slacko-5.6 Final - plus testing next

[gcmartin]

Your V...71 "screams" in its performance. Wow! Thanks to you in this beta.

Also setup on 1GB early P4 lappie with same phenomenal results.

[gcmartin]

Question
If I use ISOmaster to add any SFS to the ISO, then burn and boot it, will the boot-time subsystem incorporate the added SFS(s) automatically at boot, or will I need to use a subsystem to add the SFS into the system?

Thanks in advance

[Billtoo]

I gave the F2FS Installer - Flash Drives another try using a 32gb
flash drive.
I loaded the devx and kernel source sfs files using SFS Load
on-the-fly, again it took about 20 minutes for them to load and used a
good sized chunk of the free space on the drive.
After installing the ati driver and some other stuff I used the SFS
manager to download and install a couple of sfs files (audacious and
google earth) and they are about 1/10th the size of the devx and
kernel source sfs but they installed in less than a minute.

I wonder if installing the large sfs files would work better with the
SFS manager?
Downloading them from the nluug mirror would be a whole
lot faster than downloading them from ibiblio if SFS manager could be
configured to use nluug.

video-info-glx 1.5.1 Mon 15 Jul 2013 on Slacko Puppy 5.5.70 Linux 3.4.52 i686
5.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon HD 3200 Graphics
oem: ATI ATOMBIOS
product: RS780 01.00

X Server: Xorg Driver: fglrx
X.Org version: 1.12.4
dimensions: 1920x1080 pixels (507x285 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 Radeon HD 3200 Graphics
OpenGL version string: 3.3.11672 Compatibility Profile Context

AMD Phenom(tm) II X4 810 Processor
Core 0: @2592 1: @2592 2: @2592 3: @2592 MHz

EDIT:I see that SFS manager can use the nluug mirror, I didn't check it out well enough before asking.
Is SFS manager exactly the same as SFS load-on-the-fly or have you modified it somehow?

EDIT:I downloaded that huge Torcs sfs using SFS Manager, it took 5 minutes to load and the free space on the drive is reduced by 2 gb, even worse, it doesn't work.
# torcs
Visual Properties Report
------------------------
Compatibility mode, properties unknown.
/usr/bin/torcs: line 53: 29011 Segmentation fault $LIBDIR/torcs-bin -l $LOCAL_CONF -L $LIBDIR -D $DATADIR $*
#
Oh well

[James C]

Just completed updating my Mageia install......... the new kernel version certainly looks familiar......

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[james@localhost ~]$ uname -r
3.4.52-desktop586-1.mga2

[zigbert]

pTiming-1.0.1
pBurn-4.0.3

[bigpup]

PAE Slacko-5.5.71 on live CD.

Trying to use ndiswrapper to load driver for a Netgear N300 wireless USB network adapter.
This is a broadcom bcmh43xx device that the windows driver works with ndiswrapper.
Get this error message:

[Billtoo]

Continued from previous message.

I started over and used Bootflash to install 5570 on the 32 mb flash
drive.
SFS files load in a wink, Torcs works! I installed the ati driver
again.

[SFR]

Hi Mick

To conclude mplayer + audio issue...
It doesn't seem to be mplayer fault at all - I did downgrade ffmpeg (the one from 5.5) and audio in .wmv has returned; no additional codecs needed.

Greetings!

[01micko]

Hi Mick

To conclude mplayer + audio issue...
It doesn't seem to be mplayer fault at all - I did downgrade ffmpeg (the one from 5.5) and audio in .wmv has returned; no additional codecs needed.

Greetings!

Interesting, but I disagree.

Try this; get a wmv file (there are some at mplayerhq) and confirm that sound fails with mplayer. Now try it with ffplay, works. I'll rebuild mplayer to see if it can be fixed, or possibly downgrade as it worked ok in 1.1.

----a bit later----

Try the files in puppy-reference, Download.avi polvec1.mov, both fail with mplayer but play with ffplay, however I ripped a dvd to my lappy hd and converted it to avi and mov with ffmpeg, both play fine in mplayer .

[James C]

Tried my audio/video test files with MPlayer...... mp4,avi,mov,mpg,rm,mp3 and ogg all appear to play normally. My test wmv files produce video but no audio.
Slacko 5.5.70.

[SFR]

Hi Mick

To conclude mplayer + audio issue...
It doesn't seem to be mplayer fault at all - I did downgrade ffmpeg (the one from 5.5) and audio in .wmv has returned; no additional codecs needed.

Greetings!

Interesting, but I disagree.

Try this; get a wmv file (there are some at mplayerhq) and confirm that sound fails with mplayer. Now try it with ffplay, works. I'll rebuild mplayer to see if it can be fixed, or possibly downgrade as it worked ok in 1.1.

----a bit later----

Try the files in puppy-reference, Download.avi polvec1.mov, both fail with mplayer but play with ffplay, however I ripped a dvd to my lappy hd and converted it to avi and mov with ffmpeg, both play fine in mplayer .

That's correct - ffplay indeed works... So it's more twisted than I thought.
Will wait for the new mplayer build.

Greetings!

[shinobar]

ffconvert-1.3.2.pet
#v1.3.2 - 16 Jul 2013: support ffmpeg 1.2 (SFR)
http://shino.pos.to/linux/puppy/
For Slacko 5.6, Use use 'h264' and 'ac3' instead of 'libx264' and 'libfaac' for the ffconvert MPEG4-AVC encoding.

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 753#713753

[01micko]

Hi Mick

To conclude mplayer + audio issue...
It doesn't seem to be mplayer fault at all - I did downgrade ffmpeg (the one from 5.5) and audio in .wmv has returned; no additional codecs needed.

Greetings!

Interesting, but I disagree.

Try this; get a wmv file (there are some at mplayerhq) and confirm that sound fails with mplayer. Now try it with ffplay, works. I'll rebuild mplayer to see if it can be fixed, or possibly downgrade as it worked ok in 1.1.

----a bit later----

Try the files in puppy-reference, Download.avi polvec1.mov, both fail with mplayer but play with ffplay, however I ripped a dvd to my lappy hd and converted it to avi and mov with ffmpeg, both play fine in mplayer .

That's correct - ffplay indeed works... So it's more twisted than I thought.
Will wait for the new mplayer build.

Greetings!

Ok, packages are a bit bigger, but acceptable:

http://01micko.com/packages/ffmpeg-2.0-i686-s14.0.pet
http://01micko.com/packages/ffmpeg_DEV- ... -s14.0.pet
http://01micko.com/packages/ffmpeg_DOC- ... -s14.0.pet
http://01micko.com/packages/mplayer-exp ... -s14.0.pet

[01micko]

ffmpeg-1.3.2.pet
#v1.3.2 - 16 Jul 2013: support ffmpeg 1.2 (SFR)
http://shino.pos.to/linux/puppy/
For Slacko 5.6, Use use 'h264' and 'ac3' instead of 'libx264' and 'libfaac' for the ffconvert MPEG4-AVC encoding.

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 753#713753

Um, I guess you mean ff-convert-1.3.2 . Thanks very much! This ffmpeg thing has been a headache, but I know Sigmund has put a lot of work into PMusic-4.1 and I didn't want to back out.

I will test directly

----test result----

Negative

I think because syntax for the output of -formats and -codecs is different (note, now using ffmpeg-2.0 because of mplayer issues).

I successfully converted a .wmv to .avi with woo-ff.

Thanks!

[SFR]

Thanks Mick, no more problems with new ffmpeg+Mplayer+wmv.
And thanks so much Shinobar that you're still maintaining FFConvert <- I really love it!

Negative

Mick, ^ do you refrer to a .wmv file? FFConvert in Slacko-5.5 also won't convert X->.wmv however .wmv -> X (.avi) worked for me (the test file was M$'s "Wildlife.wmv" found in '/Users/Public/Videos/Sample Videos').

But I still have problems with some presets...
Methinks it's becase 'ffmpeg -codecs' displays some encoders, that most likely can be actually used, but they aren't listed in the "main" column.
Old ffmpeg:

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# ffmpeg -codecs 2>/dev/null | grep libmp3lame
  EA    libmp3lame 

New ffmpeg:

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# ffmpeg -codecs 2>/dev/null | grep libmp3lame
 DEA.L. mp3                   (decoders: mp3 mp3float ) (encoders: libmp3lame )

So, FFConvert won't include libmp3lame as allowed encoder, just mp3, whereas presets use 'libmp3lame').
I guess when we include all those "detached" encoders onto the list, most (all?) of presets will start working correctly.
Here's what seems to give positive results. Added right after those two lines rectified by Shino:

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  VCODECS=$(echo "$CODECS"|grep '^[ ]*[ D.]EV[ILS.]*[ S]'|sed -e 's/^[ A-Z.]*//' |cut -d ' ' -f1) #v1.3.2
  ACODECS=$(echo "$CODECS"|grep '^[ ]*[ D.]EA[ILS.]*[ ]'|sed -e 's/^[ A-Z.]*//' |cut -d ' ' -f1) #v1.3.2

  VCODECS="$VCODECS "$(echo "$CODECS"|grep '^[ ]*[ D.]EV[ILS.]*[ S]'|sed -e 's/^[ A-Z.]*//' | grep '(encoders: ' | tr -d ')' | rev | cut -f1 -d ':' | rev)
  ACODECS="$ACODECS "$(echo "$CODECS"|grep '^[ ]*[ D.]EA[ILS.]*[ ]'|sed -e 's/^[ A-Z.]*//' | grep '(encoders: ' | tr -d ')' | rev | cut -f1 -d ':' | rev)
  VCODECS=$(echo "$VCODECS" | tr ' ' '\n' | sort -u)
  ACODECS=$(echo "$ACODECS" | tr ' ' '\n' | sort -u)

(sorry for ugly code - this is only to test if this method works)

@Shinobar: a small request for adding something like <height>300</height> to <tree...> in 'Preset' tab to enlarge lists' height (see screenshots).
I'd be grateful.

Greetings!

[peebee]

The pet for the Broadcom wl driver for kernel 3.10.1-pae is available from:

broadcom_sta_v5.100.82.112_patched_x86_32-k3.10.1pae-slacko.pet

If your wifi is disabled on boot - you may need "rfkill unblock wlan"

(p.s. I had a lot of trouble downloading Slacko 5.5.71 from Mick's servers to the UK - very slow speeds and corrupt downloads - just interested if anybody else has had these problems?? Eventually managed it with Mick's help - thanks).

[DaveS]

(p.s. I had a lot of trouble downloading Slacko 5.5.71 from Mick's servers to the UK - very slow speeds and corrupt downloads - just interested if anybody else has had these problems?? Eventually managed it with Mick's help - thanks).

Confirmed

[SFR]

Problem with bootmanager GUI on small displays, this naturally concerns also Slacko, see here:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 833#713833
My proposal is to use <notebook>, what do you think (see screenshot)?
Script (real .gz) also attached.

Greetings!

[Billtoo]

I did a manual frugal install of 5571 to a 4gb flash drive, it's
running on an EeePc 701SD which is connected to an external lcd
monitor + using a wireless mouse/keyboard combination.
Computer
Processor Intel(R) Celeron(R) M processor 900MHz
Memory 505MB (71MB used)
Machine Type Physical machine
Operating System Slacko Puppy - 5.5.71
User Name root (root)
Date/Time Tue 16 Jul 2013 02:21:01 PM EDT
Display
Resolution 1440x900 pixels
OpenGL Renderer Mesa DRI Intel(R) 915GM x86/MMX/SSE2
X11 Vendor The X.Org Foundation
Audio Devices
Audio Adapter HDA-Intel - HDA Intel
OpenGL
Vendor Tungsten Graphics, Inc
Renderer Mesa DRI Intel(R) 915GM x86/MMX/SSE2
Version 1.4 Mesa 8.0.4
Direct Rendering Yes
# glxgears
Running synchronized to the vertical refresh. The framerate should be
approximately the same as the monitor refresh rate.
190 frames in 5.0 seconds = 37.980 FPS
195 frames in 5.0 seconds = 38.777 FPS
218 frames in 5.0 seconds = 43.482 FPS
#
Atheros Communications Inc. AR242x / AR542x Wireless Network Adapter
(PCI-Express) (rev 01)

I installed xine-ui in ppm, it plays a dvd movie fine but crashs if I
try to go full screen with it, will give vlc a try later.

EDIT:I installed openboxp-1.0.1.pet and xine goes fullscreen without crashing now.

[01micko]

I installed xine-ui in ppm, it plays a dvd movie fine but crashs if I
try to go full screen with it, will give vlc a try later.

EDIT:I installed openboxp-1.0.1.pet and xine goes fullscreen without crashing now.

Hmmm... that's interesting. I might give it a try on my eee and enable debug in JWM and make a report to Joe.

Cheers