Slacko64 - 64 bit 6.0 alpha

[gcmartin]

If you have touch screen I have included a calibration tool. Very basic xlib version. Let me know if it works.

I tested on my HP Touch Laptop (and the Theme suggestion as well to no avail) and get the following error message when using the Menu>Desktop tool:

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Errorcode: No Calibratable devices found 

Hope this helps

[scsijon]

Installed nicely;

A few basic problems though for your attention.

I'm attaching a sysinfo report for your perusal.

problem1: Sound
although the Kernel Modules say that the ac97 codec, etc are all loaded and pci devices show it's there, neither sound wizard or multiple sound card wizard show anything other than the pcspeaker.

problem2: missing modules?
see sys-info report about line 156

problem3: Fonts missing
see sys-info report about line 492

That should be enough to play with } for now

regards

[01micko]

problem1: Sound
although the Kernel Modules say that the ac97 codec, etc are all loaded and pci devices show it's there, neither sound wizard or multiple sound card wizard show anything other than the pcspeaker.

So sound didn't work? Don't use mscw first, did retrovol appaer in the tray? If it did use that (right click). Probably just set the default output wrong.

problem2: missing modules?
see sys-info report about line 156

Nope, that file is definitely there. EDIT: that's the initrd log, no worries, we have no modules in initrd now. That error is to be expected, so maybe the log test needs refining.

problem3: Fonts missing
see sys-info report about line 492

Xorg always does that.. Puppy has always shipped with limited fonts, no issue.


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@gcmartin

Give me a report like scsijon did please. Your info is flakey at best.

And.. try this pet, restart X.

[scsijon]

problem1: Sound
although the Kernel Modules say that the ac97 codec, etc are all loaded and pci devices show it's there, neither sound wizard or multiple sound card wizard show anything other than the pcspeaker.

So sound didn't work? Don't use mscw first, did retrovol appaer in the tray? If it did use that (right click). Probably just set the default output wrong.

didn't try mscw until the rest failed, retrovol appeared so I went that way but nothing appeared under hardware, tried alsa sound wizard next, same result (nada), and so with mscw.

Let me know what else I can try, i'll be back on after lunchtime, it's my day off.

[01micko]

If retrovol appears then that means that the sound sub-system is working.

Right click >> Full Window and tick boxes. Or are you saying there are no boxes? AC97 is pretty common (I'm sure I've got at least 1).

[scsijon]

If retrovol appears then that means that the sound sub-system is working.

Right click >> Full Window and tick boxes. Or are you saying there are no boxes? AC97 is pretty common (I'm sure I've got at least 1).

The retrovol box is totally empty,
It's menu is just with File containing configure and quit.
In configuration and hardware, under sound card it says hw:0 and nothing in either of the active/inactive sliders.

Also just noticed the xerrs.log says
Unable to open card hw:0 No such file or directory.

I wonder if one of the motherboard drivers is out of date or a kernel switch wasn't set. I have a vague memory barryk had this problem early version 5.x.

-as a sideline i've asked amigo about a 64bit version of his src2pkg program, would be interesting to have i think.

[gcmartin]

More info on touch screen tracking with finger.

System is default booted via multisession DVD to FirstRUN shown below.
After FirstRUN, the evdev PET installed and desktop restarted.

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# free
             total         used         free       shared      buffers
Mem:       3788972       820884      2968088            0        82600
-/+ buffers:             738284      3050688
Swap:      8387580            0      8387580

When I touch the screen, the onscreen mouse is tracking to 25-30mm to the left of where I touch screen. I cannot launch icons with any accuracy and finger-clicking any open window's border element (titlebar) is practically impossible. Thus finger is on one part of screen and mouse is elsewhere. Mouse does not track with any sense of visual accuracy.

Secondly
Also, when running hardinfo, I got a segmentation fault. Terminal windows shows this:

• # hardinfo -r > system_report.txt
  Computer
  Summary
  Operating System
  Kernel Modules
  Boots
  Languages
  Filesystems
  Display
  Environment Variables
  Development
  Users
  Groups
  Devices
  Processor
  Memory
  PCI Devices
  USB Devices
  Segmentation fault

[gcmartin]

I will comply with any request to assist resolution.

[01micko]

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    Option "AutoAddDevices" "false"

Comment that line in /etc/X11/xorg.conf and retstart X. Or change it to "true" might be better.

[gcmartin]

Guess what!!!

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    Option "AutoAddDevices" "false"

Changed it to "true". (don't know how you found it, as, option doesn't seem to match the item. but, it worked to a charm)

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    Option "AutoAddDevices" "true"

That "nailed it". Finger tracking accurately on initial test. Able to drag device icons from bottom of page around on desktop, for example. Battery dying, I'll report other after I get power supply.

This is great. First PUP since @TaZoC's LightHouse64 with touch working accurately.

Thanks a bunch.

[Puck]

I ask, in advance, sorry for my english. I signed up already for a while because tired of the usual Linux distro, I wanted to try something different. I really like Slacko64 and would like to join him in Salix, I've tried lately.
My interests are, above all, photo editing, then Gimp, Geeqie and more. But what interests me most is the ability to use Wine to run a Windows editor.
Thank you.

[jrb]

Hi Micko, Just installed Slacko64 - 64 bit 6.0 alpha frugally on ext2 harddrive, saved in folder, on my
Processor : 2x Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E6750 @ 2.66GHz
Memory : 3967MB (595MB used)
with intel graphics and audio. No complaints so far.

I got opera-developer_24 working on it with very little effort. Posting from it now.

Just wondering if there is a package to allow use of 32bit binaries somewhere?

Thanks J

[gcmartin]

I am NOT a Wine user. But, LightHouse64 has a Wine SFS in its ISO which would work?

Hope this helps

[Flash]

FWIW, Slacko64-5.9.1 can use my brand new NetGear N900 (WNDA4100) USB wireless thingy right out of the box. I didn't do any more testing of Slacko64 because I was trying as many Puppy CDs as I could to see which ones could use the N900.

[technosaurus]

Anyone want to test Opera?
http://get.geo.opera.com/pub/opera-deve ... _amd64.deb

[purplecap]

Micko I have an acer chromebook 720 touchscreen laptop (c720p). To fix the touchscreen tracking issue; as you suggested to gcmartin I changed "AutoAddDevices" from false to true. Good news: the touchscreen and the calibration tool works perfectly along with the laptop touchpad. Bad news: the laptop keyboard is no longer working, i.e. no key on the keyboard works. In the Xorg.0.log log file "AutoAddDevices" true causes:

Hotplugging is on, devices using drivers 'kbd', 'mouse' or 'vmmouse' will be disabled.

Thus the settings for the keyboard in xorg.conf are ignored in particular the keyboard uses the kbd driver. Looking at the Xorg.0.log the only device being detected as a keyboard is the laptop webcam, perhaps this is causing the problem. I have attached the Xorg.0.log file. Any pointers on how I can fix this? Changing "AutoAddDevices" to false; keyboard works but touchscreen does not track. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

[eowens2]

I am just trying Slacko64 for the first time.

I used dd to copy the Slacko64-5.9.1.iso to a USB stick, which booted fine.

I then used the Universal Installer on the USB stick to try to do a full install to a HDD partition; Grub4dos was already installed as a bootloader as there are other Linuxes on the drive, and they are booting fine. I modified 'menu.lst' as suggested by the Installer.

Unfortunately the boot attempt resulted in kernel panic.

Decompressing Linux… Parsing ELF… Done
Booting the kernel.
Kernel panic – not syncing: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel

I wiped the partition clean, and using the same USB stick did a frugal install of Slacko64 to the same partition, which boots fine.

Is anyone else having problems with the full install of Slacko64? Any suggestions?

[bigpup]

It is a reported problem with the Universal Installer.
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=95156

Last I read it is being worked on.

Seems to only be when Running from a USB, doing a full install, is broken.
Full install, when running from a CD, works.

[eowens2]

bipup said:

It is a reported problem with the Universal Installer.
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=95156

Last I read it is being worked on.

Seems to only be when Running from a USB, doing a full install, is broken.
Full install, when running from a CD, works.

Optomistic, I made another attempt at making a full install to HHD of Slacko64-5.9.1, this time from CD. I re-downloaded the iso to a Windows 7 device (md5sum was correct), and used Roxio to create the CD.

Booted the CD on the destination laptop, and used the Slacko64-5.9.1 Universal Installer, choosing the “Full

[bigpup]

While running from the Live Slacko CD
Try running the Grub4dos Bootloader Config
Let it setup the boot menu.

Did that work for you?