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#241 Post by James C »

I've got another old box off the shelf so Slacko Beta 1 live pfix=ram.Everything working on boot.Pretty quick.


VIDEO REPORT: Slacko Puppy, version 4.99.1

Chip description:
oem: NVIDIA
product: NV18 Board - p119s0nz Chip Rev A4

Driver used by Xorg:
nv

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

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


-Computer-
Processor : AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3800+
Memory : 2074MB (168MB used)
Operating System : Unknown distribution
User Name : root (root)
Date/Time : Wed 24 Aug 2011 02:15:15 AM CDT
-Display-
Resolution : 1024x768 pixels
OpenGL Renderer : Unknown
X11 Vendor : The X.Org Foundation
-Multimedia-
Audio Adapter : VIA8237 - VIA 8251

Multimedia audio controller : VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller
Ethernet controller : VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine-II]
VGA compatible controller : nVidia Corporation NV18 [GeForce4 MX 4000]

# free
total used free shared buffers
Mem: 2074824 455736 1619088 0 59592
Swap: 0 0 0
Total: 2074824 455736 1619088

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#242 Post by Sage »

Processor : AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3800+
That's not 'old', Jim lad! There's been an argument raging on DWW about the K6-II/III not being an i586. ipso facto, as I said many times, anything from this millennium qualifies as 'new'. Just wondering if I did bring an i386 with me....

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#243 Post by Sage »

...strange things happening on the board, today!

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#244 Post by nooby »

Sage wrote:...strange things happening on the board, today!
I have found what you refer to now. Yes it would be better if him had asked first. But I am not a Mod so I should say nothing.
I use Google Search on Puppy Forum
not an ideal solution though

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#245 Post by wuwei »

When I open the terminal in Slacko, I see these 3 lines:

Any idea, how to get rid of them?
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#246 Post by James C »

Back again from yet another different box. Slacko Beta1 live pfix=ram.Everything working as expected on initial boot.


VIDEO REPORT: Slacko Puppy, version 4.99.1

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: "1440x900" Depth: Depth 24

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

-Computer-
Processor : 2x Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.60GHz
Memory : 2593MB (149MB used)
Operating System : Unknown distribution
User Name : root (root)
Date/Time : Thu 01 Sep 2011 01:39:56 AM CDT
-Display-
Resolution : 1440x900 pixels
OpenGL Renderer : Unknown
X11 Vendor : The X.Org Foundation
-Multimedia-
Audio Adapter : ICH4 - Intel ICH5

# free
total used free shared buffers
Mem: 2593648 462840 2130808 0 58084
Swap: 0 0 0
Total: 2593648 462840 2130808
#

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#247 Post by Stripe »

hi all

pwidgets link in ppm not working for pwidgets

just a couple of other pets I have been using and seem to work OK with slacko

Firefox-6.0-lucid525.pet (automatically updates as well)

and for the tin foil hat brigade (me included :lol: )

TOR-Browser-1.1.13-Lucid52.pet
FolderEnc-1.0.pet

hope this helps
stripe

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#248 Post by Jades »

Sage wrote:There's been an argument raging on DWW about the K6-II/III not being an i586.
Well, Puppy reckons the K6 II is i586 (see the HardInfo report for Zhaan in my sig) so who am I to argue? ;-) Another clue is that pets specifically compiled for i686 bomb out with an Illegal Instruction error on that machine.
Zhaan - AMD K6 2 500, 512MB RAM, ATI Rage 128 VR. Full install Wary 5.5 [url=http://tinyurl.com/dy66kh8]HardInfo Report[/url]
Merlin - Core i5-4590, 8GB RAM, Radeon R9 270X. Slacko 5.7.0

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#249 Post by Sage »

As I read it, the doubt surrounded whether the K6- II & III were i486 or i586. There really isn't any doubt that it is not an i686. Maybe the rare K6-III s behaved more like i586, but the K6-II was a longer series spanning more fsb s, so might return either 4 or 5-86.

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remasterpup2

#250 Post by rodin.s »

remasterpup2 doesn't work. I have fixed it. Tested in Slacko but should work in Wary as well.
AMD K6-3D is i586.
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#251 Post by 01micko »

Thank you rodin.s

Any way you can think of to integrate your Russian keyboard fix to xorgwizard/countrywizard?

And yes, I have always understood that K6 is i586.

Some things in Slacko are compiled i686 to take advantage of the new features, ffmpeg is the main one.
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#252 Post by Stripe »

hi all

cant get my laptop to boot slacko, I get as far as testing the driver clicking on ok and the machine freezes with a black screen, have tried probe as well as vesa (which works in the lucid pups) but still get the same problem.

how would I find which graphics the machine is using so that I could try and get the right driver

cheers
stripe

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#253 Post by 01micko »

Stripe wrote:hi all

cant get my laptop to boot slacko, I get as far as testing the driver clicking on ok and the machine freezes with a black screen, have tried probe as well as vesa (which works in the lucid pups) but still get the same problem.

how would I find which graphics the machine is using so that I could try and get the right driver

cheers
stripe
Stripe, try this at boot.

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puppy pfix=ram,nox
Then run :

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lspci -nn|grep -i vga
Write it down :wink:

EDIT:

Ok, saw your post about the new lappy, raffy reported to me it needs the latest AMD-radeon drivers, I'll get on to it :wink:
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#254 Post by Stripe »

thanks mick

00:01.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: ATI Technologies Inc Device [1002:9804]

hope that makes sense to you :lol:

stripe

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#255 Post by bigpup »

Stripe wrote:hi all

cant get my laptop to boot slacko, I get as far as testing the driver clicking on ok and the machine freezes with a black screen, have tried probe as well as vesa (which works in the lucid pups) but still get the same problem.

how would I find which graphics the machine is using so that I could try and get the right driver

cheers
stripe
I was under the impression that the Vesa video driver would work with any video card. So far that has held true for me.
It uses the basic video capability built into the video card.
The most common problem with Vesa driver is trying to use a resolution setting that the driver can not handle.
It only works with basic resolution settings.
640x480, 800x600, 1024x768, 1280x1024, etc....
The things they do not tell you, are usually the clue to solving the problem.
When I was a kid I wanted to be older.... This is not what I expected :shock:
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#256 Post by James C »

bigpup wrote:
Stripe wrote:hi all

cant get my laptop to boot slacko, I get as far as testing the driver clicking on ok and the machine freezes with a black screen, have tried probe as well as vesa (which works in the lucid pups) but still get the same problem.

how would I find which graphics the machine is using so that I could try and get the right driver

cheers
stripe
I was under the impression that the Vesa video driver would work with any video card. So far that has held true for me.
It uses the basic video capability built into the video card.
The most common problem with Vesa driver is trying to use a resolution setting that the driver can not handle.
It only works with basic resolution settings.
640x480, 800x600, 1024x768, 1280x1024, etc....
Maybe most but certainly not all. Just put a new mobo,with onboard Nvidia graphics,on my old AMD dual-core box about a month ago and Vesa mostly just refuses to start X or if it starts X it'll freeze the computer solid before I can get a Nvidia driver installed.

Works fine with the "nouveau" driver ootb so I've been running FatDog. :)

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#257 Post by Stripe »

hi all

a couple of bits more of hardware info

chip: amd dual core c-50
graphics: amd radeon hd 6250

bigpup I am supprised that vesa did not work as it works with lucid 528 on the same machine

jamesc I have never had much luck with nouveau and nvidia graphics

cheers
stripe

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#258 Post by nooby »

chip: amd dual core c-50
graphics: amd radeon hd 6250
Could it be that these companies have not given out code that works good with linux so the kernel devs have to work out by guess instead of having first hand knowlege? It is sad.

I wish very many was using linux and that each of us could pay for to set these codes free so all linux would work good on any hardware.
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Russian keyboard fix

#259 Post by rodin.s »

01micko wrote:Any way you can think of to integrate your Russian keyboard fix to xorgwizard/countrywizard?
I usually put it into my langpack-pets. The script is executed in pinstall.sh and proper layout is set automatically and a person doesn't need to do manual setup with wizard. I also put a link to it in /root/Startup so if xorgwizard was executed and xorg.conf regenerated then proper layout is set automatically. I have changed the script a little so it could except language as a parameter but I don't know if it could be useful in other languages. If it's only for Russian then it's easy: locale detect in script in /root/Startup:

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#!/bin/sh
# Automatic xkblayout setup for Russian.
locale | grep -q ru
if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
#fbxkb &  #could be used as indicator.
/usr/local/bin/xkblng ru
fi
exit 0 
Also fbxkb is used as a keyboard layout indicator.
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This one is ready to use in Slacko. My scripts plus fbxkb. It has only 3 flags: us, ru, ua to save space. I can post the rest
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fbxkb-i486-w5-0.4.3.pet
Fbxkb with similar scripts. It sets up Ukrainian and Russian layouts. As an example.
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xkblng.gz
this one should be in /usr/local/bin
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#260 Post by Stripe »

:lol: :lol: yahoo :lol: :lol:

I am in

I got in by using xvesa instead of xorg with the vesa driver (even though that wouldnt work yesterday?? :? )

will play streamed video (flash) fullscreen at 480p no problem (starts to split/stutter at higher resolutions)

got the sound working by using playdayz's sound card wizard (had to choose the analog option), but it only has the master channel in alsamixer and the volume control in the taskbar does not work, so I am having to adjust the volume using alsamixer and the keyboard sound control does not work either. (it did with windoze 7 before I binned it)

is there a config file that could be edited to link the taskbar volume control to the master channel?

thanks for all the help
stripe :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

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