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Volhout · Joined: 28 Dec 2008 Posts: 523

hi belham2, mistfire,

I mentioned before R47 (and now also 4 Cool

do not boot on a i5 DELL laptop. They get stuck in starting X video. I tried with R48 and the zdrv provided, but even with that combination I could not make R48 boot up on this laptop. I confirmed it did load the zdrv.

I tried booting without X video and configure through Xorgwizard
It gave me 3 options, tried all 3 and no luck (VESA / framebuffer / KMS)

Same as with R45.

Since I did not have any other release except R37, tried that one, an it worked out of the box. Too bad my R45-savefile did not match with R37, and I would have to start all over again.

I really think in all the kernel swapping, or leaning, things got broken. A 5 year old i5 is normally supported in kernels since 3.0.

I am not sure if you are motivated to take such a task on you, but if I can help, I will. But I can understand if you are hesitant to commit.

Regards,

Volhout

backi · Joined: 27 Feb 2011 Posts: 1563 Location: GERMANY

Hi belham !
Do you know about Zdrv_Cutter ? :
Remove unneeded modules and firmware - Zdrv_Cutter

http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=51552

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=890231&sid=548ce2442ee2239c7a1545931b0eeb01

mistfire · Joined: 04 Nov 2008 Posts: 990 Location: PH

Some clarifications @Volhout and @belham2

FDRV file size is over 70Mb because I collected different firmware drivers on this forum. It acts as a driver pack and its optional. Im considering that ZDRV driver from carolina vanguard and I will attempt to make it small enough to fit in main SFS without less increase in filesize

I still keep the spirit of SLIM because I want a small puppy but still out-of-the box. I still figuring out how to make it smaller.

I understand and consider your opinion.

By the way. New iteration of X-Slacko Slim was in progress. Take note I will use an LTS kernel.

belham2 · Joined: 15 Aug 2016 Posts: 1578

@volhout, have maybe you ever tried swapping xorg's in from different pups to see if they will help boot better (whichever pup you want) on your hardware? Just a thought---Peebee got me interested in that when I ran into some problems (though mine were a bit different) with the LxPups. He threw an older xorg in there, and I was taken aback at how suddenly everything worked correctly and my slightly older systems no longer had startup and/or screen resolution/monitor recognition problems.

@backi, thank you, my friend, I did not know of that thread by Technosaurus! Will definitely give it a go and report back!

@mistifre---LTS kernel? Now that sounds good Wink

mistfire · Joined: 04 Nov 2008 Posts: 990 Location: PH

@belham2 yes; it is on future releases. Just like the current release. It uses 4.9.x kernel which is an LTS kernel

mistfire · Joined: 04 Nov 2008 Posts: 990 Location: PH

New X-Slacko Slim iteration released

Changes:
* Some bugfix on power management
* ZDRV file is included (8Mb) for more out-of-the box hardware support. But still you can run puppy without this file.

Download: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B2FRkttfZuG0eDk0dHlQZUNiNHc
MD5 Checksum: 1799f6c47aa48f62c2ff73a1081d3a46

mistfire · Joined: 04 Nov 2008 Posts: 990 Location: PH

New X-Slacko Slim iteration released

Changes:
* Improved PPM
* Some bugfixes and tweaks

Download: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B2FRkttfZuG0TGtfOEZ5Z3ZkTm8
MD5 Checksum: f3991039e0ac6e6efa4a6332bc168178

mistfire · Joined: 04 Nov 2008 Posts: 990 Location: PH

New X-Slacko Slim iteration released

Changes:

* Linux 4.12.x kernel
* Some bugfixes

Download: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B2FRkttfZuG0UnlCRVNsQm9heVE

MD5 Checksum: 7ebd6c7e94170712d37d554998c5f0c0

Pelo · Posted: Mon 24 Jul 2017, 11:57 Post subject: (Slim) must be clever !

"I still keep the spirit of SLIM because I want a small puppy but still out-of-the box. I still figuring out how to make it smaller."

bravo Smile

as long as your Puppy keeps different, it's a real choice (chance) for Puppy users.
Rich stay rich (no need to think, just to pay). Poor (Slim) must be clever ! 'Malin' in French

jss83 · Joined: 06 Jan 2015 Posts: 267

Really like the clean look but include the Ralink MT7601 Driver in the next update, if you could please.

mistfire · Joined: 04 Nov 2008 Posts: 990 Location: PH

@js83 you can download and install the driver here http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/non-free/f/firmware-nonfree/firmware-misc-nonfree_20161130-3_all.deb

jss83 · Joined: 06 Jan 2015 Posts: 267

I'll see if this one works and report back. Thanks Smile

Update/: It didn't work. Confused

mistfire · Joined: 04 Nov 2008 Posts: 990 Location: PH

Well in that case, you can use this FDRV https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2FRkttfZuG0WjEwVlNXVlE1VjQ/view?usp=drive_web

Just place it beside the X-Slacko Slim SFS file and boot it.

mistfire · Joined: 04 Nov 2008 Posts: 990 Location: PH

New X-Slacko Slim iteration released

Changes:
* Even more small screen friendly (working well at 640x480 resolution)
* Broken quicksetup is fixed
* Improved Barry's Simple Network Setup. It has now ability to rescan network interfaces and rescan wifi networks
* Eee mode. Automatically optimize and enable some features if the computer is Asus EeePC

Download link: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B2FRkttfZuG0M1U4Q2NQbHR1SEU

MD5 Checksum: a35071bac872a386a4a859a88bb85970

Addiotional drivers (optional): https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B2FRkttfZuG0WjEwVlNXVlE1VjQ