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Posted: **Sat 30 Mar 2013, 16:11**

I finally got a VM to work with the recent crop of puppies with the 3.8+ kernels (Upup-Precise/-Raring, Arch Pup, Alpha etc).
This baby is impressive.
Everything worked out of the box. Even the VMware video driver.
Very well done Mick!!!

Posted: **Sat 30 Mar 2013, 17:35**

mavrothal wrote:I finally got a VM to work with the recent crop of puppies with the 3.8+ kernels (Upup-Precise/-Raring, Arch Pup, Alpha etc).
This baby is impressive.
Everything worked out of the box. Even the VMware video driver.
Very well done Mick!!!

What did you have to do with your settings? Every time I try to use VirtualBox for any of these new Pups, they get locked in some strange widescreen mode and are pretty much unusable.

Ordinarily, in VirtualBox, I choose xvesa because xorg locks it up. I've played with all the settings but haven't found a combination that works so I'm glad to see that someone has.

Sully

Posted: **Sat 30 Mar 2013, 20:06**

sullysat wrote: What did you have to do with your settings? Every time I try to use VirtualBox for any of these new Pups, they get locked in some strange widescreen mode and are pretty much unusable.

Sorry, no Virtual box.

I use mostly Parallels but VMware fusion handles the new kernels better on my 32bit machine.

Posted: **Sat 30 Mar 2013, 20:26**

Delta is available for next... @94MB it's the size of an ISO

(You know where to find it!)

EDIT...

Everything is uploaded now ..

See main Post!

Posted: **Sat 30 Mar 2013, 21:40**

Just being repetitive..

01micko wrote:Delta is available for next... @94MB it's the size of an ISO (You know where to find it!)

EDIT...

Everything is uploaded now ..

See main Post!

Posted: **Sat 30 Mar 2013, 22:02**

01micko wrote: Download PHATSlacko-5.5.02-ORIGINAL.iso @ a whopping 409MB.

Everything else is there, such as kernel source, md5, devx etc, plus kernel files

Is it safe to assume that aufs-util-3.8.5.pet and linux_kernel-3.8.5-slacko_PAE.pet, present in "everything else" are already in main and devx sfs respectively?

Posted: **Sat 30 Mar 2013, 22:04**

Hi mavrothal,

I have a new kernel build script that compiles aufs-utils from git against the headers produced by the script, it fixes sfs_load otf

The correct headers are in devx.

So yes! Safe assumption..

EDIT: you may be interested in ThinSlacko coming soon, especially a re-mix for XO-1

Posted: **Sat 30 Mar 2013, 22:16**

01micko wrote: EDIT: you may be interested in ThinSlacko coming soon, especially a re-mix for XO-1

Yeh, I keep an eye on this

How come build-iso and unpack_pkgs2sfs are not included? Making the UI a la Saluki/Carolina?

Posted: **Sat 30 Mar 2013, 23:35**

I burned the iso to a dvd, then booted the dvd and used the F2FS
installer to prepare and install to a 4gb flash drive.
Now running from the flash drive install.
video-info-glx 1.5.1 Sat 30 Mar 2013 on PHATSlacko Puppy 5.5.02
Linux 3.8.5.1 i686
0.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV530 [Radeon X1600]
oem: ATI ATOMBIOS
product: RV530 01.00
X Server: Xorg Driver: radeon
X.Org version: 1.12.3
dimensions: 1440x900 pixels (380x238 millimeters)
depth of root window: 24 planes
direct rendering: Yes
server glx vendor string: SGI
server glx version string: 1.4
OpenGL vendor string: X.Org R300 Project
OpenGL renderer string: Gallium 0.4 on ATI RV530
OpenGL version string: 2.1 Mesa 8.0.4
AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3300+
Core 0: @2411 MHz

Working well so far,

Posted: **Sun 31 Mar 2013, 05:35**

I was running the latest PHATSlacko live pfix=ram on the old quad-core, in the middle of a glowing post about how everything was working fine, when I opened Hardinfo .......... computer immediately froze up and a few seconds later the display turned to a multi-colored graffiti .Hard poweroff. Repeated and froze up again.Something in these new kernels doesn't like my Nvidia chips.

Posted: **Sun 31 Mar 2013, 06:03**

Hi James.

Can't remember if you had the same nvidia card as I have, GeForce 8400 GS or it may have been Jim1911.

Anyway, fwiw mine are doing ok, with pemasu's too.

Posted: **Sun 31 Mar 2013, 06:14**

01micko wrote:Hi James.

Can't remember if you had the same nvidia card as I have, GeForce 8400 GS or it may have been Jim1911.

Anyway, fwiw mine are doing ok, with pemasu's too.

The boxes in question both have the onboard Nvidia GeForce 7025/nForce 630a chips.(My PCLOS box has the 8400....I'll try it tomorrow) All of the 3.8.x kernels I've tried simply freeze with the distorted display........ I replaced a couple of Pemasu's Upup kernels with my compile of k-3.2.37 (latest at the time) and that kernel works in both boxes with no problem.

Posted: **Sun 31 Mar 2013, 06:20**

Box in question runs Windows 7, Mageia 2, SolusOS 2, and naturally Puppy ....Lucid, Slacko 5.5,Macpup 529, and Precise 5.40 ........so I'm fairly comfortable in thinking it's not a hardware issue.

Posted: **Sun 31 Mar 2013, 19:16**

Hi Micko,
Just had to write in and congratulate you on the this Particular Slacko.

Slacko has been my main OS since 5.3 but the main core with adrive is perfect for me.

I already had my addon SFS built with all my favourite apps, SMOffice, Seamonkey, etc. Just renamed it to adrv and I was good to go with frugal install.

Video with intel driver is working great OOTB. Everything so far is good.

Processor : 2x Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E6750 @ 2.66GHz
Memory : 4068MB (298MB used)

Chip description:
2.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82Q35 Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02)
oem: Intel(r)Q33/Q35/G33 Graphics Chip Accelerated VGA BIOS
product: Intel(r)Q33/Q35/G33 Graphics Controller Hardware Version 0.0

X Server: Xorg Driver used: intel

X.Org version: 1.12.3
dimensions: 1680x1050 pixels (444x277 millimeters)
depth of root window: 24 planes

Thank you very much! J

Posted: **Sun 31 Mar 2013, 20:04**

PHATSlacko on the old Athlon XP box with the old Nvidia card.Looks good..... no problems.

# report-video
VIDEO REPORT: PHATSlacko Puppy, version 5.5.02

Chip description:
VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV18 [GeForce4 MX 440 AGP 8x] (rev c1)

Requested by /etc/X11/xorg.conf:
Resolution (widthxheight, in pixels): 1440x900
Depth (bits, or planes): 24
Modules requested to be loaded: dbe

Probing Xorg startup log file (/var/log/Xorg.0.log):
Driver loaded (and currently in use): nouveau
Loaded modules: dbe dri dri2 exa extmod fb glx kbd mouse record shadowfb

Actual rendering on monitor:
Resolution: 1440x900 pixels (380x238 millimeters)
Depth: 24 planes

...the above also recorded in /tmp/report-video
# glxgears
Running synchronized to the vertical refresh. The framerate should be
approximately the same as the monitor refresh rate.
1761 frames in 5.0 seconds = 352.128 FPS
1887 frames in 5.0 seconds = 377.388 FPS
1912 frames in 5.0 seconds = 382.265 FPS
1860 frames in 5.0 seconds = 371.994 FPS
1941 frames in 5.0 seconds = 388.152 FPS

-Version-
Kernel : Linux 3.8.5.1 (i686)
Version : #1 SMP Fri Mar 29 19:02:59 EST 2013
C Library : GNU C Library version 2.15 (stable)
Distribution : PHATSlacko Puppy - 5.5.02
-Current Session-
Computer Name : puppypc20181
User Name : root (root)
Home Directory : /root
Desktop Environment : Unknown (Window Manager: JWM)

-Computer-
Processor : AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2400+
Memory : 1033MB (222MB used)
Machine Type : Physical machine
Operating System : PHATSlacko Puppy - 5.5.02
User Name : root (root)
Date/Time : Sun 31 Mar 2013 03:04:33 PM CDT
-Display-
Resolution : 1440x900 pixels
OpenGL Renderer : Mesa DRI nv18 x86/MMX+/3DNow!+/SSE
X11 Vendor : The X.Org Foundation

Did notice that the 3.8.x kernels on the boxes with the newer Nvidia chips always has a string of errors when running "glxgears" ....... I'll try to get it to run long enough later to grab a copy.If I can grab it before the computer freezes up.....

Posted: **Sun 31 Mar 2013, 20:12**

01micko wrote:[*]Important AUFS bugfix for sfs_load OTF sfs loader (shino), (peebee, test please?)
Have fun!

Hi Mick

Pristine frugal install (pfix=ram, no savefile).

979MB ram available on my laptop after install.

SFS-load-on-the-fly the devx kills PhatSlacko dead....the kernel-source sfs loads without any problem.

Loading the sfs's using the boot manager after a reboot and savefile creation works fine.

I was then able to compile the Broadcom wl driver for PhatSlacko 5.5.02 - to be found here

One oddity with the Boot Manager was that it offered the A-Drive to be loaded - see screenie.

Cheers
peebee

Posted: **Sun 31 Mar 2013, 20:19**

James C wrote: Did notice that the 3.8.x kernels on the boxes with the newer Nvidia chips always has a string of errors when running "glxgears" ....... I'll try to get it to run long enough later to grab a copy.If I can grab it before the computer freezes up.....

Code: Select all

# report-video
VIDEO REPORT: PHATSlacko Puppy, version 5.5.02

Chip description:
VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation C61 [GeForce 7025 / nForce 630a] (rev a2)

Requested by /etc/X11/xorg.conf:
  Resolution (widthxheight, in pixels): 1024x768x16
  Depth (bits, or planes):              24
  Modules requested to be loaded:       dbe 

Probing Xorg startup log file (/var/log/Xorg.0.log):
  Driver loaded (and currently in use): nouveau
  Loaded modules: dbe dri dri2 exa extmod fb glx kbd mouse record shadowfb

Actual rendering on monitor:
  Resolution:  1366x768 pixels (361x203 millimeters)
  Depth:       24 planes

...the above also recorded in /tmp/report-video
# glxgears
nvfx_screen_get_param:95 -  Warning: unknown PIPE_CAP 30
nvfx_screen_get_param:95 -  Warning: unknown PIPE_CAP 30
nvfx_screen_get_param:95 -  Warning: unknown PIPE_CAP 55
nvfx_screen_get_param:95 -  Warning: unknown PIPE_CAP 56
nvfx_screen_get_param:95 -  Warning: unknown PIPE_CAP 59
nvfx_screen_get_param:95 -  Warning: unknown PIPE_CAP 58
nvfx_screen_get_param:95 -  Warning: unknown PIPE_CAP 30
Running synchronized to the vertical refresh.  The framerate should be
approximately the same as the monitor refresh rate.
5042 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1008.340 FPS
4814 frames in 5.0 seconds = 962.795 FPS
5631 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1125.900 FPS
5638 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1127.376 FPS
5633 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1126.496 FPS
5628 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1125.575 FPS

Better get this post submitted before this thing freezes again.

Posted: **Sun 31 Mar 2013, 20:24**

Back in Windows 7 ..... submitted the above post,opened Hardinfo to add more hardware info and had an instant freeze with distorted display and no keyboard input.Hard poweroff.

EDIT:
Both Nvidia boxes in question have 4Gb + ram and the dual-core has 6 Gb swap.

Posted: **Sun 31 Mar 2013, 20:36**

peebee wrote:
01micko wrote:[*]Important AUFS bugfix for sfs_load OTF sfs loader (shino), (peebee, test please?)
Have fun!
979MB ram available on my laptop after install.

SFS-load-on-the-fly the devx kills PhatSlacko dead....the kernel-source sfs loads without any problem.

Very curious.. I'd speculate agiain... ram crash, but that behaviour you describe is not typical of ram crash. Usually the display freezes and the computer becomes totally unresponsive. If it only happens in RAM then it probably is, but if you can reproduce after a save then it's not.

Bootmanager needs patching to be Adrive aware.

Thanks

Posted: **Sun 31 Mar 2013, 20:41**

James C wrote:Back in Windows 7 ..... submitted the above post,opened Hardinfo to add more hardware info and had an instant freeze with distorted display and no keyboard input.Hard poweroff.

Might have to await 3.9 James before you can have any fun with f2fs! BTW, I did read about PV's avoidance of 3.8x. What gets me is how the kernel devs get some things so wrong when in previous versions they were stable .

.

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