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I downloaded and installed slacko 5.5 (k3.2.33). Looks beautiful and stable - and fast.

I did have some fun, however, with nvidia and VirtualBox.

I booted with nouveau.modeset=0, but both nouveau and vesa were loaded. report-video reported that nouveau was in charge xorg.conf voted for vesa. In any case, glxgears reported 35 fps with the FX5200 card.

The nvidia_legacy pet in the PPM was easily installed with dramatic increase in fps, but my Opera 12.14 standalone did not display correctly. The menu bar and a rectangle in the upper left corner of the screen showed squiggly lines instead of text. I have never seen this effect before with any number of puppies.

The simplest solution (although not the first tried) once again turned out to be the best. I located and installed the kernel sources and the OEM nvidia 173.14.36 run file. Problem solved. Opera once again performs.

vbox also presented a challenge. Once more, The Asterix came to the rescue, see: http://www.silverdollarsolutions.com/Pu ... guide.html.

The pet required is virtualbox-4.2.6-x86_src.install.pet, you will find it at the bottom of the page. Please note that it requires that the devx and kernel sources be installed before hand.

All in all - a really super pup!

I’ve got the menus back to working normally, by changing out the libgnome-menu.so.2.0.2 for the one out of Precise 5.4.3 in /usr/lib (the lib out of Precise is a little larger). Now the menus work correctly with the /etc/xdg/menus configuration files there.

In order to get xcompmgr in /usr/bin working, I had to drop back to an older one out of Slacko 5.3.3.

duke

anikin wrote:

majorfoo wrote:checked box for master and moved slider to right and all is now ok on this remaster
remastered again and same problem. Ideas ?

Have you tried setting audio via the terminal to see if it makes a difference:

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alsamixer

see examples of live cd, full install and remaster. Works great in live cd and full install - problem exists on remaster. I can get it to work after I boot the remastered copy by right clicking speaker icon in tray and checking the box beside master and changing the color from red to yellow. I would like for it to work at bootup of remastered cd like the live cd and full install

Hi majorfoo,
My point was, that typing "alsamixer" in the terminal would give you *direct* access to sound settings, and perhaps you can "catch" it there.

OscarTalks wrote:In the Slackware 14.0 Slacko Puppies, Deadbeef will only compile without ffmpeg support because of the more recent ffmpeg version (unless someone can point to a suitable patch). A lot of the functionality is still there via all the other plugins, but this is the main reason why I never posted a .pet for the latest Slackos. I believe you may also need to include libiconv (which you didn't in 5.3.3) but don't recall for certain. Are you looking for a .pet package with DEV files included?

Hi OscarTalks,
If it plays flac and wav, I'll be fine with it. DEV files are not needed.
Thank you.

Anikin,

I was having a tinker with DeaDBeeF and can upload a compile from source if you want but as I said it won't have ffmpeg support. In Precise, Pemasu came up with a way of avoiding the libiconv dependency involving juggling the headers, but either the method doesn't work in Slacko or I have forgotten exactly how we did it at the time so I would have to include the lib in the package which is not a major problem.

As a suggestion you might like to take a look at the static build version which (I believe) is a way of having DeaDBeeF with full functionality in Slacko 5.5

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=82026

Hi!
And thank you for the work with Puppy!

I did try the 5.5 in this : http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/detail. ... MIGR-42771
My newest P4 computer. 2.4GHz. A very nice Bios and so on. Seems to be a good one. Look for MODEL : 8307-73G of IBM Net Vista 8307 in that list.

But. Error Fail etc.. , it does boots up fine from CD. but can not start X grafic. Some 3-4 hours of probes and change things in xorgwizard ands so on, I have no idea what to do now..

PuppyPrecise5.4 did work yesterday before I erased that CD
So it is possible. At least before now, as I now also have tried with a reset of bios to defalult settings.. to get Slacko55 Xwin to start. But no luck.



In the bios it says "Brookdale-G" grafic chip.

At the homapage (Lenevo nowdays) it says "
Integrated Intel 845G (2D/3D graphics)

15-pin VGA output on planar
Intel Dynamic Video Memory Technology (DVMT)
AGP 4x equivalent speeds

For models without a separate video card, memory supports both system and video.
640 x 480, 16M colors (60, 72, 75, 85, 100, 120 Hz)
800 x 600, 16M colors (60, 72, 75, 85, 100, 120 Hz)
1024 x 768, 16M colors (60, 70, 75, 85, 100,120 Hz)
1152 x 864, 16M colors (60, 70, 75, 85,100 Hz)
1280 x 1024, 16M colors (60, 75, 85, 100 Hz)
1600 x 1200, 16M colors (60 Hz)
1920 x 1440, 64K colors (60, 75 Hz)
2048 x 1536, 64K colors (60Hz)"

These Brookdale graphics chips are a problem. When your CD boots up, there is an initial 5-second pause. Type Does that help? Mick will know better than me how to fix this.

_SWE wrote:Hi!
And thank you for the work with Puppy!

I did try the 5.5 in this : http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/detail. ... MIGR-42771
My newest P4 computer. 2.4GHz. A very nice Bios and so on. Seems to be a good one.

On Pentium machines with earlier graphics chips I use
Wary 5.5.
The earlier kernel and ability to choose i810 module
during setup often helps.

5.5-4g

Been looking for a replacement for the Win7 install on my
MSI Wind netbook for almost a year.

-Computer-
Processor : 2x Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU N270 @ 1.60GHz
Memory : 1542MB (126MB used)
Machine Type : Physical machine
Operating System : Slacko Puppy - 5.5
User Name : root (root)
Date/Time : Wed 06 Mar 2013 07:01:29 PM GMT-8
-Display-
Resolution : 1024x600 pixels
OpenGL Renderer : Mesa DRI Intel(R) 945GME x86/MMX/SSE2
X11 Vendor : The X.Org Foundation
-Audio Devices-
Audio Adapter : HDA-Intel - HDA Intel

Slacko 5.5 is great.

Did a full install to empty SATA drive using the new
"legacy_grub_ 2013 1.1."

http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 112#690112

Hey Mick, nice work on slacko.

Ethernet automatically working, video card recognized, although I use lower res then 1280x1024 automatically detected, I like that these new puppies come with dri built in although I guess my video card works better with some older pups but I don't have any lag for regular apps so far on 5.5.

-Computer-
Processor : AMD Sempron(tm) Processor 3000+
Memory : 1554MB (478MB used)
Machine Type : Physical machine
Operating System : Slacko Puppy - 5.5
User Name : root (root)
Date/Time : Thu 07 Mar 2013 06:48:08 PM CET
-Display-
Resolution : 1024x768 pixels
OpenGL Renderer : Mesa DRI R200 (RV280 5960) x86/MMX+/3DNow!+/SSE2 TCL DRI2
X11 Vendor : The X.Org Foundation
-Audio Devices-
Audio Adapter : NFORCE - NVidia CK8S
Audio Adapter : SAA7134 - SAA7134
-Input Devices-
AT Translated Set 2 keyboard
ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse
Power Button
Power Button
PC Speaker
saa7134 IR (ASUSTeK P7131 Analo
MCE IR Keyboard/Mouse (saa7134)
-Printers (CUPS)-
CUPS-PDF : <i>Default</i>
-SCSI Disks-
ATA WDC WD1600AAJS-0
ATA MAXTOR STM380211
HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-H12N

Micko, I'm not sure my "hang" problem starting one machine here is worth pursuing, but I want to
update you on something just in case you put effort into it. Recall I had mentioned that disconnecting
the cables from the DVD drive allowed slacko to start. But that was not the case when I tried both
PAE and 4G versions of 5.5. I can't get either to start. The message at the point of hang is:
Recognising media devices ... optical input_
where the last character is the frozen cursur. However, I've seen freezes where there was no
cursor, and also where there was no word "input" at the end.

The freezes only occur when attempting a fresh frugal. If I manage to get it started and create
a personal save file, I don't experience any more freezeups during startup.

The machine is a Dell Dimension 8200 with a p4 2.0 ghz cpu and 768 meg RAM. It does have
a USB 2.0 upgrade PCI card. I looked at the IRQ assignments in the BIOS and was tempted
to play with them, but the machine works fine and I don't want to mess it up i:) I did pull that
USB card but that didn't affect the freeze problem. The machine though does have a problem
when I try PLOP on a boot diskestte to get a puppy frugal on a USB drive to boot. PLOP works
fine on my other desktops, so this quirk is another oddity of the Dell 8200 that I don't know
the cause of.

Art

Here are some apps compiled on slacko 5.5

Fluxbox WM:
after install exit x then type "xwin startfluxbox"
fluxbox-1.3.5-i686-slacko55.pet

Optional:
fluxbox_STYLES-1.3.5-i686-slacko55.pet
fluxbox_DOC-1.3.5-i686-slacko55.pet


Ncurses IRC client
weechat-0.4.0-i686-slacko55.pet

Optional:
weechat_DEV-0.4.0-i686-slacko55.pet

Multiprotocol chat client:
pidgin-2.10.7-i686-slacko55.pet

Optional:
pidgin_NLS-2.10.7-i686-slacko55.pet
pidgin_DOC-2.10.7-i686-slacko55.pet
pidgin_DEV-2.10.7-i686-slacko55.pet

I am having trouble with connecting wirelessly with my rt2500 card, it works flawlessly in dpup.

rt2500 did not work with the previous slacko either.

I use Dougal's. Cannot figure it out. Tried Frisbee and the
Simple Network Setup and no luck at all.

Doglover, have you tried this workaround?

http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=84266

Hi _SWE and welcome to Puppyland

The PAE version has a newer kernel than the 4G version.You may find that one version may have better results in working with your hardware than the other, especially in an Out of the box (OOTB) boot.

Please ID which distro you are using so that community can replicate and assist.

I have found four missing font types in Slacko compared to Precise. The problem is the file “local.conf

Working great on my hardware.

Thanks,
Jim

Slack 5.5 4G

Tried on two different computers and wireless does not work on either.

Computer 1: Dell 11z with Broadcom wireless adapter. It can never connect so I blacklisted the one recognized by slacko and used a windows driver via ndiswrapper. That worked. However, after each shutdown/reboot with lightly encrypted save file, everything is lost and I had to re-connect. Tried the link posted by "artsown" and it did not make a difference.

Computer 2: This one has a RTL8192cu wireless adapter. Again slacko recognized it but can never connect. After blacklist the default driver and install a windows driver using ndiswrapper, it connected. However, after shutdown/reboot, it will not be automatically connected.

Downloaded pcmanfm from the repo. Several missing library files.

Other than that, things seem to work.

Thanks,

Slacko Puppy version 5.5, released Mar 2013
# uname -a
Linux puppypc32595 3.2.33-4g #1 SMP Fri Nov 2 20:42:54 EST 2012 i686 Intel(R) Core(TM) i3 CPU M 370 @ 2.40GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
# free
total used free shared buffers
Mem: 1804992 519916 1285076 0 26380
-/+ buffers: 493536 1311456
Swap:
# top
Mem: 533024K used, 1271968K free, 0K shrd, 28952K buff, 350504K cached
CPU: 4% usr 1% sys 0% nic 93% idle 0% io 0% irq 0% sirq
Load average: 0.08 0.16 0.21 2/113 6697

Uptime = 3 days and running perfect throughout - suspend / resume, wifi, browser, the lot - Luvly Puppy. Many thanks.

gcmartin wrote:Hi _SWE and welcome to Puppyland

The PAE version has a newer kernel than the 4G version.You may find that one version may have better results in working with your hardware than the other, especially in an Out of the box (OOTB) boot.

Please ID which distro you are using so that community can replicate and assist.

Hi! Sorry for the delay,
Yes, of course, I forgot that info.
The slacko 5.5"-4g" was the CD boot in IBM NetVista with problems.