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For all the wobblers out there (re compiz)....

Confirmed working with nouveau driver. Of course mesa must be installed, see slickpet or PPM.

You are warned that it is blacklisted, it seems safe to ignore the warning if you get a decent glxgears result [ >= 1500 f/5s (arbitrary number)] and nouveau works fine for you.

Remember.. install the compiz_helper-002.pet available in PPM first.Then select compiz from the slickpet sfs tab, get's loaded with sfs_load, then drop to a prompt and type "xwin dummy".. [dummy is for dummy WM!].

Happy wobbling wobblers!

Hi 01micko,

5.3.2.4 tested with frugal upgrades to both HD and then Flash Stick for about 4 hours in total. Tests were problem free.

My regards

Pmusic Pictorial....

meta info...



lyrics...



album art...



equalizer..



Yes there's more

Hi Mick,

Frugal installation of PAE version on ext4 partition with 4fs save created with shinobar's pupsaveconfig. Used your nouveau_unload and successfully installed the latest NVIDIA driver. Everything tested is working great.

Cheers,
Jim

Have been running 5.3.2.3 all day without problems.
Just noticed I'm out of date now

Sorry to brag about how dense I am
Are we suppose to use .4 or .40 and what is the difference between them?

Nooby. Check the first page about the information you asked.

nooby wrote:Sorry to brag about how dense I am
Are we suppose to use .4 or .40 and what is the difference between them?

Sun 19 Feb 2012 Operating System:Slacko Puppy-5.3.2.40 Linux 3.1.10-slacko_pae

40 is the pae kernel

Yet another fresh manual frugal install of 5.3.2.4 on the Athlon XP box. No problems.
Installed an Opera sfs and the Nvidia driver ... all looking good.

Though this was done using Microsoft, I just found out that PAE ourtuns non-PAE in MS VMs while reading and writing several testcase files of varying sizes.. Also, the "Hardinfo -r" (from a terminal window) also offers reports which validate my findings. This is on VM clients that are configured with 1GB RAM and Single-core processors.This compares to what was found when the community began discovery of PAE last spring-summer.

IFF SLACKO is for 2006+ PCs (everything I have tested thus far runs on PAE versions done by JamesBond, Pemasu, Smokey01, PupyLuver, BarryK, and 01Micko) then we may want to "standardize" on a single version for future development as it pertains to 2006+ PCs. This would have the benefit of freeing 01MIcko up slightly to focus of many of the behind the scenes things he does for all of us.

The performance in this SLACKO continues to be outstanding on all of my PC tests with PCs ranging from 1GB to 6GB on P4s, I7s, and X2s. All of these were also tested using his latest SAMBA. These tests were done with using SLACKO-SAMBA file sharing reading and writing to LAN PCs while also having file transfers simultaneously occurring in SLACKO-SeaMonkey.

Thank you for the progress of this contribution to this community.

Barry has posted a bug fix pet for the Rox-Filer focus problem.
Explained at his blog.
The updated pet is in a comment to the main blog post.
http://bkhome.org/blog/?viewDetailed=02698

ROX-Filer PET
http://distro.ibiblio.org/quirky/pet_pa ... ed-w5c.pet

Took me a while to work this out . . .

Do I need the PAE version?

normal slacko-5.3.2.4 - most users
PAE slacko-5.3.2.40 - those with 2006+ PCs or 4G or more of RAM

19 Feb 2012 RC2 includes the Seamonkey PNG security fix
have added temp link info for our intrepid Release Candidate testers
in Slacko tips
http://puppylinux.org/wikka/SlackoTips

01micko wrote: mavrothal: It is pure html5, I didn't do anything.

Boy, Seamonkey must have a very poor html5 implementation.
With, Google-Chrome the XO-1 is quite comfortable and the XO-1.5 almost perfect...

Hi Mick,
slacko (5.3.2.3-SCSI
CD-Live => pupsave (ext3)
Used nouveau=> unload it and successfully installed the latest NVIDIA driver : glxgears is good.

For the first time retrovol (its volume-slider) , Gplayer, Pmusic are good (about pmusic : its volume-slider is now good, not its balance-slider.).
ImpScreen is right.
The link of Pupsnpap 1.6.2 is broken. (PPM)

My computer running smoothly.
Everything tested is working well but it's only a quick test.
Today the snow is too good to let vierge. Un short tour of snowshoes is a must
The Slacko-tests for tonight.

Thanks for your job

All good...

Error message when unmounting drive partition

First time i have seen this. I am in Central US.

Above was using slacko 5.3.2.3

Edit: D/l 5.3.2.4 and did full install - Problem no longer exists.

Upgraded the manual frugal install of Slacko 5.3.1-Main including the pupsave to 5.3.2.4. Found 2 issues:-
1) Unable to reboot,restartX or exit to prompt - had to Crtl+Alt+backspace;
2) No network interface detected and had to add module rt73usb for my TP-Link-WN321G wireless usb adapter and setup wireless connectivity - now working.

Greatly appreciate your work,keeping Slacko up-to-date,constantly improving and fixing issues.

How about adding an "update" icon on the desktop where important and latest updates,notifications and fixes are made known and available just one click away, just like in Lighthouse Pup?

Really look forward to your final release.

Added: Wow,just discovered the amd-catalyst-driver-12-1 for slacko in the PPM repo, just what I wanted for my Radeon HD5450 graphics without having to install it myself using the usual method with devx and kernel source files. This is the 1st time the latest graphics card driver is made available so soon for puppies AFAIK,if I'm not wrong;thanks so much.

However,my problem of not being able to reboot,restart X or exit to prompt is still there. Would greatly appreciate any help.

Hi 01micko & all:

Manual frugal install of 5.3.3-RC2 to 4x AMD Phenom(tm) II X4 945 Processor using ATI Radeon 3100 Graphics. Haven't stumbled across any problems except as noted below. Starting pfix=ram: no problems. In fact, both mtpaint and Gimp were able to open the downloaded jpegs which previous version could not.
But as I like wbar and it takes some time to customize, initially I tried using the SaveFile I had created with 5.3.2.1, It loaded, but mtPaint would not start.
If you think it would be any help, I can reboot with 5.3.2.1 SaveFile, but you'll have to walk me thru any test routines. Or I can upload the jpegs which failed to load in 5.3.2.1.

mikesLr

01micko wrote:ok you guys, go to the first run, aka "Personalize Settings" in the Setup>System menu and turn off UTF-8, I bet it's borking the US locale which is installed by default to get around a different bug. The "C" locale errors will disappear and probably mtpaintsnapshot.sh will work.

I cannot follow your discussion. I am testing 5.3.2.4 with nvidia PET.
I chose en_US.UTF-8 and have no problem.

Wasn't it the issue of the /usr/share/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8 or something?

EDIT: i guess the issue is lacking the /usr/lib/locale/en_US.utf8 in the main sfs.
I can reproduce the error by deleting the directory /usr/lib/locale/en_US.utf8.

The woof creats /usr/lib/locale/en_US in the rc.country, but the /usr/lib/locale/en_US.utf8 not.
/etc/rc.d/rc.country at line 160-161: We can do this if we make en_US.UTF-8 as the default:

01micko wrote:upgraded to firstrun-1.8.4-4 with fixes from 1.9.6 (UTF-8 in main screen)

It is nice the direct to the desktop at the first boot.
But I have two questions:
First, why we need to mouse over the splash or to wait for a long time?
Second, I found your fixes against the firstrun-1.8.4, but why not the firstrun-1.9.6 as the base? 1.9.x are much faster than 1.8.x.