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[01micko]

It's all announced here

Please report anything here

New Slacko homepage


NEWS gtkdialog update .. see bottom of this post.
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There are a list of known issues on the above linked homepage

Other fixes

- update PPM to fix Bibletime deps
- Fix here for PPM bug
- (critical) aufs-util bugfix, particularly for developers aufs-utils-3.pet
- for possible fixes for synaptics touch pads see HERE (thanks to npierce)

-IMPORTANT I will no longer compiling seamonkey and firefox packages. Slackware itself does a fine job of this and keeps them updated. I have enabled a new repo called "patches" which contains all the latest Slackware security updates and all are compatible with any slacko from 530 to 533. SEE ATTACHMENT.

INSTRUCTIONS:

1. Open Puppy Package Manager (aka PPM, petget)
2. Open the configuration window (spanner, wrench, screwdriver icon, top left, you will see the tooltip if you hover the cursor)
3. from the left side select "Update Now" button to update the PPM databases. You can update all if you like but the important one is "patches" from Slackware, you only NEED that one.
4. Once this is done close PPM
5. Open PPM again and choose to configure again
6. Now, from the right pane make sure the "slackware-13.37-patches" repo checkbox is set.
7. close and restart PPM to refresh
8. select patches radio button and search for seamonkey, firefox, whatever you can find that you want to update, there is not a lot, mainly critical stuff only.

It is a known issue that things such as seamonkey and firefox will turn up in the network menu instead of internet with slackware packages. Fix pending.

NOTE: the attached package is NOT fully compatible with FATSlacko, however it won't do any harm, just likey list depends that you already have.

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To complement the "patches" repo I have developed an "updates manager" that handles the updates specifically. It includes Seamonkey and Firefox updates to the latest versions which will be updated for another year or so (circa Oct 2013) upstream. This will be included in future versions.

Update 16/01/2013: Updates manager works nicely . Just updated to seamonkey-2.15
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16/01/2013

gtkdialog-0.8.4 (0.8.3) update by Thunor

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[James C]

Looking good here so far on my Athlon XP machine.

[nooby]

I don't know about other total noobs but this Nooby noob
he failed to get which of the versions he was supposed to dl.

slacko-5.3.3-4g-SCSI.iso
or
slacko-5.3.3-highmem-PAE-SCSI.iso

I only have 1GB so that is not high mem.
So I took the first one. Still only 38% downloaded.
So really popular the server seems overloaded

[James C]

Someone asked about the kernel sources in the announcement thread, is this correct for the non-pae version?
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/puppylinux/pet_packages-slacko/kernel_sources-3.1.10-patched_s_4gA.sfs

and the PAE?
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/puppylinux/pet_packages-slacko/kernel_sources-3.1.10-patched_s_paeA.sfs

[James C]

Already announced on Distrowatch....

[01micko]

Kernel source links look correct to me James.. as well as the links in Slickpet

However i added a page to the main download folder to avoid any confusion:

http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/puppylinux/puppy-5.3.3/Slacko_Kernel_Sources.html

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Ladislav is on the ball today

[Billtoo]

Manual frugal install to an 8gb flash drive.

Slacko Puppy, version 5.3.3 on Sat 5 May 2012

Chip description:
2.0 VGA compatible controller
Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 1
oem: Intel(R)Ironlake Desktop Graphics Chipset Accelerated VGA BIOS
product: Intel(R)Ironlake Desktop Graphics Controller Hardware Version 0.0

X Server: Xorg
Driver used: intel

X.Org version: 1.9.5
dimensions: 1280x1024 pixels (338x270 millimeters)
depth of root window: 24 planes

# glxgears
Running synchronized to the vertical refresh. The framerate should be
approximately the same as the monitor refresh rate.
302 frames in 5.0 seconds = 60.329 FPS
301 frames in 5.0 seconds = 60.017 FPS
301 frames in 5.0 seconds = 60.018 FPS

Memory 6091MB (185MB used)

The only problem so far is that I had to clean /etc/profile.d of csh
files after installing kdegames from ppm.

Otherwise, great job!

The NLUUG mirror is very fast for downloading.

[nooby]

First boot without save file works very well but all the reboots
after creating savefile fails.

It start all over not being able to use the savefile.
Icons show _ in triangle How do I get them back?
No wall pater background is shown.

Do I use wrong code?

title Slacko 533 4g Puppy Linux
kernel (hd0,1)/slacko-533/vmlinuz PMEDIA=idehd PDEV1=sda2 psubdir=slacko-533
initrd (hd0,1)/slacko-533/initrd.gz

Should I have PMEDIA=satahd maybe

Seamonkey lack the scrollbar to the far right.

[rcrsn51]

[drblock2]

I did a frugal install of Slacko 5.3.3 on my AMD Athlon 2400 with nVidia GeForce FX 5200 graphics card.

I did a fresh installation with mixed results. Sound and internet connection just fine, But, no menus, neither with the tray-bar icon or right click on the desktop. Also problems with icons: Setup and Slickpet were cut off at the bottom. The bottom half appeared when the icon was dragged to a new position on the desktop, but the change was not permanent. In addition, the drive icons disappeared (as I discovered) behind the tray bar.

These problems were not present in Slacko 5.3.2.7, but they were evident in Slacko 5.3.2.9. I was about to send in a bug report . . . . Sorry, I should have reacted sooner .

I ported my 5.3.2.7 save file to 5.3.2.9 - which solved the problem there. Porting the save file from 5.3.2.9 to 5.3.3 once again does the trick. Everything works fine.

Interestingly, glxgears reports ca. 2050 fps as compared to 3040 fps with 5.3.2.9. (using the proprietary driver). Not a problem. Slacko is super.

[lezzloco]

[nooby]

Thanks to

[Billtoo]

Manual frugal install to an 8gb flash drive.

Slacko Puppy, version 5.3.3 on Sat 5 May 2012

Chip description:
0.0 VGA compatible controller
nVidia Corporation GT216 [GeForce GT 220] (rev a2)
oem: NVIDIA
product: GT216 Board - 0682vb12 Chip Rev

X Server: Xorg
Driver used: nvidia

X.Org version: 1.9.5
dimensions: 1440x900 pixels (411x263 millimeters)
depth of root window: 24 planes

# glxgears
31874 frames in 5.0 seconds = 6374.672 FPS
31857 frames in 5.0 seconds = 6371.306 FPS
31928 frames in 5.0 seconds = 6385.544 FPS

Processor 2x Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E4500 @ 2.20GHz
Memory 3114MB (137MB used)

Had to clean csh files from /etc/profile.d after installing kdegames
from ppm.

There is a new Nvidia proprietary drive that just came out today I
think.

[Jim1911]

Outstanding!

One minor problem. The Bibletime pet included in the PPM does not install the required QT dependency. QT has to be selected separately.

Thanks,
Jim

[James C]

Slacko 5.3.3 live cd, savefile on usb flash drive. No apparent difficulties... everything looking good.


# report-video
nouveau
Slacko Puppy, version 5.3.3 on Sat 5 May 2012

Chip description:
d.0 VGA compatible controller
nVidia Corporation C61 [GeForce 7025 / nForce 630a] (rev a2)
oem: NVIDIA
product: MCP61 - mcp61-86 Chip Rev

X Server: Xorg
Driver used: nouveau

X.Org version: 1.9.5
dimensions: 1366x768 pixels (361x203 millimeters)
depth of root window: 24 planes

...the above also recorded in /tmp/root/ as report-video,
and archived with xorg.conf and Xorg.0.log as report-video-full.gz
#
-Computer-
Processor : 4x AMD Athlon(tm) II X4 620 Processor
Memory : 2854MB (159MB used)
Operating System : Unknown distribution
User Name : root (root)
Date/Time : Sat 05 May 2012 02:47:15 PM CDT
-Display-
Resolution : 1366x768 pixels
OpenGL Renderer : Unknown
X11 Vendor : The X.Org Foundation
-Multimedia-
Audio Adapter : HDA-Intel - HDA NVidia

-Version-
Kernel : Linux 3.1.10-slacko_4gA (i686)
Compiled : #1 SMP Tue Mar 13 14:58:11 EST 2012
C Library : GNU C Library version 2.13 (stable)
Default C Compiler : Unknown
Distribution : Unknown distribution