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

+1 for gz

Jades · Posted: Thu 06 Oct 2011, 14:54 Post subject: Re: Working!!!!

Tman · Joined: 22 Jan 2011 Posts: 732 Location: Toronto

Finally got around to testing Slacko B5. First impressions: not a fan of the default Jwm or Gtk theme, but the desktop icons are nice.

Detected the nv driver and the soundcard correctly on my 'Desktop2'.
Added Pwidgets, Startmount, from Lucid-repo and defaults-chooser. No crashes so far.

Major issue:
Gnome Mplayer would not play .VOB files, whereas version 1.03 in Lucid Puppy 5.2.8 works

Some minor issues:
- moved the lock desktop icon to a different place on the desktop, but it came back to it's original position on restart. Tried again a few times..sometimes successfull, sometimes not.
- .mkv files will work, but won't launch defaultmediaplayer automatically when the file is clicked on from ROX-filer. I installed the pet below, which resolves the issue. Most of the additions in the pet are redundant, but I added them to be safe, just in case they weren't there in other pups.

Overall, Slacko is good. No pup is perfect. Will continue further testing..

Tasgarth · Joined: 06 Oct 2008 Posts: 197 Location: France, Besancon

zigbert

01micko · Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 7019 Location: qld

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

So if one installs various extra programs etc, ram usage does not greatly increase, but if one then re-masters, ram usage will increase? If so re-mastering on a machine with low ram makes no sense?

01micko · Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 7019 Location: qld

EU-bloody-REKA!

I solved my stupid devx bug!

Alss it was is a missing symlink libpng.pc to libpng14.pc in /usr/lib/pkgconfig ... was borking gtk/gtk.h.. a major showstopper.

Yippee.. no more Frankenstein devx!

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Dave.. depends what you add and chop out as to whether it's worth remastering for a low RAM machine.

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In other news..

I have my new (old) lappy.. an IBM r51, centrino, radeon-mobility, 512RAM, works well but PAE is unsupported by the CPU. I left XP on it, defragged (now that's something I haven't done for years Laughing

) and split it up into an ntfs, 19G, ext3, 18G, and 1G swap. Already run grub4dos and did a frugal with universal-installer, worked fine. That gives me room to woof when I head yonder.

Haven't booted my new kernel on it yet but 2.6.37.6 runs ok, needs the flloopfix though for touchpad. That should be redundant in 2.6.39.4-smp.

charlie6 · Joined: 30 Jun 2008 Posts: 802 Location: South of Belgium

Hi Mick,
I'm wondering if the way followed with 4.99.7 to get X working, could be applied to 4.9x.7 ?
I indeed did a manual frugal install of 4.9x.7 om my laptop (because its dvd-reader cannot complete reading of vmlinuz and initrd.gz - yes! this happens sometimes...).
And here also X hangs up as on 4.99.7 or don't start.
So I first manually installed the xorg-charlie-indian.pet and deleted xorg.conf in the manualy created slackosave.3fs file.
Then reboot , xorgwizard starts / "Choose" whatever siliconmotion or vesa /then get the siliconmotion warning -yes/ .../ TEST_X_NOW/ and get the prompt; doing "xwin" brings «X failed to start», but no hang up.
- only choosing "Probe" brings X to hang up.
So does siliconmotion_drv_so also need being recompiled as in 4.99.7?
Now sweet dreams ....
Cheers, Charlie

Stripe · Posted: Thu 06 Oct 2011, 18:24 Post subject:

hi all

just finished a standalone vlc-1.1.11 pet for slackware, (all deps and language packs included) works on both B5 and B5++ (mozilla plugin disabled) (compiled in 4.9.X.7)

please download and test to see if it is OK

https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0BwWD08HgAd2yZTkxNjk4YjctMGVkMS00MDdkLTkzMzctZjllNmRlZTJmN2Q3&hl=en_GB

cheers

don

edited to add: mick I think smokey01 is compiling the latest psip for slacko

Lobster · Posted: Thu 06 Oct 2011, 19:34 Post subject:

01micko · Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 7019 Location: qld

Just got a phone call.. I was going away working Sunday, brought forward to tomorrow! Rolling Eyes

Oh well .. RC is ready I'm just finalising the nvidia/radeon drivers. I could upload now but I want to test the drivers make sure they work.

Posting from RC now on the ne (old) lappy, used xz for the smp.. but it's only a 10 min job to change that.. WIll test gz see if it's better.

sszindian · Joined: 24 Apr 2010 Posts: 486 Location: Pennsylvania U.S.

sszindian wrote:
Now only one slight problem... sr1 (main HDD) Icon isn't showing up on the desktop?

Jades wrote:
Probably caused by changing screen resolution. Try this:-

Run Menu -> System -> Puppy Event Manager.

Click on the Desktop Icons tab.

Tick the box next to 'Tick box to erase then redraw and realign existing icons.'

Hit 'OK'.

Menu -> Shutdown -> Restart X Server.

Your drive icons should now all appear in a neat row.

HTH!

'Thanks jades! that did it!'

>>>---Indian------>

Sage · Joined: 04 Oct 2005 Posts: 4623 Location: GB

A propos the xz, gz question, presume it's irrelevant for a FULL install? Or is it? Does gz leave behind its debris? For FULL installers, the smaller file would reach more/more easily DUN users. ipso facto, forgive the question, perhaps a much smaller .iso could be provided for FULL installers? Has anyone attempted to build a Puppy like Tiny/SliTaz with web-based apps selection? Not, that is, a basic core for experts like Pizzasgood & co. intended for a unique .iso build. Way outside BK's intent, but the breed has matured with enough worthwhile apps and knowledge base to make it worthy as a standalone FULL installation, probably with a low resource base, suitable for really old kit which seems to have a resurgence of interest amongst some correspondents.