slacko 5.3.3, final

[01micko]

Slacko..

is final!


Comment

I reckon it's nice! Thanks to all testers and developers. There is a new home page here. All info is there.. links to bug thread, release notes, download etc.

Enjoy!

Changes

updated seamonkey-2.9.1
updated slickpet 1.9.5
updated sfs_load 1.9.3 (shinobar)
removed call to extrasfsfind in firstrun
updated /etc/init.d/10alsa (shinobar)
new theme! [ ]

XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

OLD STUFF

VVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVV


Iso images and devx are there.

Checksums are there too.

Again there are 2 iso images, 5.3.2.9 (supports up to 4G RAM) and 5.3.2.9p (PAE .. supports up to 64G RAM).

Unfortunately isos have grown 2M due to changes in Seamonkey lib requirements.

kernel sauce

http://www.smokey01.com/01micko/slacko/ ... _s_4gA.sfs 96M

http://www.smokey01.com/01micko/slacko/ ... s_paeA.sfs 96M


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Changes (old)

latest woof
popup sfs_load instead of bootmanager on second frugal boot
add some other goodies to repo
make libreoffice pet with playdayz integration (in repo)
seamomkey-2.9
restore icewm code in delayedrun
restore 2barks!
fix dependency issues with some pets in PPM
update slickpet 1.9.3
patch Barry's shutdownconfig for ext4, remove pupsaveconfig
remove extra firmware for b43
patch /usr/sbin/remasterpup2 to use xz compression
restore flash on first run, with popup to warn use an older version on old gear


older
fix report-video (again!.. shinobar)
adjust /usr/local/bin/rox (puppy_apprentice)
new pmount gui (zigbert)
recompile aufs-util
remove axel (segfaulting)
restore icwm stuff to delayedrun (billtoo, ETP)
samba-3.6.4 to repo (compiled with krb and pam support for AD)
recompile glib patched (jemimah - allows help in abiword, geany etc)
update slickpet-1.9.2
compiled nvidia 295 and 173 (96 failed)
add ndiswrapper
add kernel headers (devx)
updates <--
-pmusic-2.5.3
-pburn-3.5.2
-pfind-4.25 (zigbert)
-sfs_load-1.9.2
-getflash-0.9
-pupsaveconfig-2.2
-firstrun-2.1
-ffconvert-1.2.1 (shinobar)
-homebank-4.4
-seamonkey-2.8
new jwm panel icon launch gui

Today's woof

TODO
compile fglrx
update libreoffice sfs and add pet
add any other suggestions?

Changes (old)

ext4 pupsave rox mime fix
acpid typo
update <--
-pburn-3.5.1
-pmusic-2.4.4-1
-ptiming-0.8
-firstrun-1.9.9
-sfs_load-1.3.9
-slickpet-1.9.0
add pupsaveconfig-2.1.1
tweak delayedrun
recompile linux-3.1.10 with Aufs bugfix 12Mar -sorry, no vid drivers, ndiswrapper yet

subtract jwm_menu_create -just a pain with woof and my limited time, may add to repo

compiled-repo
-vlc
-ff-10.02 (seems a dud!)
-pidgin

today's woof

Changes (older)

recompiled both kernels with union-fs (build script in old thread)forced Disable "glx" in xorg.conf
added Screeny (tiny)
removed "firstrun" (shino) replaced with "quicksetup" (Barry)
Hacked quicksetup to include HOSTNAME (needs polish, put in feature request to Barry)
updated slickpet for new kernels
updated snap2
updated screen-saver
updated screen lock
update report-video-glx-0.6-1, linked to report-video, hopefully we find your driver now! please test
totally reworked /usr/sbin/delayedrun -better logic, removed redundant code for speed
patched /usr/sbin/connectwizard, connectwizard-2nd for frisbee
patched new xorgwizard for unload_nouvea **TODO**-patch for synaptic touchpads
patched /usr/sbin/bcrypt_gui for gtkdialog >=0.8.0
update retrovol-0.12
update netsetup-120225 -carl9170 added to wag-profiles.sh funtions library
latest woof including all new SSS translation stuff
bugfix (woof only) move SSS stuff to devx (see BK's blog)
bugfix (woof only) flip KMS switch (see BK's blog)

Known Issues
-desktop drive icon redrawing is partially broken if you have more than 1 hard drive installed (see BK's blog)

[Jim1911]

Hi Mick,

Manual frugal installation on an ext4 partition on my Dell Inspiron laptop. I used my previous 4fs save file which loaded perfectly (not updated). Everything appears to be working properly including the mesa driver. Rebooted with no save file and everything did fine. Created new 4fs save file with shinobar's latest test pupsaveconfig.

Installation on my desktop was unsuccessful, errors on boot as follows:

• Dumping last lines of /tmp/bootinit.log . . .
  ls: /lib/keymaps/#n*.gz: No such file or directory
  Dumping last lines of kernel log . . .
  <6> 3.007659] NET: Registered protocol family 17
  <5> 3.007663] Registering the dns_resolver key type
  <6> 3.007674] Using IPI No-Shortcut mode
  <6> 3.008947] Freeing unused kernel memory: 372K freed
  Pausing for 60 seconds . . .
  Loading drivers needed to access disk drives.
  Searching for Puppy files . . . . . . puppy_slacko_5.3.2.6p.sfs not found. Dropping out to initial-ramdisk console . . .

Tried it with a new download with same results. Attached is a sys-info report generated with Exprimo which provides desktop hardware info.

Cheers,
Jim

[Billtoo]

Running new beta from a 4gb flash drive install, formatted ext 4 and I
used grub4dos.
I installed the mesa driver in slickpet, once working I installed the
proprietary nvidia driver.

Sat 25 Feb 2012 Operating System:Slacko Puppy-5.3.2.6p Linux 3.1.10-slacko_paeU
0.0 VGA compatible controller:nVidia Corporation GF108[GeForce GT 430](rev a1)
oem: NVIDIA product: GF108 Board - 1071v0p1 Chip Rev

X Server: Xorg Driver: nvidia
X.Org version: 1.9.5
dimensions: 1920x1080 pixels (524x292 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: 4.2.0 NVIDIA 295.20

# glxgears
62832 frames in 5.0 seconds = 12566.254 FPS
63058 frames in 5.0 seconds = 12611.506 FPS
63055 frames in 5.0 seconds = 12610.954 FPS

AMD Phenom(tm) II X6 1045T Processor
Core 0: 800 1: 800 2: 800 3: 800 4: 800 5: 800 MHz

No problems so far.

EDIT:I used gparted to format the drive ext 4 and set the boot flag.
I used the Puppy Universal Installer to do the install.

EDIT:I had some music playing for an hour or so while I was away from the
computer, I had used SFS-Load on-the-fly to load the vlc sfs and when
I got back I tried to load seamonkey but it wouldn't load, from the
menu or terminal.
I thought I'd reboot and the screen filled up with text, I got a
picture, it was scrolling and then stopped, ctrl-alt-del got a "Slacko
Puppy is now shutting down" message but I ended up holding down the power
button to power off.
I turned on the pc and the flash drive install went right to the
desktop, everything seems normal again.

EDIT: Vlc is still on the menu, when I ran it it loaded but as if for
the first time.
I did another reboot and it went normailly, back at the desktop I clicked on vlc it started in the normal way.
It seems like a one-time event with the screwed up reboot.

[peebee]

Hi Mick

Got the attached warning about union-fs when trying to use sfs-load so chickened out and used the old boot manager instead...

Cheers
peebee

[Jades]

Testing on Pentium D machine. Upgraded 5.3.2.4 save to 5.3.2.6 seemingly without problems. Wireless still excellent, will test setting up a new save shortly.

Just noticed that if I click on the 'Visit the Gnumeric website' link on the app's 'About' window it generates an error reading "Could not show link. Operation not supported." Choosing the 'Gnumeric on the Web' link generates an "Operation not supported" error. Browsers installed are Opera (11.62 SFS) and Seamonkey.

[bigpup]

Installation on my desktop was unsuccessful, errors on boot as follows:

• Dumping last lines of /tmp/bootinit.log . . .
  ls: /lib/keymaps/#n*.gz: No such file or directory
  Dumping last lines of kernel log . . .
  <6> 3.007659] NET: Registered protocol family 17
  <5> 3.007663] Registering the dns_resolver key type
  <6> 3.007674] Using IPI No-Shortcut mode
  <6> 3.008947] Freeing unused kernel memory: 372K freed
  Pausing for 60 seconds . . .
  Loading drivers needed to access disk drives.
  Searching for Puppy files . . . . . . puppy_slacko_5.3.2.6p.sfs not found. Dropping out to initial-ramdisk console . . .

Tried it with a new download with same results.
Cheers,
Jim

How did you install Slacko?
How are you booting?
These errors look like the kind you get, if the boot manager entries, are pointing to the wrong location for the Puppy Slacko files.

[01micko]

Jim1911

I'm clueless as to you lack of boot on the desktop machine, I'm looking into it, more likely a woof issue than union_fs. Please double check menu.lst paths as bigpup seems to suggest.

Billtoo

Now that error is somewhat similar to what was happening with aufs ..the plot thickens!

Peebee

The warning is normal, it's built into sfs_load. So far I haven't had any issues loading libreoffice, kernel source, devx etc. I may ask shinobar to remove the warning.

Jades

That gnumeric failure is due to the lack of the gnome help browser called YELP. As you can imagine it's a bloated gnome app that requires a bunch of useless to puppy dependencies. The gnumeric sources need to be patched by someone smarter than me in C to allow opening the web help in the defaultbrowser.
Also, did your carl9170 issue appear fixed? I added it to the wag-profiles.sh as explained in the other thread.

-

Something a little strange with video and union-fs kernel.. I am forced to disable glx in the xorg.conf otherwise X doesn't start, so the post install scripts for mesa, nvidia and amd(ati) drivers will need to be modified to allow glx to load. Billtoo, you may have noticed this unless you installed mesa (which I reuploaded).

Thanks for reports.

[CatDude]

Hello Mick

Made a fresh manual frugal install of slacko-5.3.2.6-SCSI.iso
booted to the desktop without any problems.
Made my choices (keyboard, locale etc) and restarted the xserver, still no problems.

So i rebooted and created a savefile (still no problems)

Once back to the desktop, i set about at getting this thing 'Wobbling'
which as you know entails getting the graphics sorted out.

My usual routine is to drop to a prompt and run xorgwizard (to get a proper xorg.conf file),
this time though, i decided to do it via the menu: Setup > Xorg Video Wizard
The dialogs that followed were a bit of a mess (see images Xorg-Video-Wizard_1.jpg and Xorg-Video-Wizard_2.jpg)

Anyways, i managed to successfully complete the wizard and get a proper xorg.conf file,
so i continued to install both the mesa-7.10.2-s.pet and mesa_DEV-7.10.2-s.pet
followed by a restart of the xserver.

Next i wanted to build the catalyst driver by way of amd-driver-installer-12-1-x86.x86_64.run
so i went to the BootManager to have it load the previously downloaded

• devx_slacko_5.3.2.6.sfs
  kernel_sources-3.1.10-patched_s_4gU.sfs

For some strange reason it totally refused to see the kernel sources file ,
so out of desperation i decided to rename it to kernel_sources-3.1.10-patched.sfs
after which it was immediately seen by the BootManager.

A quick reboot and i was ready to build that catalyst driver,
everything was going along nicely until i went to /lib/modules/fglrx
to run the make_install.sh script and noticed that there was no modules in there.

Then i remembered that one of your earlier devx or kernel source files had a missing (build) link,
so i went to check on that, and noticed there was two broken links in: /lib/modules/3.1.10-slacko_4gU (see pic below)
which i fixed by pointing them to: /usr/src/linux

I then had a second go at building the catalyst driver, which this time was successful,
and i was able to continue and get this baby wobbling.


CatDude
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[01micko]

Thanks CatDude

I also tested the wobbling with nvidia driver (built with said dodgy sources ) and nouveau (both work great btw). You may have noticed the abovementioned buglet with glx, ahh but you installed mesa so maybe not.

Thanks for the heads up and I'll find the problem in my kernel build script for the broken links.

Cheers.

[Jim1911]

Jim1911

I'm clueless as to you lack of boot on the desktop machine, I'm looking into it, more likely a woof issue than union_fs. Please double check menu.lst paths as bigpup seems to suggest.

menu.lst entry is the same as used in all previous slacko installations.

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title Slacko (sdb5/slacko)
  find --set-root --ignore-floppies --ignore-cd /slacko/initrd.gz
  kernel /slacko/vmlinuz  pmedia=atahd pdev1=sdb5 psubdir=slacko pfix=fsck pdev1=sdb5 #nomodeset pfix=vesa
  initrd /slacko/initrd.gz

I deleted

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#nomodeset pfix=vesa

which I had to use in setting up a previous slacko and it works fine. Sorry that I posted before checking it out thoroughly. This post is from your latest.

Cheers,
Jim

[James C]

2 simultaneous manual frugal installs on both the Athlon XP and P4 test boxes. Zero problems on either install.

# report-video
Slacko Puppy, version 5.3.2.6 on Sat 25 Feb 2012

Chip description:
0.0 VGA compatible controller
nVidia Corporation NV18 [GeForce4 MX 440 AGP 8x] (rev c1)
oem: NVidia
product: NV18 () Board Chip Rev A2

X Server: Xorg
Driver used: nouveau

X.Org version: 1.9.5
dimensions: 1440x900 pixels (380x238 millimeters)
depth of root window: 24 planes

...the above also recorded in /tmp/root/ as report-video,
and archived with xorg.conf and Xorg.0.log as report-video-full.gz

Computer-
Processor : AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2400+
Memory : 1034MB (161MB used)
Operating System : Unknown distribution
User Name : root (root)
Date/Time : Sat 25 Feb 2012 03:36:28 PM CST
-Display-
Resolution : 1440x900 pixels
OpenGL Renderer : Unknown
X11 Vendor : The X.Org Foundation
-Multimedia-
Audio Adapter : VIA8233 - VIA 8235

-Version-
Kernel : Linux 3.1.10-slacko_4gU (i686)
Compiled : #1 SMP Fri Feb 24 17:23:43 EST 2012
C Library : GNU C Library version 2.13 (stable)
Default C Compiler : Unknown
Distribution : Unknown distribution

[James C]

Just for fun, I did first attempt to upgrade the install on the Athlon XP box from 5.3.2.4 to 5.3.2.6. I was expecting a conflict between the installed Nvidia driver and "nouveau" from 5.3.2.6 and I got it....... X wouldn't start. Went ahead and did a fresh install.Much better.

[zigbert]

Since is back to beta, I may suggest pTiming 0.8 and Pburn 3.5.0. Both is basically bugfix releases.


Sigmund

[01micko]

Since is back to beta, I may suggest pTiming 0.8 and Pburn 3.5.0. Both is basically bugfix releases.


Sigmund

certainly

[01micko]

Just for fun, I did first attempt to upgrade the install on the Athlon XP box from 5.3.2.4 to 5.3.2.6. I was expecting a conflict between the installed Nvidia driver and "nouveau" from 5.3.2.6 and I got it....... X wouldn't start. Went ahead and did a fresh install.Much better.

You know that's an oversight in the upgrade process. Maybe a kernel change should be detected, then nvidia, ati etc drivers detected if installed and if detected the update aborted splashing a suggestion to boot back into the old version and remove the driver(s). I bet it's doable..

Barry is gonna get sick of my feature requests! ( . ziggy you're not the only one ).

On the other hand, I have fixed more bugs in woof than requests made so maybe I hold some aces .

[James C]

# report-video
Slacko Puppy, version 5.3.2.6 on Sat 25 Feb 2012

Chip description:
2.0 VGA compatible controller
Intel Corporation 82865G Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02)
oem: Intel(r)865G Graphics Chip Accelerated VGA BIOS
product: Intel(r)865G Graphics Controller Hardware Version 0.0

X Server: Xorg
Driver used: intel

X.Org version: 1.9.5
dimensions: 1024x768 pixels (270x203 millimeters)
depth of root window: 24 planes

...the above also recorded in /tmp/root/ as report-video,
and archived with xorg.conf and Xorg.0.log as report-video-full.gz

# glxgears
Running synchronized to the vertical refresh. The framerate should be
approximately the same as the monitor refresh rate.
378 frames in 5.0 seconds = 75.414 FPS
376 frames in 5.0 seconds = 75.144 FPS
376 frames in 5.0 seconds = 75.146 FPS
376 frames in 5.0 seconds = 75.140 FPS
376 frames in 5.0 seconds = 75.146 FPS
376 frames in 5.0 seconds = 75.144 FPS

[01micko]

James.. was that the machine which normally drew a blank when running report-video where the driver is listed? Is this straight from boot to desktop or did you run xorgwizard?

I've tried to eliminate the "lie" that sometimes "vesa" is reported without actually breaking the truth when vesa is actually the driver. Also tried to eliminate any "driver not found" or whatever messages but it is still a fall back.

Also, I can't recall if that slickpet hanging issue is fixed for you when running the video test, hopefully it is.

[James C]

Just attempted to install the nvidia-96.43.20-k3.1.10-slacko_4gx3-s driver on the Athlon XP install. Rebooted still using nouveau driver.... attempting to switch to the Nvidia driver resulted in being unable to start X. Deleted savefile and restarted fresh...... again.

[James C]

James.. was that the machine which normally drew a blank when running report-video where the driver is listed? Is this straight from boot to desktop or did you run xorgwizard?

I've tried to eliminate the "lie" that sometimes "vesa" is reported without actually breaking the truth when vesa is actually the driver. Also tried to eliminate any "driver not found" or whatever messages but it is still a fall back.

Also, I can't recall if that slickpet hanging issue is fixed for you when running the video test, hopefully it is.

Boots straight to the desktop using the nouveau driver and reports correctly as using nouveau. Using "test graphics" in Slickpet results in a "sorry no driver......" message but I had the driver already saved.

[Jades]

Jades

That gnumeric failure is due to the lack of the gnome help browser called YELP. As you can imagine it's a bloated gnome app that requires a bunch of useless to puppy dependencies. The gnumeric sources need to be patched by someone smarter than me in C to allow opening the web help in the defaultbrowser.

Thanks for the explanation, I didn't know that was how Gnumeric handled URLs and had assumed it simply reached out to see what was the default browser. An odd bit of clunkiness in what is otherwise an excellent spreadsheet.

Also, did your carl9170 issue appear fixed? I added it to the wag-profiles.sh as explained in the other thread.

Looks like it, I went straight through Network Wizard in the normal way without having to go through the additional dialogues. Should I be concerned that I know the IP addresses of my ISP's Primary and Secondary DNS servers off by heart?