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Lobster · Posted: Wed 17 Aug 2011, 11:18 Post subject:

. . . once in with vesa
I was able to install the much better ATI driver with Slickpet Cool

nooby · Joined: 29 Jun 2008 Posts: 9392 Location: SwedenEurope

I did a frugal install on Acer D250 10" small Netbook it has a single core Atom Intel CPU and intel chips for graphics.

I used pfix=ram to not catch any previous. But that was not a good thing because it totally failed to make 1024 x 768.

I ran it some 5 times and always failed to do 1024 x 768 only 1024 x 600.

I restarted the x several times but to no avail.

Then I gave up on using pfix=ram and moved the spup-312 pupsave file and renamed it to slackosave and that worked. Now I have 1024 x 768. It was difficult to get 1024 x 768 on spup too I had to retry the boot up several times.

In Lupu there never where these problems. What is different? Smile

Brown Mouse · Posted: Wed 17 Aug 2011, 11:59 Post subject:

No problems to report so far.
Sound and network connection present at boot.
Installed the Nvidia driver and now have glxgears working.
Added Opera,Chromium 15,Firefox Aurora and Thunderbird 3.1.9.
Will Firefox Aurora and Thunderbird be updatable at some stage?

Looking good Very Happy

aarf · Joined: 30 Aug 2007 Posts: 3620 Location: around the bend

ok fixed (attached)

Billtoo · Joined: 07 Apr 2009 Posts: 1497 Location: Ontario Canada

Manual frugal install.
On first boot wired network and sound good,screen resolution good too.
# report-video
VIDEO REPORT: Slacko Puppy, version 4.99.1

Chip description:
02:00.0 Multimedia video controller: Conexant Systems, Inc. CX23885 PCI Video
and Audio Decoder (rev 04)

Driver used by Xorg:
radeon

Video mode used by Xorg:
Resolution: "1920x1080" Depth: Depth 24

Installed mesa glx in slickpet and needed to run xorgwizard again to
get back to the desktop, I got an error after running glx gears:
# glxgears
glxgears: error while loading shared libraries: libxcb-glx.so.0: cannot open
shared object file: No such file or directory
#
Rebooted creating save file and loading devx.

Increased size of save file from menu then edited pupsaveresize.txt in
/mnt/home to 4194304 to save many reboots.
Rebooted.

Used ati_fglrx-11.7-k2.6.37.6-s.pet from slickpet and exited to prompt as
instructed to do "aticonfig --initial" but entering "xwin" got a black screen
which required holding down the off button to shut down the computer.
During reboot it did fsck and I chose Ignore and got back to the desktop.

Installed report-video-glx-0.4.pet and got this output from it:

Wed 17 Aug 2011 Operating System: Slacko Puppy-4.99.1 Linux 2.6.37.6
0.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Redwood PRO [Radeon HD 5500 Series]
oem: ATI ATOMBIOS product: REDWOOD 01.00

X Server: Xorg Driver: vesa
X.Org version: 1.9.5
dimensions: 1920x1080 pixels (507x285 millimeters)
depth of root window: 24 planes

direct rendering: Yes
server glx vendor string: ATI
server glx version string: 1.4
OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: ATI Radeon HD 5570
OpenGL version string: 4.1.10907 Compatibility Profile Context

AMD Phenom(tm) II X4 810 Processor
Core 0: 2592 1: 2592 2: 2592 3: 2592 MHz

# glxgears
39526 frames in 5.0 seconds = 7905.149 FPS
42060 frames in 5.0 seconds = 8411.975 FPS
42111 frames in 5.0 seconds = 8422.112 FPS

It's working good now I think Smile

majorfoo · Joined: 07 Mar 2011 Posts: 420 Location: Wish I knew

Booted live cd and used xorg-probe - accepted highlighted 1024x768
and desktop appeared. Looks good. Sound works and auto connected to internet using eth0 and dsl.

Tried downloading audacious 2.44 which had following depends
audacious-2.44 plugins
libmcs-0.7.2
libmowglp-0.71
libmtp-1.0.1
libsamplerate-0.17
openssl-solibs-0.98
sdl-1.2.14
wavpak-4.60.1

after downloading this 17mb and installing, was still missing libneon-so-27

Gave up-rebooted to clean desktop and installed audacious 3.0 lucid pet, which works great

next installed roxterm-1.17.1lucid pet and it also works great.

Not sure how many of the pets from lucid are going to work but will keep adding to see what happens.

majorfoo

aarf · Joined: 30 Aug 2007 Posts: 3620 Location: around the bend

tested couple of hours opera-next surfing and java chess , no crashes no issues.

Jim1911 · Joined: 19 May 2008 Posts: 2353 Location: Texas, USA

Hi 01micko,

Manual frugal installation on an ext4 partition. I refrained from adding any software other than the NVIDIA driver while I checked out the base files. My HP Photosmart 5280 installed fine Laughing

and everything appears to be working fine except for glx-gears. This beta distribution appears to be even faster than your last version which surprised me since it uses the same kernel. Now I'll give it a workout by adding my normal software. Thanks for all your hard work.

Cheers, Very Happy

Jim

rcrsn51 · Posted: Wed 17 Aug 2011, 16:00 Post subject:

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DaveS · Joined: 09 Oct 2008 Posts: 3669 Location: UK

seem to be having a whole load of problems, many with .pets such as right-click-4.9.4.pet, which worked fine in previous release. Missing icons from the menu too. Maybe my download is poor.

DaveS · Joined: 09 Oct 2008 Posts: 3669 Location: UK

Try switching icon sets via the desktop menu. Do you then end up with some menu items without icons?

DaveS · Joined: 09 Oct 2008 Posts: 3669 Location: UK

The pngoverlay thing is not working properly. Mount my Sd card correctly, but clicking the X to unmount it just brings up a rox window for it. I think this is a woof thing though?

nooby · Joined: 29 Jun 2008 Posts: 9392 Location: SwedenEurope

jim3630 · Joined: 13 Feb 2011 Posts: 793 Location: Northern Nevada

manual frugal install to ext4. broadcom spup pet installed and able to bring up wl driver. Sns failed to make wifi connection, see below.

Sns also failed when using broadcom wl.ko pet during 262 thru 528 development as reported at that time.

connection wizard incorrectly report success without an established wifi connection and upon rebooting the "saved" setting vanished requiring another setup process resulting in the wizard again erroneously reporting another success.

connection wizard also failed when using broadcom wl.ko pet during 262 thru 528 development as reported at that time.

rebooted installed frisbee which failed to make connection while erroneously reporting it was successful. see attached. Uninstalled frisbee.

rebooted and repeated sns which failed again timming out as did initially. then tried connection wizard again which erroneously reported success.

rebooted finding connection wizard did not save prior setting then frisbee again installed this time did make wifi connection. have not rebooted yet fearing the worst.

Sns failure report.

Information about this interface:
Interface: eth1 Driver: wl Bus: pci MacAddress: AC:81:12:1D:A9:5E
Description: x

STEP1a: ifconfig eth1 up
STEP1b: iwlist eth1 scan
eth1 Scan completed :
Cell 01 - Address: 00:19:E4:4B:D3:19
ESSID:"2WIRE789"
Mode:Managed
Frequency:2.457 GHz (Channel 10)
Quality:4/5 Signal level:-59 dBm Noise level:-98 dBm
Encryption key:on
Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s; 9 Mb/s
11 Mb/s; 12 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s; 24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s
48 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s
STEP1c: ifconfig eth1 down
STEP2: iwconfig eth1 mode managed
STEP3: iwconfig eth1 channel 10
STEP4: iwconfig eth1 essid "2WIRE789"
STEP5: iwconfig eth1 key restricted 9977453890
STEP5a: ifconfig eth1 up

ERROR, TIMEOUT. Have not got an Access Point.
Result of 'iwconfig eth1':
eth1 IEEE 802.11 ESSID:"" Nickname:""
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.457 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
Bit Rate:72 Mb/s Tx-Power:24 dBm
Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Power Managementmode:All packets received
Link Quality=5/5 Signal level=0 dBm Noise level=-93 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

STEP5: iwconfig eth1 key open 9977453890
STEP5a: ifconfig eth1 up

ERROR, TIMEOUT. Have not got an Access Point.
Result of 'iwconfig eth1':
eth1 IEEE 802.11 ESSID:"" Nickname:""
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.457 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
Bit Rate:72 Mb/s Tx-Power:24 dBm
Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Power Managementmode:All packets received
Link Quality=5/5 Signal level=0 dBm Noise level=-93 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

*********************************************************
LAST 10 LINES of /var/log/messages:
Aug 17 14:53:28 puppypc4375 daemon.debug dhcpcd[14081]: eth1: sending REQUEST (xid 0x72cad48d), next in 8.11 seconds
Aug 17 14:53:33 puppypc4375 daemon.info dhcpcd[14081]: eth1: broadcasting for a lease
Aug 17 14:53:33 puppypc4375 daemon.debug dhcpcd[14081]: eth1: sending DISCOVER (xid 0x5ec885e4), next in 4.38 seconds
Aug 17 14:53:38 puppypc4375 daemon.debug dhcpcd[14081]: eth1: sending DISCOVER (xid 0x5ec885e4), next in 7.06 seconds
Aug 17 14:53:45 puppypc4375 daemon.debug dhcpcd[14081]: eth1: sending DISCOVER (xid 0x5ec885e4), next in 16.37 seconds
Aug 17 14:53:53 puppypc4375 daemon.err dhcpcd[14081]: timed out
Aug 17 14:53:53 puppypc4375 daemon.warn dhcpcd[14081]: allowing 8 seconds for IPv4LL timeout
Aug 17 14:54:01 puppypc4375 daemon.debug dhcpcd[14081]: eth1: sending DISCOVER (xid 0x5ec885e4), next in 31.95 seconds
Aug 17 14:54:01 puppypc4375 daemon.err dhcpcd[14081]: timed out
Aug 17 14:55:42 puppypc4375 daemon.err dhcpcd[16764]: dhcpcd not running