Slacko Puppy 5.3.1

[rcrsn51]

Hi, I have been playing with this pup and I can't seem to get flash player to install. The links are all bad no matter which download mirror I choose

Here is a download link:

Get the .tar.gz version.

Unpack the tarball to get the file libflashplayer.so

Copy it to the folder /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins.

[Indy452]

Hi, I have been playing with this pup and I can't seem to get flash player to install. The links are all bad no matter which download mirror I choose

Here is a download link:

Get the .tar.gz version.

Unpack the tarball to get the file libflashplayer.so

Copy it to the folder /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins.

Right but my point is if the average user wants to install from the ppm all the links are broken.

[chrismt]

I am not sure.

But I guess Firefox has this lag on Puppy when I use Wlan.

I bought a new wlan adapter but still there is this lag.

Perhaps, developers don't keep in mind the way browsers utilize the network connection in Linux when building puppy so that browsers get screwed up trying to display pages.

Perhaps, I am wrong

I guess, its just that I have to click several times to get my browser to move to that page where in Windows its much smoother.

I noticed that when my PC gets to standby mode. Sometimes, it gets totally disconnected although i don't see the disconnected icon in the taskbar

I would be great to get a Pidgin and TOR update though :3

[Aitch]

Mick, can you help with this, posted in noryb's win32 thread?

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 663#580663

I don't know if noryb used the same 530 scsi pae for his 530pae.exe installer, but the live CD works, the .exe, not....no CD on desktop??...and often no savefile loads...may be timing?

thanks

Aitch

[01micko]

It seems Flashplayer have moved their repo so Barry's or my flash installer will not work.

I have made a simple gui that takes you to the flash site so you can download flash manually but at least install it easily. It works with seamonkey and chromium confirmed but should be fine with iron, opera, firefox. You are prompted to close the browser, in fact installation halts if you leave the browser open, you can continue when you close the browser.

It's almost impossible to keep flash in the puppy repo because it is updated randomly and often. So I hope this makes life a little easir for those who don't like digging into the filesystem.

EDIT: A newer getflash is posted 2 posts down, based on Barry's findings on an opensuse page. I'll leave this one up, since it's completely different.

[jim3630]

thanks Mick

[01micko]

Hmmmm....

getflash has been a PITA for the past few days.. but with Barry's find I managed to alter the current getflash prog and it seems to work ok. There is no ping to google, it just finds the url by parsing the flash webpage.. so if that webpage can be parsed then that's good enough to check connection! If not the loop stops.

Here it is, direct download of flashplayer.. take 3!

[Lobster]

Works OK for me - have added here:
http://puppylinux.org/wikka/SlackoNews

Good plan load Flash and go to Flashblock all as one option

[chrismt]

Firefox 9 Beta or Firefox 10 Aurora

http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/channel/

Adobe Flash doesn't work

Perhaps, they are moving to HTML5 but I am not sure why. Can anyone check it out. Thanks

[Aitch]

chrismt....

Perhaps, they are moving to HTML5 but I am not sure why. Can anyone check it out. Thanks

correct! [And not a moment too soon, heh heh, ask Apple ]

http://internetbusinessmastermind.com/f ... from-flash

http://www.quackit.com/html/codes/html_video_codes.cfm

Aitch

[01micko]

Well.. seems encryption is fixed in the latest woof... this was a major bug in my opinion so expect an update soon.

Posting from a heavy encrypted Slacko-save now.

[chrismt]

chrismt....

Perhaps, they are moving to HTML5 but I am not sure why. Can anyone check it out. Thanks

correct! [And not a moment too soon, heh heh, ask Apple ]

http://internetbusinessmastermind.com/f ... from-flash

http://www.quackit.com/html/codes/html_video_codes.cfm

Aitch

Thats cool but I wonder if its that easy to replace flash by all websites. Firefox 9 is too early to be flash free.

[chrismt]

Well.. seems encryption is fixed in the latest woof... this was a major bug in my opinion so expect an update soon.

Posting from a heavy encrypted Slacko-save now.

Keeping the Faith

[8-bit]

Well.. seems encryption is fixed in the latest woof... this was a major bug in my opinion so expect an update soon.

Posting from a heavy encrypted Slacko-save now.

I posted a temporary patch I made that works. It can be found under the Users section.
It is not needed with the latest Racy version.
But it works with Slacko if instructions in the post are followed.

It can be found here.

[Béèm]

Xsane issue Threshold not available.
Having been done some testing for Peasyscan, I discovered an issue in Xsane lineart (binary) mode.

When selecting the scan mode panel, I don't have the threshold bar.
My device is epson2

I have it in Icepuppy 012 and when discussing with rsrcn51 he advised to use the libsane-epson2.so.xxx library files in /usr/lib/sane from Ice to slacko 5.3

I did so and I could use the threshold bar.

Code: Select all

# ls -l libsane-epson2*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     24 2011-11-10 08:17 libsane-epson2.so -> libsane-epson2.so.1.0.20
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     24 2011-11-10 08:17 libsane-epson2.so.1 -> libsane-epson2.so.1.0.20
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 162780 2011-05-26 17:18 libsane-epson2.so.1.0.20
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 160800 2011-10-24 13:39 libsane-epson2.so.1.0.21org
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     24 2011-10-24 13:32 libsane-epson2.so.1org -> libsane-epson2.so.1.0.21
#

The library files ending in xxxxorg are the slacko 5.3 ones.
The others (which work) the ICE puppy 012 ones

I thought I just mention this for those who are using a epson2 backend.

Béèm

To save me downloading ice puppy can you do me the favour of tarballing the libsane-epson2.so.1.0.20 file please? I can pet it up as a z_sane_hack and it will overwrite the slacko libs in woof.

TIA.

Micko,
I have been away a lot the WE.
I added a fake .gz extension to the file, just remove it after the download.

[01micko]

Xsane issue Threshold not available.
Having been done some testing for Peasyscan, I discovered an issue in Xsane lineart (binary) mode.

When selecting the scan mode panel, I don't have the threshold bar.
My device is epson2

I have it in Icepuppy 012 and when discussing with rsrcn51 he advised to use the libsane-epson2.so.xxx library files in /usr/lib/sane from Ice to slacko 5.3

I did so and I could use the threshold bar.

Code: Select all

# ls -l libsane-epson2*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     24 2011-11-10 08:17 libsane-epson2.so -> libsane-epson2.so.1.0.20
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     24 2011-11-10 08:17 libsane-epson2.so.1 -> libsane-epson2.so.1.0.20
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 162780 2011-05-26 17:18 libsane-epson2.so.1.0.20
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 160800 2011-10-24 13:39 libsane-epson2.so.1.0.21org
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     24 2011-10-24 13:32 libsane-epson2.so.1org -> libsane-epson2.so.1.0.21
#

The library files ending in xxxxorg are the slacko 5.3 ones.
The others (which work) the ICE puppy 012 ones

I thought I just mention this for those who are using a epson2 backend.

Béèm

To save me downloading ice puppy can you do me the favour of tarballing the libsane-epson2.so.1.0.20 file please? I can pet it up as a z_sane_hack and it will overwrite the slacko libs in woof.

TIA.

Micko,
I have been away a lot the WE.
I added a fake .gz extension to the file, just remove it after the download.

Thank you

[Gyle]

Hi, Slacko is great on DVD!
- Slacko on DVD-RW Multisession
- 2 Go slackosave.2fs file written on the DVD
- nvidia-285.05.09-k2.6.37.6-s.pet (from slickpet) managing two screens configured the TwinView way,
the laptop screen (native 1024 x 768) running 1280 x 800 mode, and LCD screen 1920 x 1080 via VGA.
- SFS-Load on-the-fly, all at once:
---devx_slacko_5.3.sfs
--- OpenOfc-3.3.0_en-US_sfs4.sfs,
--- lazarus-0.9.28.2-complete.sfs
OpenOffice and Lazarus run very fast and smoothly in ram (4 Go)
Very amazed to see lazarus compiling at first run with just a little config error message.
- Persistence of the integrity of the desktop after multiple reboots
- Persistence of the integrity of the desktop after multiple SFS files loaded
- BootFlash Puppy to USB and savesession-dvd scripts have run in a breeze
- wine-1.3.28-i486_v2.pet (from slickpet) is rock solid for my old and very trusted messagerie PocoMail, fax via PDF, Moffsoft FreeCalc a pretty calculator, and NoteTab Pro a programmable editor,
- Opera 11.52, FireFox 8.0 with FireBugs and Developper add-ons
HD just mounted and unmounted when needed for archiving.
So many thanks to 01micko and the staff,
to BK who "ads" Slacko in his blog,
and to Flash who argumented many times in the forum about running Puppy on DVD.

#report-video-glx
lun. 14 nov. 2011 Operating System: Slacko Puppy-5.3 Linux 2.6.37.6
0.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G96 [GeForce 9650M GT] (rev a1)
oem: NVIDIA product: G96 Board - 0566648a Chip Rev

X Server: Xorg Driver: vesa
X.Org version: 1.9.5
dimensions: 3200x1080 pixels (856x292 millimeters)
depth of root window: 24 planes


Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T5850
Core 0: 2167 1: 1000 MHz

...the above also recorded at '/tmp/root/report-video-glx'.

[scruffy]

Slacko 5.3 fresh frugal install.

Looks very impressive so far.....1 point to note.

Opera 11.52 full screen does not toggle correctly with F11. F11 gives fullscreen but there is no way to leave fullscreen.

This only occurs in JWM , with Openbox and Icewm it works perfectly.



scruffy

[valer]

@Scruffy: The same thing happened to me once in Chromium. JWM is overall unimpressive and I'd like to see something better as the default, although I've heard that it has gotten much more bug-free than it used to be a while ago.

@Developers and tony: See this thread for an aufs-related bug report.

[01micko]

@Scruffy: The same thing happened to me once in Chromium. JWM is overall unimpressive and I'd like to see something better as the default, although I've heard that it has gotten much more bug-free than it used to be a while ago.

@Developers and tony: See this thread for an aufs-related bug report.

For the next release I am sticking with JWM. Joe Wing has updated a lot recently and in the next testing verion I will release with the latest to see if those bugs are fixed.

Is this aufs bug apparent in Slacko? We use a later aufs than Lucid. To check your filesystem on pupmode=7 (using the whole stick) you would have to boot to another install somehow (either another stick or live cd) OR... if you add "pfix=fsck" to the kernel line in the sysconfig file at the root of the drive (or extlinux if you use ext2,3,4) you should be able to at least check the save filesytem every boot. (or add pfix=ram and check manually whenever you want). Note though, you wont be able to check the integrity of the drive itself using either of those methods.