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01micko · Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 7018 Location: qld

Chris

There is a good post by TazOC here that explains things.
Using "nvidia.modeset=0" appears wrong. As TazOC goes on, nouveau is the kernel driver, however I have omitted the nouveau Xorg driver, so I don't think it gets loaded at all. Perhaps the "xforcevesa" param is what you need?

What actually happens? Do you get to xorgwizard? Or blackscreen and nothing?

If you can get to a prompt type "HELP", no quotes. See what happens Wink

(can you PM me, I lost that number Wink

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Billtoo · Joined: 07 Apr 2009 Posts: 1495 Location: Ontario Canada

cthisbear · Joined: 29 Jan 2006 Posts: 2942 Location: Sydney Australia

Thanks mate....onto it now.

Do you get to xorgwizard...yep.

puppy pfix=ram xforcevesa nomodeset...no good.

Shall reboot.

All falls down.

Nice hearing from you mate.

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Dell Studio XPS 13 Laptop Technical Specifications:

Intel Core 2 Duo P8600 (2.4GHz, 3MB L2 Cache, 1067MHz FSB)

Chipset NVIDIA GeForce MCP79MX

Graphics ...not sure which one

NVIDIA GeForce 9400M G

NVIDIA GeForce 9500M – 256MB

http://www.notebook-driver.com/laptops-information/dell-studio-xps-13-laptop-technical-specifications/

Cheers.....Chris.

aarf · Joined: 30 Aug 2007 Posts: 3620 Location: around the bend

aarf · Joined: 30 Aug 2007 Posts: 3620 Location: around the bend

01micko · Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 7018 Location: qld

deltas are 30M, uploading to smokey01 now

aarf · Joined: 30 Aug 2007 Posts: 3620 Location: around the bend

aarf · Joined: 30 Aug 2007 Posts: 3620 Location: around the bend

slacko-5.3.1-SCSI-PAE_HIGHMEM-ALT.iso

delta comes down fast from smokey less than 5 minutes. booted and went to take a screen shot> lost the window to scale it to 600 wide. cant proceed. >kill mpaint. next screenshot more careful with scale 600 window> go to save> lost window to save.cant proceed because jwm loses window through the roof. windows dont fit the screen so to see the bottom of the window, need to push the window towards the top of the screen. if this pushing is done using the top bar to drag, the window will disappear before it gets to the top of the screen

need to lupify and use openbox but have lupufied racy already so slacko is not going to be tested further. same as slacko 5.3

irishrm · Joined: 14 Mar 2009 Posts: 181

I've installed veetle HD plugin on slacko 5.3.
It seems to be installed properly but doesn't work.
I also have it installed in lupu 5.1.1 and its working well.
I would like to get it working in slacko if I can. I know this is a long shot but if anyone out there can help it would be appreciated-irishrm.

aikidave · Joined: 11 Dec 2011 Posts: 2

grump · Joined: 10 Oct 2011 Posts: 65 Location: Melbourne, Oz

I've been using Slacko 5.3 since it came out, and 5.28 and 5.2.9 before that - on an oldish Toshiba A200 laptop. It works very well for me, except for 2 apps I like to use -
- Shrink 1.1 (to shrink images to pre-determined sizes by right-clicking) and
- Pcdripper - to rip CDs incorporating pcparanoia - sort of like EAC in Windows - see here:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=157790

Both these work nicely in Lupo, so I've pretty much gone back there, after getting the shiny new 5.2.8.003 iso and 'upgrading' my 5.2.8 version. (What pain, but that's another story involving an overloaded save file). However I have to say that 'upgrading' to Slacko 5.3.1 was painless this morning.

Anyway, these pets install in Slacko, but nothing happens, and I'm not clever enough (ie I haven't got a clue about) how to get them to work in Slacko. I always use Puppy with live CDs.
.....

2 hrs later edited to add - speaking of paranoia I tried again to install these pets in Slacko, and am very pleased to say that Pcdripper is working nicely, but Shrink is not. It has made the shrunken photoes directories, but the 'Shrink to ..' entries do not appear in the drop down menu. So, I'm back in the Slacko kennel again.

emil · Joined: 10 Nov 2009 Posts: 547 Location: Austria

Hi grump,

can you run shrink from the commandline to see if there are any error messages?
cheers
emil

grump · Joined: 10 Oct 2011 Posts: 65 Location: Melbourne, Oz

Hello Emil -

What is this 'command line' of which you speak?

Ok, being serious, I'll have a look - but first I have to find the executable.

Edit an hour later :
Although the 'Open With ...' menus are not there, it works if I drop an image file on the icons in usr/local/shrinkimage (where it seems to install), so that's good enuff for me.

emil · Joined: 10 Nov 2009 Posts: 547 Location: Austria

good news -
You probably can add the shrink program to the "Open With" list by creating a symmlink in the folder /root/.config/rox.sourceforge.net/SendTo.

Try to follow instructions you get when
rightclick item in Rox
Choose "Open With"
Choose "Customize"

cheers

Billtoo · Joined: 07 Apr 2009 Posts: 1495 Location: Ontario Canada

I did a full install of 531 main to a dual core HP desktop pc.
I installed the mesa pets and the proprietary Nvidia driver.

Wed 14 Dec 2011 Operating System: Slacko Puppy-5.3.1 Linux 2.6.37.6
0.0 VGA compatible controller:nVidia Corporation GT216[GeForce GT 220](rev a2)
oem: NVIDIA product: GT216 Board - 0682vb12 Chip Rev

X Server: Xorg Driver: nvidia
X.Org version: 1.9.5
dimensions: 1280x1024 pixels (342x271 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 GT 220/PCI/SSE2
OpenGL version string: 3.3.0 NVIDIA 290.10

Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E4500
Core 0: 1200 1: 1200 MHz

# glxgears
31749 frames in 5.0 seconds = 6349.766 FPS
31759 frames in 5.0 seconds = 6351.618 FPS
31769 frames in 5.0 seconds = 6353.598 FPS

I installed the Google Earth sfs and it's working perfectly, I'm
liking that Smile

No problems so far, thanks.