X-Slacko-4.4 with Xfce

[Marv]

Finally got around to the core 2 duo laptop, case repaired. No hitches or glitches. WPA2 connection with Frisbee, all suspends ok. Glxgears FPS excellent.

video-info-glx 1.5.1 Mon 11 Apr 2016 on X-Slacko 4.0 Linux 3.14.56 i686
2.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 07)

X Server: Xorg Driver: intel
X.Org version: 1.14.3
dimensions: 1280x800 pixels (338x211 millimeters)
depth of root window: 24 planes

direct rendering: Yes
server glx vendor string: SGI
server glx version string: 1.4
OpenGL vendor string: Intel Open Source Technology Center
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI Mobile Intel® GM45 Express Chipset x86/MMX/SSE2
OpenGL version string: 2.1 Mesa 9.1.7

Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU P8600 @ 2.40GHz
Core 0: @800 1: @800 MHz

# vblank_mode=0 glxgears
ATTENTION: default value of option vblank_mode overridden by environment.
7160 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1431.929 FPS
7186 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1437.164 FPS
7179 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1435.713 FPS
7194 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1438.650 FPS

[Billtoo]

Manual frugal install to a 16gb flash drive, pc is a HP mini stream:

video-info-glx 1.5.3 Tue 12 Apr 2016 on X-Slacko 4.0 Linux 3.14.56 i686
2.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Haswell-ULT Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 0b)

X Server: Xorg Driver: intel
X.Org version: 1.14.3
dimensions: 1920x1080 pixels (507x285 millimeters)
depth of root window: 24 planes

direct rendering: Yes
server glx vendor string: SGI
server glx version string: 1.4
OpenGL vendor string: Intel Open Source Technology Center
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI Intel(R) Haswell Mobile x86/MMX/SSE2
OpenGL core profile version string: 3.1 (Core Profile) Mesa 9.1.7

Intel(R) Celeron(R) 2957U @ 1.40GHz
Core 0: @800 1: @808 MHz

The built-in Broadcom Corporation BCM43142 802.11b/g/n (rev 01)
wireless isn't supported, needs the Broadcom STA driver.

[rg66]

The built-in Broadcom Corporation BCM43142 802.11b/g/n (rev 01) wireless isn't supported, needs the Broadcom STA driver.

There is a Broadcom STA pet in the Tahr repo "broadcom_sta-6.30.223.271_k3.14.56-pae.pet"

http://distro.ibiblio.org/puppylinux/pet_packages-tahr

[Billtoo]

The built-in Broadcom Corporation BCM43142 802.11b/g/n (rev 01) wireless isn't supported, needs the Broadcom STA driver.

There is a Broadcom STA pet in the Tahr repo "broadcom_sta-6.30.223.271_k3.14.56-pae.pet"

http://distro.ibiblio.org/puppylinux/pet_packages-tahr

I installed that pet and rebooted, no luck.
I have a Ubuntu install that has the Broadcom STA driver available in the Additional Drivers and that worked under Ubuntu.
It's not a big deal since this is a mini desktop pc but having wireless supported would have been a bonus.

Thanks

[peebee]

The built-in Broadcom Corporation BCM43142 802.11b/g/n (rev 01) wireless isn't supported, needs the Broadcom STA driver.

There is a Broadcom STA pet in the Tahr repo "broadcom_sta-6.30.223.271_k3.14.56-pae.pet"

http://distro.ibiblio.org/puppylinux/pet_packages-tahr

I installed that pet and rebooted, no luck.
I have a Ubuntu install that has the Broadcom STA driver available in the Additional Drivers and that worked under Ubuntu.
It's not a big deal since this is a mini desktop pc but having wireless supported would have been a bonus.

Thanks

You may have to blacklist b43 and / or ssb if they are grabbing your wifi before wl can do so....have a look with lsmod

Is the X-slacko kernel the 3.14.56-pae from tahrpup? If not the pet will never work....they are kernel specific

[rg66]

You may have to blacklist b43 and / or ssb if they are grabbing your wifi before wl can do so....have a look with lsmod

Is the X-slacko kernel the 3.14.56-pae from tahrpup? If not the pet will never work....they are kernel specific

Thanks peebee and yes, the kernel is 3.14.56-pae from tahrpup.

[Billtoo]

You may have to blacklist b43 and / or ssb if they are grabbing your wifi before wl can do so....have a look with lsmod

Is the X-slacko kernel the 3.14.56-pae from tahrpup? If not the pet will never work....they are kernel specific

Thanks peebee and yes, the kernel is 3.14.56-pae from tahrpup.

I tried installing the pet again, didn't reboot, and ran the network
wizard, wlan0 showed up and when configured it was working.
Doing a reboot killed it, I ran bootmanager and saw the bcma module was
loaded so I black listed that and rebooted, wireless works now!

Thanks rg66 and peebee.

[toomanyquestions]

I was unable to disable the tap-to-click on my dell laptop. Can a driver/utility be installed from the puppy package manager? Or is there a pet that will do this? Is it possible to manipulate a config file (e.g. synclient tapbutton1=0 at a file level)?

[rg66]

I was unable to disable the tap-to-click on my dell laptop. Can a driver/utility be installed from the puppy package manager? Or is there a pet that will do this? Is it possible to manipulate a config file (e.g. synclient tapbutton1=0 at a file level)?

Control Panel > Hardware > Mouse and Touchpad > Devices tab > Touchpad tab > uncheck Tap touchpad to click checkbox.

[rg66]

Remote desktop client for testing, can use IP or netbios name.

Currently specific for X-Slacko and maybe X-Tahr (haven't tested).

Edit: Re-uploaded with typo fix.

[toomanyquestions]

Control Panel > Hardware > Mouse and Touchpad > Devices tab > Touchpad tab > uncheck Tap touchpad to click checkbox.

I don't get a touchpad tab in the Mouse and Touchpad dialogue window. All I get is a single Buttons and Feedback tab. And when I go through flSynclient I get - "Couldn't find synaptics properties. No synaptics driver loaded?"

[rg66]

I don't get a touchpad tab in the Mouse and Touchpad dialogue window. All I get is a single Buttons and Feedback tab. And when I go through flSynclient I get - "Couldn't find synaptics properties. No synaptics driver loaded?"

You can try running xorgwizard and see if it then loads the driver.

[tano70]

Hello Rg66, I love this distro, is very fast in the initial load,and also in the poweroff. I love XFCE as a desktop environment, flowing smoothly,XFCE in my opinion is the best user experience as a graphical environment. I have no problem on peripheral recognition on my laptop Lenovo X1 Carbon. What would I like? the latest version of the 4.5.X kernel and libraries libva intel functioning, in order to use GPU acceleration on video. I used libva and libva-intel-driver by installing the packages TXZ slackware, but they do not work. I also used the distribution Tahr 64 puppy, but X-Slacko in my opinion is even better.

# vblank_mode=0 glxgears
ATTENTION: default value of option vblank_mode overridden by environment.
ATTENTION: default value of option vblank_mode overridden by environment.
31910 frames in 5.0 seconds = 6381.956 FPS
32003 frames in 5.0 seconds = 6400.535 FPS
31946 frames in 5.0 seconds = 6389.011 FPS
31886 frames in 5.0 seconds = 6377.074 FPS
32013 frames in 5.0 seconds = 6402.582 FPS

This is my hardware info:

PC Manufacturer: LENOVO
Product Name: 34604LG

Motherboard Vendor: LENOVO
Product Name: 34604LG

BIOS Vendor: LENOVO
Version: G6ET96WW (2.56 )
Release Date: 04/29/2013

Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3667U CPU @ 2.00GHz
Max Speed: 2500 MHz
Current Speed of Core 0:3000 MHz, 1:3000 MHz, 2:3000 MHz, 3:3013 MHz
Core Count: 2
Thread Count: 4

Frequency governor : powersave
Freq. scaling driver : intel_pstate

Phys 0 (coretemp) : +63.0 C (high = +87.0 C, crit = +105.0 C)
Core 0 (coretemp) : +54.0 C (high = +87.0 C, crit = +105.0 C)
Core 1 (coretemp) : +61.0 C (high = +87.0 C, crit = +105.0 C)

Personal Storage File:
Name: xslackosave-tano.4fs
Total Size: 4096 MB
Free Space: 2262 MB
Location: partition sda11

Memory Allocation:
Total RAM: 7797 MB
Used RAM: 3077 MB
Free RAM: 4720 MB
Buffers: 180 MB
Total Swap: 0 MB
Free Swap: 0 MB

Linux Kernel: 3.14.56 (i686)
Kernel Version: #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed Nov 4 15:19:30 GMT-8 2015
PAE Enabled: Yes

Distro: X-Slacko 4.1
Desktop Panel: xfce4-panel 4.12.0 (Xfce 4.12)
Window Manager: xfwm4 4.12.3
Desktop Start: xwin xfce4-session

Development:
Bash: 4.2.53
Geany: 1.27
Gtkdialog: 0.8.4
Perl: 5.18.1
Java: 1.7.0_51
--
busybox: 1.23.1
dhcpcd: 6.0.5
GCC: 5.3.0
GlibC: 2.17
OpenSSL: 1.0.1s 1 Mar 2016, built on: Wed Mar 2 16:57:28 2016
wpa_supplicant: 2.4

Username: root
Language: it_IT.UTF-8
Keyboard: it
Timezone: Europe/Rome

[outtaspam]

Something is amiss. Double clicking txt and rtf files does not launch text editor or Abiword, respectively. An error happens when doing same with image files.
I've checked and re-checked default applications to no avail.
Help please. Thanks to all on this exemplary forum!

[tano70]

Hi Rg66, can you post kernel 4.5.X for this release?

[Marv]

change_kernels run in terminal makes it pretty simple to swap. I have LxPupSc with the 4.5.2 PAE kernel in my boot dir so I used that. Boots and runs fine. Do you have a specific need for a 4.x.x kernel?

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Computer
Operating System
Version
Kernel	Linux 4.5.2-lxpup-32-pae (i686)
Version	#1 SMP Sat Apr 23 12:26:45 GMT-8 2016
C Library	GNU C Library version 2.17 (stable)
Distribution	Puppy Linux
Current Session
Computer Name	Puppy-PC
User Name	root (root)
Home Directory	/root
Desktop Environment	XFCE 4
Misc
Uptime	3 minutes
Load Average	0.93, 0.68, 0.29

[tano70]

change_kernels run in terminal makes it pretty simple to swap. I have LxPupSc with the 4.5.2 PAE kernel in my boot dir so I used that. Boots and runs fine. Do you have a specific need for a 4.x.x kernel?

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Computer
Operating System
Version
Kernel	Linux 4.5.2-lxpup-32-pae (i686)
Version	#1 SMP Sat Apr 23 12:26:45 GMT-8 2016
C Library	GNU C Library version 2.17 (stable)
Distribution	Puppy Linux
Current Session
Computer Name	Puppy-PC
User Name	root (root)
Home Directory	/root
Desktop Environment	XFCE 4
Misc
Uptime	3 minutes
Load Average	0.93, 0.68, 0.29

I do not have specific needs, but I would like explaining to me the correct procedure for installing the x86_64 kernel 4.5.X Pae in my X-Slacko64. You can place the file and tell me what to do to activate the new kernel?

[rg66]

Hello Rg66, I love this distro, is very fast in the initial load,and also in the poweroff. I love XFCE as a desktop environment, flowing smoothly,XFCE in my opinion is the best user experience as a graphical environment. I have no problem on peripheral recognition on my laptop Lenovo X1 Carbon. What would I like? the latest version of the 4.5.X kernel and libraries libva intel functioning, in order to use GPU acceleration on video. I used libva and libva-intel-driver by installing the packages TXZ slackware, but they do not work. I also used the distribution Tahr 64 puppy, but X-Slacko in my opinion is even better.

I've never really had much luck compiling kernels. I would probably use stemsee's kernel-modules.sfs-4.5.2-i686-pae and vmlinuz-4.5.2-i686-pae posted here: http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 020#903020

Rename kernel-modules.sfs-4.5.2-i686-pae to zdrv_xslacko_4.0.sfs and vmlinuz-4.5.2-i686-pae to vmlinuz and put where your current zdrv and vmlinuz are (back up or overwrite the originals), then from terminal

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echo -n s151116222511ZZZZ6.3.0XXXXXXXXXX >> /pathto/zdrv_xslacko_4.0.sfs
echo -n s151116222511ZZZZ6.3.0XXXXXXXXXX >> /pathto/vmlinuz

I would also start fresh and make a new save.

As for the intel drivers, I don't have anything new enough to test on.

[rg66]

Something is amiss. Double clicking txt and rtf files does not launch text editor or Abiword, respectively. An error happens when doing same with image files.
I've checked and re-checked default applications to no avail.
Help please. Thanks to all on this exemplary forum!

Something must be corrupted as I have no trouble opening txt, rtf or images in the default applications by double clicking. X-slacko4.0.iso md5sum is c997dd18644b2bf20fe6fed5b3e630a7

[Marcelo Lagoa]

Hello Developers X-Slacko
Congratulations for the work, enjoyed the Puppy with XFCE interface. I am impressed with the lightness and beautiful interface.
But I'm experiencing some minor problems:
I find "how to" in Portuguese (my native language) and know very little about Puppy Linux family.
I made a frugal installation of X-Slacko version 4.0 and now I want to install large applications in SFS format (LibreOffice, Gimp, etc).

In the menu, I found these four applications:
a) Puppy Package Manager v2 (I know it's for package installations "pet")
b) SFS Converter 1.3
c) SFS load-on-the-fly v.2.3.7
d) SFS Manager 12:11

I do not know the structure of my installation is "file-save" or "directory saved."

I do not know how to download and how to install SFS packages. My knowledge and command of English is very little, and this type of installation is completely new to me, who come from other traditional distributions.
I looked for something like this:
"How To Install SFS" here in the Forum, but what I found here is very technical and I'm a complete newbie !!

Someone Forum can help me? I am grateful for any help.