Slacko64 - 64 bit Puppy - 6 Feb 2014

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#16 Post by Billtoo »

The md5sums match on my nettop.
I burned the iso to a dvd and did a frugal install to my i7 desktop
with the universal installer.

video-info-glx 1.5.3 Wed 15 Jan 2014 on Slacko64 Puppy 5.8.7 Linux 3.12.7 x86_64
0.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GF110 [GeForce GTX 560 Ti OEM] (rev a1)

X Server: Xorg Driver: nouveau
X.Org version: 1.12.4
dimensions: 1920x1080 pixels (508x285 millimeters)
depth of root window: 24 planes

direct rendering: Yes
server glx vendor string: SGI
server glx version string: 1.4
OpenGL vendor string: nouveau
OpenGL renderer string: Gallium 0.4 on NVC8
OpenGL version string: 2.1 Mesa 8.0.4

Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2600 CPU @ 3.40GHz
Core 0: @1600 1: @1600 2: @1600 3: @1600 4: @1600 5: @1600 6: @1600 7: @1600 MHz

PPM is working, I installed kdegames.
Firefox is still awful, takes a long time to connect to any website.

I just now updated the PPM and that broke it, must have done that
first thing on my nettop install.

I'm going to try installing the proprietary Nvidia driver now and see
how that goes.

EDIT:
I installed the proprietary driver and had it update xconf, did xwin and got back to the desktop at proper resolution and the driver had installed.
The mouse was working but the keyboard wasn't, exited to the prompt and tried xorgwizard, now nothing is working, can't get back to the desktop at all.

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#17 Post by 01micko »

Thanks Billtoo!

While I may not be much help with your nvidia troubles I can help with the petget issue.

It seems at the woof stage, because I was doing a cross build (host 32, target 64) that the 32 bit binaries got copied into /usr/local/petget. Consequently, when you try to update it silently crashes and actually trashes the database files. Attached are the offending files, the right ones which are 64 bit.They are debdb2pupdb (not really needed for us) and find_cat.

Copy them both into /usr/local/petget over writing the ones that are there.

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For nvidia, maybe try booting pfix=nox, then run

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rm /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Run xwin and see if you get a desktop.
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#18 Post by Billtoo »

@01micko
While in Quirky I mounted my Slack64 savefile and deleted
/etc/X11/xorg.conf, next time I booted Slacko64 it showed a couple of
errors that I didn't make note of but it went straight to the desktop
and it's using the nouveau driver again.
I used your petget_utils.tar.bz2 and the PPM is working again.

Back in business, thanks.
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#19 Post by EdD »

Does good, very fast, but doesn't display the optical drives, so it doesn't allow mounting the CD it booted up from. I did an install to a usb drive by mounting the iso files from the partition I used to download the iso.

machine specs are below in my sig line
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#20 Post by 01micko »

EdD wrote:Does good, very fast, but doesn't display the optical drives, so it doesn't allow mounting the CD it booted up from. I did an install to a usb drive by mounting the iso files from the partition I used to download the iso.

machine specs are below in my sig line
Thanks!

I think I know the cause. I'm missing a little utility called cddetect_quick. I knew I had to build it but missed it. Will be fixed in the next and when I build it I'll post the pet.

EDIT: here it is (untetsted)
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#21 Post by EdD »

Good on yer, Mick. ;-)
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#22 Post by EdD »

The cddetect pet worked. Optical drives show up as soon as media is inserted. Downloaded Xine player, which needed a large number of dependencies, from gwdg.de, a very fast host . No download problems from that site, and amazingly, only a single library was missing, requiring a user to mount the disc for xine to play it. No problems so far with mounting/unmounting optical drives.

This puppy is really fast on both my 64 bit machines. Found the graphics driver, and connected immediately to an ethernet connection. Seems pretty solid so far.
Dell optiplex 780, Intel Core 2 Duo CPU E7500 @ 2.93GHz, 4g RAM, w/ATI RV620 LE Radeon HD 3450. Currently running a full install of Slacko 6.3.0 ( 32 bit version).

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#23 Post by Billtoo »

I'm pretty sure that I found my problem with Firefox, if I change the
spot-status file to firefox=false and then run the loginmanager it
runs as user spot, runs poorly..slow to connect etc.
Running as root it runs well.
I added seamonkey 2.2.3 from ppm and it ran well until I had it run as
user spot in the spot-status file, then it ran poorly like firefox was.

Also, downloaded the flash plugin with getflash and it put it in
/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins but videos at CNN wouldn't play until I added
it to /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins.
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#24 Post by MinHundHettePerro »

Hello :)!

Yes, I know it's early alpha-stage ... ...

But, this "oversight" (or BUG :P) pertains to alpha, beta, gamma, delta, epsilon, zeta, ... , omega, and especially the Swedish letters åäö, as well as to the placements of ?=`|()\ etc. on the kbd.

Couldn't get my keyboard-setting to take until I chmod'ed /usr/sbin/chooselayout from 644 to 755 ...

Cheers & hth :)/ MHHP
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#25 Post by PFan »

Wow. I got a "new" 64bit laptop just in time for this.Dell e6400. Manual frugal install to a multi boot USB drive. Runs very nicely, except for suspend on closing screen doesn't work. I set up a JWM hot key to call the suspend script, and that does the job. Thank you for this!

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Re: Slacko64 - 64 bit Puppy - 15 Jan 2014

#26 Post by 01micko »

Billtoo wrote:I'm pretty sure that I found my problem with Firefox, if I change the
spot-status file to firefox=false and then run the loginmanager it
runs as user spot, runs poorly..slow to connect etc.
Running as root it runs well.
I added seamonkey 2.2.3 from ppm and it ran well until I had it run as
user spot in the spot-status file, then it ran poorly like firefox was.

Also, downloaded the flash plugin with getflash and it put it in
/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins but videos at CNN wouldn't play until I added
it to /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins.
Ok :)

I'm still a bit noob at building a 64 bit OS so you'll have to bear my stupid bugs like this .. sorry! I'm thinking nvidia might be similar because I built the amd legacy driver and all the libs are in /usr/lib.. there are compile time options (probably libdir=/usr/lib64) to be passed to nvidia**.run and amd.**.run specifying the lib dir. I'll need to check.

With flash, perhaps a symlink is needed because it's a slightly different story being a proprietary pre-built package.

And spot.. well I haven't looked at it yet so it's again probably a matter of the difference between *lib and *lib64.

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MinHundHettePerro wrote:** alpha, beta, gamma, delta, epsilon, zeta, ... , omega, and especially the Swedish letters åäö **
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.. * /usr/sbin/chooselayout from 644 to 755
Probably in the 32 bit version too.. :oops:

EDIT: @MHHP. It seems to me that chooselayout should actually be a symlink to quicksetup in /usr/sbin. If possible, can you try that and report your findings. Thanks in advance! :)

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#27 Post by NickAu »

Hi Guy's.

First up don't ask why, And if anybody laughs at me I will cry .LOL.


I have just downloaded the slacko64-5.8.7.iso ( that exact iso) and burned it to disc, And went to live boot it from dvd , it seems to start ok then I get a message about x not starting I tried the pfix=nox , no luck.

Please note this is not just a puppy linux issue with me I can't boot ANY linux distro from dvd.

Any advice.


Hp Pavilion g6
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#28 Post by Tasgarth »

NickAu,
Hp Pavilion g6
I get an HP Pavilion g6 Notebook.
No problems and... I always boot puppies (frugall or full intall) from CD-RW.
Same thing under the Slacko(s) (64 or not): no problem.

Slacko PAE => USB key. Full install.
Slacko64 => frugall install (the same USB key)

but I note some differences between both HP:
Mine:
Intel Pentium 2.30GHz
Rating: 5,5 and RAM 6Go
Inte(R) HD Graphics Family
Radeon (TM) HD 7660M
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#29 Post by mavrothal »

Finally got to play with slacko64 a bit more in my VMware VM and still looks solid :D
I only needed to set vo=x11 in mplayer config to play video but everything works (after adding petget-utils and cddetect).
The only thing I came across so far is a missing gtk-info icon in /usr/local/firewallgtk/firewallgtk (see pick)
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Re: Slacko64 - 64 bit Puppy - 15 Jan 2014

#30 Post by MinHundHettePerro »

01micko wrote:EDIT: @MHHP. It seems to me that chooselayout should actually be a symlink to quicksetup in /usr/sbin. If possible, can you try that and report your findings. Thanks in advance! :)

We will get there!
A symlink works, as well :) . (Yeah, should have opened the file chooselayout also, just saw the "Permission denied" when running input-wizard from the CL.)
Cheers :)/ MHHP
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#31 Post by gcmartin »

Initial testing: A sound start at Slacko64. It has a nimble feel and great LAN awareness and presence.

Hope this helps

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#32 Post by 01micko »

I found a version of ddcprobe which now works. I could not find one previously which probably rendered xorgwizard useless. (That will be changing one day anyway).

There isn't much use to post a pet as it will probably just mess up current savefiles. However I will put it in the next version. Seems to work ok in my tests. Output on my current machine is identical to slacko-5.6.
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#33 Post by Snoop Dog »

Yo congrizzle on thizzle fizzle alphizzle rizzle of Slacko64!

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#34 Post by 01micko »

:lol:
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#35 Post by EdD »

"I have just downloaded the slacko64-5.8.7.iso "

nickau, just wondering if you noticed the other iso at the download site: slacko64-5.8.6.iso

I downloaded both just in case, since I have two 64 bit machines.

Also, did you try running the xorgwizard and choosing vesa instead of probing for a driver in xorg? That usually works for me.

Regards,
Ed
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