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#121 Post by jim3630 »

upgraded 5,3,0.2>5.3.2.7 on dual p6100 hp laptop. it ran firstrun to set time zones.

auto upgraded sm version without issue.

wifi and applications settings were persistent. everything seems ok.

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#122 Post by DaveS »

Just a heads up Mick, that speed dial is also available for Firefox

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https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo ... peed-dial/
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#123 Post by 01micko »

DaveS wrote:Just a heads up Mick, that speed dial is also available for Firefox
Yeah, and FoxTab (better IMO),, and you have your home brew one for seamonkey.. but the cool thing is that you can link an image for the piccy instead of the mini screeny..

Oh and seamonkey 2.8 is released, I'll wait a day or 2 as lately they have released point bugfixes hot on the heels..
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slacko 5.3.3, back to beta2

#124 Post by Billtoo »

This is the benchmark of Seamonkey 2.8 final and Firefox 11.0 final in
this Slacko beta.
With mesa + the proprietary nvidia driver installed.
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#125 Post by gcmartin »

Started system to FirstRUN, fine. Every application I have used, fine too. Packages I've installed...FINE!

Only issue is PPM and locating some products.(I am attacting a screen of my SLACKO software installed manually.)

This is a very, very clean and fast system on a 1GB RAM 32bit 1.5GHz Mobile Laptop.. Currently, LIve media with save-sessions thus far without issues.
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WiFi

#126 Post by sszindian »

Good News...

5.3.2.7 connected with my wireless setup without a problem on my Dell P4.

rt2800usb
WPA/WPA2 increption

Linksys AE1000 (usb stick)
Belkin 300 router

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#127 Post by James C »

Jim1911 wrote: You are on the right track. Already there is a Slacko puplet version out that uses the so called 32/64 bit super kernel.

64 bit is still the wave of the future.

Need to keep the regular 32 bit since there is lots of 32 bit hardware out there.....the majority of my hardware won't run 64 bit either. But,64 bit is the other direction to go in.

-Computer-
Processor : 2x AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5200+
Memory : 3797MB (196MB used)
Operating System : Unknown distribution
User Name : root (root)
Date/Time : Thu 15 Mar 2012 12:25:20 AM CDT
-Display-
Resolution : 1440x900 pixels
OpenGL Renderer : Unknown
X11 Vendor : The X.Org Foundation
-Multimedia-
Audio Adapter : HDA-Intel - HDA NVidia

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-Version-
Kernel		: Linux 3.1.0 (x86_64)
Compiled		: #1 SMP PREEMPT Mon Jan 2 06:19:35 MST 2012
C Library		: GNU C Library version 2.13 (stable)
Default C Compiler		: Unknown
Distribution		: Unknown distribution
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# free
total used free shared buffers
Mem: 3797860 502132 3295728 0 62232
-/+ buffers: 439900 3357960
Swap: 9215996 0 9215996

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#128 Post by mavrothal »

(cough... cough...)
Those kernel headers?... Did I miss them somewhere or you are heavy on homework? :lol:
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#129 Post by 01micko »

Yeah, having troubles uploading, seems to be US related.. :?

On it's way

http://www.smokey01.com/01micko/pet_pac ... s_paeA.pet

Only ~800k, forum wouldn't upload anything :? .. oh well. half an hour to smokey, ibiblio inaccessible ..
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Congratulations

#130 Post by Volhout »

01Micko,

Installed Slacko 5.3.2.7 on SD card for my eeePC 1001HA, and I am impressed. Everything I tested works out of the box. Even Frisbee reconnect wireless after eth0 switch and back via function key F2, something I could not get with the Jemimah's puppeee 4.4RC2.

I replaced puppeee on my eeePC with Slacko now..
Only installed Chromium 18 since Seamonkey died when running the html5 test at Peacekeeper.com.

Congratulations !! This is a good puppy !

edit: one small problem after playing few hours and rebooting few times: sometimes grub4dos does not see the frugal install on the SDcard. Must be a timing issue. It gives "file not found" at the "find --set root ........sfs" line. Must be that the card filesystem is not read by the bios or by grub4dos at the moment the "find" is executed. Played with timing a bit, but that does not resolve the issue. This may be a known issue, but I fear I am unique in that I have grub4dos installed in a harddisk system and try to boot from an SD card through grub4dos's menu.lst.

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Slacko 5.3.2.7- 4G k3.1.10

#131 Post by ETP »

01micko

This is very, very good - give that man a PHD. :)

Fresh manual frugal install to fat32 USB2 flash stick. Syslinux 4.04 boot ext4 save-file.
Initial boot to desktop with working sound , wired Ethernet & nouveau driver @ 1280 x 1024 with no right or left shift.
Pets as shown in screen-shots were installed. The combination of nouveau & mesa seems to obviate the need to compile the proprietary Nvidia driver. Chromium, to my surprise installed only requiring some MS fonts for optimum visuals.
Fontwizard also installed and I was able to run it from the console.
The real wins here are:
1. The ability to save as ext4 which is much faster than ext2/ext3. (save interval set to zero)
2. The option not to save when shutting down. This should be de facto for all puppies particularly in the absence of recursive dependency checking.

Thanks must also go to shinobar & radky for their major contributions.

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T22

#132 Post by sszindian »

5.3.2.7

Final test on an old T22 IBM Thinkpad (Noteboo0k) running 512MB RAM, 15-inch screen.

Everything loaded fine, screen resolution, eth0 (Internet - with Seamonkey browser 2-7-2 and pretty fast for an old box), sound... all found automatically!

Running just great, posting from it now.

Everything including all programs tested appear to be working just super.

Looks like this Slacko 5,3,2,7 is a very nice program for older computers.

Again... nice work mic!

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#133 Post by mavrothal »

Mick,
let me join the chorus. 5.3.2.7 is really good
I was impressed with the smooth video playback on the XO-1. Best I've ever seen on this machine even at full screen.

Even updated an old savefile from 5.3.2.3 without issues.
Though, I'm not sure if it is intentional, it went through the update without asking at boot time and still welcomed me for "first time running puppy" (but not with the pupmode5 screen).
Is obviously not a problem, just a bit strange. Maybe is the "XOfication"... :D

Is a good one anyway. Wait few days to see, and call it 5.3.3!
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#134 Post by playdayz »

Personalize Settings in 5.3.2.7 gave the video as vesa again, instead of what it actually was (radeon).

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Lupufy Slacko 005 for Slacko 5.3.3 Testing in 5.3.2.7

Omits PupControl which is now included in Slacko 5.3.3
Updates Pupclockset to 1.9
I still need to update Bacon Recorder
Anything else?

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#135 Post by 01micko »

playdatz

Yes, I saw the 'vesa' report on my radeon lappy too in firstrun, I'll consult with shinobar on that one.

Try "report-video", even with the shortened xorg,conf it should report correctly in over 99% of cases.

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OK, everyone.. there are 2 other known bugs I want fixed.

1. The program insertion to tray in JWM.

Some users report that it baulks the entire tray, this is an old bug first reported by mikeslr but I have seen other reports on the forum in various puppies.

Possible solution: Use a "while read LINE; do" loop instead of sed.

2. 1 finger tapping with synaptics touchpad

This works in Lupu so there's a clue, however 2 finger scrolling in Lupu fails for me whereas it works in Slacko.

Possible solution: Do a diff from Lupu xorg.conf to Slacko and add the missing entry to xorgwizard and xorgwizard-automatic.

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Other things to do are add icewm to the repo, fix a couple of small bugs with compiz, compile new seamonkey and firefox, update the chromium package. Also need a virtual box package for the repo, I may ask TheAsterisk!*.


playdayz.. are you using Iguleder's patch library for chrome based browsers for the root bug? I did with Iron but not for Google-Chrome. However both seem stable for me.
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Re: Congratulations

#136 Post by 01micko »

Volhout wrote: edit: one small problem after playing few hours and rebooting few times: sometimes grub4dos does not see the frugal install on the SDcard. Must be a timing issue. It gives "file not found" at the "find --set root ........sfs" line. Must be that the card filesystem is not read by the bios or by grub4dos at the moment the "find" is executed. Played with timing a bit, but that does not resolve the issue. This may be a known issue, but I fear I am unique in that I have grub4dos installed in a harddisk system and try to boot from an SD card through grub4dos's menu.lst.
You can set the actual pdev1 parameter on your kernel line, this may solve your issue.
For example, if you have a save on sdd1 you'd add this to your kernel line:

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pdev1=sdd1
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#137 Post by Jasper »

Hi 01micko,

I am really very sorry to fail you, but I have been unable to do a single worthwhile test on 5.2.3.7 and after almost four hours I've given up.

The problems are with my equipment. Despite recent problems with both my ancient internal hard drives I have eventually decided that my current problem is in burning an error free CD-R or DVD+RW (even though the MD5 checks).

From my point of view my/your 5.3.1 DVD boot and USB stick are still working perfectly; it's very fast on my old desktop, ideally stable and a total saviour.

My regards and thanks

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slacko 5.3.3, back to beta2

#138 Post by Billtoo »

I've been using my 4gb flash drive install on several computers, 3
with nvidia graphics and my laptop with ati graphics.
The computers with nvidia graphics just needed to rerun xorgwizard and
choose the nvidia driver and the correct resolution (the proprietary
nvidia driver was installed on pc1), also run the network wizard.
On my laptop it booted straight to the desktop and was using the vesa
driver, I downloaded the amd-driver-installer-12-2-x86.x86_64.run and
installed it.I had to run the network wizard to setup the wireless
connection.
It's working very well, amazing what you can get on a 4 gb flash
drive, 2 gb save file and the rest to store sfs files etc.

Thu 15 Mar 2012 Operating System:Slacko Puppy-5.3.2.7p Linux 3.1.10-slacko_paeA
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: # vesa
X.Org version: 1.9.5
dimensions: 1600x900 pixels (423x238 millimeters)
depth of root window: 24 planes

direct rendering: Yes
server glx vendor string: ATI
server glx version string: 1.4
OpenGL vendor string: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5400 Series
OpenGL version string: 4.2.11554 Compatibility Profile Context

# glxgears
26447 frames in 5.0 seconds = 5289.242 FPS
26838 frames in 5.0 seconds = 5367.427 FPS
26729 frames in 5.0 seconds = 5345.690 FPS

Intel(R) Core(TM) i5 CPU M 430
Core 0: 1733 1: 1733 2: 1733 3: 1733 MHz

Network controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR928X Wireless
Network Adapter (PCI-Express) (rev 01)
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SD card boot

#139 Post by shinobar »

Volhout wrote:sometimes grub4dos does not see the frugal install on the SDcard. Must be a timing issue. It gives "file not found" at the "find --set root ........sfs" line.
The grub4dos have seen the menu.lst and then do the "find --set root".
Where is your menu.lst, on the SDcard or on another drive?
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grub4dos

#140 Post by Volhout »

shinobar,

the harddisk has 3 partitions: sda1 (ntfs, win XP), sda2 (ntfs, data), sda3 (ext4, lubuntu 11.10). Then I have an SD card slot that registers as a USB drive (sdb1, Slacko).

menu.lst is on sda1. I think that is where grub4dos default puts it (logical choice, since if you remove the SD card, the system can still boot).
The problem is that after I make the selection in the blue screen (so menu.lst is found) I get this error (command line, not a popup).

The problem does not happen when I boot winXP or Lubuntu from the harddrive, so it must have something to do with the card/usb.
The problem is a bit intermittent. Yesterday evening I had 4 or 5 times perfect booting, and the 6'th time I had the problem.

Do you think it may be card related (faster SD card ?), this card is type 6. I may have some "type 10" card laying around, and give that a try later.

Thank you for trying to diagnose this....

Volhout

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