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01micko
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Re: Slacko B5

#16 Post by 01micko »

rcrsn51 wrote:
01micko wrote:changes and updates to slickpet 1.3.3
added psip32r to front page, removed Pwidgets
"Telephony" is mis-spelled.
I pondered on that one awhile! :lol:
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Volhout
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holiday

#17 Post by Volhout »

Micko,

relaxing is not very efficient if you keep posting on the forum ....

Take a beer, sit on the veranda, view a movie, anything but linux....

Volhout

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#18 Post by chrismt »

Micko,

Testing this build. No problems so far. Even my old realtek wireless usb adapter is working properly :D

What should I do to get Facebook Video chat working?

JonT
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#19 Post by JonT »

Manual frugal install of B5 on Dell Inspiron 1100. Booted to desktop, no issues
What worked OTB:
  • Brookdale mod
    Flynclient mod (synaptics touchpad here)
    Sound
    Volume setter icon in tray
    Frisbee
    Mplayer with mp4 file
    Shutdown highlighting
What didn't:
  • time setter, seem to GMT-5 regardless of choice - tried a selection;however,
    /etc/localtime points to the selcted zone, but the arithmetic does't happen
    occasional black screen on reboot, especially, it seems, when hot...
    another brooky problem on all??? newer kernels, xorgs, ... not to worry
Liked rockstar more than I expected! ... I'm no longer close to being young

Enjoy the time off,start soon :D

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#20 Post by nooby »

The shutdown problem was that only affecting full installs?

Is B5 then better than B4 or should one go back to B3 or B2 or what.

Sorry I fail to follow all the things happening.
I use Google Search on Puppy Forum
not an ideal solution though

Volhout
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eee PC

#21 Post by Volhout »

The wireless driver (RT2800) included in B5 does support the RT3090 chip in the eee PC, but cannot connect. Error message, same as in Wary 5199.
Error message "non WPA".

Volhout

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IBM Thinkpad test

#22 Post by peebee »

Hi Mick

Thought it was time to try slacko B5 on my ancient IBM Thinkpad laptop.

Good news is - it works fine except I had problems getting the Neomagic driver to work. If I did probe then I got the vesa driver. So I specifically chose the Neomagic driver. There are no diagnostics to report as xwin just never produced a display - it just sat for a bit and then went to command prompt #

As I had been able to boot correctly to the desktop on Exprimo I decided to copy the xorg.conf file across from Exprimo and this then worked fine in slacko. I can pm you the xorg.conf file if that is useful.

Cheers
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Suspend menu item?

#23 Post by peebee »

Hi Mick

A small request / suggestion....

As slacko b5 contains /etc/acpi/actions/suspend.sh which works great (as an alternative to closing the laptop lid)....

Would it be possible to add a "Suspend" entry into the Shutdown menu?

Thanks
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#24 Post by Jim1911 »

Hi Mick,

I've tried to use your pets2sfs in slacko B5. I placed the pets that I wanted to convert in a directory called pets and executed

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pets2sfs pets-1
The result was a pets-1.sfs file that is empty. Any ideas?

Thanks,
Jim

gcmartin

JRE in B5

#25 Post by gcmartin »

Non-critical
Using SlickPET > More Pets > JAVA, I am being shown SFS file donwloads instead of the expected PET files for JRE.
Also
01Micko wrote:Changes this issue:

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 ... 
-unmount ALL drives/filesystems before shutting down. 
 ... 
Thanks. I think you understand why with this change.

Hope this helps

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#26 Post by jim3630 »

usual frugal install to ext4. installed broadcom wl.ko pet sns and connection wizard as usal unable to make connection. installed frisbee from menu then made wifi connection without issue. installed mesa... from slickpet without issue. so far all works without issue.

gcmartin

Slacko B5 systems report

#27 Post by gcmartin »

Live media use of SLACKO. System overall responsiveness very good.

Observation:
On boot (pfix-ram) system stops to request "Probe-Config-Vesa".
Question
Is there an option to bypass this to allow FirstRUN to handle this like it used to?

Observation
After Video selections, system proceeds to desktop. Once at desktop, there is a very long wait before FirstRUN (Personalize Settings) pops to desktop to allow necessary system tailoring.
Question
If a long wait is to occur normally, should there be a "Please Stand-by" message?

Observation
Did not see following reports in Menu (s)
Question
Should Report-Video-GLX and Sys-Info be in the Menu for reporting system setup and behavior?

A system report is attached for observation.


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#28 Post by jim3630 »

noticed an apparent error in readings between htop and hardtop regarding memory usage.
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All OK with Ati Radeon 3100 Graphics

#29 Post by mikeslr »

Hi 01micko & All,

After checking that I had not installed into Beta4 any pets effected by Beta5's installation, did a simple upgrade to Beta5, to wit: while in Lupu deleted Beta4's boot files and unpacked Beta5's boot files into Slacko directory, preserving my SaveFile. Rebooted into Slacko Beta5. All was well except minor inconvenience of again having to remove unwanted desktop icons.
I do like the GTK rockstar theme.
01micko -- you'll have to stop doing such a great job or we users will grow to expect it and be disappointed on rare occasions.
Not exactly a criticism, just a source of temporary confusion I hadn't mentioned. In Beta4 (continued in Beta5) you changed the icon used by "show desktop" on the tray. At first I didn't realize what was there, thinking I now had 3 virtual desktops and no "show desktop" on the tray. When I figured it out, I tried to change the icon, but it wouldn't accept a "png" file --'though I could use a png file when adding "Snapshot" to the tray. Perhaps I did something wrong?

I've attached my wallpaper for others who prefer natural to abstract. Puppy is my only concession to the canine world as I am a "cat person," ergo "Slacker Cat." Don't know who I stole it from.

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#30 Post by pemasu »

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 235#568235

Joe Wing is back. New JWM binary fixes the fullscreen bug.

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Slacko B5

#31 Post by majorfoo »

Booted live cd
probe detected 1024x768 screen
sound = ok
auto connect to internet =ok
seamonkey-2.4 = ok
setup printer = ok

next
full install to ext4 partition
probe detected 1024x768 screen
sound = ok
auto connect to internet - did not work on boot of full install, however, did work on boot of live cd - strange
seamonkey-2.4 = ok
setup printer = ok

shutdown and rebooted = no problems on shutdown - reboot clean

added pets from my save partition and have not encountered any problems at this point.

Working great for me.

majorfoo

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#32 Post by jim3630 »

pemasu wrote:http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 235#568235

Joe Wing is back. New JWM binary fixes the fullscreen bug.
pemasu thanks!

gcmartin

#33 Post by gcmartin »

Java in SLACKO
I have already reported on QuickPET issue in its Menu.

Here's an issue with PPM to add JAVA to SLACKO. The problem is easy installation issues because of the dependency requirement.

It would be nice to know how I should proceed to install JAVA in Slacko. Here's what happened to JRE.
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#34 Post by eternal-sunshine »

Just made a frugal install of B5 and have the following observations (hope some of it may help):

1. No need any more for acpi=force in Grub nor 01micko's acpi.pet to make a shutdown. Good news.

2. Installed Opera from slickpet but it isn't seen in the Change Browser Default menu selection.

3. And installing Browser-default from slickpet still suggests it's to be found other than where it is ie in Utility.

4. Trivial typo in slickpet
Transmissiom
.

5. I understand the reason why 01Micko doesn't want to put dependancies in slickpet (chromium 15 is still there by the way) but when I tried to install Chromium 16.0.881-slacko instead from slickpet (or at DaveS's suggestion using Playdayz's version from the forum...but I think they are the same though) this time it doesn't tell me I need any dependancies but still won't run, despite appearing in the Default Browser list. From the cmd line it reports
Illegal Instruction.
What is it missing??

6. And if some kind soul could look into why OOoLight.sfs (see http://download.ooolight.org/) isn't recognised in B5 but is in for example Puppy528 that would be really appreciated.

Many thanks

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#35 Post by jpeps »

gcmartin: what, you didn't like DGmod? (I think someone is color blind :) )

I left slacko running for a few hours, and when I returned:

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Mem: 879096K used, 155416K free, 0K shrd, 78828K buff, 628472K cached
After cleaning cache:

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Mem: 186180K used, 848332K free, 0K shrd, 2512K buff, 46768K cached

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