slacko 5.3.3, final

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01micko · #136 Post by **01micko** » Thu 15 Mar 2012, 21:39

Volhout wrote: edit: one small problem after playing few hours and rebooting few times: sometimes grub4dos does not see the frugal install on the SDcard. Must be a timing issue. It gives "file not found" at the "find --set root ........sfs" line. Must be that the card filesystem is not read by the bios or by grub4dos at the moment the "find" is executed. Played with timing a bit, but that does not resolve the issue. This may be a known issue, but I fear I am unique in that I have grub4dos installed in a harddisk system and try to boot from an SD card through grub4dos's menu.lst.

You can set the actual pdev1 parameter on your kernel line, this may solve your issue.
For example, if you have a save on sdd1 you'd add this to your kernel line:

Code: Select all

pdev1=sdd1

HTH

Jasper · #137 Post by **Jasper** » Thu 15 Mar 2012, 22:07

Hi 01micko,

I am really very sorry to fail you, but I have been unable to do a single worthwhile test on 5.2.3.7 and after almost four hours I've given up.

The problems are with my equipment. Despite recent problems with both my ancient internal hard drives I have eventually decided that my current problem is in burning an error free CD-R or DVD+RW (even though the MD5 checks).

From my point of view my/your 5.3.1 DVD boot and USB stick are still working perfectly; it's very fast on my old desktop, ideally stable and a total saviour.

My regards and thanks

Billtoo · #138 Post by **Billtoo** » Thu 15 Mar 2012, 23:34

I've been using my 4gb flash drive install on several computers, 3
with nvidia graphics and my laptop with ati graphics.
The computers with nvidia graphics just needed to rerun xorgwizard and
choose the nvidia driver and the correct resolution (the proprietary
nvidia driver was installed on pc1), also run the network wizard.
On my laptop it booted straight to the desktop and was using the vesa
driver, I downloaded the amd-driver-installer-12-2-x86.x86_64.run and
installed it.I had to run the network wizard to setup the wireless
connection.
It's working very well, amazing what you can get on a 4 gb flash
drive, 2 gb save file and the rest to store sfs files etc.

Thu 15 Mar 2012 Operating System:Slacko Puppy-5.3.2.7p Linux 3.1.10-slacko_paeA
0.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Manhattan
[Mobility Radeon HD 5000 Series]
oem: ATI ATOMBIOS product: PARK 01.00

X Server: Xorg Driver: # vesa
X.Org version: 1.9.5
dimensions: 1600x900 pixels (423x238 millimeters)
depth of root window: 24 planes

direct rendering: Yes
server glx vendor string: ATI
server glx version string: 1.4
OpenGL vendor string: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5400 Series
OpenGL version string: 4.2.11554 Compatibility Profile Context

# glxgears
26447 frames in 5.0 seconds = 5289.242 FPS
26838 frames in 5.0 seconds = 5367.427 FPS
26729 frames in 5.0 seconds = 5345.690 FPS

Intel(R) Core(TM) i5 CPU M 430
Core 0: 1733 1: 1733 2: 1733 3: 1733 MHz

Network controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR928X Wireless
Network Adapter (PCI-Express) (rev 01)

shinobar · #139 Post by **shinobar** » Fri 16 Mar 2012, 00:32

Volhout wrote:sometimes grub4dos does not see the frugal install on the SDcard. Must be a timing issue. It gives "file not found" at the "find --set root ........sfs" line.

The grub4dos have seen the menu.lst and then do the "find --set root".
Where is your menu.lst, on the SDcard or on another drive?

Volhout · #140 Post by **Volhout** » Fri 16 Mar 2012, 09:05

shinobar,

the harddisk has 3 partitions: sda1 (ntfs, win XP), sda2 (ntfs, data), sda3 (ext4, lubuntu 11.10). Then I have an SD card slot that registers as a USB drive (sdb1, Slacko).

menu.lst is on sda1. I think that is where grub4dos default puts it (logical choice, since if you remove the SD card, the system can still boot).
The problem is that after I make the selection in the blue screen (so menu.lst is found) I get this error (command line, not a popup).

The problem does not happen when I boot winXP or Lubuntu from the harddrive, so it must have something to do with the card/usb.
The problem is a bit intermittent. Yesterday evening I had 4 or 5 times perfect booting, and the 6'th time I had the problem.

Do you think it may be card related (faster SD card ?), this card is type 6. I may have some "type 10" card laying around, and give that a try later.

Thank you for trying to diagnose this....

Volhout

Volhout · #141 Post by **Volhout** » Fri 16 Mar 2012, 09:25

01micko wrote:
Volhout wrote: edit: one small problem after playing few hours and rebooting few times: sometimes grub4dos does not see the frugal install on the SDcard. Must be a timing issue. It gives "file not found" at the "find --set root ........sfs" line. Must be that the card filesystem is not read by the bios or by grub4dos at the moment the "find" is executed. Played with timing a bit, but that does not resolve the issue. This may be a known issue, but I fear I am unique in that I have grub4dos installed in a harddisk system and try to boot from an SD card through grub4dos's menu.lst.
You can set the actual pdev1 parameter on your kernel line, this may solve your issue.
For example, if you have a save on sdd1 you'd add this to your kernel line:
Code: Select all
pdev1=sdd1
HTH

Thank you, that fixed it (I had 10+ succesfull boots). Of coarse I used pdev1=sdb1.

Regards,

Volhout

01micko · #142 Post by **01micko** » Fri 16 Mar 2012, 10:24

Ok, I have tackled the insertion of panel applets, it's quite different to how Jason (plinej) did the original but still uses some of his code.

Seems to work ok in adding and deleting panel icon launchers.

Have fun (and please report success or failure)

playdayz · #143 Post by **playdayz** » Fri 16 Mar 2012, 13:57

I see that 01micko has already made Iron and Chrome 17 packages. By default they Won't Run as Root. Iguleder made a patch. Alternatively it is possible to run them in root by specifying the --user-data-dir as in this command:

exec /usr/lib/chrome-linux/chrome --user-data-dir=/root/.config/chromium --disk-cache-size=10000000 --media-cache-size=10000000 "$@"

Latest Chromium-based browsers

Chromium 19 -> ftp://distro.ibiblio.org/puppylinux/pet ... slacko.pet

Google Chrome 17 -> ftp://distro.ibiblio.org/puppylinux/pet ... slacko.pet

Srware Iron 17 -> ftp://distro.ibiblio.org/puppylinux/pet ... slacko.pet

Chromium is the open source development platform so it runs ahead of the other 2. Google Chrome has its own flashplayer built in. Iron removes some of the privacy-compromising features of Google Chrome.

ETP · #144 Post by **ETP** » Fri 16 Mar 2012, 14:29

01micko wrote:Ok, I have tackled the insertion of panel applets, it's quite different to how Jason (plinej) did the original but still uses some of his code.

Seems to work ok in adding and deleting panel icon launchers.

Have fun (and please report success or failure)

Works fine but I prefer ICEWM for its speed & ease of manipulation.

mavrothal · #145 Post by **mavrothal** » Fri 16 Mar 2012, 19:11

01micko wrote:Ok, I have tackled the insertion of panel applets, it's quite different to how Jason (plinej) did the original but still uses some of his code.

Seems to work ok in adding and deleting panel icon launchers.

Have fun (and please report success or failure)

Works fine but shouldn't it have a menu entry or better yet right-clicking in the area?

ETP · #146 Post by **ETP** » Fri 16 Mar 2012, 20:46

mavrothal wrote:
01micko wrote:Ok, I have tackled the insertion of panel applets, it's quite different to how Jason (plinej) did the original but still uses some of his code.

Seems to work ok in adding and deleting panel icon launchers.

Have fun (and please report success or failure)
Works fine but shouldn't it have a menu entry or better yet right-clicking in the area?

You could just add one as below:

gcmartin · #147 Post by **gcmartin** » Fri 16 Mar 2012, 21:29

Using a 1.5Ghz Centrino Laptop with 1GB RAM.

This distro and the packages installed runs very well on this platform. My steps were as follows to get a full-featured LAN PC
ISO to multi-session CDRW
Installed all the following packages outside of the PPM
SAMBA
JRE
AngryIP
Did a save session with the above 3
Rebooted and installed LibreOffice
Verified all subsystems functioning as expected including shares and share access.
Exercised a Remaster operation to capture all packages into a single ISO
Wiped the CDRW and burned the Remaster single ISO to the CDRW

Rebooted and everything is working harmonyously

scsijon · #148 Post by **scsijon** » Fri 16 Mar 2012, 23:48

I like your new PPM!

However is their any chance of putting the search bar at the top with it's search icon (where all the buttons are now) and having the other buttons at the bottom.
Much more what would be expected...

01micko · #149 Post by **01micko** » Sat 17 Mar 2012, 01:31

Added an "Are you sure" Xdialog to the deletion of current launchers in the panel for JWM

mavrothal · #150 Post by **mavrothal** » Sat 17 Mar 2012, 08:31

01micko wrote:Added an "Are you sure" Xdialog to the deletion of current launchers in the panel for JWM

Ok... I got jealous...

So I hacked it a bit to make it control a JWM applications panel. Good for small screens

The attached pet will also generate the (auto-hidden) applications panel on the top of the screen.
It also has a menu entry under "Desktop"

Update v0.2 prompts for Desksetup if present

Update 2 v0.3 allows positioning of the applications panel in any side.
The pet is a bit bigger because it includes the mini icons so it can be used in any puppy

Update 3 v0.4 fixes the addfunction, gives the option to edit entries and looks better

Update 5 v0.5 allows to resize the panel "thickness" (hight or width). Also minimizes scenarios that may be messed up by user actions.

Update 6 v0.6 allows reordering of the panel buttons and moved to its own thread

Billtoo · #151 Post by **Billtoo** » Sat 17 Mar 2012, 13:53

ETP wrote: Works fine but I prefer ICEWM for its speed & ease of manipulation.

Me too.

cowboy · #152 Post by **cowboy** » Sat 17 Mar 2012, 15:26

I used unetbootin to burn the iso onto a fat partition of a USB. Booted without issue onto this machine, a Dell Latitude laptop. Initial impressions - mouse travel and behavior much improved on touchpad, compared to 5.3.1, wireless bcm4311 broadcom detected and wpa connection made.

EDIT: created heavily encrypted savefile on fat partition on exit. On reboot, savefile found and loaded, and all settings (including wireless) came back on reboot. Found the new savefile dialog interesting. Seems....geekier....not bad, just geekier. For an existing user, it's probably excellent. Fine work, 01micko. And Happy St. Patrick's to you!

Processor
Processors
Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T7500 @ 2.20GHz 800.00MHz
Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T7500 @ 2.20GHz 2200.00MHz

PCI Devices
Host bridge Intel Corporation Mobile PM965/GM965/GL960 Memory Controller Hub
VGA compatible controller Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller
Display controller Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller
USB Controller Intel Corporation 82801H
USB Controller Intel Corporation 82801H
USB Controller Intel Corporation 82801H
Audio device Intel Corporation 82801H
PCI bridge Intel Corporation 82801H
PCI bridge Intel Corporation 82801H
PCI bridge Intel Corporation 82801H
USB Controller Intel Corporation 82801H
USB Controller Intel Corporation 82801H
USB Controller Intel Corporation 82801H
USB Controller Intel Corporation 82801H
PCI bridge Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge
ISA bridge Intel Corporation 82801HEM
IDE interface Intel Corporation 82801HBM/HEM
SATA controller Intel Corporation 82801HBM/HEM
SMBus Intel Corporation 82801H
CardBus bridge O2 Micro, Inc. Cardbus bridge
FireWire (IEEE 1394) O2 Micro, Inc. Firewire
Ethernet controller Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5755M Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express
Network controller Broadcom Corporation BCM4311 802.11a/b/g

Brown Mouse · #153 Post by **Brown Mouse** » Sat 17 Mar 2012, 15:44

Hi 01micko

All running well on my desktop with 3gb ram/3mhz Pentium4 dual core machine.
Working sound at first boot.
Created a savefile with ease and rebooted.
I installed Flash Player(required to stream my radio programs)via 'Getflash Install Flashplayer' from the menu.
Updated 'PPM'from 'Slickpet,More Pets'tab.
Not quite sure why when I choose a graphics driver from 'Slickpet',it suggests to use 'Mesa'when I have an Nvidia card but maybe I missed something?

Couple of other small things:-
Pmusic 2.4.4 doesn't give any track description or album art.
Pwidgets 2.3.6 CPU_bar not working.

Otherwise looking great.Thanks

Iguleder · #154 Post by **Iguleder** » Sat 17 Mar 2012, 16:44

01micko - would you like me to build a x86_64 kernel for Slacko? I'm currently running my distro, which uses Slackware 13.37 binary packages, so it's compatible.

This could be a very nice addition to 5.3 - it allows both the use of >= 4 GB of memory and 64-bit chroot environments, which means it's a good environment to develop a 64-bit 5.4 on

zigbert · #155 Post by **zigbert** » Sat 17 Mar 2012, 16:50

Brown Mouse wrote:Pmusic 2.4.4 doesn't give any track description or album art.

Please test the latest Pmusic-2.5.0 and report in the Pmusic thread if it doesn't work. It would be useful to get more flesh on the report than just: do not work...

thank you
Sigmund

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