn't get an RGB, Double-buffered visual" and glxinfo also reported "Error:couldn't find RGB GLX visual or fbconfig".

Need help resolving this issue. TIA.

Added: Also noticed running Pupclockset manager and/or JWM configuration cause the clock_analog widget (in ver 2.4.0) to disappear from the desktop

Latest:-
Solved: Glxgears problem resolved by reinstalling the Nvidia173 pet.

Disappearing clock_analog widget still there. Anybody has any idea why or how to fix it?

mark · Joined: 26 Feb 2012 Posts: 8

I just installed Slacko Puppy 5.3.1 onto an Asus Eee PC

All good so far except that after the first shutdown any further attempt at shutdown results in the window manager restarting. I was able to shut down by exiting the window manager to the command shell & using ctrl-alt-delete.

Edit: I saved changes to /dev/sda1 while shutting down.

The problem appears to be in the rc.shutdown script when it kills processes that use /initrd/pup_rw

I'm going to try racy 5.2.2 instead...

bwh1969 · Joined: 25 Oct 2010 Posts: 129 Location: Allentown, PA

I have the trinity sfs loading but when I follow steps to link libraries, I get
#ldconfig
bash: ldconfig:command not found

when I drop out of X, If I run
# startkde

I get a bunch of text referring to libGL.1.so not being found.

Aside from this, I have this running on an oddball handtop and everything works which is an amazing feat.

OQO model 02

The biggest issue is to blacklist via_agp so that wireless and usb work. To the bootloader options add

jodother · Joined: 15 Dec 2011 Posts: 8 Location: Germany

Gave slacko 5.3.1 a try on my eee pc 901. Unlike other puppys it won't open a wifi connection (neither "sophisticated" wizard which never failed before nor frisbee). After the first boot frisbee showed the first log, after the second boot the wifi device was there but it didn't launch either (see 2nd log). Hope this issue.

Hope that this issue will be fixed when my beloved Lucid Puppy runs out.

pemasu · Joined: 08 Jul 2009 Posts: 5463 Location: Finland

Seems to be rt2800pci. It needs rt2860.bin firmware. What does dmesg tells concerning rt2800pci and according firmware loading.

You could first rmmod rt2800pci and then modprobe rt2800pci and then check the content of command dmesg.
Is there problem with firmware loading.

mark · Joined: 26 Feb 2012 Posts: 8

jodother,

Wifi works on an Asus EeePC 901 using Racy puppy 5.2.2, but you've got to install the firmware and mess about with wpa_supplicant.

http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=76182&start=45

jodother · Joined: 15 Dec 2011 Posts: 8 Location: Germany

Hi pemasu and mark

thanks a lot for your hints!

First of all: I'm no linux expert, just a more or less experienced user. I downloaded the
2010_07_16_RT2860_Linux_STA_v2.4.0.0.tar.bz2
file from
http://www.ralinktech.com/en/04_support/support.php?sn=501.

I expected that in contains a .bin file or something similar but I xarchive failed to unpack it. My default Linux Mint archiver reported an error in the tar child.

So I tried to launch wpa_supplicant manualy from usr/sbin hoping that it can somehow deal with the tar.bz2 file. But that failed too.

If there is a solution please tell me as I was a schoolchild.

shinobar · Joined: 28 May 2009 Posts: 2598 Location: Japan

expert-system · Joined: 14 Mar 2012 Posts: 3

I tried searching the forum (and this topic in particular), but didn't find anything related.
I am wondering, if there is any reason why Slacko 5.3.1 has version 4.0 instead of 4.2 for mksquashfs/unsquashfs (while i.e. Racy does have 4.2).
I was trying to "unsfs" my puppy_racy_5.2.2.sfs from withing Slacko, but that was (naturally) impossible.
No big deal, just curious why. Are there any other issues with version 4.2 on Slacko 5.3.1 ?

alphamale · Joined: 28 Nov 2011 Posts: 18

slacko working well on an hp mini 210 netbook except that /dev/video0 is broken.

built in webcam works on 5.2.8 but something is wrong when on slacko.

ideas?

LeGasp · Joined: 12 Apr 2012 Posts: 1

This may have been mentioned already, but when I get on AbiWord in Slacko 5.3.1 and go to Format -> Paragraph and make the line spacing double spaced, nothing happens. I've never experienced this before with AbiWord. The other puppies don't have this issue. I'm a student and have to write papers so I never would have noticed this otherwise.

darkcity · Joined: 23 May 2010 Posts: 2435 Location: near here

it may be due to the version of AbiWord, also there is a missing library

which can be added by using libaspell15-0.60.6-10.pet
see http://puppylinux.org/wikka/AbiWord

btw, I would recommend LibreOffice if your doing a lot of wordprocessing.

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I have notice a minor bug in the PPM for Slacko - it displays slackware binaries on startup even though Puppy-Slacko is selected as the repository - even searches are within the slackware repositories. This can be fixed by click on slackware-repository selector then back on to the Puppy-Slacko option - but could lead to confusion and selection of wrong packages. Twisted Evil

Pelo

Bonjour messieurs. This distro works well, and nowadays, its rare.
Eth0 and wlan 0, both are available
Sessions are save correctly
No desktop icons which disappear
Fast connection
All that is normal. Yes. And that is what the customer wants.
I have a lot of bugs with the lucid distros.

So, after days and days visitings the puppy distos, i make my decision. I stop searching :

I vote Slacko.

Now, i am verifying if others think the same on this Forum

nice and stable