Slacko 5.6 - feedback, bug reports

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#46 Post by koulaxizis »

I have just noticed something weird!

Each time i load or unload an SFS, all the programs i have removed from "remove builtin packages", appear again in the menu and they work like they were never removed!

Another (minor) issue is that, after installing openbox_extras, the "fun" menu doesn't exists in the panel menu.
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#47 Post by gcav »

Hi Micko...
the F2FS looks promising... I managed to get a USB sitck working
on it, and it is FAST... damn fast...

I am having issues whith X starting up apart from VESA.
I need to boot with PFIX=NOX and then manual setup VESA.

Did you modify the init scripts?

gc

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#48 Post by gcmartin »

I just tested the awakening of SLACKO 5.6 PAE on my little Netbook EeePC (ATOM powered). It sleeps, awakens, and renews IPs over the ethernet cable as well as via wireless AND, MOST importantly, it IS able to navigate, and touch other PCs.

This is not the case for my HP laptop for some reason. Although, I am NOT using ethernet wire and wireless at the same time as is the case in Netboot testing.

Ideas..anyone.
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#49 Post by Billtoo »

I used the F2FS Installer - Flash Drives to install 5.6.0 pae to a 32gb
flash drive (frugal install)
# report-video
VIDEO REPORT: Slacko Puppy, version 5.6.0
Chip description:
VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Device 6611
Requested by /etc/X11/xorg.conf:
Resolution (widthxheight, in pixels): 1920x1080
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): ati
Loaded modules: dbe ddc dri dri2 extmod fb glx int10 kbd mouse record shadow
vbe vesa
Actual rendering on monitor:
Resolution: 1920x1080 pixels (524x292 millimeters)
Depth: 24 planes
I installed some applications with ppm,and some pets including icewm.

It's working well.
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#50 Post by ally »

hey micko

I had a problem with playing DVDs with gnome-player

tried a different machine running 5.5 & 55.70 no luck, that machine has retroprecise 5.7 so tried that (version 1.03) which plays ok

HTH

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#51 Post by bigpup »

ally wrote:hey micko

I had a problem with playing DVDs with gnome-player

tried a different machine running 5.5 & 55.70 no luck, that machine has retroprecise 5.7 so tried that (version 1.03) which plays ok

HTH

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Please give details of what the problem was.
In Gnome-player, could just be settings wrong for your hardware.
Graphics driver being used can also make problems.
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#52 Post by ally »

hey pup

the problem is playing DVDs - they don't

I have tried a 3 different machines so not isolated to my main machine (lenovo T500)

I pulled out an old IBM T21, booted slacko 5.5, DVD does not play (select play DVDs with menu - window refreshes and back to 'idle')

booted slacko 5.5.70 same result

booted precise 5.7 retro (same T21) and DVD played straight off so not hardware related

precise uses version 1.03 of gnome-player where slacko is using 1.08b

I'm batch uploading on the T500 so unable to try different puppy's at present but suspect it's a 'gnome thing

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#53 Post by bigpup »

ally,

This could be your Gnome-player problem.
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=88098
Also try this:
Open gnome-mplayer, then choose Edit -> Preferences, click the drop-down Video Output menu, and try x11 or XV for setting.
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#54 Post by ally »

thanks pup

I tried x11 and xv (tried the other options too) no luck

I will try older slacko and the new precise when my uploads finish and will report back

:)

edit: just had a quick player before I retire for the day

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mplayer dvd /mnt/sr0
report libavformat version 55.12.100 (external), mismatching header version 55.12.100, exciting - end of file

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mplayer dvd /dev/dvd
plays the advertising intro only, it ends with DRI failure

this machine is still uploading so cannot test further until tomorrow

:)

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#55 Post by Billtoo »

Continued from earlier post:

I couldn't get DVD movies to play well, gnome mplayer, and the
xine in the repository would bring up the menu but the movies didn't
play properly, blurry,xine couldn't play an encrypted DVD either.
I installed an older version of ffmpeg (1.1) and a
xine-lib-1.2.2-i686.pet,xine-ui-0.99.7-i686.pet.
Vlc didn't work with the new ffmpeg, the newest vlc wouldn't compile
in 5.6.0 but I was able to compile it in 5.5 pae the the pet that I
made works in 5.6.0...guvcview wouldn't work with ffmpeg 2.0 but after
installing the older ffmpeg and some other pets that I made last
december,guvcview is working now.
Installing the older ffmpeg broke tas, pupsnap to the rescue, that's
all that it broke that I've found so far.
Also moved the flash drive to my laptop because the graphics card in
the other pc isn't supported in linux yet.

video-info-glx 1.5.1 Wed 21 Aug 2013 on Slacko Puppy 5.6.0 Linux 3.10.5 i686
0.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Manhattan
[Mobility Radeon HD 5400 Series]
oem: ATI ATOMBIOS
product: PARK 01.00
X Server: Xorg Driver: fglrx
X.Org version: 1.12.4
dimensions: 1600x900 pixels (423x238 millimeters)
depth of root window: 24 planes
direct rendering: Yes
server glx vendor string: ATI
server glx version string: 1.4
OpenGL vendor string: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5400 Series
OpenGL version string: 4.3.12414 Compatibility Profile Context 13.15.100.1
Intel(R) Core(TM) i5 CPU M 430 @ 2.27GHz
Core 0: @1199 1: @1199 2: @1199 3: @1199 MHz

It's working well now, so far anyway :)

EDIT:I just tried a DVD in GnomeMplayer on my other Slacko 5.6.0
install that is using the proprietary Nvidia driver, it's working fine.
I wonder if the problem on the laptop is caused by the beta
proprietary ati driver that I'm using?
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#56 Post by bigpup »

Slacko 5.6 pae live cd save on hdd.

If I enter gnome-mplayer in a console I get this:

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# gnome-mplayer
GMLIB-Message: after init: position=0.000 length=0.000 start_time=0.000 run_time=0.000 volume=0.00 player=dead media=unknown uri=

** (gnome-mplayer:12682): WARNING **: Invalid borders specified for theme pixmap:
        /usr/share/themes/ShallowThought/gtk-2.0/radio3.png,
borders don't fit within the image
Gnome-mplayer does start and it's window opens.
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#57 Post by watchdog »

I failed to play dvds with gnome-mplayer, too. Instead:

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mplayer /dev/sr0
works for me.

EDIT: in gnome-mplayer's preferences, tab Mplayer, choose Extra Options to Mplayer as /dev/sr0. It solves the problem fo me.

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#58 Post by 01micko »

Odd this dvd behaviour, I tested on several machines with little issue. There may be issues if you have the later kernel on older hardware as the mplayer is a different compile (same version). The i486 compile should show itself on a PPM search for MPlayer if mplayer isn't working for you. (This may occur on older athlons and P3's and early P4's, with the 3.10.5 kernel only).

I normally poke in a dvd, wait till the desktop icon appears and click it, that's it, works, even on my old r51 thinkpad.
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#59 Post by gcmartin »

Edit: Skip this request. It seems that it may be an isolated issue i observe.
Those who have laptops with 5.6 running. Does your lappies sleep when cover closes and later you open cover to its awakening: When it awakens, does the lappie allow you to navigate the internet or your LAN?

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#60 Post by Jades »

01micko wrote:Odd this dvd behaviour, I tested on several machines with little issue. There may be issues if you have the later kernel on older hardware as the mplayer is a different compile (same version). The i486 compile should show itself on a PPM search for MPlayer if mplayer isn't working for you. (This may occur on older athlons and P3's and early P4's, with the 3.10.5 kernel only).

I normally poke in a dvd, wait till the desktop icon appears and click it, that's it, works, even on my old r51 thinkpad.
Playing DVDs seems to be working fine on my Pentium D with Slacko 5.6 PAE version, in both sr0 (the DVD writer) and sr1 (the DVD-ROM drive). Oddly it seems when I want to quit Gnome MPlayer, either by choosing Quit from the File menu or by closing the window, it ignores the first attempt and starts playing again. The second attempt succeeds however.
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#61 Post by Q5sys »

Did some PAE tests with Slacko 5.6 today.
System boots well on my system and ran smoothly (it better had, lol).

I can confirm that with PAE I was able to access my entire 32gb ram. It was however significantly slower than on x86_64, but that's to be expected. Otherwise it ran well.

One thing I noticed, it only sees 8 of my 24 cores. I'm assuming that the kernel is limited to that? Honestly, there's no point for more on a 32bit system, but I figured it was worth asking.

System runs well, I think it's what going to be installed on my netbook this weekend. :)
Thanks for another great release!

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#62 Post by Billtoo »

I did a manual frugal install of Slacko 5.6 non-pae to the hard drive
of a Gateway desktop pc.
video-info-glx 1.5.3 Thu 22 Aug 2013 on Slacko Puppy 5.6 Linux 3.4.52 i686
0.0 VGA compatible controller:nVidia Corporation GF108 [GeForceGT430](rev a1)
oem: NVIDIA
product: GF108 Board - 1071v1p1 Chip Rev
X Server: Xorg Driver: nvidia
X.Org version: 1.12.4
dimensions: 1920x1080 pixels (513x292 millimeters)
depth of root window: 24 planes
direct rendering: Yes
server glx vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
server glx version string: 1.4
OpenGL vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
OpenGL renderer string: GeForce GT 430/PCIe/SSE2/3DNOW!
OpenGL version string: 4.3.0 NVIDIA 325.15
AMD Phenom(tm) II X4 810 Processor
Core 0: @2592 1: @2592 2: @2592 3: @2592 MHz

I customized it a little by removing ffmpeg with remove builtin
packages utility and then installed an older version + VLC-2.0.8 which
I compiled in Slacko 5.5.
Movie DVD's play well with GnomeMplayer,Xine,and VLC.
Tas still works too.
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#63 Post by ally »

my main machine (lenovo T500) failed to play the DVD in question using slacko 5.3.3, slacko 5.6, precise 5.7.1 (+ retro), fatdog64-621 and lina 7

so looks like a iffy drive on this machine, however, slacko 5.6 wouldn't play on an IBM T21 where an installed precise 5.7.1 retro did (same disc)

will have a go on other machines when I get a moment and report my finding

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#64 Post by bigpup »

ally wrote: slacko 5.6 wouldn't play on an IBM T21 where an installed precise 5.7.1 retro did (same disc)
:)
Did you try the Slacko 5.6 nonPAE version on this computer?
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#65 Post by nubc »

Had a task to perform, so the first recent version of Puppy I reached for was Slacko 5.3.1. Couldn't get to desktop because of video driver issue. Found a copy of Slacko 5.4, same thing. This attempt included manual uninstall of Nvidia Noveu / install of NV driver, which failed. Burned a copy of Slacko 5.6 PAE, and had problems, finally resolved with some sort of modesetting driver. Finally made it to desktop, but probably with hobbled video capability. From what I read in this thread, I should probably be using NON-PAE. Noticed Gnome mplayer in the menu tree, so tried a command with mencoder, not found. So I searched for mencoder with PPM, not there in any repo. Searched for mplayer, too confusing. This is a very standard Dell Dimension 3100 2.8 GHz w HT 2GB ram desktop using onboard Intel 82915 G/GV/910GL Integrated graphics controller. I probably won't use Slacko with any regularity if I can't install VLC.

Thanks, bigpup, that worked, but only exactly as was recommended:

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puppy pfix=ram i915.modesetting=0
I first tried the custom boot without pfix=ram, and it didn't boot. Maybe I'll drop back to version 5.5, especially if someone got VLC to work, cuz Gnome Mplayer is not playing much in 5.6 PAE.
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