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[JonT]

Frugal install of B4. Ran into some Brookdale effects, but found out why; the word “Brookdale" does not appear in my tmp/ddcprobe.txt (first few lines shown below) to trigger the fix. It does appear in the output of lspci, only place I know of.

[James C]

Quick first run of Slacko 4.99.6 B4 live pfix=ram on the Athlon XP box.Sound,internet and display (1440x900) all correct on initial boot.The new dialog displayed correctly here as well.
More testing and some installs later......it's time for lunch.

[Tasgarth]

aarf

[James C]

Went ahead an did a quick manual frugal install.New shutdown to create slackosave.3fs worked well and seems much quicker.

[aarf]

[Jades]

More testing on the Pentium D machine, this time with Slacko Beta 4.

Testing using a fresh Live CD install. The Netgear WN111v2 shows up as wlan0 after boots and the correct modules including ar9170usb are shown in the Kernel Modules list on HardInfo. Unfortunately I couldn't get it to connect to my router with either Network Wizard or pns-tool - both timing out in the 'Associate' phase.

I did, however, manage to get a working connection using Frisbee. In general wireless performance seems to be better than it was previously, at least for general web browsing. The connection drops out every now and again but Frisbee manages to reconnect. I can still hear interference but it isn't as bad as it was.

The driver pet for the DeskJet 720C that rcrsn51 brought to my attention also works on B4, and I managed to get it to print a test page from CUPS.

I can't comment on Pburn on that machine as it doesn't have a burner fitted but will try it on the K6 if I can get the damned machine running again.

Overall Slacko is making encouraging progress, but wireless performance on my setup still has some way to go to reach the standard set on Lupu.

[Brown Mouse]

Hi Micko

Had a few problems setting up a savefile.Maybe I wasn't patient enough and hit the button more that once and I got myself into a loop.i though it was going to create three savefiles at one stage.

I also have problems with the volume slider non functioning(which is unusual for me).It wasn't until someone pointed it out in B3 that I checked.I have messed about a bit in 'full window' to no avail.Sometimes the volume control turns purple.

I'll keep an eye on how the testing is going but unfortunately an emergency has arisen and I must get back to the UK.

Good luck with it all.

[DaveS]

Looks like gutenprint made it in after all.........

[Jades]

My Pentium D machine has an ATI Radeon X1650 Pro graphics card. Slickpet's drivers section recommends Xorg-High but clicking on the Xorg button generates a "Your package was not found in the database" error.

Can we have a newer version of Pidgin in Slickpet and PPM? It's up to v2.10.0 now, but we have to settle for 2.7.11. Also, if possible, can the new version be compiled i486 so I can use it on my K6?

[pemasu]

Back to test Slacko for awhile. I do like puppee-blue jwm theme. Really great.

Touchpad problem is the same for me. Movement slowness needed to slide min speed to the 10, before I got some reasonable movement. Then I changed the xorg.conf Option "MinSpeed" "0.9", couple of X restarts and now the Flsynclient min speed can be positioned to the middle.
Hypersensivity is bad, just like in Lucid Puppy with 2.6.33.2 kernel. My palm resting in touchpad, causes all the text to be selected and then it autocuts it to the bits heaven. Ctrl + Z is needed all the time when I write this.

For me, kernel update was the solution with Lucid Puppy. 2.6.39.4 behaves well by the way.

Pmusic 2.1.1 works great, sound ok, net connection ok. Flash autoloads as it should.

Xf-prot fails in downloading: error expanding fp-Linux-i686-ws.tar.gz. Aborting.
Does it expect savefile to be created first ? Or maybe the connection and download just failed, the message flickers too quick for me, like most things in my life.

Okay, enough Ctrl + z for me.
Touchpad + slacko + Acer Aspire 5820TG does not still like each other. I just wonder if kernel update would fix some of touchpad problems. I have seen that happen with my laptop.

[pemasu]

[pemasu]

Concerning fprot, I found this information from the Barrys blog: http://bkhome.org/blog/?viewDetailed=02493

[mavrothal]

Hi Mick,
beta 4 looks good both on my VM and the XOs

Tried guvcview-1.4.4 from the repo but did not work for me (as asking a ton of deps, some not in slacko and at the end failed). So I compiled 1.5.0 is slacko beta 4.
Get it from datafilehost if you want it. (md5sum: c1dd7ab49fb51deea6cf88bba9f7212e)
It also needs the portaudio, v4l-utils and jack, slackware packages to run in Slacko.
You may want to repackage it better as it has no dependencies in pet.spec

[Stripe]

hi all

just a couple of things

when you 1st open ppm the slacko button is highlighted but it shows the page from slackware 13.37 official, if you swap to another repo and then back to slacko it corrects itself until you open the ppm again.

with fylsclient when I reboot to see changes (as told to do) the synaptics slow right down when the first run client opens after restart, then after about 30 seconds (approx) it returns to normal. (I agree with pemasu the initial speed is too slow) does anyone find the initial speed OK?

i like the new first shutdown/filesave but it is very yellow
could the highlighted choices/buttons be lit blue to make them easier to see?

full and frugal install from the universal installer all OK

will keep testing

hope this helps

don

[DaveS]