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shinobar · Joined: 28 May 2009 Posts: 2672 Location: Japan

Has slacko GUIs for md5sum check?

marmalade · Joined: 26 Jun 2012 Posts: 10

Hi, two queries on a new Slacko install;

- trying to find an Alpine package; the one in the linked Slackware repo has been compiled without stored password support, anyone seen an Alpine v2 package compiled with that support?

- any alternative terminal programs to replace that urxvt one? Pref with options that can be set without trial and error in the .Xresources file (ie with proper menus) ?

TIA

musher0 · Posted: Tue 26 Jun 2012, 14:19 Post subject:

> Slacko is in the next cycle.

shucks... Very Happy

01micko · Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 8680 Location: qld

@shinobar

I have now included Slackware coreutils which has the later sort utility.

On firstrun, there is a bug where modprobe nls_iso8859_1 is run. I see that the variable is used, but nls_iso8859_1 is compiled into the kernel, not a module. Most puppy kernels are compiled this way, I'm sure pemasu does it too. All other nls_iso???? are modules. Maybe if the variable contains that value you can skip the modprobe run? Not a big deal, but we all want to make out programs the best we can. Smile

shinobar · Joined: 28 May 2009 Posts: 2672 Location: Japan

dk60902 · Posted: Wed 27 Jun 2012, 01:04 Post subject:

01micko · Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 8680 Location: qld

ETP · Joined: 19 Oct 2010 Posts: 1111 Location: UK

Minor issue:
The filter test in BootManager (*_5.3.3.1.sfs) is too rigorous & prevents the kernel source sfs from being seen & loaded via that route. (load on the fly is O/K)

Possible issue:
I had had some problems using shinobar's getnvidia. It seemed fine at first, producing both the NVIDIA SFS & PET.
It automatically blacklisted the nouveau driver & loaded the sfs. I then exchanged that for the pet & thought to check
for hardware acceleration. The OPEN GL/GLX information tab in nvidia-settings however showed "Failed to query the GLX server vendor"

It may be that I shot myself in the foot at some point whilst experimenting and I need to start afresh. I am therefore just flagging this up for anyone who has used
getnvidia to check the nvidia-settings. (A subsequent manual install of the latest driver worked fine)

shinobar · Joined: 28 May 2009 Posts: 2672 Location: Japan

01micko · Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 8680 Location: qld

shinobar · Joined: 28 May 2009 Posts: 2672 Location: Japan

01micko · Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 8680 Location: qld

Yes slickpet is not really ready for this version. The test for mesa is on installed packages. Of course if it's there already it's not going to be in the install log. I mentioned it has mesa in the first post.

I may even abandon slickpet or more correctly, break it up into sfs management and video management. It was never a planned application and is a bit of a nightmare to maintain without a full rewrite anyway.

shinobar · Joined: 28 May 2009 Posts: 2672 Location: Japan

01micko · Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 8680 Location: qld

ETP · Joined: 19 Oct 2010 Posts: 1111 Location: UK

shinobar

Thanks for trying to help. If you re-read my previous post however you will see that it was precisely when I changed to the pet so produced that I encountered the problem "Failed to query the GLX server vendor". I went on to comment “A subsequent manual install of the latest driver worked fine”.

I realise that getnvidia-0.5 automates the manual install process, produces the pet & sfs and then goes onto load the sfs. It may be that my changing from the sfs to the pet caused the problem.

In any event I have today done a fresh build & manual install of 295.59. That works fine as shown below & at least validates micko’s inclusion of mesa. In fact the glxgears FPS is the best I have ever seen on my card by 50%. I would suggest that we wait to see whether anyone else encounters a problem with a USB install and the nvidia-glx-295.59-k3.2.21-4g.pet