Slacko Puppy 5.3.1

[MinHundHettePerro]

Hello !

Catching up ...........

The K2.6.39.4(PAE), was it compiled by you or originally by BK? The reason I ask is that (now, quite) a while ago I attempted to recompile it with the only compile-time change as to make it non-PAE; wouldn't even boot .

Yes, I do run the K2.6.39.4 slackos, due to highly(?) improved graphics compared to K2.6.37 - yes, BROOKDALE, but would, just for the sake of it , like to run this, more modern kernel, in a non-PAE fashion.

Cheers / MHHP (still in spup5297plus, just about to go 5.3.0.1)

[01micko]

The K2.6.39.4(PAE), was it compiled by you or originally by BK? The reason I ask is that (now, quite) a while ago I attempted to recompile it with the only compile-time change as to make it non-PAE; wouldn't even boot

Me. The DOTconfig is in /etc/modules, I guess you know

I compiled in a full install using BK's exact instruction for 2.6.39.4 but I altered the kernel configuration to add some scsi drivers suggested by tempestuous and something else I forget, anyways you can diff mine as is to BK's. PAE should be easy to turn off. BTW, I use Xconfig as my full install of the early alpha 130 or sumthing (:shock: ) is still rock solid with kde4 and I'm lazy! It's had a about 10 different kernels , each worked ok, except an early attempt where I did something realy, really stoopid (re some thread by l0wt3ch, too lazy to find link )

Cheers!

[MinHundHettePerro]

Ta, just wanted to make sure... .

Yes, I re-compiled it non-PAEing your DOTconfig and http://distro.ibiblio.org/puppylinux/pe ... atched.sfs, must have been a hiccup here on my side ...

Cheers / MHHP

[01micko]

TBH I've never tried compiling from the sfs sources. I always get pristine from kernel.org and do it the hard way.

[MinHundHettePerro]

Took the lazy way out ...

Didn't want to find, and apply, all the patches.....

Cheers / MHHP

[aikidave]

Hi. I downloaded Slacko and created a bootable USB stick. I am using it on an older laptop without a hard drive. When I first booted with Slacko, the sound worked fine on the computer. At some point the sound stopped working. The volume control disappeared from the bottom of the screen. I deleted Slacko from the stick and created another bootable version on the stick. When I used this on the laptop, the sound worked fine initially but then after some time it stopped working again.
Anyone experienced this on their machines?
Any suggestions?
Thanks,
Dave

[01micko]

hi aikidave,

Does this happen on second boot or several after? The answer to this is critical.

I ask this because sound is reconfigured on every boot so should be consistent. It may be that some file system corruption has crept in. What type of filesystem is on the root of the stick? FAT32 is ok but I prefer ext2 linux. It does seem more robust and is a maintained technology.

[bigpup]

01micko,

Lost sound is in heavy troubleshooting in the Lucid Puppy 528 topic. Same type problems are happening, as stated above. It starts on around page 40 of topic.
You can look at last 3 or 4 pages, of topic, for latest discussions. Your ideas needed.
It seems, Lucid 528, is not the only version of Puppy, having these lost sound issues.
Does seem to be tied to USB devices.
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 845#582845

About format of a USB stick.
Some computers will not boot from a USB stick formatted in any Linux format. It has to be Vfat. It is a bios thing. I have one.

[Billtoo]

I burned the iso to a DVD+RW.
I installed the devx and kernel source sfs with SFS-Load on-the-fly.
I installed the proprietary Nvidia driver.

Mon 12 Dec 2011 Operating System: Slacko Puppy-5.3.1 Linux 2.6.39.4
0.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G84
[GeForce 8600 GT] (rev a1)
oem: NVIDIA product: G84 Board - p402h00 Chip Rev

X Server: Xorg Driver: nvidia
X.Org version: 1.9.5
dimensions: 1440x900 pixels (411x263 millimeters)
depth of root window: 24 planes

direct rendering: Yes
server glx vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
server glx version string: 1.4
OpenGL vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
OpenGL renderer string: GeForce 8600 GT/PCI/SSE2
OpenGL version string: 3.3.0 NVIDIA 290.10

Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q6600
Core 0: 1603 1: 1603 2: 1603 3: 1603 MHz
Computer
Processor 4x Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz
Memory 8310MB (254MB used)
# glxgears
50389 frames in 5.0 seconds = 10077.775 FPS
50443 frames in 5.0 seconds = 10088.429 FPS
50403 frames in 5.0 seconds = 10080.398 FPS

I borrowed an icon set from Saluki because it matches my holiday
wallpaper

Everything seems to be working well.

[tempestuous]

I altered the kernel configuration to add some scsi drivers suggested by tempestuous

Yes, I see this in your new kernel configuration -

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CONFIG_FUSION=y
CONFIG_FUSION_SPI=m
CONFIG_FUSION_FC=m
CONFIG_FUSION_SAS=m

This will generate 3 new "Fusion MPT" SCSI drivers:
mptspi
mptfc
mptsas

Very cool, Dell PowerEdge users should be very happy.
I have just mentioned this new feature in the forum post about SCSI support, here -
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 699#588699

I should point out that these 3 new drivers are kernel modules. This means that Fusion MPT interfaces will only be accessible after Puppy has booted, so you will still need to boot Puppy from a "conventional" interface (IDE, SATA, USB) and then just use drives connected to Fusion MPT interfaces as secondary drives.

Would it be possible to boot from a Fusion MPT interface? Yes, but that would require either the drivers were built directly into the Puppy kernel image, or alternatively that the new kernel modules were included in Puppy's initial ramdisk.
This is extra work, for another day.

[01micko]

Would it be possible to boot from a Fusion MPT interface? Yes, but that would require either the drivers were built directly into the Puppy kernel image, or alternatively that the new kernel modules were included in Puppy's initial ramdisk.
This is extra work, for another day.

Barry has an option in Woof.. Boot scsi, I accepted this for k2.6.29.4 and in this release k2,6,37.6

Aitch has reported success on an old server box of his a few pages back.

Here is the list of /lib/modules/2.6.39.4/kernel/drivers/scsi in the initial ramdisk of k2.6.39.4 version of slacko-5.3.1

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3w-9xxx.ko.gz
3w-sas.ko.gz
3w-xxxx.ko.gz
a100u2w.ko.gz
aacraid
advansys.ko.gz
aic7xxx
aic94xx
arcmsr
atp870u.ko.gz
be2iscsi
bfa
BusLogic.ko.gz
dc395x.ko.gz
dmx3191d.ko.gz
dpt_i2o.ko.gz
fcoe
fdomain.ko.gz
fnic
gdth.ko.gz
hpsa.ko.gz
hptiop.ko.gz
initio.ko.gz
ipr.ko.gz
ips.ko.gz
iscsi_boot_sysfs.ko.gz
libfc
libiscsi.ko.gz
libsas
lpfc
megaraid
megaraid.ko.gz
mpt2sas
mvsas
nsp32.ko.gz
osst.ko.gz
pcmcia
pm8001
pmcraid.ko.gz
qla1280.ko.gz
qla2xxx
qla4xxx
qlogicfas408.ko.gz
raid_class.ko.gz
scsi_transport_iscsi.ko.gz
scsi_transport_sas.ko.gz
scsi_transport_spi.ko.gz
scsi_wait_scan.ko.gz
sg.ko.gz
stex.ko.gz
st.ko.gz
sym53c8xx_2
tmscsim.ko.gz
vmw_pvscsi.ko.gz

and here's the others found in modules.dep

kernel/drivers/message/fusion/mptbase.ko
kernel/drivers/message/fusion/mptscsih.ko
kernel/drivers/message/fusion/mptspi.ko
kernel/drivers/message/fusion/mptfc.ko
kernel/drivers/message/fusion/mptsas.ko

..which aren't in initial ramdisk

[nooby]

I tested to use the new 5.3.1 and did ofix=ram to not use the old
save file and put all the iso files in a new subdir and booted with
grub4dos on NTFS and rebooted 3 times and never lost sound.

So maybe it has to do with usb and ext3 something.

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I did a typical Nooby post over at Lupu528 that may be relevant for Slacko 531 too?
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 713#588713

I have also lost sound but fail to remember if it was on Asus using ext3 or if it was on Acer with NTFS formatting.

I do remember that suddenly after some restart of xorg to get the resolution I wanted then suddenly I had no speaker icon in the tray.

So I got back to using Snow puppy 5 instead. And did forget all about it.

[Jasper]

Hi 01micko,

Thank you for 5.3.1 Main; however I have two items to report:

(1) SeaMonkey remained as 2.4

so I tried to check other numbered updates, and

(2) Pfilesearch - did not seem to be included in the Menu
*** SEE ADDENDUM for update
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
I installed the SeaMonkey 2.5 Slacko pet and all seems well.
Pfilesearch runs from the Console, but I did not quickly (or at all)
find its version number.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

My regards

I was using 5.3 Main full time and it remained stable, fast and totally trouble free. I expect to use 5.3.1 Main full time now and will advise if there is anything you may wish to know about.

PS Having used Firefox and Thunderbird for a year and more, I very quickly got used to SeaMonkey and its email program - and I'm well pleased.

ADDENDUM:

Pfind is under Menu>Filesystem and Pfilesearch can be obtained using the "Advanced" option of Pfind (as well as directly from the Console).

[Aitch]

Aitch has reported success on an old server box of his a few pages back

Yes my server has a Supermicro X5DA8 mainboard, and may be a Viglen
It has an Adaptec SCSI Card 29160 Ultra160 SCSI, with a 2.5" 80gb SCSI hard drive

Hdd found at boot using liveCD/frugal, but peculiarly, not using noryb's win32.exe installer, where even using pmount fails to find it

Mick, can 5.3.1 be frugal installed using old 5.3 savefile, annd have all the bugs been squashed?

Aitch

[tempestuous]

Barry has an option in Woof.. Boot scsi, I accepted this for k2.6.29.4 and in this release k2,6,37.6

I'm unfamiliar with Woof, but that's interesting. It appears that a basic set of SCSI drivers (as specified by Barry) is then included in the initrd.

Obviously the 3 new Fusion SCSI drivers are not included, so if desired these would need to be manually inserted (and modules.dep updated) ...
or maybe the Woof script could be modified to automatically include these new modules?
But anyway, no one has specifically asked for boot support from a Fusion SCSI interface at this stage.

Aitch has reported success on an old server box of his a few pages back.

Yes, it appears that booting from SCSI works, that's great ...
but of course Aitch's SCSI hardware uses the aic7xxx SCSI driver, nothing to do with the 3 new drivers.

[Billtoo]

I burned the 531 main iso to a DVD+RW.
On first boot it went to the xorgwizard screen and I chose probe and
the proper screen resolution,probe used the vesa driver so I exited to
the prompt and reran xorgwizard and chose the intel driver.
I installed the mesa pets.

Mon 12 Dec 2011 Operating System: Slacko Puppy-5.3.1 Linux 2.6.37.6
2.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82G33/G31 Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 10)
oem: Intel(r)Q33/Q35/G33 Graphics Chip Accelerated VGA BIOS product: Intel(r)Q33/Q35/G33 Graphics Controller Hardware Version 0.0

X Server: Xorg Driver: intel
X.Org version: 1.9.5
dimensions: 1280x1024 pixels (338x270 millimeters)
depth of root window: 24 planes

direct rendering: Yes
server glx vendor string: SGI
server glx version string: 1.4
OpenGL vendor string: Tungsten Graphics, Inc
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI Intel(R) G33 x86/MMX/SSE2
OpenGL version string: 1.4 Mesa 7.10.2

Pentium(R) Dual-Core CPU E5200
Core 0: 1200 1: 1200 MHz
Computer
Processor 2x Pentium(R) Dual-Core CPU E5200 @ 2.50GHz
Memory 3364MB (159MB used)
# glxgears
Running synchronized to the vertical refresh. The framerate should be
approximately the same as the monitor refresh rate.
303 frames in 5.0 seconds = 60.479 FPS
301 frames in 5.0 seconds = 60.016 FPS
301 frames in 5.0 seconds = 60.018 FPS

The only problem so far is that pairs of white dots will appear
randomly on the screen, restarting x will remove them temporarily but
they show up again in other areas of the screen.
I see that minimizing a window causes them, they are coming from the
corners of a maximized window, moving the window to a different area
and minimizing it causes the dots to appear where the corners were.

Edit: I switched back to the vesa driver and the 2 dots problem is
gone.
# glxgears
1928 frames in 5.0 seconds = 385.491 FPS
1896 frames in 5.0 seconds = 379.076 FPS
1889 frames in 5.0 seconds = 377.794 FPS
That's faster too.

[Brown Mouse]

Installed 531 to a desktop computer with p4 dual core 3ghz,processor,1gb ram,Nvidia en210 graphics card.
At Xorgwizard ,selected correct resolution and once booted (with working sound) changed region,language etc.
Created a new 512mb savefile,rebooted and installed recommended Nvidia-285.05.09 driver and rebooted once more.
Setup firewall and have so far installed the following .pets using PPM,Slickpet and Ibiblio repo:-

Jre-1.7.0-20
Flash player 11
Pidgin-2.7.11
Opera-11.52 also Opera 12 freestanding
Pwidgets-2.3.8
pupclockset-1.6.1
Gimp-2.7.2
Tor-browser-2.2.33-2-slacko(Configured with my own settings)
Wine-1.3.28
Vlc_standalone-1.1.11
Chromium-17.0.945
Thunderbird 8
Lupufy-slacko-004
Lupufy-slacko-openbox-002

Sfs’s
LibreOfc-3.3.1_en_USsfs4.sfs
Virtualbox-4.1.6-slacko.sfs

Everything working to perfection so far and been running all day so will now do a backup and increase the savefile by adding a further 512mb’s

Thanks 01micko

[zigbert]

Mick
Congrats










....but most of all - Thank you
Sigmund

[mavrothal]

Hi Mick
what are the acpi changes introduced in 5.3.1?
The XOs are seriously misbehaving after wakeup from suspend, so before I go hunting would be good to have some idea about this.

Other than that 5.3.1 looks good on my VM.

[01micko]

Hi Mick
what are the acpi changes introduced in 5.3.1?
The XOs are seriously misbehaving after wakeup from suspend, so before I go hunting would be good to have some idea about this.

Other than that 5.3.1 looks good on my VM.

Just the script /etc/acpi/actions/acpi_poweroff.sh, other than that nothing, so it's strange . Could be changes in woof too, check the fossil timeline for clues.

Actually, the "suspend" button should be hidden when on a usb install. Will fix that soon.