ThinSlacko - March 2013 (deltas released May 2013)

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#46 Post by James C »

Live pfix=ram with newer Nvidia graphics. Still necessary to add nouveau.noaccel=1 as a boot parameter.... still freezes without it.Otherwise,everything working ootb.

# report-video
VIDEO REPORT: ThinSlacko Puppy, version 5.5.03

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

Requested by /etc/X11/xorg.conf:
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
1452 frames in 5.0 seconds = 290.395 FPS
1674 frames in 5.0 seconds = 334.742 FPS
1715 frames in 5.0 seconds = 342.882 FPS
1412 frames in 5.0 seconds = 282.334 FPS
1558 frames in 5.0 seconds = 311.476 FPS 24 planes

-Computer-
Processor : 2x AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5200+
Memory : 3373MB (177MB used)
Machine Type : Physical machine
Operating System : ThinSlacko Puppy - 5.5.03
User Name : root (root)
Date/Time : Sat 04 May 2013 10:56:14 PM CDT
-Display-
Resolution : 1440x900 pixels
OpenGL Renderer : Gallium 0.4 on llvmpipe (LLVM 0x300)
X11 Vendor : The X.Org Foundation
-Audio Devices-
Audio Adapter : HDA-Intel - HDA NVidia

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# uname -r
3.9.0.0
# 

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#47 Post by peebee »

01micko wrote:Here are some delta files for you to play with.
fixed:
-added back startup-notification
Thanks Mick

Some problems:

Kernel naming inconsistency in the devx? - see attached +

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# make
KBUILD_NOPEDANTIC=1 make -C /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build M=`pwd`
make: *** /lib/modules/3.9.0.0/build: No such file or directory.  Stop.
make: *** [all] Error 2
On bootup I get lots of error messages flash up - see bootkernel.log attached and then when I try to reboot I get dumped out to a console which allows typing but does not see any commands - have to power off to recover (this happens for all reboot attempts with or without savefile).

Was able to compile the Broadcom wl driver for this kernelafter moving the links in /lib/modules/3.9.0 to 3.9.0.0

This is on my laptop - pristine frugal install to ext4 formatted disk.

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#48 Post by 01micko »

peebee wrote:Kernel naming inconsistency in the devx?
You mean kernel source.. Must be a bug in my build script. I'll re-upload tomorrow.

Thanks for heads up. Strange that it let me compile nvidia driver! There was a curious error but it wasn't fatal.

EDIT: yes, I recall the nvidia error now, it couldn't find the modules.* files, that's because it was looking in 3.9.0 not 3.9.0.0.

The bug is that my kernel script can't handle 1 DOT kernel numbers (eg 3.9). I intentionally appended a .0 so it should have been 3.9.0, but somehow an extra .0 gets appended too. Guess I better find and fix that bug!

Once the fixed kernel source is up it should be fine.
peebee wrote:On bootup I get lots of error messages flash up - see bootkernel.log attached
Hmmm.. mine looks ok, also bootsysinit.log is ok. :?

EDIT: yours looks ok too except for a couple of ACPI exceptions, but then seems to recover further down, with a few ACPI warnings only. Have you noticed any ACPI related problems?
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#49 Post by peebee »

01micko wrote:EDIT: yours looks ok too except for a couple of ACPI exceptions, but then seems to recover further down, with a few ACPI warnings only. Have you noticed any ACPI related problems?
The last 2 lines on screen just before it drops out to a "console" and hangs are:

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acpid: exiting
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#50 Post by 01micko »

peebee, acpi=off on the kernel line may help.

I'll wait until 3.9 matures a bit before doing another version, also it's likely I missed a new config line for your machine. (HP lappy?)

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Kernel source is now re-uploaded
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#51 Post by anikin »

01micko wrote:fixed:
-added back startup-notification
You done good. It's absence in the previous version caused me great grief. Posting from this new ThinSlacko version. Installed geany & firefox from ppm, removed lynkx (severely and with extreme prejudice), compiled an iconless jwm (with traditional arrow pointers) to test the devx. Did a remaster - the iso is 125 M now. So far so good. Runs like a hare on my trusted eeepc. Doesn't pant, holds the temp well and gives me much joy. One little annoyance, though. On startup, firefox says it isn't set as default. I did modify the content of the default (lynkx) browser script to show firefox. Something else needs to be done, it seems. Any ideas?

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# uname -r
3.9.0.0
# report-video
VIDEO REPORT: ThinSlacko Puppy, version 5.5.03

Chip description:
VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GME Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)
Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS/GME, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)

Requested by /etc/X11/xorg.conf:
  Depth (bits, or planes):              24
  Modules requested to be loaded:       synaptics dbe 

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

Actual rendering on monitor:
  Resolution:  1024x600 pixels (270x158 millimeters)
  Depth:       24 planes

# glxgears
Running synchronized to the vertical refresh.  The framerate should be
approximately the same as the monitor refresh rate.
300 frames in 5.0 seconds = 59.871 FPS
301 frames in 5.0 seconds = 60.186 FPS
300 frames in 5.0 seconds = 59.915 FPS
301 frames in 5.0 seconds = 60.110 FPS
301 frames in 5.0 seconds = 60.115 FPS

# jwm -v
JWM vgit-750 by Joe Wingbermuehle
compiled options: confirm xft xrender
edit:
Added a picture to illustrate the firefox issue and jwm-750 sans icons.

And a new question:
`f00 wrote:jwm titlebar button hover with NPI cursor set - cursorscreeny by tas
`f00, if you have a link to cursorscreeny, can you please, share it? Thank you in advance.
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#52 Post by 01micko »

3.9.1 is still warm.

More deltas:
http://puppylinuxstuff.meownplanet.net/ ... .iso.delta 21M
http://puppylinuxstuff.meownplanet.net/ ... .sfs.delta ~350k
http://puppylinuxstuff.meownplanet.net/ ... .sfs.delta ~2M
http://puppylinuxstuff.meownplanet.net/ ... 5.5.04.txt checksums

-updated 3.9 >> 3.9.1, added some more drivers, probably more obscure ones
-fixed probepart for f2fs
-AUFS now up to stable 3.9 branch
-compiled aufs-util 3.9 statically (much smaller, seems to work ok now).

Seems faster to me :? (or maybe I'm just slower?)
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#53 Post by rcrsn51 »

ThinSlacko is becoming my favourite quick-and-dirty utility Puppy. And Links is good enough to install a printer.

What is the fastest way to get a Gutenprint package?

Can I make a suggestion? The old Legacy GRUB bootloader config doesn't have much value anymore because it can't recognize GRUB2 installs. I would recommend replacing it with Legacy GRUB Config 2013.

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#54 Post by `f00 »

As Ray Charles introduced his backup singers Sharon & Karen (sharin' & carin')..

Take a Shot! - yet another screenshot utility..., tas for short - works very well in most newer pups.

previous ref in this thread, page 3 (10th post)

mmmm.. been having some fun with peebee's lxde sfs (yes it does spout a fair amount of err messages in xerrs.log) and it won't do a wmpoweroff or wmreboot from lxde/openbox for me (but fine in blackbox, e16, fluxbox, jwm and miwm). Full disclosure - I have butchered the sfs as a somewhat trimmed quasi-install, so :|

faster/slower is all relativity in the observers point of view :lol:

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#55 Post by anikin »

Has anyone managed to setup Firefox as default browser in ThinSlacko?

I have this line in xerrs.log:

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(firefox:11403): GLib-GIO-WARNING **: Failed to execute child process "update-desktop-database" (No such file or directory)
And below is a weird symlink (link target 127.0.0.1:+11403) and an error window, that pops up if I click on it. Wonder, if it's related to my issue.

@`f00
You know how to share stuff.
Thank you very much.
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#56 Post by 01micko »

@rcrsn51. Try searching PPM and you will be given 1 option for gutenprint. That's the one main slacko uses. I'll also consider your new grubconfig. Thanks.

@`foo. I think I am just slower!

@anikin. Sc0ttman's neat "defaults-chooser" fails in Thin because too much is removed and it chokes. You can do it manually :

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echo "#!/bin/bash \nexec firefox \"\$@\"" > /usr/local/bin/defaultbrowser
chmod 755 /usr/local/bin/defaultbrowser
Don't worry about that stale symlink, seems to do no harm and the error in xerrs.log is generated by the slackware doinst.sh (like a pinstall.sh) which is KDE specific and is absolutely harmless.
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#57 Post by Billtoo »

It's working well here, no problems.
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#58 Post by James C »

5.5.04 working well here too...... frugal install on old Athlon XP box.
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#59 Post by peebee »

Hi Mick

Report of testing 5.5.04 on my HP laptop.....

Basically same problems as with 5.5.03 - lots of errors flash up on bootup but boots to a correctly dimensioned desktop where all is well until you try to reboot whence the reboot sequence drops out to a console where keystrokes are detected and displayed but no commands are recognised. Have to press power-off switch to get out.

Tried acpi=off on kernel line - this gets rid of the bootup error messages but boots to an incorrect dimensions desktop and trying other options through xorgwizard all fail to work. Reboot does not hang with the acpi=off switch in use.

The significant lines from bootkernel.log seem to be:
[ 26.349620] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[ 26.349680] kernel BUG at net/rfkill/core.c:244!
[ 26.349735] invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP
[ 26.349878] Modules linked in: i915(+) fbcon bitblit softcursor font e1000e(+) ptp pps_core tileblit i2c_algo_bit drm_kms_helper drm i2c_core intel_agp intel_gtt agpgart hp_wmi(+) sparse_keymap rfkill wmi fan battery thermal video evdev button processor thermal_sys hwmon ac fuse aufs squashfs ssb mmc_core
[ 26.350009] Pid: 8196, comm: modprobe Not tainted 3.9.1-0 #1 Hewlett-Packard HP 550/3618
[ 26.350009] EIP: 0060:[<f81ec4f2>] EFLAGS: 00010246 CPU: 0
[ 26.350009] EIP is at rfkill_set_hw_state+0xa/0x67 [rfkill]
[ 26.350009] EAX: 00000000 EBX: 00000000 ECX: 00000018 EDX: 00000001
[ 26.350009] ESI: f3488400 EDI: f8200db0 EBP: 00000000 ESP: f5a81db8
[ 26.350009] DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 0033 SS: 0068
[ 26.350009] CR0: 8005003b CR2: f8535edc CR3: 35bdb000 CR4: 000007d0
[ 26.350009] DR0: 00000000 DR1: 00000000 DR2: 00000000 DR3: 00000000
[ 26.350009] DR6: ffff0ff0 DR7: 00000400
[ 26.350009] Process modprobe (pid: 8196, ti=f5a80000 task=f5b26a90 task.ti=f5a80000)
[ 26.350009] Stack:
[ 26.350009] f8200db0 00000000 f3488400 f8200db0 f820320f 1e0e0f29 f348840c f3488400
[ 26.350009] f8200ea4 c121acf8 f348840c f8200ea4 f8200ea4 c1219adf f348840c f8200ea4
[ 26.350009] f3488440 c1219c06 00000000 f5a75640 f8200ea4 c12188cb f600a6d8 f5a756f4
[ 26.350009] Call Trace:
[ 26.350009] [<f820320f>] ? hp_wmi_bios_setup+0x20f/0x329 [hp_wmi]
[ 26.350009] [<c121acf8>] ? platform_drv_probe+0x23/0x44
[ 26.350009] [<c1219adf>] ? driver_probe_device+0x72/0x155
[ 26.350009] [<c1219c06>] ? __driver_attach+0x44/0x5f
[ 26.350009] [<c12188cb>] ? bus_for_each_dev+0x37/0x61
[ 26.350009] [<c12197be>] ? driver_attach+0x11/0x13
[ 26.350009] [<c1219bc2>] ? driver_probe_device+0x155/0x155
[ 26.350009] [<c12194c0>] ? bus_add_driver+0xae/0x1a5
[ 26.350009] [<f8203329>] ? hp_wmi_bios_setup+0x329/0x329 [hp_wmi]
[ 26.350009] [<c121a036>] ? driver_register+0x70/0xdb
[ 26.350009] [<f8203329>] ? hp_wmi_bios_setup+0x329/0x329 [hp_wmi]
[ 26.350009] [<f8203329>] ? hp_wmi_bios_setup+0x329/0x329 [hp_wmi]
[ 26.350009] [<c121a8dc>] ? platform_driver_probe+0x10/0x5f
[ 26.350009] [<f82034b2>] ? hp_wmi_init+0x189/0x1b9 [hp_wmi]
[ 26.350009] [<c1001162>] ? do_one_initcall+0x66/0x104
[ 26.350009] [<c10574e0>] ? load_module+0x1605/0x18e6
[ 26.350009] [<c101e81f>] ? vmalloc_sync_all+0xc7/0xc7
[ 26.350009] [<c1057822>] ? sys_init_module+0x61/0x75
[ 26.350009] [<c1375d70>] ? syscall_call+0x7/0xb
[ 26.350009] Code: 17 f6 42 0c 07 8d 40 20 74 04 31 d2 eb 05 ba ff 00 00 00 e9 cd b8 0f c9 c3 8b 40 78 83 e8 20 eb d8 57 85 c0 56 53 89 c3 57 75 02 <0f> 0b 89 d7 e8 99 95 18 c9 8b 73 0c 89 fa 84 d2 89 f2 74 05 83
[ 26.350009] EIP: [<f81ec4f2>] rfkill_set_hw_state+0xa/0x67 [rfkill] SS:ESP 0068:f5a81db8
[ 26.358194] ---[ end trace 8c8c1b5be6985f38 ]---
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Testing 5.5.04 k 3.9.1

#60 Post by ETP »

Hi 01micko,
Seems faster to me (or maybe I'm just slower?)

I agree on both counts! A good example is that the slight delay upon launching PupSysinfo from PupControl 2.3 has vanished with this new kernel. I have tested with f2fs partitions on both SDHC and SSD.

My only issue has been with the old included version of frisbee (frisbee-1.0-20130228).
Using a wired connection with no wireless card present, it seems slow to acquire an I/P. Disabling the service only leads to more problems as restarting X can sometimes kill it and on boot up it sometimes completely fails to acquire an address.

BK posted here about later versions:
http://bkhome.org/blog2/?viewDetailed=00224

Edit-later (Having woken up properly)

With regard to Frisbee, I have a feeling that it is acquiring an I/P quickly, but is then releasing it only to then re-acquire it. This may well be desirable with wireless but is a PITA with a wired connection. If I am correct, it would explain the apparent slowness.
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#61 Post by anikin »

I'm trying to compile ppower:
http://www.smokey01.com/jemimah/saluki/ ... -01.tar.gz
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# compile
bash: compile: command not found
#
Any ideas?

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#62 Post by rcrsn51 »

Assuming that you have opened a terminal inside the folder ppower-jemimah-01, run the command

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sh compile
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./compile
You will also need the devx installed.

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#63 Post by anikin »

Both commands work, note taken for future reference.
Thank you, rcrsn51 and a special thank you to pemasu for his help in removing the turbo mode from the source. I have been shamelessly taking advantage of his good will recently ...
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#64 Post by greengeek »

greengeek wrote:I just did my usual frugal, copying across the sfs, vmlinuz and initrd.gz but it "boots" into a very weird and unusable (but very pretty) kaleidoscope of cyan / white / speckly lines and smudges all over the screen. Had to use hard power off to clear.
01micko wrote:try:

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puppy pfix=ram nouveau,noaccel=1
failing that:

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puppy pfix=ram nouveau,modeset=0
Aaahh. Finally got it to work. The modeset parameter was the one I needed, but it should not be a comma between the nouveau and the modeset, in fact it has to be a fullstop:

puppy pfix=ram nouveau.modeset=0

All good now.

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#65 Post by HiDeHo »

Hi this being a thin version of slacko are there a good set of .sfs applications available that are current maintained. THis would make ThinSlacko really useful. we need to go back to this approach to puppy beint thin, lightweight, needing a small save file and running apps outside the save file.

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