X-Slacko-4.4 with Xfce

[rcrsn51]

In my tests, X-slacko-2.2n automatically loads the Broadcom wl.ko WiFi driver on machines with non-Broadcom devices.

This also occurs in other Puppies that have recent versions of wl.

[rg66]

In my tests, X-slacko-2.2n automatically loads the Broadcom wl.ko WiFi driver on machines with non-Broadcom devices.

This also occurs in other Puppies that have recent versions of wl.

This must also happen in slacko as well then. Is there a fix for this?

Edit: Booted into RAM with Ralink USB wireless
X-slacko-2.2 loaded rt2800usb module
X-slacko-2.2n same, seems to be working properly

[rcrsn51]

Is there a fix for this?

There is a simple explanation for this and a solution. I have discussed it with peebee.

Edit: Booted into RAM with Ralink USB wireless
X-slacko-2.2 loaded rt2800usb module
X-slacko-2.2n same, seems to be working properly

Are you saying that wl was NOT loaded or that your WiFi worked in spite of it being loaded?

[rg66]

Are you saying that wl was NOT loaded or that your WiFi worked in spite of it being loaded?

wl was not loaded

2.2n

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# lsmod | sort | grep -v Module
acpi_cpufreq            4274  0 
agpgart                17718  3 drm,intel_agp,intel_gtt
arc4                     971  2 
atl1c                  22953  0 
aufs                  124580  1913 
button                  3351  1 i915
cfg80211              117933  2 mac80211,rt2x00lib
cpufreq_ondemand        4545  2 
crc_ccitt               1024  1 rt2800lib
drm                   138490  3 i915,drm_kms_helper
drm_kms_helper         23787  1 i915
evdev                   6399  0 
fuse                   47723  2 
hwmon                    874  1 thermal_sys
i2c_algo_bit            3760  1 i915
i2c_core               12576  5 drm,i915,i2c_i801,drm_kms_helper,i2c_algo_bit
i2c_i801                6226  0 
i915                  293784  2 
intel_agp               7953  1 i915
intel_gtt               9472  3 i915,intel_agp
mac80211              175139  3 rt2x00lib,rt2x00usb,rt2800lib
mperf                    796  1 acpi_cpufreq
parport                20980  2 ppdev,parport_pc
parport_pc             18204  0 
pcspkr                  1236  0 
ppdev                   4023  0 
processor              22544  1 acpi_cpufreq
rfkill                 10038  1 cfg80211
rt2800lib              34594  1 rt2800usb
rt2800usb              11270  0 
rt2x00lib              24969  3 rt2x00usb,rt2800lib,rt2800usb
rt2x00usb               6135  1 rt2800usb
serio_raw               2962  0 
sg                     16606  0 
shpchp                 17978  0 
snd                    34138  14 snd_pcm_oss,snd_hwdep,snd_timer,snd_hda_codec_via,snd_pcm,snd_seq,snd_rawmidi,snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_intel,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_device,snd_mixer_oss
snd_hda_codec          56855  2 snd_hda_codec_via,snd_hda_intel
snd_hda_codec_via      25456  1 
snd_hda_intel          17194  1 
snd_hwdep               3776  1 snd_hda_codec
snd_mixer_oss           9732  1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_page_alloc          4714  2 snd_pcm,snd_hda_intel
snd_pcm                47653  3 snd_pcm_oss,snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_intel
snd_pcm_oss            26791  0 
snd_rawmidi            12106  1 snd_seq_midi
snd_seq                32274  6 snd_seq_midi_event,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_midi
snd_seq_device          3517  5 snd_seq,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_midi
snd_seq_dummy            916  0 
snd_seq_midi            3217  0 
snd_seq_midi_event      3589  2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi
snd_seq_oss            18988  0 
snd_timer              11582  2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
soundcore               3243  1 snd
squashfs               18738  1 
thermal_sys             9583  2 video,processor
video                   9603  1 i915

[rcrsn51]

rt2800usb

The problem may be specific to internal PCI adapters. I will do some more testing.

[peebee]

In my tests, X-slacko-2.2n automatically loads the Broadcom wl.ko WiFi driver on machines with non-Broadcom devices.

This also occurs in other Puppies that have recent versions of wl.

This must also happen in slacko as well then. Is there a fix for this?

Fix 1 is to blacklist wl if loaded erroneously

Fix 2 is to add the preferred driver to the last line of /etc/rc.d/MODULESCONFIG

Fix 3 is in the future:

I am mulling over a workaround with udev rules to manage blacklisting of wl. .... With the driver defaulted to being blacklisted, the rules could unblacklist it if a supported device is encountered during bootup.

[rcrsn51]

Fix 4. Treat this proprietary driver like other Linuxes do. Remove it from the distro. Only install it if you need it - if the open-source b43 driver fails. This eliminates the need for additional workarounds that might have other side effects.

[Billtoo]

I added some applications and then remastered the live cd, booted it up
on my imac, and setup everything.

video-info-glx 1.5.1 Wed 8 Oct 2014 on X-slacko 2.2 Linux 3.10.32 i686
0.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon HD 2400 XT
oem: ATI ATOMBIOS
product: M74 01.00

X Server: Xorg Driver: radeon
X.Org version: 1.12.4
dimensions: 1680x1050 pixels (444x277 millimeters)
depth of root window: 24 planes

direct rendering: Yes
server glx vendor string: SGI
server glx version string: 1.4
OpenGL vendor string: VMware, Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: Gallium 0.4 on llvmpipe (LLVM 0x300)
OpenGL version string: 2.1 Mesa 8.0.4

Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E8135 @ 2.40GHz
Core 0: @2400 1: @2400 MHz

Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4321 802.11a/b/g/n (rev 05)

It's working great, thanks for this.

EDIT: I added wine and have xbmc 12.3 running under it, works okay for music but hard work for video on this pc.

[Sage]

Update for 2.2N:
I tried it in XP2400+ with a GeF Pro card and got the 'barcode' screen, then the notorious Microstar8807 card which gave blank screen. Neither responded to CTRL-ALT-BKSPCE. Didn't have time to play with cheat codes and don't possess any Intel cards.
It is possible to slow down the Pacman diversion by unplugging some mem. or slowing the cpu in BIOS.
I seem to remember it was Terryphi who reported the universality of FP v.10 for guaranteed operation across the spectrum. v.10 has not let me down for BBC iPlayer since then on a variety of HW. Anyone interested may be able to Search his original recommendations and, more recently, my own reminder of his work that led to inclusion of the v.10 as an option in PPM for users of iPlayer.

[Billtoo]

I burned a second copy of my X-slacko-2.2 remaster.iso to use with my
lenovo ThinkCentre desktop pc.
I installed the latest Nvidia proprietary driver.

video-info-glx 1.5.1 Thu 9 Oct 2014 on X-slacko 2.2 Linux 3.10.32 i686
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: nvidia
X.Org version: 1.12.4
dimensions: 1920x1080 pixels (513x292 millimeters)
depth of root window: 24 planes

direct rendering: Yes
server glx vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
server glx version string: 1.4
OpenGL vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
OpenGL renderer string: GeForce GT 220/PCIe/SSE2
OpenGL version string: 3.3.0 NVIDIA 331.104

Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E8400 @ 3.00GHz
Core 0: @2003 1: @2003 MHz

Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8057 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 10)

This is working well, thanks again.

EDIT: I remastered my remaster and burned the new iso to a dvd

[rg66]

Hardinfo compiled with USB patch for newer kernels

http://smokey01.com/rg66/X-slacko/pet_p ... _patch.pet

[rg66]

I have been having too much trouble uploading files to carolina-linux.com so I will be slowly moving everything to smokey01.com

I'd like to thank elroy for giving me space to host X-precise and X-slacko and smokey01 for giving me space for future hosting.

So far all the X-precise ISO's have been copied there and X-slacko-2.2/2.2n, thanks again to smokey01 for copying the X-p stuff over.

http://smokey01.com/rg66/

[Billtoo]

I burned another dvd of my remaster2.iso to use with my Gateway desktop
pc.
video-info-glx 1.5.1 Wed 15 Oct 2014 on X-slacko 2.2 Linux 3.10.32 i686
0.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation Device 1082 (rev a1)
oem: NVIDIA
product: GF110 Board - 12630002 Chip Rev

X Server: Xorg Driver: nvidia
X.Org version: 1.12.4
dimensions: 3840x1080 pixels (1204x343 millimeters)
depth of root window: 24 planes

direct rendering: Yes
server glx vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
server glx version string: 1.4
OpenGL vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
OpenGL renderer string: GeForce GTX 560 Ti/PCIe/SSE2
OpenGL version string: 4.4.0 NVIDIA 331.104

Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2600 CPU @ 3.40GHz
Core 0: @1600 1: @1600 2: @1600 3: @1600 4: @1600 5: @1600 6: @1600 7: @1600 MHz

Ethernet controller:
Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 06)

EDIT: I made a pet of htop-1.0.3 in X-Slacko-2.2 if anyone else wants it. It creates a menu entry in the System section of the puppy menu and uses the xfce4 Terminal.

[rg66]

mtPaint-3.44.89 with ttuuxxx's icons, doc and NLS are split. Looks a lot better, thanks ttuuxxx!

http://smokey01.com/rg66/X-slacko/pet_packages-X-slacko

[Billtoo]

Firefox can't auto update so I downloaded firefox-33.0.tar.bz2 and unpacked it in /root/spot/Downloads, then after deleting everything in /usr/lib/firefox I copied everything in the firefox-33.0 directory to /usr/lib/firefox.
All the bookmarks and history are still there + firefox still runs as user spot.
Anyhow, it worked for me.

[rg66]

That's strange, it worked for me, see screen shots. I wonder if it had something to do with the remaster?

[Billtoo]

That's strange, it worked for me, see screen shots. I wonder if it had something to do with the remaster?

That must be the reason it didn't work for me, I tried on two installs of my remastered iso.

EDIT: I couldn't find my original X-Slacko-2.2 dvd which is lost in the pile or the original iso so I redownloaded the original iso and burned it to a dvd.

Firefox <did> update on the original but won't on the remaster (actually a remaster of the first remaster).

When I tried to update on my remaster it just said updates were available and there was a link to download an archive of the new version.

[rg66]

That must be the reason it didn't work for me, I tried on two installs of my remastered iso.

EDIT: I couldn't find my original X-Slacko-2.2 dvd which is lost in the pile or the original iso so I redownloaded the original iso and burned it to a dvd.

Firefox <did> update on the original but won't on the remaster (actually a remaster of the first remaster).

When I tried to update on my remaster it just said updates were available and there was a link to download an archive of the new version.

The only thing I can think of is to check whether the updater binary and the 2 update ini files got copied to /usr/lib/firefox

[rg66]

X-slacko-3.0?

I have xfce-4.10.1 running on slacko-5.9.3 quite nicely. I left jwm in and can switch between window managers with each using it's default file manager. This is more of a practice for slacko-6 and to see if I could get both WM's working without conflict, so far so good. I'm going to also try it with xfce-4.11 but xfdesktop has a few small bugs.

[Billtoo]

X-slacko-3.0?

I have xfce-4.10.1 running on slacko-5.9.3 quite nicely. I left jwm in and can switch between window managers with each using it's default file manager. This is more of a practice for slacko-6 and to see if I could get both WM's working without conflict, so far so good. I'm going to also try it with xfce-4.11 but xfdesktop has a few small bugs.

How about doing X-Fatdog64-7.0?

I'm able to compile xfce4-4.10 on Fatdog64 but unable to integrate it into fatdog properly since I don't know how to write the scripts that would be required (or whatever it would require).

It might be popular.