X-Slacko Slim 4.4r49 (unique, stable, and flexible)

[mistfire]

@Volhout Im not modifying the kernel. Im just using lxpup kernel. Some firmware drivers is now on zdrv which is originally came from carolina vanguard. DEVX file download link was on the first post of this thread

[Volhout]

Dear mistfire,

I have used your X-Slacko Slim 4.2r53 today, and must say it is working fine.

Just some remarks:

1/ I use it in on a laptop in an electronics development environment (hobby) and regular need a serial port terminal. After years of using different tools, I have settled on using Gtk-term. There is a PET on ibiblio, in the earlier PET folders called: gtkterm-0.99.7-rc1-w5c.pet that works flawless on X-Slacko.
It is small in size (37k) registers in the menu, and would be a nice addition to X-Slacko's functionality.

2/ Maybe a bug: When I open "Treesize" it eats up some 100 Mbyte of RAM (Taskmanager, RAM use from 140Mbyte to 240 Mbyte). But after closing Treesize again, this is not freed up again. Btw, it is not clear to me why you value Treesize over the Gdmap in regular puppy, that gives better overview. But that is personal I think.

2a/ In taskmanager there are also 3 instances of "wrapper-1.0". Any idea what these are used for ? Is this related to Wine preparation ? Curiousity mainly. It works, so I should not bother.....

3/ Out of curiousity too: your X-Slacko Slim has 2 remarkable features that are not common in other puppies: IRDA and WINE. Although Wine is not included in the iso, preparations are installed. What is your application ? Are you supporting old PDA's, phones, printers (IRDA ?) or what ??

Regards,

Volhout

P.S. I default also install DOSBOX 0.74, but that is larger in size....

[mistfire]

@Volhaut

1/ I use it in on a laptop in an electronics development environment (hobby) and regular need a serial port terminal. After years of using different tools, I have settled on using Gtk-term. There is a PET on ibiblio, in the earlier PET folders called: gtkterm-0.99.7-rc1-w5c.pet that works flawless on X-Slacko.
It is small in size (37k) registers in the menu, and would be a nice addition to X-Slacko's functionality.

Did you try putty? Its also works on serial ports

2/ Maybe a bug: When I open "Treesize" it eats up some 100 Mbyte of RAM (Taskmanager, RAM use from 140Mbyte to 240 Mbyte). But after closing Treesize again, this is not freed up again. Btw, it is not clear to me why you value Treesize over the Gdmap in regular puppy, that gives better overview. But that is personal I think.

2a/ In taskmanager there are also 3 instances of "wrapper-1.0". Any idea what these are used for ? Is this related to Wine preparation ? Curiousity mainly. It works, so I should not bother.....

It is a bug of treesize. Its the developers flaw not from me. wrapper-1.0 was xfce panel items

3/ Out of curiousity too: your X-Slacko Slim has 2 remarkable features that are not common in other puppies: IRDA and WINE. Although Wine is not included in the iso, preparations are installed. What is your application ? Are you supporting old PDA's, phones, printers (IRDA ?) or what ??

Yes it is wine ready just installed wine and you are good to go. You are right I will just try to support old devices especially Irda data transfer

[mistfire]

New X-Slacko Slim iteration released

Changes:
* Failed to boot on UEFI is fixed
* Rock solid initrd. It reboots when exiting the console
* Improvements on power management. Automatic sleep is now working and standardized brightness adjustment
* gtkterm is added
* Some bugfixes

Download: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B2FRk ... mNRcEZQdzA
MD5 Checksum: 35dd08d2ab50ac35533b0eff75f55f19

[Volhout]

dear mistfire,

thanks for adding gtk term to the image. it works fine.
yesterday tried to add wine, and package manager gave met a list of 10 options.
I tried a few, but in the end realized that wine pulls in mono, and gecko, and in the end exceeded my save file size.

Do you use an SFS that contains all ?

Reason I am asking: I try to revive an old project on a PIC microchip, and have pk2cmd installed to program the pic through pickit2. That part works on Xslacko-Slim. But I would use an old windows version of MPLAB to develop. Thus the requirement for WINE. It is a try, since I am not sure the old MPLAB even works under wine.

Regards,

Volhout

[mistfire]

@Volhaut I always use wine package from slackware repo. I didnt try the wine SFS get. You may consult http://appdb.winehq.org to check app compatibility on wine

[Volhout]

dear mistfire,

if I righclick on the save file ion in the tray it disappears. As far as I know it should bring up the dialog for save file enlargment. See attached.

Any idea how to fix this ?

[Pelo]

mistfire should easily repair it. It is not a No-Go item. With Puppy you can launch resizepup from the menu or in Usr/share/applications, and from the terminal too ( resizepfile.sh)
My idea, is to link it to the desktop
Screenshot :
Els 101 cadells de la meva gossera

[mistfire]

@Pelo, @Volhaut. The problem that you encounter is the xfce right-click issue. When you right click an item on the toolbar it will show a menu with very fast pace and selected the end portion of the context menu. Since Resize Storage has an exit menu at the end of the context. It will automatically clicks it and exit. A developers which have a knowledge in xfce can fix that. Im just in bash scripts. The best solution for that was right-click and hold then select.

[zagreb999]

regards

how it can be installed
on hdd of hp pavilion win 8.1
uefi (8 gb ram)?
automatic boot.
with unetbootin?
win8.1 is deleted.
i use only linux.

thanks.

[mistfire]

@zagreb

1. Turn OFF secure boot on UEFI
2. Boot X-Slacko Slim
3. Mount EFI partition
4. Mount X-Slacko Slim live cd and mount efi.img
5. Put all efi contents from mounted efi.img to EFI partition (edit grub.cfg when needed)

6. Format the OS partition to ext4
7. Put the sfs, vmlinuz, grub.cfg, and initrd to ext4 partition (edit grub.cfg when needed)

8. Unmount all mounted images and partitions
9. Add efi file to uefi boot entry

[mistfire]

New X-Slacko Slim iteration released

Changes:

* Customized 4.12.8 lxpup kernel (compiled by myself). It has more kernel modules to support laptops and variety of hardware.

* Hibernation support (EXPERIMENTAL). It works nicely in both automatic and manual (by specifying resume=<swap partition> as kernel parameter on your bootloader.) You must have a swap partition which the size is the same or bigger than your RAM memory. Hibernation works in frugal (with saved session) and full installation. It does not work on pristine boot or multisession mode. WARNING: The hibernation needs more refinement and tweaks. Because it sometimes corrupts the mounted partitions. Use this feature at your own risk

* cbatticon replaces default battery icon.

Download Link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2FRkt ... sp=sharing
MD5 Checksum: 4ebcca8d591ce5b1d6a92a484dd67c52

[Pelo]

battery icon, battery, wireless, and if all that stuff were useless for our forum subscribers ? it would give more place for indoor entertainment... chained to our chair and computer chained to the wall.... I manufacturers would sell laptop without batteries, for Linux world, that will allow more passengers to play Puppy. Puppy if free, of course, but laptops are expensive.
Don't care my message. Just an idea. For slim computers.
The reason of my dream is because my new battery still behind me. But it's winter season coming.. When spring back again perhaps i will change my opinion
Furthermore my battery icon gives full 100%, in fact it is full of its decreased capacity 0 mAh / 4400 mAh

[Sage]

r55: Uh? Am I missing something?
"Dumping last lines of /tmp/bootinit.log...
etc
etc
Dumping last lines of kernel log...
etc
etc
etc
etc
*** puppy_slacko_4.2.sfs not found
***Error is too critical, dropping to console...
etc"
I didn't bother to save debug, too busy

[mistfire]

@Sage did you put the main sfs file to a subfolder? If yes, specify the folder name using psubdir kernel parameter in your bootloader. Otherwise put the main sfs file on the root folder of the drive

[Sage]

did you put the main sfs file to a subfolder

No - I didn't understand this part. I don't use laptops (see my previous), frequently I don't have an HD attached; my main use is for fast machine access, testing, diagnosis etc.
What exactly is the purpose of r55? r54 works just fine. Don't recommend listening to the the bleatings of every wannabe when you already have a very fine and functional product.

[mistfire]

@Sage it means that if you put puppy_xslacko_4.2.sfs on this manner /<folder name>/puppy_xslacko_4.2.sfs. If yes then specify the folder name on psubdir. for example if the puppy_xslacko_4.2.sfs was in the folder named boot then put this parameter on your bootloader --> psubdir=boot

r55 is just a bugfix of r54. The only difference was the kernel versions between those version. If you want to stick to r54. That will be fine.

If sfs files was still not found you can still use the initrd of r54 and try to boot again.

By the way I have a goal to build a fully functional yet power efficient puppy. A puppy that can match windows functionality but small size and fast.

[mistfire]

TIP: if you set pfix=initrd on startup. It will show only a command prompt. Only initrd and vmlinuz are loaded. It was very usable for troubleshooting initrd.

[Sage]

Thanks for explanation, misty. Suspect that few, if any, will bother with those manipulations. r54b is OK for now. Your goal sounds like a blockbuster - everyone will want it.

[mistfire]

@Sage I already considered called it r54b because I changed the kernel because I want to put a hibernation feature. However I realized that some scripts must be revised in order to support that. Even the initrd, init, and power management script must be revised. As a result it becomes some sort of overhaul so I have no choice but to name it r55 rather than r54b.

I hope that my ultimate goal reached.