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01micko · Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 7017 Location: qld

Hi Jim..

Funny, I was just testing ntfs partitions and no problems here. Have you done a chkdsk lately?

Check your PM on another matter Wink

(and sorry, in the message it should have said "clucene")

zekebaby · Joined: 17 Nov 2010 Posts: 45

Hi folks,

Tried the latest .9 beta on the Dell C610 with Intel 8x0 sound. Clean manual frugal install. I heard the 2 barks on initial boot, but sound is gone on all subsequent reboots after a savefile is created. No errors, and the sound icon is present in the tray at 75%.

Also, strange (and unrelated) is that it took 2 full minutes between the time I clicked on Administrator on the yellow save config dialog till I got the "probing partitions" popup followed by the next dialog.

I'll test the latest beta on the Dell D430 and Panasonic Toughbook CF-T2 later

OscarTalks · Joined: 05 Feb 2012 Posts: 324 Location: London, England

Anyone else tried downloading the older Flash Player from PPM?
Doesn't seem to be working for me.

Sage · Joined: 04 Oct 2005 Posts: 4622 Location: GB

Excellent, as usual, thanks!
Would be nice if it could detect native 1440x900, though. Both DaveS and I have had irritations over that. Perhaps modern NTSC monitor/TVs don't use that format, yet? Surely, they all come from the same source?! Might be a circuitry difference, ie apart from the bleeding obvious one?

OscarTalks · Joined: 05 Feb 2012 Posts: 324 Location: London, England

Hello Sage,

I know the newer Flash Player is available from the menu, it's just that I am testing Slacko on a couple of machines including this one which is 10 years old and not the most powerful. Thought I would try the older Flash. The pop-up window even advises as such so if the links in PPM are not working I thought I should mention it. Might be something I am doing wrong though.

I have Lupu running on another 8 year old machine and that has been giving me occasional browser crashes when the more recent Flash is running hard in the page (eg. a media player and a chat window at the same time). SeaMonkey seems a bit more robust than Firefox under those conditions incidentally.

Sage · Joined: 04 Oct 2005 Posts: 4622 Location: GB

Jim1911 · Joined: 19 May 2008 Posts: 2353 Location: Texas, USA

jim3630 · Joined: 13 Feb 2011 Posts: 793 Location: Northern Nevada

533rc installed pfix=ram ext4 hdd on a dual p6100 hd. wifi auto detected broadcom driver on wan0 and connection made without issue. installed mesa via ppm and glxgears very smooth even in expanded window. Flash auto downloaded and works without issue. slickpet updated and so far everything seems to work.

looks like another rock solid slacko. thanks for your hard work.

01micko · Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 7017 Location: qld

Hi all

zekebaby,

Tha fact that sound works on firstboot and no errors afterward means that sound is still available to the system but there needs to be a manual setting set right in alsamixer or retrovol, it will be something like "front" or "rear" with the volume down or unchecked. Right click the retrovol icon and try some of the various settings and visit the retrovol thread for clues. I'm sure you'll get it to work, it's difficult to get 100% working sound with general settings.

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Jim1911

Pupsaveconfig is available from Slickpet (I just fixed it, upload failed before Embarassed

). If you have problems with ext4 in Barry's version use it and report if there are still problems. I tested on old and new gear with ext4 saves, even encrypted and had no issues. The reason a save fails is a failed mount of the save. It should be covered in /etc/rc.d/rc.shutdown. I also tested inside of X and outside (the old method). Both worked.

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OscarTalks and Sage

My booboo with flash player in PPM. If you are feeling adventurous, delete the line in /root/.packages/Packages-puppy-slacko-official related to flash-player-10.2. Then run this in console.

Jim1911 · Joined: 19 May 2008 Posts: 2353 Location: Texas, USA

Hi Mick,

I know it's late for a feature request but SFR posted the following code here which I have been using with a 120 second time interval in all pups with Nathan's wallpaper setter. I really like it:

Jim1911 · Joined: 19 May 2008 Posts: 2353 Location: Texas, USA

Frugal installation on an ext4 partition on my laptop with a wifi internet connection. Everything appears to be working properly except that my wifi DefaultPrinter HP_Officejet_6500_E709n is not recognized. Ideas?

Thanks,
Jim

James C · Joined: 26 Mar 2009 Posts: 4741 Location: Kentucky

Still booting off the cd,save file on a flash drive.No problems at all.
Been testing the Firefox 12 pet and it appears to be working fine. No problem here accessing the NTFS partitions on this box....been listening to music stored on the internal NTFS partitioned hdd. Windows 7 does automatically keep the hdd defragmented which may be a factor.
Anyway,overall looking really good.

playdayz · Joined: 25 Apr 2008 Posts: 3705

ETP · Joined: 19 Oct 2010 Posts: 306 Location: UK

01micko

Initial boot to desktop with working sound & wired ethernet. No problem mounting NTFS.
Pets installed & tested so far:

Everything now seems rock solid. Very well done.
Link to full size screenshot with conky & tickr running.
http://postimage.org/image/dlrravqx3/

shinobar · Joined: 28 May 2009 Posts: 2252 Location: Japan

Updated: pupsaveconfig-2.2.2.pet (2012-04-30)
Download from http://shino.pos.to/linux/puppy/.
# v2.2.2 29apr12: deeper layer subdirectory (zekebaby), remove legacy, rc.shutdown: avoid re-login VERBOSE message, wmpoweroff and wmreboot: startxface4 (Saluki compatible)
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=624085#624085

The pupsaveconfig-2.2.2 allows deeper layer subdirectory thanks to zekebaby, and contains improved code to avoid re-login at shutdown. See the detail at the Saluki topic.