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Volhout · Joined: 28 Dec 2008 Posts: 244

01micko,

What version should I try for my netbook (Atom N270) ??
I am very happy with 5.3.3 since everything works flawless, but I do like Opera very much. That is the prime reason I am thinking about 5.4.

Thanks,

Volhout

Jades · Posted: Wed 07 Nov 2012, 08:52 Post subject:

Jades · Posted: Wed 07 Nov 2012, 09:39 Post subject:

I've found that I can't create save files on my NTFS-formatted hard drive again, using 5.3.7.1 from a pfix=ram boot from CD. Symptoms are the same as I reported with 5.3.6.0. This is a major problem. I can create saves on FAT32 partitions, however.

zigbert · Joined: 29 Mar 2006 Posts: 5295 Location: Valåmoen, Norway

Let't focus on the negative things.... Damn it, I don't like it .... but I expect so much of your iso.
I take it for granted that everything work out of the box, that I can install gimp 2.8.2, wine, inkscape..... Yes I can, but there are some minor things that I struggled with during my test.
Thank you Mick for this one - Promising!

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shinobar mentioned he failed to burn a video-DVD with pBurn in Precise Puppy, so I would check that out here.
Pburn is not the latest, and I recommend to update. But let me first release 3.7.7 since I found a label error.
Else of that, making a video-DVD went just fine. - even the version of dvdauthor is the same as in Precise.

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As in Slacko 5.3.3 I don't get any contact with my keybaord to control the Grub menu. My workaround is to edit the menu.lst file before I reboot. I have a usb wireless HP keyboard.
There are also some strange issues with the mouse living its own life (like Sage explained). My workaround is to run pupx to reset things. Then it works ok for a undefined time. Also mouse is wireless (logitech). I guess this could as well be hardware related, so I will buy wired tools next time I'm in town. Just want to mention because it acts similar to what Sage described.

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How I got sound
- I have 2 soundcards. The internal is disabled in bios, but is still detected by Puppy. So by default card:0 is chosen which gives no sound.
- I run the Alsa wizard for multiple cards and choose my 'real' card:1.
- Reboot as informed in the wizard.
- Still no sound. - Test in pMusic and Gmplayer, and also set specific card in the pMusic preferences. - No go.
- check /etc/asound.conf and /etc/asound.state - both seem correctly to have set up my card:1
- Since Retvol main slider didn't react on anything and full window was empty, I fired up alsamixer which showed me sliders that I could adjust. But no music to hear.
- I went to Retvol config and found under hardware-tab a setting for soundcard. OK, so this one points to hw:0. I changed it to hw:1 and then..... YESS

But how could retvol override everything else?

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I have a recent Amd radeon card. Slacko 5.4 got me straight to desktop at first run. This part is better than I thought, but as expected, it could not give me full HD resolution. Slacko 5.3.3 had slickpet that guided me through the installation of ATI catalyst pack. What do you expect me to now? I am both a newbie and an idiot.

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I can't connect to internet.
The logfile shows that we are closer than in beta3, but this is a bit out of my department, so I better just ship the log.

ETP · Joined: 19 Oct 2010 Posts: 331 Location: UK

01micko

A couple of issues, probably both woof related, but I assume that you have the ear of BK. Smile

1. The following error still appears in a number of pups (including 5371). Given that ehci_hcd seems to now be built into the kernel (it is not available to load) why has the call to load it in sysinit not been removed?

Sage · Joined: 04 Oct 2005 Posts: 4638 Location: GB

OscarTalks · Joined: 05 Feb 2012 Posts: 354 Location: London, England

On 2 different desktops when I create a save-file and reboot my little housey icon in the top left corner is displaced inwards and downwards a bit.

Trying to compile Linphone 3.5.2 with video enabled gives me an error in the make sequence, something connected with libavcodec reports as deprecated I think but I am only a novice with such things. (Worked OK in Slacko 5.3.3).

liro · Joined: 28 Jul 2012 Posts: 103

Newbie question: I've been using Slacko 5.3.3 for the last few months and decided to give the latest Slacko 5.4 beta a try out today. Everything worked fine, but I have one little tiny niggle: How do I get the menu items to be collapsed like in Slacko 5.3.3? It does look neater with 3 different sections for "Utilities", etc, but I prefer to have them all in one list. Where can I find the option to do this? Thanks.

Billtoo · Joined: 07 Apr 2009 Posts: 1508 Location: Ontario Canada

I've been experimenting, I did a full install of the beta 4 PAE
version on an intel i5 processor and it ran well but seemed to run a
little hot.
I deleted that install and did a full install of beta 4 non PAE, it runs
about 8-10 degrees celcius cooler.
The beta 4 PAE full install on my single core amd emachines D620 runs
beautifully.
The beta 4 non PAE full install on my dual core i5 runs beautifully as
well.

mavrothal · Joined: 24 Aug 2009 Posts: 1062

Hi Mick,
I finally got 5.3.71 running on the XOs and a couple of things are stricking.

It feels considerable more sluggish than precise. Confused

Looks like that gtkdialog 0.8.2 is to be blamed for that as some "time exec" commands show that it needs twice the time that gtkdialog 0.8.0 needs in precise. Looks certainly nicer but 22 seconds to open ppm is rather a lot.
But even C apps like Abiword, gnome-mplayer or gnumeric take ~20% longer. In contrast console apps (ie mplayer) are the same or faster
Any guesses there?
In addition with just htop running, load average is at least twice as high in Slacko vs Precise.
Granted, in a "normal" machine all these go unnoticed, but they do tell something about potential issues.

Finally the sfs (with all extras-to-XOs removed) is 15MB (gzip compressed) bigger than precise. I do not think that firefox adds that much over seamonkey. Any idea where the extra size might come from?

BTW, is time to apply your JWM patch. Unless if you wait for Joe and the upcoming Christmas season Laughing

pemasu · Joined: 08 Jul 2009 Posts: 5175 Location: Finland

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

MinHundHettePerro · Joined: 05 Feb 2009 Posts: 833 Location: SE

Hiya!

Made multiple fresh save-files with slacko-5.3.7.1-4g, ten or so of them (yeah, I wanted a clean environvemnt to build something that didn't want to build properly), and
first-run ok
shutdown and make save-file ok
bootmanager, load devx
reboot not ok - Black desktop, jwm taskbar; menu, the three launch-icons, four DT-squares -ok, black void where the clock's supposed to show - and a complete hang, requiring a hard reboot Shocked

(very similar to what Sage reported).

Upon reboot (after installation of devx) homey-icon jumps diagonally inwards a little bit (like OscarTalks reported).

Subsequent reboots - seems to work.

The program I tried to build was gtk-youtube-viewer (a brilliant perl mess) and after building it, mplayer didn't show other than a blue, or sometimes black, screen, though, sound was working correctly.

Did like pemasu, copied /usr/lib/gconv/gconv-modules.cache from precise .iso - and mplayer worked (as well as gtk-youtube-viewer).

The experimentalist in me got the better of me, so I deleted /usr/lib/gconv/gconv-modules.cache and tried again, sometimes mplayer worked, sometimes not ...

copied /usr/lib/gconv/gconv-modules.cache in again - sometimes mplayer worked, sometimes not ...

Inconsistency!!!
Anyway, ..........

Hope it helps in some way Smile

Cheers

/ MHHP