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Proudly announcing..

Slacko-5.4

Official announcement

Downloads

slacko-5.4-opera-4g, slacko-5.4-firefox-4g and slacko-5.4-opera-PAE, plus devx

All available from the List of Mirrors on the Download Page


Kernel source is in the sfs manager

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New Homepage with extended release notes and known issues. Please read.

Dev thread

Enjoy!

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Possible fix for POULSBO Intel graphics

http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 360#671360

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NEWS

16/01/2013: gtkdialog-0.8.4 is packaged for slacko (for older slacko see the slacko-533 bug thread)

gtkdialog-docs

1st torrent file created by mktorrent thanks to aarf, see my blog (click the qr code in my sig) I'll seed for awhile all versions

Adding the ff and PAE torrents

NOTE: I had to fix the PAE iso. Every one who has the PAE please check the md5sum and don't seed if it's wrong. Correct iso and md5 are in the main post.

Thanks and sorry for inconvenience.

Fresh frugal install of Slacko 5.4 Opera........no problems. Trying CatDude's Conky this time......

More later.

fresh install of 5.4-firefox.4g

added chromium, wake-on-lan, x11server, tightvnc & skype




seeding

deltae or pets?

Sage wrote:deltae or pets?

Yes, check mirror 1, 5.3.9.5 > 5.4

You're a good man, micko, thanks!

Woops

I just discovered a serious bug in the PAE iso affecting broadcom. I will be reuploading the PAE iso soon.

My apologies.

Ah - you've just noticed....

Hi Mick

The PAE version has the Broadcom wl driver from the k3.2.33-4g version installed rather than the k3.4.17-pae version......

see /lib/modules/3.2.33-4g

As a consequence it doesn't work

Cheers
PeeBee

yeah peebee, bad one eh? All customers get a full refund.

The delta from 5.3.9.5 is already up, it had the bug too so the delta is 500k bigger. Lucky I caught it before it hit distrowatch.

Good work, 01micko.

Only 1 small quibble: if a USB drive is plugged it is not automounted and ROX-Filer window does not open. BK provided a bug fix for this in Woof:

http://bkhome.org/blog/?viewDetailed=02835

Is this a bug or a feature?

Hi Terryphi

Did you check the automount checkbox in eventmanager? The woof I used should have the fix but I didn't test it.

EDIT: yes it works, but an X restart is needed, see screen cap (right click a drive icon to get the eventmanager)

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The fixed PAE iso is up at both mirrors (GMT 1130)

I've created windows installers for the non-PAE versions. You can find them here.

The PAE version should be up in a few hours.

01micko wrote:Hi Terryphi

Did you check the automount checkbox in eventmanager? The woof I used should have the fix but I didn't test it.

EDIT: yes it works, but an X restart is needed, see screen cap (right click a drive icon to get the eventmanager)

Yes I did and neither X restart or reboot worked. However, I am using an upgraded save file from Slacko 5.3 so that may be the explanation. No problem anyway I have fixed it by installing latest /usr/local/bin/drive_all.

Hi Puppy experts....

I would have liked to upgrade my Slacko 5.3.3 savefile on my desktop to the new 5.4 but I've run into a problem with the nvidia sfs....

I've tried every sequence I can think of to remove nvidia before upgrading the frugal install (a safe copy obviously) to 5.4 but in all cases x refuses to startup after the upgrade. xorgwizard choose strangely seems to say that nvidia is still present even though I've removed the sfs and changed to another driver before doing the upgrade.

I realise that I do need to change the version of the nvidia sfs to match the new kernel - this is what I have been trying to do - unsuccessfully

Would be interested to hear from anybody else in this situation or any thoughts on how to upgrade nvidia systems successfully.

A pristine frugal install onto the desktop works fine so I can always start from scratch but I've made so many tweaks to get the 5.3.3 system working as I want I'd really like to upgrade the savefile if at all possible.

Cheers
peebee

I did a full install of slacko-54 final pae on my emachines D620
laptop.
Computer
Processor AMD Athlon(tm) Processor 2650e
Memory 1783MB (76MB used)
Display
Resolution 1280x800 pixels
OpenGL Renderer Gallium 0.4 on ATI RS690
X11 Vendor The X.Org Foundation
OpenGL
Vendor X.Org R300 Project
Renderer Gallium 0.4 on ATI RS690
Version 2.1 Mesa 8.0.4
Direct Rendering Yes
Operating System
Version
Kernel Linux 3.4.17-PAE (i686)
Compiled #1 SMP Fri Nov 2 19:12:33 EST 2012
C Library GNU C Library version 2.15 (stable)
Default C Compiler GNU C Compiler version 4.7.1 (GCC)
Network controller Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY

I installed kdegames and firefox17 in ppm.
I had to configure retrovol to get sound working but it's working now.

Don't know who to thank properly, but, THANK YOU 01Micko for the mouse-over change to the taskbar "Network icon": It now shows the current IP address of this PC...."Thanks for the understanding, and the implementation in Slacko".

All of these contributions makes for simpler and simpler use of the desktop and useful services to all users.

Here to help

peebee wrote: I've tried every sequence I can think of to remove nvidia before upgrading the frugal install (a safe copy obviously) to 5.4 but in all cases x refuses to startup after the upgrade. xorgwizard choose strangely seems to say that nvidia is still present even though I've removed the sfs and changed to another driver before doing the upgrade.

After you stop using the Nvidia driver could this be the problem?

If you have video blackscreen at boot try:

pfix=ram i915.modeset=0
pfix=ram radeon.modeset=0
pfix=ram nouveau.modeset=0

depending on your card of course.

NB:
i915 is for intel
radeon is for radeon
nouveau is for nvidia

After you change the video driver in Xorgwizard are you doing a complete reboot to start using the new driver?
Also selecting Vesa driver should help to eliminate some issues.

The PPM is indicating that some JRE libs are missing.

Question
Even though they are not dependencies, per se, should there be a process to install these?

As you know, JRE is required for running some JAVA apps that I use and for LIbreOffice as well as others.

The PPM's pictorial are below.

Here to help

Running 5.4 on bootable USB drive
Added LibreOffice 3.6.3 sfs, ran pinstall script for same

While LibreOffice works, the following menu items do not:

Business > Sheets > New Database
Business > Sheets > New Spreadsheet
Document > Compose > New Document

Which .desktop files should I look for and/or delete?

Thanks

Thom