slacko-700 rc3

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musher0 · #501 Post by **musher0** » Thu 24 Jan 2019, 12:16

norgo wrote:(...)
realy too much to list all here ( detailed information at https://github.com/puppylinux-woof-CE/woof-CE )
m(...)

Sorry Norgo,

that link points to the general woof-CE github page, not to a proper CHANGES file.
Can you please provide an exact link? Thanks in advance.

In any case, did you use a proper Pmount in your build?

The one in micko's original build is broken. It does not show the optical drives
properly. I had to replace it with this one (pls find attached), from the xenial-7.0.6.
Unpack in /usr/sbin and make executable to be able to run it.

Will test your build when I have a minute. Sorry, that cannot be now.

BFN.

norgo · #502 Post by **norgo** » Fri 25 Jan 2019, 23:08

@musher0

works as it should, can't detect a malfunction.
Icon at the desktop is present and pmount is showing the device too.
Mounting and unmounting works flawless too.
The only thing I detected is, the bargraph indicator doesn't show the size of medium.

I hope your optical drive is now working again.
So you need not to ask such difficult questions once again.

Billtoo · #503 Post by **Billtoo** » Sat 26 Jan 2019, 18:56

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I updated a Slacko64 install that's a few months old.

musher0 · #504 Post by **musher0** » Mon 28 Jan 2019, 22:27

You guys seem to be having fun!...

I was forced off-line for three full days.

The screen of my portable gave up the ghost last Friday. I had to dust off my old Acer Aspire, and Videotron's cable modem did not like it.

I was lucky I had not thrown away that 11-year old Acer, come to think of it.

Back online half an hour ago. Phew.

TWYL.

OverDrive · #505 Post by **OverDrive** » Thu 07 Feb 2019, 22:57

Hey Puppy Fans!

I have a heavily tweaked to my liking 32bit savefile that made the upgrades over the years from Slacko 5.6>5.7>6.3.2 with minimal effort needed.

But when I upgraded to 6.9.9.9, The keyboard and mouse stopped working.

I eventually figured out to switch over to USB KB/Mouse and unplug and replug them after the desktop appears to get a working Slacko. But I think that will become a hassle after a while.

The kb works fine at the slacko boot screen. So it appears something is biffed in X. I checked xorg.conf but found it to be pretty much empty with the exception of:

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#PuppyHardwareProfile=armsystem

I tried replacing xorg.conf with a working version from a backup before the upgrade. But to my amazement, it gets replaced on the next boot

Any ideas or sugestions?

Best Regards

Overdrive

OverDrive · #506 Post by **OverDrive** » Tue 12 Feb 2019, 17:38

Anyone? Anyone? Bueller? Bueller? LOL!

bigpup · #507 Post by **bigpup** » Tue 12 Feb 2019, 18:26

I tried replacing xorg.conf with a working version from a backup before the upgrade. But to my amazement, it gets replaced on the next boot

Sorry, but how do we know you are doing this correctly.
Give details on what you do.

What is Slacko installed on?
If USB flash drive or you have it running in pupmode 13.
Are you sure the replacement xorg.conf is getting saved in the save file?

s243a · #508 Post by **s243a** » Wed 13 Feb 2019, 06:46

In slacko 6.9.9.9, I compiled iotop-0.6 using the slackbuild script. The pet can be found at:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/3ci2gevbytjfm ... 1.pet?dl=0
I also bundled the source with a modified version of the slackbuld script
https://www.dropbox.com/s/7g2gx0mvlkfrs ... ar.gz?dl=0

After installing, I get the following when trying to run the script:

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# iotop
Could not run iotop as some of the requirements are not met:
- Linux >= 2.6.20 with
  - I/O accounting support (CONFIG_TASKSTATS, CONFIG_TASK_DELAY_ACCT, CONFIG_TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING

Apparently, these are kernal modules that I need to compile.
https://forum.qnap.com/viewtopic.php?t=27249

666philb has some instructions for doing this at:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... start=1140

I'll give it a try.

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iotop can only run under a Linux 2.6.20 or later kernel built with the CONFIG_TASKSTATS, CONFIG_TASK_DELAY_ACCT, CONFIG_TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING and CONFIG_VM_EVENT_COUNTERS build config options on.

https://packages.debian.org/sid/iotop

Not sure if the above gives me any new information.

Edit 2 I round something suggesting that some of these might be boot paramaters:

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GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="delayacct"

http://blog.brocktice.com/2012/05/23/de ... ucid-lynx/

Edit 3

I see there is a kernal config file located at /boot/config-4.9.30.
https://superuser.com/questions/610581/ ... r-specific
I wonder if I can manually edit this file, or if I have to compile something after macking changes.

OverDrive · #509 Post by **OverDrive** » Wed 13 Feb 2019, 17:32

bigpup wrote:
I tried replacing xorg.conf with a working version from a backup before the upgrade. But to my amazement, it gets replaced on the next boot
Sorry, but how do we know you are doing this correctly.
Give details on what you do.

What is Slacko installed on?
If USB flash drive or you have it running in pupmode 13.
Are you sure the replacement xorg.conf is getting saved in the save file?

Ok, I figured out what had happened.

6.9.9.9 upgrade did not delete these previous version files on my savefile.

/initrd/pup_rw/usr/sbin/xorgwizard and
/initrd/pup_rw/usr/sbin/xorgwizard-automatic

TBH, I don't even know how these files where put there in the first place. But it must have been from a previous upgrade or something.

Anyway, when I discovered these files were there and controlling xorg.conf, I deleted them and that forced the system to use the original 6.9.9.9 versions and everything now works correctly.

Thought I would post this info in case anyone else upgrades and runs into this.

Best Regards

Overdrive

s243a · #510 Post by **s243a** » Fri 01 Mar 2019, 04:29

dir2pet is behaving wierd on my system. Once the pet is built I get the following message:

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If you look in libmpfr6-4.0.2-1-x86_64 you will see the new '.specs' file.
And in libmpfr6-4.0.2-1-x86_64/usr/share/applications/ the new '.desktop' file.
Directory libmpfr6-4.0.2-1-x86_64 is now configured correctly as a PET package
and in future you do not need to go through this script again.
You could manually edit the files if required, and create another
.pet package just by doing this:
# tar -c -f libmpfr6-4.0.2-1-x86_64.tar libmpfr6-4.0.2-1-x86_64/
# gzip --best libmpfr6-4.0.2-1-x86_64.tar
# tgz2pet libmpfr6-4.0.2-1-x86_64.tar.gz

However, this adds an extra layer to the folder structure which probably isn't back compatable and it messes up conversion tools in other linux distributions.

To create an archive with the top folder removed one can instead do the following:

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cd libmpfr6-4.0.2-1-x86_64
tar -czvf libmpfr6-4.0.2-1-x86_64.pet `find . -wholename './*'`

The dir2pet code on github seems to have the same problem.

bigpup · #511 Post by **bigpup** » Fri 01 Mar 2019, 17:47

Slacko 700 RC3-K4.4.70 PAE

Just something to consider.

Not sure what hardware you are trying to make this Slacko version able to support.
The Linux kernel 4.19.23 or newer, is going to be needed for some of the newer computers.

darkcity · #512 Post by **darkcity** » Mon 11 Mar 2019, 14:18

Trying to run Pup on old Intel T2080 laptop. Using older kernel ff 32bit version. It loads pup files to RAM and continues booting until loading xorg. Then screen goes black and computer apparently hangs.

Is laptop too old for the kernel being using?

norgo · #513 Post by **norgo** » Mon 11 Mar 2019, 17:58

darkcity wrote:... Trying to run Pup on old Intel T2080 laptop ...

T2080 is an Intel CPU

and now we should guess the laptop type ?
If you expect an answer let us know what hardware you are using. ( Laptop brand and type or vendor and device ID )

Did you already visit http://slacko.eezy.xyz/notes.php ?
there are useful hints as example "If you boot to blackscreen you should ....."

don570 · #514 Post by **don570** » Mon 11 Mar 2019, 19:09

Fluppy linux was written for small old laptops
http://smokey01.com/jemimah/fluppy13/

Sailor Enceladus · #515 Post by **Sailor Enceladus** » Sat 20 Apr 2019, 23:58

I tried another Slacko64 build using the "experimental" woof-CE branch today
http://www.mediafire.com/folder/04k8b88 ... perimental

It has Palemoon 28.4.1 and Abi/Gnumeric in the adrv and kernel 4.9.170 with linux-firmware (default options) in zdrv.

FeodorF · #516 Post by **FeodorF** » Sun 19 May 2019, 19:47

I gave 'Sailor Enceladus' Slacko64 build a test ride. The last time I have checked on Slackware was way back. Way, way back. It was Slacko 5.5 .
I went for a full install on my Lenovo ThinkCentre BIOS PC, with Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU E3400 @ 2.60GHz, Intel Duo Core. The installation went straight forward. As my PC runs on 2GB only I decided to use the offered swap file - sized 2GB - for just in case use.

After the reboot I downloaded libreoffice 6.2.3.2 as well as 01micko's http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 513#952513 google-earth http://distro.ibiblio.org/puppylinux/pe ... x86_64.sfs
Works very well! As I'm using a 2GB swap file it takes 4 minutes to clean up the hard drive after exiting google-earth. - Fine with me. It was fun to watch what was going on. You folks have put a lot of effort into the Slackware Puppy development!

I replaced Palemoon-28.4.1 with version 28.5.0, http://linux.palemoon.org/datastore/rel ... 64.tar.bz2

Add up:
After downloading and installing the devx file there is an error message (sfs_load: debug: Do you want to load 'devx_slacko64_6.9.9.9.sfs(filesize: 133MB)'? WARNING: Using this under 'PUPMODE=2' is EXPERIMENTAL. sfs_load: debug: EXIT=OK)

cp: cannot overwrite directory '/usr/include/freetype/freetype' with non-directory

The reason for the error is that /freetype is a symlink to /freetype2/freetype. This needs some fixing. Hmm. The devx of Slacko64-6.3.2 has the same /freetype symlink.

Greetings to all of you,
FeodorF

phat7 · #517 Post by **phat7** » Mon 01 Jul 2019, 14:19

No word from the OP for more than 2 years. Is this project dead?

bigpup · #518 Post by **bigpup** » Tue 02 Jul 2019, 01:38

Yes.
Unless someone else wants to take it over and finish it.

darry19662018 · #519 Post by **darry19662018** » Tue 02 Jul 2019, 06:55

Peebee's SCPup is pretty much the standard slack Pup these days.

Sailor Enceladus · #520 Post by **Sailor Enceladus** » Sat 20 Jul 2019, 21:40

Thanks for the feedback FeodorF. I updated this to the latest woof-CE today.

I tried another Slacko64 build using the "experimental" woof-CE branch today
http://www.mediafire.com/folder/04k8b88 ... perimental

It has Palemoon 28.4.1 and Abi/Gnumeric in the adrv and kernel 4.9.170 with linux-firmware (default options) in zdrv.

This time it comes with slackware Firefox 68 ESR which is compiled with --enable-alsa and seems to work for Youtube (but not a few other things like Discord Voice, using the Download Chrome button in Setup fixed that though).

I used the old kernel config from Slacko64 6.9.9.9 in case it works better for foxpup (though not sure, there's only 2 differences, maybe it really is because I compiled them on a Core2Duo) and I used the ptheme from Slacko32 6.9.9.9 as default because it contains all the desktop icons.

Observations in r7310:
- The new PupMTP and Image Viewer menu entries don't seem to work yet (missing something)
- The newer firefoxes seems to have changed from package-templates when it comes to setting the puppy homepage as default

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slacko-700 rc3

Lost mouse and keyboard after upgrade

Slacko64-6.9.9.9-uefi_r6980x.iso