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Posted: Wed 27 Feb 2013, 22:56
by ally
powerapplet_tray does not run/display without battery (on dock) as older puppy version did (would show 'no batt' or similar)
powerapplet_tray has nicer icon spacing and mouseover than vattery
have also had a quick test of 5404 on an old IBM T21 and also eeepc 900, everything working so far
Posted: Thu 28 Feb 2013, 01:06
by 01micko
Yeah, powerapplet is a bit of a mess eh? Doesn't work on half of my lappies. It was the default woof download from wary5 repo, must be the wrong one. The one SFR linked fails too with my dud battery on my compaq-CQ-60. The one in 5.4.0.3 works, and if IIRC was patched by rodin.s and compiled on slacko. I'll post a link soon.
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I reported a bug in the main post for XOR (light) encryption. It actually works fine for ext2 filesystem, and it recommends that in the shutdown GUI, so that is a non issue .AES (heavy) works for ext2,3 and 4. No problem remounting the save file as reported by aarf on my blog late last year, so aarf, if you read this can you please test and post to my blog. Also I'll announce this on my blog and tweet it, never no, might snag a few more testers/users.
The qr-code in my sig is a link to my blog. I can give you an account if you leave a valid email, that way I don't have to srceen your post.
qr-code ----------- VVVVVVVVVV ----- (can scan with phone, droid or iOS with qr app)
Slacko 5.4.1 Beta
Posted: Thu 28 Feb 2013, 02:03
by Billtoo
After adding quite a few pets I remastered my 5404 pae cd.
I chose the custom option but tried the disk on another pc with an
nvidia graphics card, it didn't go straight to the desktop but went to
the prompt, running xorgwizard,choosing nvidia with the proper
resolution, then xwin to get to the desktop and all is good.
I booted with "puppy pfix=ram"
video-info-glx1.5.1 Wed 27 Feb 2013onSlackoPuppy 5.4.0.4 Linux 3.4.17-PAE i686
0.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G84 [GeForce8600GT](rev a1)
oem: NVIDIA
product: G84 Board - p402h00 Chip Rev
X Server: Xorg Driver: nvidia
X.Org version: 1.12.3
dimensions: 1440x900 pixels (373x231 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 8600 GT/PCIe/SSE2
OpenGL version string: 3.3.0 NVIDIA 310.32
Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz
Core 0: @1603 1: @1603 2: @1603 3: @1603 MHz
Very good, thanks.
Posted: Thu 28 Feb 2013, 02:08
by 01micko
I have posted a
comprehensive report to Barry on his blog regarding the "BUG". I hope he just doesn't dismiss it.
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Try this power_applet attached, just compiled from rodin.s' source.
Posted: Thu 28 Feb 2013, 03:26
by ally
noticed a minor problem in pmusic v3.2.1
the music progress bar and track name do not refresh ie bar stays still and track name does not change with changing of track
Posted: Thu 28 Feb 2013, 03:54
by 01micko
ally wrote:noticed a minor problem in pmusic v3.2.1
the music progress bar and track name do not refresh ie bar stays still and track name does not change with changing of track
Curios, working fine here. If it persists post to ziggy's pmusic thread.
Posted: Thu 28 Feb 2013, 04:23
by James C
01micko wrote:ally wrote:noticed a minor problem in pmusic v3.2.1
the music progress bar and track name do not refresh ie bar stays still and track name does not change with changing of track
Curios, working fine here. If it persists post to ziggy's pmusic thread.
FWIW, no problems with Pmusic here either...... appears to be working fine.
Actually, nothing bad to report at all.
Posted: Thu 28 Feb 2013, 06:15
by OscarTalks
Posting from Slacko 5.4.0.4 now on my nvidia FX 5200 card computer.
Booted with "puppy pfix=ram nouveau.noaccel=1" all OK. Installed the nvidia driver 173.14.36 .pet from PPM and all went OK too, glxgears gives around 2630 fps.
This machine is also sometimes problematic with the 2 sound cards but I ran MSCW rather than doing my usual edit of alsa-base.conf and have done a few reboots - so far so good.
Posted: Thu 28 Feb 2013, 07:45
by zigbert
01micko wrote:What about a simple button for the mixer like in the main gui?
That was how it was done for 3.2.1, but the frontend file never got into the pet
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Now fixed
Sigmund
Posted: Thu 28 Feb 2013, 08:18
by nooby
I use this Slacko now and are satisfied with it.
slacko-5.4-firefox-4g.iso
How are these slacko-5.4.0.4-4G.iso and slacko-5.4.0.4-PAE.iso different.
Yes I know there is some explanation on first post but I fail to get it.
One difference seems to be these later ones use Seamonkey.
I prefer Firefox due to it has the extensions that I am use to.
I have placed .mozilla on mnt/home or mnt/sda1 so
that would make it more complicated using seamonkey maybe?
Posted: Thu 28 Feb 2013, 09:58
by OscarTalks
Aha! Just booted again and this time the sound cards have loaded with the index numbers (0 and 1) the other way round, so the speaker icon in the tray has a red cross and the settings are messed up despite having run MSCW.
Clicking MSCW to open it is the easiest way to see which way round the 2 cards have been loaded (clicking "cancel" rather than "OK" to just close the window without running the wizard each time).
Posted: Thu 28 Feb 2013, 10:25
by zigbert
ally wrote:noticed a minor problem in pmusic v3.2.1
the music progress bar and track name do not refresh ie bar stays still and track name does not change with changing of track
Is this a problem for all playing, or is it related to specific files?
- I have seen ffmpeg trouble reading info of some files - it doesn't like it's format. The good thing is that ffmpeg 'always' plays the audio.
- Could it be a naming issue. We have earlier seen that using some special chars in filename could lead to trouble.
Screenshot?
Thanks for reporting
Sigmund
Posted: Thu 28 Feb 2013, 10:54
by ally
hey zibert
ok, can't reproduce today? system was left up too?
it started when expanding to full screen then back again but working ok now, only small issue today is volume slider is to left (no volume) even though volume not muted, moving slider to right and back again makes volume decrease
I was streaming a video last night so maybe processing issues, will try and recreate and post
screenshot wouldn't show much as the issue was a difference between track displayed and track playing, if I break it again I'll let you know!!!
Posted: Thu 28 Feb 2013, 14:13
by Sage
5.4.0.4:
No sound, can't switch it on. SB PCI card.
Still getting USA as locale, even after doing a pfix=ram,nox and setting LONDON in panels. Not a single developer is willing to address this oversight - doesn't happen in other distros. You da man, micko!
Firefox instead of Opera, blue instead of Earthrise. Retrogressive!
Sticking with previous version for the moment.
Otherwise, probably nothing you can't fix.
Posted: Thu 28 Feb 2013, 15:15
by SFR
01micko wrote:powerapplet_tray-2.6-i486-s14.pet
It's still fine.
nooby wrote:One difference seems to be these later ones use Seamonkey.
I prefer Firefox due to it has the extensions that I am use to.
If I remember correctly:
5.3.3: Seamonkey
5.4: Firefox or Opera
5.4.0.0 - 5.4.0.3: Opera
5.4.0.4: Firefox
ally wrote:only small issue today is volume slider is to left (no volume) even though volume not muted, moving slider to right and back again makes volume decrease
Same here (see screenshot).
pmusic --debug wrote:/usr/local/pmusic/pmusic: line 378: kill: (31627) - No such process
/usr/local/pmusic/func_mixer: line 126: [: =: unary operator expected
/usr/local/pmusic/func_mixer: line 127: [: =: unary operator expected
/usr/local/pmusic/func_mixer: line 129: [: : integer expression expected
/usr/local/pmusic/func_mixer: line 135: (200-(*100)/): syntax error: operand expected (error token is "*100)/)")
# grep: /root/.pmusic/tmp/ffmpeg_output: No such file or directory
grep: /root/.pmusic/tmp/ffmpeg_output: No such file or directory
grep: /root/.pmusic/tmp/ffmpeg_output: No such file or directory
grep: /root/.pmusic/tmp/ffmpeg_output: No such file or directory
...
and
/root/.pmusic/tmp/VOLUME is empty.
This helped me - /usr/local/pmusic/func_mixer, line 123:
Code: Select all
if [ ! "`amixer -c $CARD_NR get "$SPEAKER" | grep 'Mono:' | cut -d ':' -f 2`" ]; then #mono
(just added an exclamation mark)
...and now works ok both with Master (mono) as well as, eg. Headphone (stereo, i.e. "balance"), though I've no idea if this won't break functionality for those for whom everything works just as it is...
@Zigbert: sometimes it's hard to tinker in Pmusic's internals, because for some reason (killall?) when I have, for instance, 'func_mixer' opened in Geany and I will close Pmusic - Geany disappears also.
...or is It some kind of "anti-hacker protection"..?
Greetings!
Posted: Thu 28 Feb 2013, 19:47
by zigbert
Thanks to
SFR who solved this bug!
A new version of pMusic is uploaded.
SFR wrote:@Zigbert: sometimes it's hard to tinker in Pmusic's internals, because for some reason (killall?) when I have, for instance, 'func_mixer' opened in Geany and I will close Pmusic - Geany disappears also. Shocked
...or is It some kind of "anti-hacker protection"..?
I do everything possible to keep intruders out of the pMusic code. It is both secret and sacred.
Well, this is a known issue with many of the pSeries apps. It happens only if it is in the first tab of Geany. At shutdown, pMusic reads 'ps' and kills all pids one by one. On the other side, I have not seen this behavior lately..... The code (-quit) is found in /usr/local/pmusic/func (line 606 in 3.3 branch)
Sigmund
Posted: Thu 28 Feb 2013, 21:09
by peebee
Hi Mick
I seem to have lost my battery monitor with 5.4.0.4 4g version.....
Cheers
Peter
Posted: Thu 28 Feb 2013, 21:18
by 01micko
peebee wrote:Hi Mick
I seem to have lost my battery monitor with 5.4.0.4 4g version.....
Cheers
Peter
Try the one on the previous page, TBH, I don't think it's any better, I might even roll back to the one in 5.4 and do a proper compile of vattery as alternate in PPM.
Posted: Thu 28 Feb 2013, 22:34
by peebee
01micko wrote:peebee wrote:Hi Mick
I seem to have lost my battery monitor with 5.4.0.4 4g version.....
Cheers
Peter
Try the one on the previous page, TBH, I don't think it's any better, I might even roll back to the one in 5.4 and do a proper compile of vattery as alternate in PPM.
Hi Mick
Thanks - powerapplet_tray-2.6-i486-s14.pet works for me - sorry that I didn't find it for myself....
Cheers
Peter
Re: Slacko 5.4.1 Beta
Posted: Thu 28 Feb 2013, 22:36
by 01micko
Billtoo wrote:
I'll attach the htop and cmus pets that I made, also made pets of
fox-1.6.47-i686.pet and xfe-1.34-i686.pet but they are too large to attach.
Htop and cmus are added to PPM. Can you upload xfe and fox somewhere please?