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[01micko]

Slacko

FINAL is out!


Change log is adjusted

OLD STUFF BELOW is not the final release but old RC2. SEE "FINAL is out" link above

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Q. Why are there release notes?

A. To read and check if there is a known issue


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k3.2.33 [opera, NO PAE] 155M , k3.4.17 [opera PAE] 156M , k3.2.33 [firefox NO PAE] 161M

Download all versions including devx

for PAE you need the right kernel_headers @ the repo.
Kernel Sources sfs files are in the SFS Manager. Be aware you can
switch repo in sfs manager from the "File" menu. Click the "Help" for more.

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If you have video blackscreen at boot try:

pfix=ram i915.modeset=0
pfix=ram radeon.modeset=0
pfix=ram nouveau.modeset=0

depending on your card of course.

NB:
i915 is for intel
radeon is for radeon
nouveau is for nvidia

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Changes

[01micko]

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qt and vlc are compiled

QT and UMPLAYER and VLC available from respective posts

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Tired of useless glxgears?.. Sick of looking at meaningless spinning gears?

Well.. now you can look at a nice horsey, a crate and a blue cat spinning around to test your FPS.

It's almost 1M in size but it at least looks like it produces meaningful benchmarking data.

Website <-- http://glmark.sourceforge.net/ (you can get source there, needs mesa and SDL headers to compile, both in slacko devx)

I made a wrapper script which auto detects screensize. Parameters are 1 for fullscreen, 0 for windowed h|help for help (er not much!)
EDIT: I changed the windowed mode to 400x400, better, it is now the default too.
EDIT2:fixed silly 0/1 bug, added verbose screen/window size

Runs with glmark.sh. Takes a minute or 2 but you can kill it with ESC if you get sick of it.

The binary is in /usr/local/glmark/, you can run it directly and specify window size (not tested).

[James C]

Live pfix=ram.Boots directly to the correct desktop with working sound and internet on the trusty Athlon XP box.And SeaMonkey obviously works too.
I'll do a quick frugal install for further testing.....

[James C]

Nathan's Wallpaper Setter showed no wallpapers,hence a blank desktop. Got things pointed in the right direction and it's now working.

GetFlash downloaded correctly but gave an error message that "flash didn't download"....... pet was in /tmp though and installed correctly after clicking it.

Installer worked for a frugal install too, That's the stuff that jumps out at me at the moment.

[Sage]

[James C]

More testing stuff................. PupRadio not working which is probably related to MPlayer not playing anything either. However,PMusic plays ogg and mp3's fine.

[01micko]

James. thanks for reports.

Mplayer is a problem, I can't get it to compile small, older versions that do compile small don't compile against the current libs, so we have either big mplayer or xine with less video support. Dilemma!

Anyway, here is the original Mplayer version 1.1 as small as I could get it .. 5.3M pet http://www.smokey01.com/01micko/pet_packages-spup/MPlayer-1.1-i686.pet. It works on older hardware but I don't know about older Athlon. I may have to tune the configure options if it doesn't work for you.

Also, I think I fixed the wallpaper setter, see the attachment.


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When I saw gimp-2.8 in the Slackware repo I could not resist ...

http://www.smokey01.com/01micko/sfs_xz/gimp-2.8.0s.sfs

md5<-- 7da25edcad85c5eff7d9c5c63f479f53

[Billtoo]

I did a manual frugal install to the hard drive.
I added and updated the slackware and salix repos to ppm.
I installed mesa 8.0.4 from ppm.
I installed devx+kernelsourcesfs+NVIDIA-Linux-x86-304.22.run

Computer
Processor 4x Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz
Memory 3374MB (253MB used)
Operating System Unknown distribution
User Name root (root)
Date/Time Tue 07 Aug 2012 08:15:56 AM EDT
Display
Resolution 1280x1024 pixels
OpenGL Renderer GeForce 8600 GT/PCIe/SSE2
X11 Vendor The X.Org Foundation
Version
Kernel Linux 3.2.26-4g (i686)
Compiled #1 SMP Mon Aug 6 11:02:28 EST 2012
C Library GNU C Library version 2.15 (stable)
Default C Compiler GNU C Compiler version 4.7.1 (GCC)
Distribution Unknown distribution

OpenGL
Vendor NVIDIA Corporation
Renderer GeForce 8600 GT/PCIe/SSE2
Version 3.3.0 NVIDIA 304.22
Direct Rendering Yes

# glxgears
Running synchronized to the vertical refresh. The framerate should be
approximately the same as the monitor refresh rate.
303 frames in 5.0 seconds = 60.519 FPS
301 frames in 5.0 seconds = 60.020 FPS
301 frames in 5.0 seconds = 60.020 FPS
#

I tried to start nexuiz but get the same result as in recent slacko releases, it won't run, it runs fine in other versions of puppy.
I'll get a screenshot if possible and post it later.

That's it so far.

[playdayz]

[Lobster]

had to use vesa (I have a radeon card) so as expected there . . .
UK £ seems to be OK so that is good
editor seems to be on overtype mode had to set to insert . . .
only got sound on gnome player . . .
mplayer only sound working on AVI files
downloaded VLC from PPM - codec not available when trying to play AVI from command line (did not appear on men)

[Billtoo]

I installed kdegames from ppm which also included qt482, kdegames
needed one extra lib (libdbusmenu-qt-0.9.2) which I found elsewhere in
ppm.
Since qt482 was installed I compiled umplayer-0.97 and it works fine,
I had also compiled mplayer 1.1 earlier.

Kdegames,umplayer,smplayer,vlc-2.0.3, are all working well in this
alpha release

[Billtoo]

Here are some geany pets that I made a few days ago in Fatslacko or
Slacko-533, I forget which, they are working okay for me in the new alpha.

[01micko]

Hi Billtoo

Thanks for testing and compiling stuff.

Actually, I have patched geany so the the search box appears even when geany is windowed, a handy feature that ttuuxxx came up with in the old version.

http://www.smokey01.com/01micko/pet_packages-spup/geany-1.22-i486.pet

A bit smaller too, as I always remove the icon cache, it stuffs things up (potentially)

Attached is the patch.

Extract geany and the dir where you extracted run this:

[Billtoo]

I did a manual frugal install to the hard drive.
I installed mesa 8.0.4 from ppm
I installed devx,kernelsourcesfs,amd-driver-installer-12-6-x86.x86_64.run

# report-video
fglrx
Slacko Puppy, version 5.3.5 on Tue 7 Aug 2012

Chip description:
0.0 VGA compatible controller
ATI Technologies Inc Redwood PRO [Radeon HD 5500 Series]
oem: ATI ATOMBIOS
product: REDWOOD 01.00

X Server: Xorg
Driver used: fglrx

X.Org version: 1.12.3
dimensions: 1440x900 pixels (380x238 millimeters)
depth of root window: 24 planes

...the above also recorded in /tmp/root/ as report-video,
and archived with xorg.conf and Xorg.0.log as report-video-full.gz
# glxgears
34084 frames in 5.0 seconds = 6816.687 FPS
34078 frames in 5.0 seconds = 6815.549 FPS
34197 frames in 5.0 seconds = 6839.388 FPS
#

I tried loading nexuiz and get the same result with the ati
driver as I do with the nvidia driver so it must be something else
causing the problem.
I use ext4 when I format my hard drive,also use ext4 when I format a
flash drive.
I save my slacko savefile as ext4 as well, but I do this on all puppy
installs and have no problems.
Do you think this could be causing the problem? I just guessing, the
screen capture shows the directory that nexuiz was launched from and
you can see nexuiz underneath it, the music is playing too, it seems
that there is a problem switching screen modes or something.

[01micko]

Billtoo,

I just tried nexuiz with nvidia and just clicking the related linux.glx script failed to show an image, but if I ran the script thus sh nexuiz-linux-glx.sh it seems to work fine. Maybe it will out put some debug info, or perhaps there's a debug switch for that script?

I'll try my radeon later, I have to switch cards and do a clean install for that.

I set it to toggle fullscreen.