Spup 020 - Slackware based

[tronkel]

Posting this from Spup 02 now.

The puplet developers will want this. The Package Manager contains Firefox 3.6.3 and Thunderbird 3.0.4.

My ATI Radeon 3450 video card was recognised by xorg without having to use kernel mode-setting.

After the missing WLAN library file needed by wpa_supplicant was installed, the Ralink wireless card got configured OK. (see comment on Barry's blog about the missing library).

Abiword has a wee video problem when it starts. You see a corrupted empty document view. On scrolling once - the correct view then appears.

I wonder if this is an x-org problem here.

I'll play further with it and see what I can find in the way of bugs.

[tronkel]

Further bugs in SPup 020:

Xsane has many missing libraries and refuses to start.

CUPS is not accessible at localhost:631 even though the CUPS daemon is running.

Opening ROX sometimes needs two clicks on the desktop icon.

Wireless Lan seems to disconnect after about 20 mins.

Wallpaper setter doesn't work.

[Ray MK]

Hi

Basically it works - other than gnumeric.
Tried desktop icon, menu and then console - no go.
Had to setup touchpad tapping -
whereas with wary03 it was automatic.
(out of interest - wary runs extremely well on this machine)
Spup feels more like Quirky - not quite so slick on this machine.

Running on my 7/8yr old laptop - acpi is activated
(not normally so for this laptop without using
"acpi=force" in the kernel line in menu.lst)(old bios?)

128mb ram (less shared video) = 92mb ram available,
VIA C3 1Ghz proc.
manual frugal install to ext2 on sda1 -
wired network connection via shared router.

Posting from it now - also attatched hardinfo report if of any interest.

As always from BK - basically a nice puppy -
wish I new more in order to offer more constructive help -
maybe in time - lots to learn.

Many thanks and as always - best regards - Ray

[Billtoo]

Computer 1 - chose probe - this computer has Radeon HD 3200 onboard and an el cheapo tv tuner card as well.

# report-video
VIDEO REPORT: Slack Puppy, version 020

Chip description:
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon HD 3200 Graphics
02:00.0 Multimedia video controller: Conexant Systems, Inc. CX23885 PCI Video and Audio Decoder (rev 04)

Driver used by Xorg:
radeon

Video mode used by Xorg:
Resolution: Depth 24 Depth: "Display"

...the above also recorded in /tmp/report-video
#
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Computer 2 - chose probe, x didn't start so ran xorgwizard and chose vesa

# report-video
VIDEO REPORT: Slack Puppy, version 020

Chip description:
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82G33/G31 Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 10)

Driver used by Xorg:
vesa

Video mode used by Xorg:
Resolution: Depth 24 Depth: "Display"

...the above also recorded in /tmp/report-video
#
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Computer 3 - chose probe

# report-video
VIDEO REPORT: Slack Puppy, version 020

Chip description:
02:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV530 [Radeon X1600] (Secondary)

Driver used by Xorg:
radeon

Video mode used by Xorg:
Resolution: Depth 24 Depth: "Display"

...the above also recorded in /tmp/report-video
#
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Computer 4 - chose probe - this computer has an nvidia 8600GT and also has a hauppage 250 tv tuner card installed
# report-video
VIDEO REPORT: Slack Puppy, version 020

Chip description:
07:02.0 Multimedia video controller: Internext Compression Inc iTVC16 (CX23416) MPEG-2 Encoder (rev 01)

Driver used by Xorg:
nv

Video mode used by Xorg:
Resolution: Depth 24 Depth: "Display"

...the above also recorded in /tmp/report-video
#
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Computer 5 - chose probe
# report-video
VIDEO REPORT: Slack Puppy, version 020

Chip description:
01:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV280 [Radeon 9200] (Secondary) (rev 01)

Driver used by Xorg:
radeon

Video mode used by Xorg:
Resolution: Depth 24 Depth: "Display"

...the above also recorded in /tmp/report-video
#
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I updated the repos in puppy package manager and have installed several applications from the slackware repository,
Midnight commander,nano,qt-462,xchat,firefox 363.
Firefox updated to 364 and the check extentions feature in firefox recommended updating flashplayer so I did that.
Pfind was missing from the menu but I installed it with a pet from the quirky repo on ibiblio.

That's it so far.
Thanks
Bill

[Jim1911]

Barry's new spup 020 works great on my system using a frugal installation and the “nv

[James C]

Just a quick live run.......... graphics fine on this box.



Chip description:
oem: S3 Graphics ProSavage DDR Family BIOS
product: VBE 3.0 Rev 0.0

Driver used by Xorg:
savage

Video mode used by Xorg:
Resolution: Depth 24 Depth: "Display"

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

[James C]

Quick live test on the old P3 test box.........chose "probe" then selected 1024x768x24...........working fine, no problems.


VIDEO REPORT: Slack Puppy, version 020

Chip description:
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82810E DC-133 (GMCH) Graphics Memory Controller Hub (rev 03)
00:01.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82810E DC-133 (CGC) Chipset Graphics Controller (rev 03)

Driver used by Xorg:
intel

Video mode used by Xorg:
Resolution: Depth 24 Depth: "Display"

[nooby]

iso is here
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/dis ... /spup-0.2/

Barry's blog here
http://bkhome.org/blog/

Thanks for telling about it

[tedward]

VIDEO REPORT: Slack Puppy, version 020

Chip description:
oem: ATI MACH64

Driver used by Xorg:
mach64

Video mode used by Xorg:
Resolution: Depth 16 Depth: "Display"

COMMENT XORG has never worked before with any other Puppy version
on this old 800 Mhz desktop machine. Always had to use XVESA.
Whaddya know!

[nooby]

I did Choice and wrote Nvidia and it accepted that choice and the video-report confirmed it. BBC played good. Radio worked.

But Gnome Mplayer failed to play anything I gave to it.
Does mplayer require some detailed video set up to work?
What could make it fail that miserably?

[aarf]

pwidgets fail.
ppm cut off at bottom.
corrupts files on sdcard in opera.
all above work/fixed in puppeee6

[upnorth]

VIDEO REPORT: Slack Puppy, version 020

Chip description:
oem: ATI MACH64

Driver used by Xorg:
mach64

Video mode used by Xorg:
Resolution: Depth 24 Depth: "Display"
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To get gnome-mplayer functional, added these slackware 13.1 packages:
libdv
faac
libcdio
faad2
opencore-amr
libusb-1.0

Then either add symlink:
ln -s /usr/lib/libcdio.so.7.1.1 /usr/lib/libcdio.so.12
or find a newer version of libcdio

[nooby]

Thanks for making it work. I am so hooked on Quirky 1.0 so I wait until Barry K add these to the iso so I don't screw up things. Much appreciated that you explained why it failed to work.

Wow so we can use things from Slack that easily.

The Lucid Puppy needs pet for such things but Slackware repository just works?

[BarryK]

TO ANYONE COMING ACROSS THIS THREAD FOR THE FIRST TIME

Spup 020 was my first-go at creating a pup from Slackware 13.1 packages.

It has lots of bugs. I'm knocking them down fast, and Spup 021 is not far away, so you might want to wait for that.

[tubby]

Out of interest i downloaded and put a frugal install of this spup on my toshiba laptop and the same problem with internal pcmcia wifi module not being detected.
Checked rc.pcmcia and found the problem in the script, un hashing lines 15 & 16 enabled the module detection on reboot.
Intel video detected by probe OK and highest resolution obtained.
Same libraries missing as already reported.
I do like the slack packages available from package manager.
Looking forward to the next release, it can only get better.

[nooby]

Thanks Barry, No criticism from me at all. It is my lack of fine tuning using the English language. I do understand that such things happen now and then.

I very much appreciate your efforts and without Puppy I most likely still would be using Ms but thanks to your joy in making this and all the supporters of Puppy I have now been using Puppy exclusively since Christmas 2009.

I only boot into Ms Win 7 to do the critical updates of their holes they warn us about so 24/7 on puppy linux for me

Still I have a lot to learn but you are my Champ on Linux.

[BarryK]

Out of interest i downloaded and put a frugal install of this spup on my toshiba laptop and the same problem with internal pcmcia wifi module not being detected.
Checked rc.pcmcia and found the problem in the script, un hashing lines 15 & 16 enabled the module detection on reboot.
Intel video detected by probe OK and highest resolution obtained.
Same libraries missing as already reported.
I do like the slack packages available from package manager.
Looking forward to the next release, it can only get better.

Hmmm, that's strange. As the rc.pcmcia script comments, there is now a udev rule to run the 'pcmcia-socket-startup' application.

Did the problem only occur after the full hd install? Perhaps something is going wrong with udev.

[tubby]

Barry the problem with module detection is there from initial cd boot. The only way to detect wifi module was to do a frugal install and edit the rc.pcmcia script or as posted earlier replace with the one from ibiblio.
Maybe the problem is with the socket startup script?.

[James C]

Did a frugal install on my old P3 test box and have been testing daily. No real problems other than those reported earlier in the thread.

Installed Firefox 3.6.3 from the Slackware repository ....no problems and has already auto-updated to 3.6.6..Installed several other Slackware packages so far, including Fluxbox, and all I've attempted have installed successfully.Very impressive.

Anxiously awaiting the next update.....

[JustGreg]

Tried Spup020 on my Acer Aspire Revo with Nvidia Ion Chipset. The nv driver work fine and provided my normal 1360 by 768 resolution. Everything looks nice and crisp. No need for the official nvidia driver.

I did find a bug with wpa_supplicant when I tried to connect to my WPA2 wireless network. I check on wpa_supplicant and got this:

Code: Select all

# wpa_supplicant --help
wpa_supplicant: error while loading shared libraries: libnl.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

It is missing something.