Slacko 5.7 final - 8 March 2014
Thank you gentlemen. I had both sfs files and now deleted 5.7 as I do have PAE.
ruwoof, I believe the advantage of PAE will show up with programs running large data sets, not large programs themselves. An example would be Bitcoin-qt.
Which brings me to my next question. I am thrilled that I have been able to get SpiderOak, Anki, and BitMessage up and running. I have not had success yet with Bitcoin-qt 0.8.6.
I have loaded devx_slacko_5.7.0, qt-everywhere-opensource-src-4.8.2-i686-s14, and qt4_DEV-4.8.0.sfs. (Are any of these redundant?)
I just noticed that Bitcoin-qt 0.9 is out, just in the last few hours. I have not tried compiling it yet, but suspect I will have the same problem. I get the following error: fatal error: QApplication: No such file or directory
I have searched for "QApplication" to no avail. Any ideas?
BTW-I should note that my understanding of linux is VERY limited, but I am good enough at searching for, and following directions that I may seem further along than I am.
Again, thank you for any help.
ruwoof, I believe the advantage of PAE will show up with programs running large data sets, not large programs themselves. An example would be Bitcoin-qt.
Which brings me to my next question. I am thrilled that I have been able to get SpiderOak, Anki, and BitMessage up and running. I have not had success yet with Bitcoin-qt 0.8.6.
I have loaded devx_slacko_5.7.0, qt-everywhere-opensource-src-4.8.2-i686-s14, and qt4_DEV-4.8.0.sfs. (Are any of these redundant?)
I just noticed that Bitcoin-qt 0.9 is out, just in the last few hours. I have not tried compiling it yet, but suspect I will have the same problem. I get the following error: fatal error: QApplication: No such file or directory
I have searched for "QApplication" to no avail. Any ideas?
BTW-I should note that my understanding of linux is VERY limited, but I am good enough at searching for, and following directions that I may seem further along than I am.
Again, thank you for any help.
For a darker taskbar theme, how can you lighten up the speaker, network and CPU icons?
I've manually increased the cpu background colour in .jwmrc-tray which helped some. I can't see anything to configure frisbee's (network icon) tray icon. And the volume configuration doesn't seem to make any difference no matter what colours I set.
TIA
I've manually increased the cpu background colour in .jwmrc-tray which helped some. I can't see anything to configure frisbee's (network icon) tray icon. And the volume configuration doesn't seem to make any difference no matter what colours I set.
TIA
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Yesrufwoof wrote:Am I correct in the belief that PAE allows for addressing/using more than 4GB of RAM and pretty much nothing else (all more or less exactly the same otherwise)?
With PAE.
physical address size increases from 32 bits to 36 bits. This increases the physical memory addressable by the system from 4 GB to 64 GB.
Basically, with Puppy, you would be hard pressed to use 1GB of memory in normal use.
The things they do not tell you, are usually the clue to solving the problem.
When I was a kid I wanted to be older.... This is not what I expected
YaPI(any iso installer)
When I was a kid I wanted to be older.... This is not what I expected
YaPI(any iso installer)
To change the color of Rertovol icon, use:rufwoof wrote:And the volume configuration doesn't seem to make any difference no matter what colours I set.
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# retrovol_speaker
Takes 1 color argument
eg: red, blue, green (in English)
or hex (escaped #): \#ff0000,\#0000ff,\#00ff00
If input is garbage then output is garbage!
#
[color=red][size=75][O]bdurate [R]ules [D]estroy [E]nthusiastic [R]ebels => [C]reative [H]umans [A]lways [O]pen [S]ource[/size][/color]
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Thanks BigPupbigpup wrote:Yesrufwoof wrote:Am I correct in the belief that PAE allows for addressing/using more than 4GB of RAM and pretty much nothing else (all more or less exactly the same otherwise)?
With PAE.
physical address size increases from 32 bits to 36 bits. This increases the physical memory addressable by the system from 4 GB to 64 GB.
Basically, with Puppy, you would be hard pressed to use 1GB of memory in normal use.
At 9 mplayer video's, one youtube my PC still played back with no slicing. Above that and things started to get choppy - primarily due to CPU. At which time memory utilisation was around 775MB out of the 1.5GB available memory (let alone 2GB of swap).
Yes there may be some cases of a viable need for 4GB+ as Gortonc mentioned earlier, but otherwise more likely it will be CPU thrashing rather than exhausting available memory IMO.
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Thanks, but tried that and no change.SFR wrote:To change the color of Rertovol icon, use:rufwoof wrote:And the volume configuration doesn't seem to make any difference no matter what colours I set.Greetings!Code: Select all
# retrovol_speaker Takes 1 color argument eg: red, blue, green (in English) or hex (escaped #): \#ff0000,\#0000ff,\#00ff00 If input is garbage then output is garbage! #
Tried editing .retrovolrc and nothing.
It looks like the speaker in the tray is xtmix (tried adding a colour parameter to the .jwmrc-tray and that didn't work either).
PAE does NOT hinder any system operation. NOR does it hamper or diminish CPU performance. This has been echoed many times by the CPU manufacturers. You will/do get equivalent hardware performance no matter which of the CPU memory models the Operating System uses.
I don't and have never had a non-PAE PC. But, I do recognize and believe the CPU manufacturers, both, reported the same stories at Developer-Customer seminars.
Lot of the concerns on PAE and non-PAE apply ONLY if you are one of those who happen to have a non-PAE system. Over 99% of all the computers by Intel and AMD are built with PAE on-board.
If you have PAE CPUs, you can use either of the 32bit OSes ever built. If not your choice is limited to a non-PAE choice.
You DO NOT lose anything using a PAE no matter how little or how much RAM you have. It all done by the hardware, no matter which choice your OS allows you to boot. For this SLACKO version, the developer advises a recommended minimum RAM to expect good service in this distro's use. Benefit should be expected to be the same no matter which you boot with.
Whether one chooses otherwise, is a personal choice. Some of this community sees benefit in its use as was expressed by @GordonC (I wonder if he, too, has been to those seminars "back in the day") as it expresses some of the benefit allowed by PAE. Some community membership continues to try to put this topic into some singularity of RAM use.
How many remember that until the PUP developers investigated PAE, 32bit PUPs could ONLY ADDRESS 3.5GB. The 4GB kernels, for those unaware, is a parm change in kernel builds to allow the additional "missing 1/2GB" RAM could be used in non-PAE hardware addressing.
In essence for those who want to make a case of it, there are really 3 32bit kernel modes of OS use: 3.5GB/4GB/64GB ceiling Operating Systems. Windows, Linux have used these variously. There use 2 hardware modes of RAM addressing pre-1995 mode and PAE-1995+.
Maybe we need to start a PUPPY only thread to make it plain for anyone where we remove the emotional responses which allude that one mode is "better" than the other. PAE is hardware not some concept of software. As such the Operating System know how to tell the CPU which it wants to run. And the OSes then make internal tables to support system and subsystem operations which allow applications to be able to meet their demands. Absence, does identically (architecturally) the same.
Hardware...not how I feel. Hardware!
One member publishes what he says is happening on his system. Here is the "evidence" I show with 14 tabs open across 3 browser windows and 4 ROX windows open without any multimedia playing (it only goes up from this):
I run a lot of webpages simultaneously open with many also with both server-side and client-side stuff. And when playing a multimedia on desktop and doing other such stuff with moving things around in data and content creation, I run much more than 1GBof RAM usage as shown by the "free" command. In fact, on most PUPs I run, browser use is a big contributor as the system moves things in its SWAP use, as it attempts to give me good application performance. This is NOT limited to either of the 32bit modes of OSes, for I also have done such on my 64bit PCs as well. So to suggest to anyone that your workload is representative is probably not a good leadership for them. Rather, it might be useful to assist thru sharing how workloads can be managed effectively when running versus trying to steer anyone in one direction or another.
Lastly, all emotions aside, and all debates aside, my recommendation is still a valid one. "If you have PAE you can use either; if not, you are limited to only non-PAE.".
Enjoy either of your choices. This continues to be a very good distro for community use.
Hope this helps
I don't and have never had a non-PAE PC. But, I do recognize and believe the CPU manufacturers, both, reported the same stories at Developer-Customer seminars.
Lot of the concerns on PAE and non-PAE apply ONLY if you are one of those who happen to have a non-PAE system. Over 99% of all the computers by Intel and AMD are built with PAE on-board.
If you have PAE CPUs, you can use either of the 32bit OSes ever built. If not your choice is limited to a non-PAE choice.
You DO NOT lose anything using a PAE no matter how little or how much RAM you have. It all done by the hardware, no matter which choice your OS allows you to boot. For this SLACKO version, the developer advises a recommended minimum RAM to expect good service in this distro's use. Benefit should be expected to be the same no matter which you boot with.
Whether one chooses otherwise, is a personal choice. Some of this community sees benefit in its use as was expressed by @GordonC (I wonder if he, too, has been to those seminars "back in the day") as it expresses some of the benefit allowed by PAE. Some community membership continues to try to put this topic into some singularity of RAM use.
How many remember that until the PUP developers investigated PAE, 32bit PUPs could ONLY ADDRESS 3.5GB. The 4GB kernels, for those unaware, is a parm change in kernel builds to allow the additional "missing 1/2GB" RAM could be used in non-PAE hardware addressing.
In essence for those who want to make a case of it, there are really 3 32bit kernel modes of OS use: 3.5GB/4GB/64GB ceiling Operating Systems. Windows, Linux have used these variously. There use 2 hardware modes of RAM addressing pre-1995 mode and PAE-1995+.
Maybe we need to start a PUPPY only thread to make it plain for anyone where we remove the emotional responses which allude that one mode is "better" than the other. PAE is hardware not some concept of software. As such the Operating System know how to tell the CPU which it wants to run. And the OSes then make internal tables to support system and subsystem operations which allow applications to be able to meet their demands. Absence, does identically (architecturally) the same.
Hardware...not how I feel. Hardware!
One member publishes what he says is happening on his system. Here is the "evidence" I show with 14 tabs open across 3 browser windows and 4 ROX windows open without any multimedia playing (it only goes up from this):
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# Free
bash: Free: command not found
# free
total used free shared buffers
Mem: 4149248 2085504 2063744 0 34560
-/+ buffers: 2050944 2098304
Swap: 8389012 0 8389012
#
Lastly, all emotions aside, and all debates aside, my recommendation is still a valid one. "If you have PAE you can use either; if not, you are limited to only non-PAE.".
Enjoy either of your choices. This continues to be a very good distro for community use.
Hope this helps
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That's odd, works here.rufwoof wrote:Thanks, but tried that and no change.SFR wrote:To change the color of Rertovol icon, use:rufwoof wrote:And the volume configuration doesn't seem to make any difference no matter what colours I set.Greetings!Code: Select all
# retrovol_speaker Takes 1 color argument eg: red, blue, green (in English) or hex (escaped #): \#ff0000,\#0000ff,\#00ff00 If input is garbage then output is garbage! #
Tried editing .retrovolrc and nothing.
It looks like the speaker in the tray is xtmix (tried adding a colour parameter to the .jwmrc-tray and that didn't work either).
Greetings!
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Qt should work without it but if you definitely need it for some app install mysql from PPM. Is a heavy 85MB packagegortonc wrote:Hmm... sometimes I am stumped by simple things. I tried to install qt-4.8.2 from the Slackware 14.0 official repository using p.package mang. After installing it shows that I am missing the dependency: libmysqlclient.so.18
I have searched in vain. Any suggestions are appreciated.
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Thanks Mavrothal.However the mystery deepens (for me). I am confused by the options for installing qt. There are several SFS files and pets. What is the preferred one for Slacko 5.7?
It is required for several programs I need: Bitmessage, Anki, SpiderOak, and bitcoin-qt. I have the first two working, but SpiderOak and bc-qt are putting up a fight.
I would prefer an SFS, but will use whatever works.
As always, thanks for any help.
PS... as a matter of netiquette, is this the place to post these questions?
It is required for several programs I need: Bitmessage, Anki, SpiderOak, and bitcoin-qt. I have the first two working, but SpiderOak and bc-qt are putting up a fight.
I would prefer an SFS, but will use whatever works.
As always, thanks for any help.
PS... as a matter of netiquette, is this the place to post these questions?
gortonc
If you go to the Menu under Setup you see SFS Manager. The qt-open-src sfs will work fine. It should download and install. You will need to reboot for full functionality.
If you go to the Menu under Setup you see SFS Manager. The qt-open-src sfs will work fine. It should download and install. You will need to reboot for full functionality.
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For those with Shinobar's portable firefox installed updated to latest version 28 (may also work with other (older) FF versions), a few useful Extensions to install (IMO) are :
NoScript (goes without saying)
Zoom Page to aid with zooming in and out (right click to scale, or not, images)
Hide Tab with One bar - so no tabs if only a single browser window
Hide Caption Title Bar
If you set the tray to be at the top of screen rather than the bottom i.e. Menu, Desktop, JWM Management, Tray Management, Tray Placement, then in full screen browser display of a single web page, the tray in effect looks like the title bar.
NoScript (goes without saying)
Zoom Page to aid with zooming in and out (right click to scale, or not, images)
Hide Tab with One bar - so no tabs if only a single browser window
Hide Caption Title Bar
If you set the tray to be at the top of screen rather than the bottom i.e. Menu, Desktop, JWM Management, Tray Management, Tray Placement, then in full screen browser display of a single web page, the tray in effect looks like the title bar.
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Non full screen browser images of the same :
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xpaint
Installed xpaint today from PPM. Nice little draw/paint tool
Also can be started with xpaint -magnifier to start up a magnification window. Or xpaint -snapshot to enable a quick dragging over the area you want to capture (I know - mtpaint and pupsnapshot already do that).
Negatives : The menu fonts in xpaint are too small for my liking and I don't think its being maintained/updated ???
Also can be started with xpaint -magnifier to start up a magnification window. Or xpaint -snapshot to enable a quick dragging over the area you want to capture (I know - mtpaint and pupsnapshot already do that).
Negatives : The menu fonts in xpaint are too small for my liking and I don't think its being maintained/updated ???
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01micko--Thank you. I had that SFS loaded but I still show qt as a missing dependency. Nonetheless, I was able to get SpiderOak working, so I am happy for now.
Next question: I have installed py-qt, but it is quite massive. I have seen several SFS files for it. Which one is recommended for Slacko5.7?
Again, thank you folks for all the help. I look forward to the day when I can start giving some, instead of just need it.
Next question: I have installed py-qt, but it is quite massive. I have seen several SFS files for it. Which one is recommended for Slacko5.7?
Again, thank you folks for all the help. I look forward to the day when I can start giving some, instead of just need it.
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On my old machine (from 2000) 5.7 is working very nice. Attached hardware/system reports. Btw. is there quite new pup with Dillo or Netsurf, because FF is to much memory hungry.
Edit:
I had only problem (on former versions too) with proper resolution for my graphic card and monitor. So i've used old CD of Knoppix and checked parameters for vertical and horizontal synchronization and used them in X-conf file on Slacko. I't will be nice if Slacko could recognize graphics cards and monitors on boot like Knoppix.
Edit2:
My graphic card on this old machine is Riva TNT2 M64 and monitor is Belinea 17'' (model 10 30 40). I'm using those sync values in X-conf file: H = 31-68, V = 59-85 and resolution is 1024x768. Maybe somebody finds those values useful.
Edit:
I had only problem (on former versions too) with proper resolution for my graphic card and monitor. So i've used old CD of Knoppix and checked parameters for vertical and horizontal synchronization and used them in X-conf file on Slacko. I't will be nice if Slacko could recognize graphics cards and monitors on boot like Knoppix.
Edit2:
My graphic card on this old machine is Riva TNT2 M64 and monitor is Belinea 17'' (model 10 30 40). I'm using those sync values in X-conf file: H = 31-68, V = 59-85 and resolution is 1024x768. Maybe somebody finds those values useful.
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Hello puppy_apprentice,
Latest Dillo is available as .pet here:-
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=92620
You may also wish to try SlimBoat browser
http://slimboat.com
More fully-featured than Dillo and less hungry than FF
Available as .pet or .sfs for Puppy here:-
http://smokey01.com/OscarTalks
Latest Dillo is available as .pet here:-
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=92620
You may also wish to try SlimBoat browser
http://slimboat.com
More fully-featured than Dillo and less hungry than FF
Available as .pet or .sfs for Puppy here:-
http://smokey01.com/OscarTalks
Oscar in England