Slacko RC2

[shinobar]

the '-font "8x16"' argument that makes yaf-splash to look for the old yaf-splash.

The /usr/bin/gtkdialog-splash in Quickset Warry-511-01q may solve the problem.
# 4jan11 shinobar: interprete '-font' option as like '-fontsize', never use old yaf-splash.

[Tasgarth]

Testing RC2 and RC2-SCSI-PAE:
TestI RC2 :
Good DD-Live -> azerty Fr-fr -> Nvidia nv -> pupsave -> shutdown
TestII RC2 (Nvidia driver):
Quickpet -> driver -> Nvidia > download : OK ... etc... -> but not installed
1) shutdown -> exit to prompt -> Xorgwizard : "command not found " ->
Test III :
reboot on the pupsave -> Menu -> Setup -> Xorg Video Wizard -> XorgWizard : OK... -> glxgears : OK
-------------------------------------
Tests RC2-SCSI-PAE :
CD-Live : OK -> pupsave (sda3) : OK -> reboot ..
Quickpet -> driver -> Nvidia -> download : OK but the red "failed to install "
Is it possible to get a link in order to use wget and download Nvidia driver ?
It seems to me that "275-28--K2.6.39.4s pet" is not a good driver for my card.
I tried it directly without any sucess
But Nvidia driver (RC2 Test II and III) is good. Is it the same "275-28--K2.6.39.4s pet" ?

[01micko]

Haha!

ok, thanks 8-bit, mavrothal.. I get it .. Barry didn't .. ah well!

I never did like the wrapper for yaf-splash. I was kind of the instigator for gtkdialog-splash in an early version of quickpet, using calls to gtkdialog with a temporary gtkrc, a technique I learned of Sigmund. Mave (forum member) ran with it and created gtkdialog-splash, for which Barry made a wrapper for the original yaf-splash, mainly because yaf-splash can't handle utf-8.. my original reason for using a custom splash. Oh well.. what goes around comes around

Thanks guys.

[01micko]

the '-font "8x16"' argument that makes yaf-splash to look for the old yaf-splash.

The /usr/bin/gtkdialog-splash in Warry-511-01q may solve the problem.
# 4jan11 shinobar: interprete '-font' option as like '-fontsize', never use old yaf-splash.

Hmmm... probably will.. thanks shino

[01micko]

Testing RC2 and RC2-SCSI-PAE:
TestI RC2 :
Good DD-Live -> azerty Fr-fr -> Nvidia nv -> pupsave -> shutdown
TestII RC2 (Nvidia driver):
Quickpet -> driver -> Nvidia > download : OK ... etc... -> but not installed
1) shutdown -> exit to prompt -> Xorgwizard : "command not found " ->
Test III :
reboot on the pupsave -> Menu -> Setup -> Xorg Video Wizard -> XorgWizard : OK... -> glxgears : OK
-------------------------------------
Tests RC2-SCSI-PAE :
CD-Live : OK -> pupsave (sda3) : OK -> reboot ..
Quickpet -> driver -> Nvidia -> download : OK but the red "failed to install "
Is it possible to get a link in order to use wget and download Nvidia driver ?
It seems to me that "275-28--K2.6.39.4s pet" is not a good driver for my card.
I tried it directly without any sucess
But Nvidia driver (RC2 Test II and III) is good. Is it the same "275-28--K2.6.39.4s pet" ?

Yeah, must be something stupid I did... it's tricky (though it shouldn't be ) with 2 kernel versions with different driver versions.

Tasgarth, does your card need a later driver? The 275 for pae kernel is "certified', where others (at the time of compile) were not. I think I'll take no notice of proprietary "certification" in the future!

Simple solution, different kernel, same driver version. (latest )

[shinobar]

Confirmed nvidia-glx-sdl-285.05.09-slacko.sfs works both on Slacko-RC2 and on Slacko-RC2++.
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=72405

[8-bit]

the '-font "8x16"' argument that makes yaf-splash to look for the old yaf-splash.

The /usr/bin/gtkdialog-splash in Warry-511-01q may solve the problem.
# 4jan11 shinobar: interprete '-font' option as like '-fontsize', never use old yaf-splash.

Thank you shinobar!
edit...............................
Ignore the following, /sbin/pup_event_frontend_d works as it is.
The only change then is to replace /usr/bin/gtkdialog-splash with the one shinobar supplied a few posts up.
So again, ignore the rest of this post.

That got us part way, but the line that gets the pid of yaf-splash is still wrong.

So here are the changes in /sbin/pup_event_frontend_d.

change line 522 from "YAFPID=$!" without the quotes to " YAFPID=`pidof "yaf-splash"`" ,again without the end quotes.

That one line change and the use of the "gtkdialog-splash" file shinobar so kindly provided should take care of at least having that splash message disappear when the save is complete.

[Stripe]

hi all

just spent 3 hours downloading the devx, then it tells me it cant download to that location please try somewhere else, no sign of the devx in temp or anywhere else on the system, anybody any idea as where it could be hiding as I dont fancy waiting another 3 hours for it to tell me the same thing

cheers

Don

[666philb]

Hi 01micko

as posted in the rc1 thread, Alsawizard is not working! was fine in the beta's.



This has been confirmed by 4 people in puppy chat. Please check yourself.

Quite a biggy as some people need to run it to get sound.

cheers 666philb

[Lobster]

anybody any idea as where it could be hiding

press ctrl + j in Seamonkey for download locations

[Sage]

Despite the helpful little panel that springs up warning about SiS chipset issues, neither 'Yes' + dedicated drivers nor 'No' produces an XOrg picture. VESA works, though. This continues to be the only variant, or any other distro including Slackcentral, that refuses to detect/work with the SiS Mirage chipset. There must be a simple answer somewhere? Sadly not my department to understand these matters.

Retrovol settings are half-cock: please turn everything ON by default. Notwithstanding, Woofwoof still doesn't work when I turn up the wick. I noticed that this stopped working on new Wary and reported it. Must be a Woof issue?

Confirm that ALSAWizard not working, vide supra.

Third time of asking: please can the localisation panel be cast with consistency: presently, we have US peripherals with Perth time. Is it asking too much to settle on GMT, even for an American developer! That does not make things easy for Brits if that causes mental strife for Yankies because we are on BST right now.

[Billtoo]

I did a manual frugal install to a 4gb flash drive which had been
formatted ext4,boot flag set, and grub4dos installed.
I installed devx + kernel source sfs + NVIDIA-Linux-x86-285.05.09.run

Sat 22 Oct 2011 Operating System: Slacko Puppy-5.2.97 Linux 2.6.39.4
0.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GF108 [GeForce GT 430] (rev a1)
oem: NVIDIA product: GF108 Board - 1071v0p1 Chip Rev

X Server: Xorg Driver: nvidia
X.Org version: 1.9.5
dimensions: 1920x1080 pixels (524x292 millimeters)
depth of root window: 24 planes


AMD Phenom(tm) II X6 1045T Processor
Core 0: 2699 1: 2699 2: 2699 3: 2699 4: 2699 5: 2699 MHz


Computer
Processor 6x AMD Phenom(tm) II X6 1045T Processor
Memory 8310MB (283MB used)

I had to choose vesa at a low resolution on first bootup but sound and
wired network were good.
RC2++ is working good so far.

EDIT:
I've been playing for a few hours with rc2++ and it's working well, I added wbar to it which I like.

[un-named-one]

I must admit that I haven't been keeping up on things.

Is this supposed to be a stable release or some sort ov "beta"?

EDIT:Thanks, Lobster, for the quick reply.

Thanks,
*one

[Lobster]

it is the second release candidate before a final release

[Iguleder]

Bring it on!

The faster it is released, the better it is for the following releases, which will iron out all those small annoying bugs Puppy had in all its .0 versions.

I'm doing some porting work at the moment with the long-term goal of porting Puppy to any architecture, maybe I could test this on Slacko.

I'm writing build scripts for all the "common" packages and all the applications/window manager/etc' are ready - it is possible to build my latest puplet's desktop from source, on top of any wooflet that has a kernel X, GTK, CUPS, etc' - just the basics.

Now I'm improving it, so all the PET packages Puppy depends on can be built too. I have about half of all the build scripts ready, the rest are so old (they originate in Puppy 2.x) you can't build them on today's Puppy - that's something I'll have to find a way around.

This way, we can take x86_64 or ARM packages from Slackware, Debian, etc', as we did so far, but instead of relying on the x86 PET packages, all of them can be built on top of that base automatically, which means ... we'll be able to port 5.3 to ... anything.

So, it goes like this:
1) We take Slacko, the way it is.
2) We replace the string "i486" with "x86_64"
3) We build a 64-bit Slacko with 32-bit compatibility libraries
4) We build 64-bit versions of all the 32-bit packages in Slacko
5) We dump the 32-bit libraries
6) A 64-bit native Slacko64

We could also use a cross-compiler (or just build all those packages inside a 64-bit Slackware, then rebuild in Slacko).

Anyway, time for me to shut up.

Good job, 01micko - running Slacko on my NVIDIA machine and it works 100%.

[gcmartin]

Confirmed nvidia-glx-sdl-285.05.09-slacko.sfs works both on Slacko-RC2 and on Slacko-RC2++.
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=72405

Understanding that some run Live media (CD/DVD), what is a good recommended approach for upgrading nvidia driver so that it carries over when the session is saved to media prior to reboot? I not so sure a SFS is a solution, is it?

Thanks in advance
Edit: Recommedned steps might be a better wording than recommended approach. Sorry.

[mavrothal]

Since you are approaching "final", just a couple of details mentioned before.
Here they are all together.
1) There is not really any need to restart X at the initial setup if the only thing changed is the timezone
2) The desktop icon fonts look really bad with Xvesa(w/o or w/mesa) at any size (image). Maybe try a more vesa-friendly default font?
3) Xorgvideowizard window does not scale with fonts (image)

Little things, but we not make an even better first impression

Beyond that Slacko RC2 looks really-good on my Mac-VM, 6-year old (V4000) laptop and the XOs

[tasmod]

Mick,

Psync doesn't display the new DST info as zdump is left out of /usr/bin

[Lobster]

we'll be able to port 5.3 to ... anything.

Igu

Originally Slacko was going to be released in 32 bit and 64 bit
64 bit was dropped . . . maybe after release we could have a 64 bit version . . .?

Slacko ARM is also a great idea
The Raspberry Pi people are trying to find an Alpha board for Puppy
. . . the actual Raspberry Pi boards will be out soon and already we have potential developers and testers getting the hardware.
This is an important step for Puppy - it makes us very mobile and assures us a future on tomorrows energy efficient processors.
http://puppylinux.org/wikka/PARM

[Jasper]

Hi 01micko et al,

I am not sure if it should be possible to save two or more different sets of customized desktop icon layouts, but the picture below does show a minor inconsistency.

My regards