X-Slacko-4.4 with Xfce

[Sage]

X-slacko-2.2

Thanks a bunch, rg.
Any news of micko recently?

[Sage]

Very minor issue: the screensaver cut in very quickly whilst waiting for the initial settings panel to wind itself up. Found the Flashplayer OK in PPM - would be nice if it were pre-loaded?

[rg66]

Bash-4.3.30 compiled in X-slacko-2.2, DOC and NLS are split into separate packages.

http://smokey01.com/rg66/X-slacko/pet_p ... -X-slacko/

[rg66]

Very minor issue: the screensaver cut in very quickly whilst waiting for the initial settings panel to wind itself up. Found the Flashplayer OK in PPM - would be nice if it were pre-loaded?

Right click on Desktop > Screen Saver Settings, time defaults to 15 min.

Flashplayer is installed in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins, it's working here.

Edit: Booted into RAM and both issue checkout, maybe check your ISO md5sum
b73879f16f6b75259ae1d2f33bb1f003

[rg66]

Version 2.2n non-pae ISO and delta are available for download

http://smokey01.com/rg66/X-slacko/iso/

[Sage]

More info: Confirmed d/l OK as you suggested. Also collected more details on previous strange effects. [Radeon 9200, in case it's relevant?]
After completing the Quick Set and ticking Firewall and timezone boxes, a Pacman-style (screen saver?) pops up before the Firewall panel appears. This is reproducible.
I checked out the FlashPlayer situation. With the pre-loaded files, FF stalls at first ask for bbc.co.uk iPlayer items, offering to send failure report (the usual FF form). At second ask, FF opens but the the iPlayer page remains blank inside the FF frame. This happens with a number of Puppies and has been discussed previously. Load the v.10 FlashPlayer from the PPM and everything is sweetness and light. Blame the Beeb, but it can be an unnecessary hurdle for Brits not used to grappling with it. Some FP v.11 s also work, but it's a waste of time running through them all until one works when it's known that a v.10 always works, thanks to previous investigations of another Forum correspondent. It may be that other video cards work with the native FP, but don't have time right now to carry out loadsa card swaps.

[rg66]

@ Sage

I booted into RAM 3 times and can't reproduce the screen saver problem. It uses xautolock as a timer, something must be screwing with it. If you make a save file does it work properly after that?

As far as flash goes, I can't view BBC iplayer clips as I'm not in UK. If v10 works then stay with it. If I do another version of X-slacko I'll think about downgrading to v10 or maybe removing it and using flash down loader.

[Marv]

Version 2.2n non-pae ISO and delta are available for download

Downloading now. I'll strip my 2.1 savefile down and have a go. Don't know if the 'n' suffix on non-pae isos is your idea or not but it is much appreciated here and I'd love to see it used on all pup derivs.

Thanks,

[rg66]

Downloading now. I'll strip my 2.1 savefile down and have a go. Don't know if the 'n' suffix on non-pae isos is your idea or not but it is much appreciated here and I'd love to see it used on all pup derivs.

Thanks,

Hey Marv

I decided to use "n" because typing "non-pae" took too long

At one time I had added it to the sfs name (puppy_xslacko_2.2n.sfs) but had to edit init in initrd.gz. Not a big deal, maybe I'll look into that again.

Edit: Not hard at all
- change sfs name to puppy_xslacko_2.2n
- edit init in initrd.gz line 207 from [ "`echo "$PUPXXXSFS" | grep '[0-9]\.sfs'`" != "" ] && NAMETYPE='traditional'
to [ "`echo "$PUPXXXSFS" | grep '[0-9][a-z]\.sfs'`" != "" ] && NAMETYPE='traditional'
- edit DISTRO_SPECS in initrd.gz from 2.2 to 2.2n for all instances and /etc/DISTRO_SPECS in main sfs.
- savefile name remains the same though

It's probably easier to just change the distro name to x-slacko-n but I like 2.2n better

[Sage]

Quick update: N runs faster but exhibits same idiosyncrasies.
Guessing, you may be using something a lot faster than my XP2400+ testbed, in which case the Pacman manifestation, briefer on N, may elude you?

[rg66]

Quick update: N runs faster but exhibits same idiosyncrasies.
Guessing, you may be using something a lot faster than my XP2400+ testbed, in which case the Pacman manifestation, briefer on N, may elude you?

I'm using an MSI G41M-P26 (MS-7592) with a Pentium Dual-Core E5700 @ 3.00GHz and 4GB RAM. I do still have my Abit NF7-S with an XP2500+ in it's original box , if I feel energetic I'll assemble it and do a few tests.

Geoffrey told me earlier that Carolina sometimes does that as well although I've never seen it in either distro.

[Marv]

'snip'
It's probably easier to just change the distro name to x-slacko-n but I like 2.2n better

2.2n is good. Now running 2.2n on the fujitsu 6230 Pentium M ipw2200 laptop. Updated cleaned 2.1 savefile perfectly, no hitches no glitches. Added in evince 2.32 from here http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 621#798919 and so far it seems to run fine (I added the extra libs into the pet to install..still not too big and I like evince).
I've gotten quite addicted to PWF with a static IP so no frisbee/bash check here. Sorry.

Marv

[peebee]

I checked out the FlashPlayer situation. .... Blame the Beeb, but it can be an unnecessary hurdle for Brits

Firefox + flashplayer work with BBC iPlayer OOTB on X-Slacko-2.2 no problems for me on HP550 laptop with Intel graphics.....no hurdles to negotiate here....

[Billtoo]

Installed to usb 3.0 hard drive using pui.

It's working well, no problems so far.

[rg66]

I've gotten quite addicted to PWF with a static IP so no frisbee/bash check here. Sorry.

I can confirm that frisbee with bash-4.3.29 is working, posting using Ralink USB wireless and rt2800usb module.

[rcrsn51]

In my tests, X-slacko-2.2n automatically loads the Broadcom wl.ko WiFi driver on machines with non-Broadcom devices.

This also occurs in other Puppies that have recent versions of wl.

[rg66]

In my tests, X-slacko-2.2n automatically loads the Broadcom wl.ko WiFi driver on machines with non-Broadcom devices.

This also occurs in other Puppies that have recent versions of wl.

This must also happen in slacko as well then. Is there a fix for this?

Edit: Booted into RAM with Ralink USB wireless
X-slacko-2.2 loaded rt2800usb module
X-slacko-2.2n same, seems to be working properly

[rcrsn51]

Is there a fix for this?

There is a simple explanation for this and a solution. I have discussed it with peebee.

Edit: Booted into RAM with Ralink USB wireless
X-slacko-2.2 loaded rt2800usb module
X-slacko-2.2n same, seems to be working properly

Are you saying that wl was NOT loaded or that your WiFi worked in spite of it being loaded?

[rg66]

Are you saying that wl was NOT loaded or that your WiFi worked in spite of it being loaded?

wl was not loaded

2.2n

Code: Select all

# lsmod | sort | grep -v Module
acpi_cpufreq            4274  0 
agpgart                17718  3 drm,intel_agp,intel_gtt
arc4                     971  2 
atl1c                  22953  0 
aufs                  124580  1913 
button                  3351  1 i915
cfg80211              117933  2 mac80211,rt2x00lib
cpufreq_ondemand        4545  2 
crc_ccitt               1024  1 rt2800lib
drm                   138490  3 i915,drm_kms_helper
drm_kms_helper         23787  1 i915
evdev                   6399  0 
fuse                   47723  2 
hwmon                    874  1 thermal_sys
i2c_algo_bit            3760  1 i915
i2c_core               12576  5 drm,i915,i2c_i801,drm_kms_helper,i2c_algo_bit
i2c_i801                6226  0 
i915                  293784  2 
intel_agp               7953  1 i915
intel_gtt               9472  3 i915,intel_agp
mac80211              175139  3 rt2x00lib,rt2x00usb,rt2800lib
mperf                    796  1 acpi_cpufreq
parport                20980  2 ppdev,parport_pc
parport_pc             18204  0 
pcspkr                  1236  0 
ppdev                   4023  0 
processor              22544  1 acpi_cpufreq
rfkill                 10038  1 cfg80211
rt2800lib              34594  1 rt2800usb
rt2800usb              11270  0 
rt2x00lib              24969  3 rt2x00usb,rt2800lib,rt2800usb
rt2x00usb               6135  1 rt2800usb
serio_raw               2962  0 
sg                     16606  0 
shpchp                 17978  0 
snd                    34138  14 snd_pcm_oss,snd_hwdep,snd_timer,snd_hda_codec_via,snd_pcm,snd_seq,snd_rawmidi,snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_intel,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_device,snd_mixer_oss
snd_hda_codec          56855  2 snd_hda_codec_via,snd_hda_intel
snd_hda_codec_via      25456  1 
snd_hda_intel          17194  1 
snd_hwdep               3776  1 snd_hda_codec
snd_mixer_oss           9732  1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_page_alloc          4714  2 snd_pcm,snd_hda_intel
snd_pcm                47653  3 snd_pcm_oss,snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_intel
snd_pcm_oss            26791  0 
snd_rawmidi            12106  1 snd_seq_midi
snd_seq                32274  6 snd_seq_midi_event,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_midi
snd_seq_device          3517  5 snd_seq,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_midi
snd_seq_dummy            916  0 
snd_seq_midi            3217  0 
snd_seq_midi_event      3589  2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi
snd_seq_oss            18988  0 
snd_timer              11582  2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
soundcore               3243  1 snd
squashfs               18738  1 
thermal_sys             9583  2 video,processor
video                   9603  1 i915

[rcrsn51]

rt2800usb

The problem may be specific to internal PCI adapters. I will do some more testing.