Slacko64 - 64 bit Puppy - 6 Feb 2014

[Ted Dog]

Hi @James C

Don't know if this will help via GRUB, but try Chainload of your FULL Slacko64 partition.

Let us know

Yes, tried chainloading as well.... still failed.

Besure you are using a grub install from 64bit world.. must be compiled as 64bit to work.

[Jades]

Testing on Pentium D. The LiveCD install is still working nicely. The save for that is on an NTFS-formatted hard drive that has a WinXP install on. No problems noted from the XP side either.

The Frugal install is also working well, that's on an ext4 partition. Booting is via Grub4Dos and I haven't experienced any problems with the Frugal, although the Full won't boot as reported above.

Other issues encountered with both the Full and LiveCD are:-

12-hour clock in HH:MM:AM/PM is still being truncated. Does this in the 32-Bit Slacko too.

Attempting to set up Static IPs in Network Wizard fails with an error. Frisbee not affected with this.

Wireless firmware in wrong place. 01micko's suggested commands to move the relevant files worked.

Generally Slacko64 works well for me. If the full problem was sorted I'd probably choose it ahead of the 32-Bit Slacko.

[01micko]

As for data corruption/issues.. this clearly stated as alpha software. I have mounted ntfs with no issues. I would never install linux on ntfs. That said, Barry decided to support that for "ease of use". At the moment it is still supported, but with considerations for the direction MS is going then that support will probably have to be revoked.

I really wish hardware companies would grow some balls. MS is not about standards, its about self preservation and competition annihilation. That way usb installs could be simple, eliminating need for NTFS installs. </rant>

As for the full install bug, its a lib64 issue that will be addressed in the next alpha. You can use the f2fs full installer (makes a full install to USB stick) and copy (don't dd, else you use f2fs on a hard drive, not recommended) that to a partition and it would probably work.

[Jades]

Testing on Zhaan. See sig. Booting pfix=ram off Live CD.

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This kernel requires an x86-64 CPU, but only detected an i586 CPU.
Unable to boot - please use a kernel appropriate for your CPU.

I am shocked, shocked I tell you, that an AMD K6-2 500 is not a 64-bit processor!

Joking aside, it's good to see that you're still checking for CPU features and halting on a sensible error message rather than ploughing on regardless and bombing out with a kernel panic and lots of incomprehensible numbers.

[Jades]

I forgot to mention earlier that I tested Slacko64 on one of work's laptops. Worked surprisingly well, given I picked up the CD at home without looking at it and didn't know the machine was 64-bit. Only realised what I was trying to load when the splash screen came up.

Built-in WiFi configured via Frisbee worked perfectly straight from first boot. Laptop is a Lenovo, probably circa 2010/11, will try to get a system report and model number next week if I remember.

[mini-jaguar]

Works, but it would be much cooler if there was a .pet or .sfs which had the 32-bit libraries (like for FatDog) so you could run 32-bit software.

Actually, never mind, I'll probably try that one to see if it works. It'll take a few days to get around to it though.

[smokey01]

I think you will find the 32bit libraries that FatDog uses are actually slacko binaries.

[James C]

Successfully updated a frugal install from 5.8.7 to 5.8.8 ........no problems.

Report Video 1.3 - Wed 12 Mar 2014 on Slacko64 Puppy 5.8.8 - Linux 3.13.1 x86_64

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: 1.12.4
dimensions: 1440x900 pixels (381x238 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
# glxgears
1411 frames in 5.0 seconds = 282.032 FPS
1730 frames in 5.0 seconds = 345.781 FPS
1760 frames in 5.0 seconds = 351.906 FPS
1754 frames in 5.0 seconds = 350.670 FPS
1750 frames in 5.0 seconds = 349.853 FPS

-Computer-
Processor : 2x AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5200+
Memory : 3796MB (437MB used)
Machine Type : Physical machine
Operating System : Slacko64 Puppy - 5.8.8
User Name : root (root)
Date/Time : Wed 12 Mar 2014 01:49:16 AM CDT
-Display-
Resolution : 1440x900 pixels
OpenGL Renderer : Gallium 0.4 on llvmpipe (LLVM 0x300)
X11 Vendor : The X.Org Foundation
-Audio Devices-
Audio Adapter : HDA-Intel - HDA NVidia

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# free
             total         used         free       shared      buffers
Mem:       3796788      1703796      2092992            0        83404
-/+ buffers:            1620392      2176396
Swap:      8294396            0      8294396
# 

[01micko]

As for data corruption/issues.. this clearly stated as alpha software. I have mounted ntfs with no issues. I would never install linux on ntfs. That said, Barry decided to support that for "ease of use". At the moment it is still supported, but with considerations for the direction MS is going then that support will probably have to be revoked.

I really wish hardware companies would grow some balls. MS is not about standards, its about self preservation and competition annihilation. That way usb installs could be simple, eliminating need for NTFS installs. </rant>

As for the full install bug, its a lib64 issue that will be addressed in the next alpha. You can use the f2fs full installer (makes a full install to USB stick) and copy (don't dd, else you use f2fs on a hard drive, not recommended) that to a partition and it would probably work.

Just referencing this previous post of mine. (5th March, previous page, this thread in answer to James C and Jades).

A while ago I did do a Slacko64 full install along side Vista on the lappy on which I'm typing. It went well but I never booted it. I was experimenting with grub2. Grub2 did not see the install and of course did not boot it, however Vista did boot and remained intact. I did realise that the /usr/lib64 directory failed to copy because the grub2 install was called from a chroot and failed. Once I manually copied over all of /usr/lib64 the chroot worked fine to install grub2 which indicated to me that that installation of Slacko64 (previous version, 5.8.7, k3.12.8.) was pretty much fully functional.

Fast Forward >> Today. As part of my course (WRT my uni stuff) we are optionally allowed to use Linux! (Yay... I hate windows!). It's fedora; which I'm going to have to learn anyway, being closely related to RHEL, I forget how to use yum and such but it will come back. I'm more used to urpmi being of Mandrake stock myself. Slackware came much later (around 12.0).

I installed fedora-20.0 from usb stick. The installer is a bit stupid, even though it recognised my 35GB partition, ext4, at /dev/sda5, I had to mark it for formatting..then again, recognised my 2.5GB swap partition at sda7 but still had to mark it for formatting! . It wasn't obvious so I'll be making a bug report about that, as well as the stupid "live-usb-installer" .. total fail, and IIRC it was too when I installed SOAS for the young bloke about 6 months ago. Had to hack that one in slackware to get it to work. On a brighter note, the "old" full install was recognised as "Unknown Linux". Cool.

So, I let the installer do it's thing and promptly rebooted, choosing "Unknown Linux" from the menu. Now I sit typing this! Beauty!

Two fantastic things to come out of this for Slacko64.

• 1. Grub2 I built works just fine; will work even better once I tweak (and you people test) the scripts.
  2. Slacko64 full install isn't very much broken.

Cheers! (Back to work now!)

[gcmartin]

... Two fantastic things to come out of this for Slacko64.

• 1. Grub2 I built works just fine; will work even better once I tweak (and you people test) the scripts.
  2. Slacko64 full install isn't very much broken.

Request
Would it be appropriate to have the ISO be a GRUB2 based ISO? Or, Is the learning curve too large for doing such for CD/DVD boot?

Both @Ted Dog and @Rcrsn51 , each has done some work with GRUB2 and wonder if there is some contribution(s) from them that would assist a migration in the 64bit Slacko to a GRUB2 base across the board. Maybe there exist some reference here in Puppyland for such setup for DVD bootmanager use.

Thus, Slacko64 would have GRUB2 as the base bootmanager for DVD, frugal, full or remaster, each creating reference in setup, configuration, and utility use.

[jdavid]

Hello, I have a problem with dialup. I am using a zoom usb modem that has always worked in puppies from 4.31 and up. It works in all the fatdogs too. I get the message: wvdial: utils/wvtask.cc:409: static void WvTaskMan::_stackmaster(): Assertion `magic_number == -0x123678' failed. I have searched but cannot fine a solution. I just cannot get pupdial to work in slacko64 and have tried both downloads. Any ideas?

jdavid

Solved: Dialup with usb modem in Slacko64. I put the three "libwvbase" files/links from fatdog621 (folder /user/lib64) into Slacko64. I also used my working wvdial.conf from fatdog621. Pupdial/Wvdial now works fine in Slacko64.
01micko, thanks for your puppy slacko systems, very nice.

jdavid

[mini-jaguar]

I think you will find the 32bit libraries that FatDog uses are actually slacko binaries.

Yes, but I tried that .sfs and it doesn't make the software compatible in any way, unfortunately.

Even a lowly Tetris for Puppy 4.3.1 or lower, which works fine on FatDog64 with the libs loaded, doesn't work here.

[Jim1911]

Hi Mick,

Fatdog64's latest Bibletime 2.10.0 works great on your Slacko64.

Regards,
Jim

[radky]

FbBox desktop environment

Supports Slacko and Slacko64

http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=92982

[666philb]

hi 01micko,

flsynclient is not retaining it's settings for me

[IlluminatiPL]

I have with a problem with Compile FFMpeg [Little MB's of Snapshot]... (with Opus)

Commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr --libdir=/usr/lib64 --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libx264 --enable-libfaac --enable-pthreads --enable-small --enable-postproc --enable-libvorbis --enable-libopus --enable-gpl --enable-shared --enable-nonfree --enable-libopencore-amrnb --enable-libopencore-amrwb --disable-debug --enable-bzlib --enable-zlib --enable-libspeex --enable-version3 --enable-runtime-cpudetect --enable-x11grab --enable-libschroedinger --enable-libtheora --enable-libxvid --enable-swscale --enable-libvpx --arch=x86_64

Results:

Compile is done,But "AvFilter" it's doesn't works... (Screenshot capture it's doesn't works too...)

[IlluminatiPL]

Double post.
URL: http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 571#769571

[Jim1911]

Hi Mick,

Radky's FbBox, discussed above, is working great on my hardware.

Regards,
Jim

[Jades]

Just updated and checked PPM and version 1.0.1g of OpenSSL is available for download on the slackware64-14.0-patches repo. Slacko64's bundled version is 1.0.1f, which is one of the vulnerable ones which have had press coverage recently.

[Doglover]

Hi... running an HP 15-n228us with ati graphics.

X will not start.

output from sys info...

-Computer-
Processor : 4x AMD A6-5200 APU with Radeon(TM) HD Graphics
Memory : 5680MB (308MB used)
Machine Type : Physical machine
Operating System : Slacko Puppy - 5.7.0
User Name : root (root)
Date/Time : Mon 26 May 2014 02:38:15 AM GMT-8
-Display-
Resolution : 1368x768 pixels
OpenGL Renderer : Gallium 0.4 on llvmpipe (LLVM 0x300)
X11 Vendor : The X.Org Foundation
-Audio Devices-
Audio Adapter : HDA-Intel - HD-Audio Generic
Audio Adapter : HDA-Intel - HD-Audio Generic
-Input Devices-
AT Translated Set 2 keyboard
Logitech USB Optical Mouse
SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad
ST LIS3LV02DL Accelerometer
Power Button
Lid Switch
Power Button
Video Bus
HP WMI hotkeys
HD-Audio Generic HDMI/DP,pcm : 3=
HD-Audio Generic Headphone
HD-Audio Generic Mic
PC Speaker
HP Truevision HD
-Printers-
No printers found
-SCSI Disks-
ATA HGST HTS541075A9
hp DVDRAM GU70N