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The old Coppermine will have to wait, Slacko 5.3.1.2 live pfix=ram on another box off the shelf.
Once again,everything working correctly on initial boot ...sound,internet and display.

# report-video
VIDEO REPORT: Slacko Puppy, version 5.3.1.2

Chip description:
oem: NVIDIA
product: MCP61 - mcp61-86 Chip Rev

Driver used by Xorg:
vesa

Video mode used by Xorg:
Resolution: "1440x900" Depth: Depth 24

...the above also recorded in /tmp/report-video

actually using.....
-Computer-
Processor : 2x AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5200+
Memory : 3374MB (157MB used)
Operating System : Unknown distribution
User Name : root (root)
Date/Time : Sat 21 Jan 2012 02:09:07 AM CST
-Display-
Resolution : 1440x900 pixels
OpenGL Renderer : Unknown
X11 Vendor : The X.Org Foundation
-Multimedia-
Audio Adapter : HDA-Intel - HDA NVidia
Audio device : nVidia Corporation MCP61 High Definition Audio
VGA compatible controller : nVidia Corporation C61 [GeForce 7025 / nForce 630a]

Booted straight to desktop with network connection and sound present.Something seems to have changed in the sound dept' for me.
I always have main speakers and headphones working together but this wont allow that(one or the other but not both) no matter how much messing about in Retrovol.
Everything else so far looking fine.

Edit
Gnome Mplayer doesn't start.

UMplayer from the PPM does 'NOT' display the thumbnail graphics in the 2nd window after a youtube search... yes, you can still click on the video you want and it will play. Maybe needs qt4 UMplayer?

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Brown Mouse wrote:
Edit
Gnome Mplayer doesn't start.

You have to add gmtk from the package manager.

DaveS wrote:

Brown Mouse wrote:
Edit
Gnome Mplayer doesn't start.

You have to add gmtk from the package manager.

Ah ok,thanks DaveS.

Or just grab this pet
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/dis ... 5-i486.pet

01micko wrote:slackofication (new word).

When you install Slacko Puppy to a computer.
Is this why they say your computer is"Slackofied"?

01micko wrote:. . . FYI, I am now retired from the construction industry and am starting study (fulltime) next week, so Slacko dev has to be pretty much wound up before then as I wont have time for in depth development. . .

Thank you for all the hard work that you've put into Lucid and Slacko as well as many other fine contributions. I've been amazed at how much you've been able to accomplish and your programming skills that are apparently self-taught.

Best wishes on your further studies.

Regards,
Jim

Jim1911 wrote:Thank you for all the hard work that you've put into Lucid and Slacko as well as many other fine contributions. I've been amazed at how much you've been able to accomplish and your programming skills that are apparently self-taught.

Best wishes on your further studies.

Regards,
Jim

You're welcome Jim and thanks to you for your great support. Without you and many like you (you all know who you are ) there'd be no Slacko.

Just to clarify, the next release will likely be the last one before Slackware bumps version. I wont have the time for full on development, but I will still be around. I have 6 months of solid study coming up so I will be a little quiet. By then I expect Slackware will have updated and a new dev cycle can begin.

I have a week to get things into shape for the next release. I think they are shaping up nicely so if I can get to RC in that week I'll be happy.

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Oh, by the way.. next is out!

See main post!





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I'm running the live dvd with a save file.
On first bootup it went straight to the desktop and the screen
resolution, wired network, and sound were all good.
I installed the devx + kernel source + NVIDIA-Linux-x86-275.43.run
I installed avplayersj2-slacko-i686.sfs too

Sun 22 Jan 2012 Operating System: Slacko Puppy-5.3.1.3 Linux 3.1.10-slacko_4g
0.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation C77 [GeForce 8200] (rev a2)
0.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G98 [GeForce 9300GE](rev a1)
oem: NVIDIA product: MCP77 Board - mcp78pvo Chip Rev

X Server: Xorg Driver: nvidia
X.Org version: 1.9.5
dimensions: 1440x900 pixels (373x231 millimeters)
depth of root window: 24 planes


Athlon(tm) Dual Core Processor 4850e
Core 0: 2499 1: 2499 MHz

The CPU frequency scaling utility isn't working.
I needed an extra reboot to compile the proprietary Nvidia driver
because of the nouveau driver.
That's it so far.

EDIT:I switched to icewm, works better with vlc.

http://smokey01.com/aarf/xdelta/slacko- ... .iso.delta (36MB) (user=puppy pass=linux) advise please.
and also
http://www.smokey01.com/aarf/xdelta/sla ... .iso.delta (38.5MB)
Not going to do the devx deltas for this one.

very nice micko looks good & gets online in a snap my 2 main needs lookin forward to the final now.

best of luck in your studies comin up & hope you dont miss all the fun of developing while doing your studies

pentium 4CPU 3 GHz 1 Gb ram. Sensors-detect not running. Kernel fails. No menus at all, so unwork any way.

streamripper is added (for Pmusic)

Thank you


Sigmund

escucha wrote:pentium 4CPU 3 GHz 1 Gb ram. Sensors-detect not running. Kernel fails. No menus at all, so unwork any way.

Maybe you have a bad .iso download?It works fine with my Pentium 4 3ghz.

Quick live pfix=ram test of 5.3.1.3.Sound,internet and display working on initial boot.

# report-video
VIDEO REPORT: Slacko Puppy, version 5.3.1.3

Chip description:
oem: NVIDIA
product: MCP61 - mcp61-86 Chip Rev

Driver used by Xorg:
nouveau

Video mode used by Xorg:
Resolution: "1366x768" Depth: Depth 24

...the above also recorded in /tmp/report-video

Report-video now shows the correct driver being used.

-Computer-
Processor : 4x AMD Athlon(tm) II X4 620 Processor
Memory : 2854MB (165MB used)
Operating System : Unknown distribution
User Name : root (root)
Date/Time : Sun 22 Jan 2012 12:10:10 PM CST
-Display-
Resolution : 1366x768 pixels
OpenGL Renderer : Unknown
X11 Vendor : The X.Org Foundation
-Multimedia-
Audio Adapter : HDA-Intel - HDA NVidia

-Version-
Kernel : Linux 3.1.10-slacko_4g (i686)
Compiled : #1 SMP Sun Jan 22 07:46:39 EST 2012
C Library : GNU C Library version 2.13 (stable)
Default C Compiler : Unknown
Distribution : Unknown distribution

# free
total used free shared buffers
Mem: 2854056 425864 2428192 0 50300
-/+ buffers: 375564 2478492
Swap: 0 0 0

Am I overlooking a screenshot utility or ????? ? Otherwise,looking good.

Hi 01micko,

I have tried an upgrade and a fresh frugal install and both are working well after about 3 hours of testing.

One feature that I personally miss is the "close" command at the bottom of the calendar seen after clicking on the time in the bottom right hand corner. I am happy to see the new tray icon (as well), but as it was, I only had to move my cursor up a fraction and click to advance one month (which I can still do) then move my cursor back to the corner and click to close then click again to reopen with today highlighted (which I cannot now do).

I happen to like minimal cursor movement and minimal clicks, though I can see that does not suit everyone.

Thank you for all your help and my very best wishes for your future success and happiness.

01micko wrote: Oh, by the way.. next is out!

Wow! comes with the full udev too!
Way to go Mick.
(Though DEVTMPFS is not configured in the kernel )

FYI, I am now retired from the construction industry and am starting study (fulltime) next week, so Slacko dev has to be pretty much wound up before then as I wont have time for in depth development.

Thanks for working on Lucid and Slacko.
Good luck with the studies.
I am still happily using Puppy Slacko.

The pressure on the lead developer is notorious and it is good you were distracted by work, Billy the dog and such real life responsibilities.

Without Barry, Larry. Jemimah and our growing support of geekified penguins. Puppy would not evolve AND continue to support the underpowered.

For those of us testing, managing the wiki, compiling, supporting users etc we know how worthwhile the results are.

In the words of Spock:
"Live Long and Puppy"

Jasper,
Yes that calendar bug is a nuisance and I think caused by new jwm, if I can determine that I'll report to Joe, however I am very reluctant to roll back jwm with all the new useful features included. I will find a solution. Perhaps adding back the window decorations will suffice for now, at least you'll have the "X" to click, That also alerted me to the fact that I have a buggy version of Osmo, thanks.

James, woops, no mtpaintsnapshot! Thanks.

Billtoo, maybe your module is missing for cpu scaling, did it work in the 3.1.9 kernel?

aarf, thanks for deltas, I'll link to main post. An older devx is ok as libraries are generally the same.

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Where's our b43 users?