Slacko 5.3.3-RC2 (5.3.2.4[0])

[majorfoo]

Created new iso for 5.3.1.3 using delta files

Booted to desktop - no problem
sound - ok
internet connection - auto connected

Did full install to ext4 partition and installed several items from my storage partition.

Everything working well. Very fast bootup

Thanks for all your hard work on this series and good luck on your upcoming studies.

majorfoo

[peebee]

Hi Mick

Pristine manual frugal install of 5.3.1.3 on my HP550 laptop.

Don't know if you were expecting any change in behaviour - but B43 still not detected and loaded automatically - all fine once loaded manually.

Relevant files at first boot are attached FYI.

All best wishes for the future and many thanks for all your efforts in the past.
Cheers
peebee

[James C]

Interestingly, 5.3.1.3 will not boot on the Athlon XP box.Did a manual frugal install and no boot. Tried the cd pfix=ram and no boot.

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Loading initrd.gz..............................................................................ready.
_

Freezes with a blinking "_".

Well, worked pretty well on the quad-core.

[01micko]

Thanks peebee,

Well that's a showstopper (b43, the reason I added full udev) and I don't have time to wait around for a fix. I'll be reverting the kernel to 2.6.39.4 NON PAE for the MAIN version, bit of a bugger though it saves me work actually! (drivers for PAE are already compiled)

I will post my kernel and build scripts for those who want to hack around.

[James C]

Interestingly, 5.3.1.3 will not boot on the Athlon XP box.Did a manual frugal install and no boot. Tried the cd pfix=ram and no boot.

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Loading initrd.gz..............................................................................ready.
_

Freezes with a blinking "_".

Well, worked pretty well on the quad-core.

Boots on a regular old P4 as well.Everything working as expected.

# report-video
VIDEO REPORT: Slacko Puppy, version 5.3.1.3

Chip description:
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82865G Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02)

Driver used by Xorg:
intel

Video mode used by Xorg:
Resolution: "1024x768" Depth: Depth 24

...the above also recorded in /tmp/report-video

-Computer-
Processor : Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz
Memory : 512MB (133MB used)
Operating System : Unknown distribution
User Name : root (root)
Date/Time : Sun 22 Jan 2012 03:15:27 PM CST
-Display-
Resolution : 1024x768 pixels
OpenGL Renderer : Unknown
X11 Vendor : The X.Org Foundation
-Multimedia-
Audio Adapter : ICH4 - Intel ICH5

# free
total used free shared buffers
Mem: 512568 417400 95168 0 49028
-/+ buffers: 368372 144196
Swap: 1124512 0 1124512
#

[MinHundHettePerro]

MHHP is lagging behind again !

Just wanted to say that slacko-5.3.1.2 worked nicely on my gear.

Cheers / MHHP

[James C]

Just wanted to say that slacko-5.3.1.2 worked nicely on my gear.

Here too. I'm reverting back to 5.3.1.2 on the Athlon XP box right now.Already booting as I post....

[jim3630]

5.3.3.-a3 hdd frugal install pfix=ram on dual core p6100 hp, frisbee connect to wifi same, detected hdmi connected ext monitor at correct resolution. multi-sound card worked for ext sound. mplayer works oob.

had to exit to command line> xorgwizard to change resolution otherwise menu xorgwizard would not change resolution.

seems odd md5sum symlinked to custom menu does not work but md5sum works from command line. thanks mick

[01micko]

The new kernel is mainly the result of my hacking on Iguleder's build scripts, refinements, bugfixes. The DOTconfig is identical, big difference is the BFS patch by Con Kolivas, which may be the problem with your Athlon James. I didn't try to boot mine yet, will be superfluous the result!

If someone fixes the b43 issue I'd be happy to stick with k3.1.9, seemed pretty good to me (after the false start ). I have PM'd Barry, but he's still on Holidays. Likely will be too late for Slacko given my time constraints.

In saying that, if it get's fixed after release then it would be easy to make an update.

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jim3630

I don't understand what you are doing with md5sum... ..got a link?

Anyway, I made a gui md5sum checker if that's what you are after, pretty simple stuff. Might make an app out of it yet. (script attached)

[James C]

The new kernel is mainly the result of my hacking on Iguleder's build scripts, refinements, bugfixes. The DOTconfig is identical, big difference is the BFS patch by Con Kolivas, which may be the problem with your Athlon James. I didn't try to boot mine yet, will be superfluous the result!

Not a big deal, just surprised me.

Went ahead and installed 5.3.1.3 on the old P4 just to experiment with.
Anyway, k-2.6.39.4 is a good kernel and well tested.

[jim3630]

jim3630

I don't understand what you are doing with md5sum... ..got a link?

Anyway, I made a gui md5sum checker if that's what you are after, pretty simple stuff. Might make an app out of it yet. (script attached)

mick

sorry no link

i just right click on any iso, choose customize menu, symlink dialog box appears then drag md5sum from usr/bin into the box and make a symlink. right click on iso then shows md5sum in the menu but it will not check the iso.

pretty sure this is the same way have used in the past in other maybe in slacko pups.

thanks for the gui.

[peebee]

Thanks peebee,

Well that's a showstopper (b43, the reason I added full udev) and I don't have time to wait around for a fix. I'll be reverting the kernel to 2.6.39.4 NON PAE for the MAIN version, bit of a bugger though it saves me work actually! (drivers for PAE are already compiled)

I will post my kernel and build scripts for those who want to hack around.

Hi Mick

I feel a bit bad to be a "showstopper".... especially as it seems to work fine with just a little manual intervention - it would be nice to hear from other b43 users.

Cheers
peebee

[Billtoo]

Billtoo, maybe your module is missing for cpu scaling, did it work in the 3.1.9 kernel?

I guess it doesn't matter now but I got the same result with the 3.1.9 kernel.
It shows the root directory instead of options for the utility.

[pemasu]

That is a known bug. Karl Godt posted the fix on racy thread.

[01micko]

Thanks for explanation jim3630
Is that one of don570's "right click" things? Reason I ask is that I can't see how that would work without a wrapper script.

@ peebee... don't feel bad mate! There's nothing wrong with going back a kernel or 3 , just wont have the very latest drivers. If I had more time I'd get it fixed but I've spent enough on that issue. It's got to be a timing issue in the init script. It will one day be fixed. Does this happen in Racy? Hasn't that got a 3X kernel?

[peebee]

@ peebee... don't feel bad mate! Does this happen in Racy? Hasn't that got a 3X kernel?

Hi Mick

Yep - happens in Racy5.2.2 - was reported to Barry - that's why the firmware got unpacked.....so the only thing needed was the modprobe.

Has been the same for all k3 puppies except for the recent lupu528+k318 from wuxiandianzi (earlier ones had the problem).

Cheers
peebee

[01micko]

That is a known bug. Karl Godt posted the fix on racy thread.

for cpu scaling? I'll keep it in mind

[pemasu]

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy//viewt ... 286#592286

[jim3630]

Thanks for explanation jim3630
Is that one of don570's "right click" things? Reason I ask is that I can't see how that would work without a wrapper script.

mick maybe it is one of don's things. don't recall where got it and without a wrapper script is why don't work you'd know better than me.

your gui script works thanks.

[mavrothal]

Hi Mick

Pristine manual frugal install of 5.3.1.3 on my HP550 laptop.

Don't know if you were expecting any change in behaviour - but B43 still not detected and loaded automatically - all fine once loaded manually.

Try to see if adding this line in the /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit immediately after:
"echo "LOAD KERNEL MODULES"
echo -n "Loading kernel modules..." >/dev/console"
Will help auto detecting the driver.

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udevadm trigger --action=add --subsystem-match="net"

If this fails try this patch

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--- a/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit	2011-09-21 23:53:37.000000000 +0300
+++ b/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit	2012-01-23 12:04:33.232216145 +0200
@@ -271,6 +271,27 @@
 echo "LOAD KERNEL MODULES"
 echo -n "Loading kernel modules..." >/dev/console
 
+#my intention is for puppy to work with either of these...
+if [ -f /sbin/udevd ];then
+ #100611 UDEV_LOG=2 to prevent non-critical o/p to screen at bootup and shutdown...
+ UDEVVER=`udevd --version`
+ if [ $UDEVVER -gt 150 ];then
+  #100611 v151 is recommended for kernel 2.6.27+.
+  #110502 change 'never' to 'early', fixes device nodes created with correct owner:group...
+  UDEV_LOG=2 /sbin/udevd --daemon --resolve-names=early
+ else
+  UDEV_LOG=2 /sbin/udevd --daemon
+ fi
+ udevadm trigger
+ udevadm settle  #  May take 2 minutes during the "Loading Modules" step !!!  
+else
+ #note, this script is no longer in Puppy.
+ pup_event_backend_d >/tmp/pup_event_backend_errors 2>&1 & #hotplug daemon. my homebrew replacement for udevd.
+fi
+sleep 0.1
+
+
 MODALIASES="`ls /sys/bus/*/devices/*/modalias`"
 
 #101119 new /sbin/pup_event_backend_modprobe, these must be deleted every boot...
@@ -304,22 +325,6 @@
  #...perhaps a udev rule could have done this?
 fi
 
-#my intention is for puppy to work with either of these...
-if [ -f /sbin/udevd ];then
- #100611 UDEV_LOG=2 to prevent non-critical o/p to screen at bootup and shutdown...
- UDEVVER=`udevd --version`
- if [ $UDEVVER -gt 150 ];then
-  #100611 v151 is recommended for kernel 2.6.27+.
-  #110502 change 'never' to 'early', fixes device nodes created with correct owner:group...
-  UDEV_LOG=2 /sbin/udevd --daemon --resolve-names=early
- else
-  UDEV_LOG=2 /sbin/udevd --daemon
- fi
-else
- #note, this script is no longer in Puppy.
- pup_event_backend_d >/tmp/pup_event_backend_errors 2>&1 & #hotplug daemon. my homebrew replacement for udevd.
-fi
-sleep 0.1
 
 #replay uevents from /sys...
 for ONEMODALIAS in $MODALIASES

PS Also could you post the output of the following command, before and after you manually load broadcom driver.

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for x in $(udevadm trigger --dry-run --verbose); do udevadm info --query=all --path=$x; done