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DaveS · Joined: 09 Oct 2008 Posts: 3695 Location: UK

Confirming pngoverlay bugs. It works great with USB devices, but not as you can see with optical drive, and not with my dedicated SD card reader. USB card readers are no problem. Again, I suspect this is a woof implementation which may be incomplete. There were reports of similar issues with partitions, but as I only have a single partition on this machine, I cant test.

bigpup · Posted: Thu 18 Aug 2011, 15:50 Post subject:

Slako Beta 1
Frugal + save
Nothing changed from initial install.
Using Stardust icon set.

I get this. Seems to be working for me.

01micko · Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 7037 Location: qld

Dave .. you can retrofit

Go to PPM and type "xcb*" in the search box, then choose xcb-utils, restart X when complete, it's only a small lib

playdayz · Joined: 25 Apr 2008 Posts: 3705

Possible good news from testing Chromium 15. On Lucid, every Chromium and Iron above 10 has a problem--sometimes when starting it will get stuck Loading--it is called "the pinwheel of death" because of the loading symbol of the pinwheel. The good news is that Chromium 15 seems not to have the problem in Slacko beta 1. Chromium is the open source testing branch for Google Chrome--so it doesn't have official releases--this is the daily build from AUG 16.

http://distro.ibiblio.org/puppylinux/pet_packages-slacko/chromium-15.0.855.pet

http://distro.ibiblio.org/puppylinux/pet_packages-slacko/chromium_NLS-15.0.855.pet

Iron 13 should be available soon--it is already released for Windows.

Hey, I just thought I would try, but Google Chrome 13 seems to be running nicely in Slacko beta 1. I'll make a pet for anyone interested. Oops, It is running nicely in Lucid 5.2.8, but I'll still make a pet Wink

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raffy · Joined: 25 May 2005 Posts: 4639 Location: Manila

I've posted in the Fatdog64 thread and will post here, too, the URL of the display driver for Radeon HD chips in the new Fusion APUs by AMD.

The new laptops are full-size but are priced the same or lower than netbooks, so they are definitely friends of Puppy. Smile

Have tested Slacko, but only ISpup is able to keep X going in the E-350. If you need any info about the inner works of E-350, just tell me how to get it.

mikeslr

Hi All,
DaveS & James C already mentioned the Ati-Radeon & missing icon situation.
So far, I've experienced no other problems with Beta1, except adding mtpaintsnapshot to jwm's tray via jwm configure. The tool tip and executable are picked up, but the icon designation still is 'icon=""'. Workaround is to edit .jwmrc-tray by hand.

Same problem with all recent pups.

mikesLr

01micko · Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 7037 Location: qld

Hi raffy

I see ISpup is basically built on top of quirky-120 k2.6.33.2.. didn't lupu work? Can you tell me what xorg driver is used in ISpup?

We do have the ATI driver 11.7 but I see they released 11.8 on the same day Slacko Beta 1 was released. I'll update soon, it's a huge driver though at 50M Shocked

(compressed, expands to 137 M, so need a big pupsave)

Cheers

01micko · Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 7037 Location: qld

mikesLr

I can't reproduce your jwm issue with mtpaint, it works for me, so best I can suggest is to PM plinej. He has been very active lately and he was the original coder of most of the jwm utilities. I'd approach it differently but I don't want to. I'm [very] far from the best coder around here anyway! Laughing

vanchutr · Joined: 05 Aug 2006 Posts: 419

Slacko beta 1 boot from USB-Flash (without hard disk).
(The other (new) puppy (puppies) can't. e.g midnightsun 003, snowpup 020, icepup 15, wary 513, dpup exprimo x 3).
Thank you, 01micko
(I can't boot up my computer with other puppies because there isn't a hard disk.)
Slacko beta 1 load sfs files faster than other puppies. I can connect to internet via my USB-3G modem (Huawei HPSA - E173Eu-1)
Load and run smoothly these apps : TeXlive 2010, Java u_26, Libre-Office, Lazarus - FreePascal -, KDE-K3b and Amarok. These apps were loaded with sfs_load.
Thank you again

jim3630 · Joined: 13 Feb 2011 Posts: 792 Location: Northern Nevada

raffy · Joined: 25 May 2005 Posts: 4639 Location: Manila

Micko, the new pups are able to boot successfully, but they hang soon after, that's why I suspected it's the APM that's causing it. But no joy with "apm=off".

Anyway, here are the Xorg files from ISpup (they have identical time, so I included all three).

01micko · Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 7037 Location: qld

raffy, It may be kernel modesetting upsetting your machine.

Does it have a CD drive? If so and you boot from CD try

rjbrewer · Joined: 22 Jan 2008 Posts: 4377 Location: merriam, kansas

Slacko doesn't have the i810 driver, which is best for some Pent.
M laptops with 855gm graphics.