Slacko Puppy 5.3.1

[MoebusNet]

# report-video
VIDEO REPORT: Slacko Puppy, version 5.3.1

Chip description:
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation N10 Family Integrated Graphics Controller
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation N10 Family Integrated Graphics Controller

Driver used by Xorg:
intel

Video mode used by Xorg:
Resolution: "1024x600" Depth: Depth 24

-Computer-
Processor : 2x Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU N450 @ 1.66GHz
Memory : 1023MB (207MB used)
Operating System : Unknown distribution
User Name : root (root)
Date/Time : Sat 24 Dec 2011 02:51:58 PM CST
-Display-
Resolution : 1024x600 pixels
OpenGL Renderer : Mesa DRI Intel(R) IGD x86/MMX/SSE2
X11 Vendor : The X.Org Foundation
-Multimedia-
Audio Adapter : HDA-Intel - HDA Intel
-Input Devices-
AT Translated Set 2 keyboard
ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse
Power Button
Sleep Button
Lid Switch
Power Button
PC Speaker
1.3M WebCam
Video Bus
-Printers (CUPS)-
CUPS-PDF : <i>Default</i>
-SCSI Disks-
ATA TOSHIBA MK1665GS
SanDisk U3 Cruzer Micro
SanDisk U3 Cruzer Micro
USB2.0 CardReader

The early ENE cardreader for this netbook works out-of-the-box
If we can ever come up with a real trackpad driver instead of the ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse driver, I'll be tickled pink!

Thanks for the hard work!!!

[Karl Godt]

SLACKO-5.3.1# uname -r 2.6.37.6

Full installed to partition sda10 on

Manufacturer: Dell Inc. Product Name: OptiPlex 745 Type: Desktop
Type: Central Processor Family: Core 2 Manufacturer: Intel
Current Speed: 1866 MHz
# free -m
total used free shared buffers
Mem: 1000 330 670 0 27
-/+ buffers: 302 697
Swap: 1004 0 1004



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SLACKO<>LUPU BUG :

/root/Startup/freememapplet_tray

# strings
bash: strings: command not found

BUT is named strings-GNU so not a bug with strings
AND busybox is compiled with the strings applet too

# busybox strings /root/Startup/freememapplet_tray |grep df

df -m | grep ' /initrd/pup_ro1$' | tr -s ' ' | cut -f 2,4 -d ' '
df -m | grep '/dev/root' | tr -s ' '| cut -f 2,4 -d ' '
df -m | grep ' /initrd/pup_rw$' | tr -s ' ' | cut -f 2,4 -d ' '

Slacko uses the woof df while Lupu df-FULL , which is ok in frugal mode .

The slacko freememapplet_tray is compiled for the Lupu df output .

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WOOF BUG :

/bin/umount

Since i have installed slacko full to sda10
running /usr/local/Partview/pdff.pl
by clicking the freememapplet_tray icon
the sda1 alway showed as mounted on the desktop
thought it had been successfully unmounted .

The problem is with grep '/dev/sda1' not doing a grep -w '/dev/sda1' :
simply grep would also grep sda10 up to sda19 .
Adding -w to grep for the mount_icon part of /bin/umount seems to have solved this :

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 if [ "`df | tr -s ' ' | cut -f 1,6 -d ' ' | grep -w "$drvPATTERN" | grep -v ' /initrd/' | grep -v ' /$'`" = "" ];then

    if [ "`df | tr -s ' ' | cut -f 1,6 -d ' ' | grep -w "$drvPATTERN" | grep -E ' /initrd/| /$'`" != "" ];then

I am expecting few more to come in this df and mount issue .

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Other than this no real problems so far .

I really like the slacko modprobe compiled with zlib support opposed to debian/ubuntu modprobe !
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year !

[James C]

Just manually upgraded the Slacko frugal install on my Windows 7/PCLOS/Lucid box from 5.30 to 5.31.Other than needing to quickly redo my icon layout everything appears to have upgraded fine with all previously installed apps still functioning normally.

# report-video
VIDEO REPORT: Slacko Puppy, version 5.3.1

Chip description:
oem: NVIDIA
product: G98 Board - 5610002u Chip Rev

Driver used by Xorg:
nvidia

Video mode used by Xorg:
Resolution: " 1440x900 " Depth: Depth 24

...the above also recorded in /tmp/report-video
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# glxgears
10548 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2109.600 FPS
10897 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2179.400 FPS
10599 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2119.800 FPS
10657 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2131.400 FPS
10527 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2105.400 FPS
10763 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2152.600 FPS

VGA compatible controller : nVidia Corporation G98 [GeForce 8400 GS]

[MoebusNet]

HDD-active light is always illuminated whether booting with or without save-file. Lucid 5.28 not doing this. Any information i can provide?

EDIT: Same machine, clean 5.3.1-004 install to manual-frugal USB flash drive. Does not exhibit this behavior. Oh well, another non-issue.

[zigbert]

There seems to be an issue with viewnoir......



Works fine for filenames containing only english chars

[pemasu]

I dont ever use finnish special characters in filenames but now I was curious to test what I can find from keyboard in dpup exprimo. So these characters should work.

[shinobar]

There seems to be an issue with viewnoir......
Works fine for filenames containing only english chars

Tried on Slacko + lang_pack_ja-1.4.sfs and has no problem.
So, it is not the issue of the vewnoir itself.
I have not tried the lang_pack_all yet.

[shinobar]

Tried on Slacko + lang_pack_ja-1.4.sfs and has no problem.

But fails under en_US locale. en_US.UTF-8 is OK.

[shinobar]

en_US.UTF-8 is OK except the title bar.

[shinobar]

en_US.UTF-8 is OK except the title bar.

Confirmed on the native(without lang_pack) Slacko 5.3.1 MAIN with RAM mode.
Of course the Japanese filename is unreadable because of lacking the font, but no problem in showing the image.

To set the locale with UTF-8, choose 'en (English)' or any language on the Country wizard. Tick on 'UTF-8' checkbox appears on the next window.

[Iguleder]

01micko, here's the fix for the Slackware libpng, which is a 'lil bit smaller:

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ln -s libpng14.pc ./usr/lib/pkgconfig/libpng.pc
ln -s libpng14 ./usr/include/libpng                       
ln -s libpng/png.h ./usr/include                          
ln -s libpng/pngconf.h ./usr/include

I added this to the libpng FIXUPHACK and now stuff seem to compile just fine!

[zigbert]

To set the locale with UTF-8, choose 'en (English)' or any language on the Country wizard. Tick on 'UTF-8' checkbox appears on the next window.

Ok, so this is the trick Thank you.
I meant that this option was available in the main window earlier ? Maybe I wrong....
If I set it to nb_NO I don't get a second window.


Sigmund

[shinobar]

If I set it to nb_NO I don't get a second window.

Wow! it is the bug of the 'Country wizard' i have to fix.
Use the 'Choose locale' instead

EDIT: Updated firstrun-1.9.6.pet (1 Jan 2012)
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=58312

[Aitch]

Sorry if this comment is late...

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.

Yes, actually Adaptec AIC-7892A U160/m....and I'm not booting from harddrive mbr/grub, as I'm using noryb's win installer version, though boot is finding the savefile/s and sfs, so I presumed it would, as I had an earlier Dell server working OK with a previous scsi booting puppy that Barry did
Sadly, I don't have a working Dell server with Fusion MPT interfaces to test

Aitch

[zigbert]

GrubConfig is not found in the menu. If this is intentional (to only offer Grub4Dos), there is a message in the universal installer mentioning GrubConfig.


Sigmund

[zigbert]

shinobar
Thank you for the fix


Sigmund

[01micko]

GrubConfig is not found in the menu. If this is intentional (to only offer Grub4Dos), there is a message in the universal installer mentioning GrubConfig.


Sigmund

Are your eyes painted on? Or is there paint in your eyes? (yes, pathetic art humour! I know you've been busy at the canvas )

I knew it was there as I did test for Sage, it's in the announcement thread.

[zigbert]

Truly, my eyes are covered by dark oil painting.

But why is Grub4Dos placed in 2 dfferent menus, while Legacy Grub only in System menu? Please give me a logic answer

[Jasper]

Hi zigbert,

I assume that the placement of Grub4Dos in 2 different menus was a trivial oversight but, now you have pointed this out, I have used Pmenu to hide both entries. I can temporarily unhide them if I want to make any changes.

As regards the "green" I seem to recall 01micko commented "you'll love it or hate it". Personally, I love it.

My regards and thanks for all your Puppy programs.

[Karl Godt]

But why is Grub4Dos placed in 2 dfferent menus, while Legacy Grub only in System menu? Please give me a logic answer Twisted Evil

Puppy is confusing as always ...

Slacko-5.3.1 /usr/share/applications/Grub4DosConfig.desktop
has got two entries for the /etc/xdg/menus/hierarchy :
Categories=X-SystemMemory;X-SetupUtility

/usr/share/applications/Grub-bootloader-config.desktop
Categories=X-SystemMemory

while Racy-5.2.2 Grub4DosConfig.desktop for example
has only one entry :
Categories=X-SystemMemory
(version 1.7.1)

Grub-bootloader-config.desktop
Categories=X-SystemMemory

Applying this code to change the submenu entries to show up with 1 entry already by the argument 1 ( $1= 1 )

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#!/bin/sh
N="$1"
[ ! "$N" ] && N=5
[ "`echo "$N" | grep '[^0-9]'`" ] && exit 106
cd /etc/xdg/menus
#for i in * ; do echo $i; sed -i 's#inline_limit="[0-9]*"#inline_limit="5"#g' $i; done
SED1='inline_limit="[0-9]*"'
SED2='inline_limit="'$N'"'
for i in * ; do echo $i;
if [ -f "$i" ];then
if [ -w "$i" ];then
sed -i "s#${SED1}#${SED2}#g" "$i"
[ "$?" != '0' ] && exit 107
fi;fi
done
fixmenus
#[ "$?" != '0' ] && exit 108
jwm -restart
[ "$?" != '0' ] && exit 109
exit 0

both show up together . (i named the script menu-sub-changer.sh)

At both Puppies the /etc/xdg/menus/hierarchy are same :

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#the menu hierarchy used in official Puppy v2.14
#'X-' categories are unofficial, Puppy-specific.
#w482 changed top-level name 'Calculate' to 'Business'.

System     :Memory         X-SystemMemory
Setup      :Utility        X-SetupUtility