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gcmartin · Joined: 14 Oct 2005 Posts: 2633 Location: Earth

Have anyone booted from multi-session Live media, then did a save-session onto the live media? I'm running into some unexpected difficulties where I cannot get the system to save the session.

There is room, and if I simply growisofs a folder it works to the media. But, Slacko is getting crossed up.

Has anyone has success doing this with SLACKO?

Thanks, in advance, for any comments on your experieces.

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

bigpup,

Something you can try.

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

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

Testing (use at own risk)

This is the very latest JWM (our default window manager) including patches to Petget (PPM) such that we get no more "the screen will flicker" messages, and in fact the screen does not flicker.

This has been a major gripe with JWM for the past couple of years and finally Joe has done something about it.

It does have a layering issue with wbar if you use it but I have put in a <Group> setting for wbar to use layer 3. It seems ok to me, please report if you get an issue with wbar.

Note that 3 files in PPM will be modified and also the jwm xdg template.

Have fun!

gcmartin · Joined: 14 Oct 2005 Posts: 2633 Location: Earth

bigpup · Posted: Mon 19 Dec 2011, 01:00 Post subject:

bigpup

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

bigpup,

I have 3 1366x768 res monitors, 2 are on lappies, (1 a HP, 1 a macbook, 1an asus external) and all are perfect with Slacko and Lupu, even the old intel brookdale graphics chip with the reasonably new asus 17" widescreen .That monitor has been hooked up to 3 radeons, 2 nvidias and an SiS, all without issue. 1 of my nvidias does shift left as said before but easily corrected. So I think your case is very specific, yet still annoys! Maybe a specific modeline specifying 1368x768 would be the go. It's obviously not using that at all so I believe that's where your edge has gone.

bigpup · Posted: Mon 19 Dec 2011, 12:36 Post subject:

01micko,

You would think 47 (us dollars) would buy you a decent 19" monitor. Laughing

Maybe I now know why they dumped them for such a low price. Wink

I would say we have determined Slacko is not the problem.
I will play with modelines and see if I can blow this thing up. I always wanted to see if xvidtune would really do that, as all the warnings say. Twisted Evil

Thanks for putting up with this!! Smile

don570 · Joined: 10 Mar 2010 Posts: 2462 Location: Ontario

Audacity for slacko

I was able to get the latest stable version of audacity
to work in Slacko

I took the Lucid Puppy version and added libsamplerate
and jack
Available:
http://www.datafilehost.com/download-e7422553.html

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

Thanks don570

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bigpup

A shot in the dark here.

Try this: Back up /usr/sbin/xorgwizard. Open /usr/sbin/xorgwizard in geany an search for all 1366 entries and edit to 1368. Record what lines you edit. Run xorgwizard and see if that res sticks. Worst that will happen is X don't start, in which case open /usr/sbin/xorgwizard at the command line in minimum profit text editor

mavrothal · Joined: 24 Aug 2009 Posts: 1058

Sylvander · Posted: Tue 20 Dec 2011, 09:36 Post subject:

HELP!
I've messed up my display of icons on the desktop for partitions on drives.

1. When I closed the drawer of the optical drive with a Puppy disk in it...
It was auto-mounting the filesystem.
So...

2. [Doubt if] I went to "Menu->System->Puppy Event Manager->Desktop Icons", and unticked "Tick box for drive icons on desktop".
I think I may have configured that partitions should not be auto-mounted when plugged in.
Nor programs be auto run.
All the partition icons disappeared from the desktop, and in there place was a single icon for "drives".
NOT WHAT I WANT!

3. Tried re-ticking the box in 2 above, plus "Tick box for an icon for each partition", but it makes no difference, and the ticks are gone next time I go there.

4. Any idea how to fix this?

5. Also...
The "Save" icon on the desktop no longer works! Sad

Worked OK before.
Now when I click it, the yellow "NOTICE:..." comes up, but no save notification, and no increase in %CPU usage.

Jasper · Joined: 25 Apr 2010 Posts: 870 Location: England

Hi Sylvander,

Can you not restore, using copy and paste via another Puppy?

My regards

Sylvander · Posted: Tue 20 Dec 2011, 10:24 Post subject:

Hmmm...
Possibly.

1. The only backup I have of a Slacko save file was made way back on the 25th of October 2001 for version 5.2.97-k2.6.37.6-smp...
Whereas right now I'm running Slacko-5.3.1-MAIN-ataflash.iso [I added the pmedia=ataflash setting to the isolinux.cfg file in the ISO file, and added ataflash to the name].

2. Would that old slackosave.3fs file update OK using this CD?
I might lose stuff I've changed since then.
Is there no easier fix that doesn't involve such risk and possible loss?

3. I notice that no auto-save is taking place at shut-down/reboot.
So no changes whatever are being saved! Sad

That's not good!