Slacko 5.4 - FINAL 2 Dec 2012
5.4 beta2 seems to be working nicely on this old Toshiba A200 laptop. Live CD with 3fs save file on my data partition. Some of the earlier versions gave me trubble, but this one is good so far.
After 5.3.3 broke down for me some months ago I reverted to lupo, trying some of the slacko and precise alphas/trial versions from time to time. This one seems good. Nice and snappy compared to lupo.
After 5.3.3 broke down for me some months ago I reverted to lupo, trying some of the slacko and precise alphas/trial versions from time to time. This one seems good. Nice and snappy compared to lupo.
Slacko beta2 k3.2.31 [opera, NO PAE]
Manual frugal install to USB flash drive. (Formatted ext3)
Save to partition on USB flash drive.
Not saving to file but entire partition.
Having several problems with this method of saving.
After rebooting using save.
1. At shutdown stops at screen showing:
login: root (automatic login)
login: root login on tty1
#
2. Click on save icon on desktop
below message pops up and that is it.
No save action performed and message stays.
waited 20 min. way past normal time for save to work.
Again this is using option to save to partition not a file.
Precise Puppy seems to be having simular issues if the info helps.
Manual frugal install to USB flash drive. (Formatted ext3)
Save to partition on USB flash drive.
Not saving to file but entire partition.
Having several problems with this method of saving.
After rebooting using save.
1. At shutdown stops at screen showing:
login: root (automatic login)
login: root login on tty1
#
2. Click on save icon on desktop
below message pops up and that is it.
No save action performed and message stays.
waited 20 min. way past normal time for save to work.
Again this is using option to save to partition not a file.
Precise Puppy seems to be having simular issues if the info helps.
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Slacko beta2 k3.2.31 [opera, NO PAE]
Grub4dos bootloader config
3 places in menu
menu->System->Info
menu->System->Devices
menu->Setup->Utility
Grub4dos bootloader config
3 places in menu
menu->System->Info
menu->System->Devices
menu->Setup->Utility
The things they do not tell you, are usually the clue to solving the problem.
When I was a kid I wanted to be older.... This is not what I expected
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The one legacy grub doesn't work.bigpup wrote:Slacko beta2 k3.2.31 [opera, NO PAE]
Grub4dos bootloader config
3 places in menu
menu->System->Info
menu->System->Devices
menu->Setup->Utility
Inspiron 700m, Pent.M 1.6Ghz, 1Gb ram.
Msi Wind U100, N270 1.6>2.0Ghz, 1.5Gb ram.
Eeepc 8g 701, 900Mhz, 1Gb ram.
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Just trying to get streaming radio (http://iiradio.iinet.net.au:8051) to work in Audacious. It worked in lupo - maybe I'll look to see what worked there.grump wrote:5.4 beta2 seems to be working nicely on this old Toshiba A200 laptop.... this one is good so far.
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Slickpet?
Where is Slickpet? I can't find it anywhere. Somebody Help me.
Thanks.
Thanks.
Re: Slickpet?
Slickpet was removed by the developer for this new release.mufeed2012 wrote:Where is Slickpet? I can't find it anywhere. Somebody Help me.
Thanks.
Re: jwm menus in slacko 5.3.6.5
Hello ejb, thanks for the report.ejb wrote:When I add .desktop files for wine applications, the jwm menu entry for the app is not generated correctly. For example:
The command to execute the app is:
env WINEPREFIX= "/root/.wine" wine "c:\\PROG~FBU\\Bloobs\\Bloobs.exe"
When the jwm menu in regenerated, the following is created:
env WINEPREFIX= "/root/.wine" wine "c:PROG-FBUBloobsBloobs.exe"
The three sets of double back slashes in .desktop file should have been
converted to single back slashes in the jwm menu.
I assume this is a problem with fixmenus. This worked in slacko 5.3.3.
Thanks
I have used wine in the past and as far as using it recently goes I have just been loading it up and making sure it works. I am not familiar with the correct way to construct desktop files for wine. Is there a standard somewhere? If so, I will refer the link to technosaurus the maintainer of the menu gen system for JWM that I have decided to use. I'm sure he'd be interested.
One suggestion is maybe to use single quotes in the path. Bash takes them as literal and the problem should disappear. That said, you can use the full UNIX style path as I have done with MS office programs. An example:
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[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=Word
Icon=/usr/share/pixmaps/MS-Word-2-icon.png
Comment=Word word processor
Exec=wine "/root/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Microsoft Office/Office12/WINWORD.EXE"
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Categories=WordProcessor
GenericName=Word
The reason I am going with technosaurus' method is that it is up to 10 times faster and it is very noticeable. I am attempting to wipe out a few minor remaining bugs.
Anyway, I have recently built wine-1.5.15 and it works very well. I have Office 2007 word, excel, powerpoint and outlook all working well. Powerpoint has a minor issue easily resolved. I will be writing up a document on how to install office 2007 as part of the Slacko online documentation. I have also built zenity to run winetricks which when wine is installed from PPM will get downloaded as a dependency. I'll upload after the week end, a bit busy at the moment.
I have also tested dreamweaver cs4 and utorrent, both work fine. This now means that my win 7 install is just wasted disk space!
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The only difference I could see was a neon plugin - there was one in my lupo Audacious but not the slacko one. I found a neon pet but it made no difference.grump wrote:... Just trying to get streaming radio (http://iiradio.iinet.net.au:8051) to work in Audacious. It worked in lupo - maybe I'll look to see what worked there.
Back in slacko - after installing all the Audacious versions and some of the dependencies ( a gtk something?) and neon I tried Pmusic, and after setting up internet radio there it played the station I wanted (ABC Radio774 in Melbourne). I then re-installed Audacious (the 2.5.4 slacko pet form ibiblio and the neon pet) and the url above worked. My shortcut says when I select 'open as text':
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#EXTM3U
#EXTINF:-1,ABC - 774 Melbourne
http://iiradio.iinet.net.au:8049
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Re: Slickpet?
Thanks for the Help.James C wrote:Slickpet was removed by the developer for this new release.mufeed2012 wrote:Where is Slickpet? I can't find it anywhere. Somebody Help me.
Thanks.
Not much change after six days.bigpup wrote:Billtoo,
Wondering why you are getting such a high memory use reading in Htop?
On initial boot I usually see a figure of around 50-70 MB for memory usage.
I see you have a system up time of 3 days.
I wonder if programs are staying loaded in memory after shutting down and the memory is not being returned for use.
Maybe a problem?
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Hello grump,grump wrote:Just trying to get streaming radio (http://iiradio.iinet.net.au:8051) to work in Audacious. It worked in lupo - maybe I'll look to see what worked there.
That stream link seems dead here at the moment and changing the port number from 8051 to 8049 as per your other post doesn't seem to work either.
Is this a stream URL for ABC 774 Melbourne? If so you can find other ones from the station website eg:-
http://shoutmedia.abc.net.au:10350
That is a 48 kbps aac+ Shoutcast stream which plays OK for me in Deadbeef and Pmusic.
Oscar in England
Oscar - the link is ABC unmetered streaming hosted by my ISP iinet, so maybe it wont work outside .au.
Whatever I did made it work - more by good fortune than knowledge.
When I got radio through Pmusic it was directly from the ABC. I'm guessing that setting up Pmusic for radio (it offers to do so when the radio tab is selected and downloads something) also allowed Audacious to work with radio.
Whatever I did made it work - more by good fortune than knowledge.
When I got radio through Pmusic it was directly from the ABC. I'm guessing that setting up Pmusic for radio (it offers to do so when the radio tab is selected and downloads something) also allowed Audacious to work with radio.
have you tried running 'top' and outputing it to a file to see whats useing what? same with running 'lsof' and outputing that to a file as well. those two reports might give you a better idea of whats going on.Billtoo wrote:Not much change after six days.bigpup wrote:Billtoo,
Wondering why you are getting such a high memory use reading in Htop?
On initial boot I usually see a figure of around 50-70 MB for memory usage.
I see you have a system up time of 3 days.
I wonder if programs are staying loaded in memory after shutting down and the memory is not being returned for use.
Maybe a problem?
Do you mean that after saving to the entire USB stick and rebooting the saved data were recognized and used OK? Did not get to the fist boot screen again after reboot? Any old savefiles in any subdir in the stick?bigpup wrote:Slacko beta2 k3.2.31 [opera, NO PAE]
Manual frugal install to USB flash drive.
Save to partition on USB flash drive.
Not saving to file but entire partition.
Also what exactly do you mean by "Manual frugal install to USB"? Which files where copied over to USB. Just initrd.gz, vmlinuz and the slacko sfs? At the root of the stick or in a subdir?
How do you setup boot device? grub/grub4dos/BIOS/other?
Sorry for the too many questions.
Thx
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mavrothal wrote:Do you mean that after saving to the entire USB stick and rebooting the saved data were recognized and used OK? Did not get to the fist boot screen again after reboot? Any old savefiles in any subdir in the stick?bigpup wrote:Slacko beta2 k3.2.31 [opera, NO PAE]
Manual frugal install to USB flash drive.
Save to partition on USB flash drive.
Not saving to file but entire partition.
Also what exactly do you mean by "Manual frugal install to USB"? Which files where copied over to USB. Just initrd.gz, vmlinuz and the slacko sfs? At the root of the stick or in a subdir?
How do you setup boot device? grub/grub4dos/BIOS/other?
Sorry for the too many questions.
Thx
YesDo you mean that after saving to the entire USB stick and rebooting the saved data were recognized and used OK?
Not after reboot, but after a cold boot it boots to the desktop.Did not get to the fist boot screen again after reboot?
A normal shutdown or reboot does this:
Stops at screen showing:
login: root (automatic login)
login: root login on tty1
#
NoAny old savefiles in any subdir in the stick?
Yes just copy those files to the USB flash drive.what exactly do you mean by "Manual frugal install to USB"? Which files where copied over to USB. Just initrd.gz, vmlinuz and the slacko sfs?
Root of the stick.At the root of the stick or in a subdir?
I have Grub4dos installed to the MBR of the hard drive with an entry in the menu.lst for booting from the USB flash drive. Have USB flash drive plugged in when I boot to the Grub4dos menu.How do you setup boot device? grub/grub4dos/BIOS/other?
Last edited by bigpup on Fri 26 Oct 2012, 05:08, edited 1 time in total.
The things they do not tell you, are usually the clue to solving the problem.
When I was a kid I wanted to be older.... This is not what I expected
YaPI(any iso installer)
When I was a kid I wanted to be older.... This is not what I expected
YaPI(any iso installer)
Download one of the pets from here and install.spandey wrote:How do I install Wine in FF non PAE version of slacko?
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=53675
The things they do not tell you, are usually the clue to solving the problem.
When I was a kid I wanted to be older.... This is not what I expected
YaPI(any iso installer)
When I was a kid I wanted to be older.... This is not what I expected
YaPI(any iso installer)
Would it be too much to ask for your menu.lst entry?bigpup wrote: I have Grub4dos installed to the MBR of the hard drive with an entry in the menu.lst for booting from the USB flash drive. Have USB flash drive plugged in when I boot to the Grub4dos menu.
The problem I have is different than yours. There is no grub or HD in my system. Just the USB stick.
However, when I used an old initrd/init that successfully booted from the USB/SDcard it also hanged at shutdown. I think this is a separate rc.shutdown issue.
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More info if possible please?rjbrewer wrote:The one legacy grub doesn't work.
The menu entry is working for me, always has, but I haven't tested grub for a month or so. Is there a problem installing grub?
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