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James C · Joined: 26 Mar 2009 Posts: 6067 Location: Kentucky

OscarTalks · Joined: 05 Feb 2012 Posts: 969 Location: London, England

Ray MK · Joined: 05 Feb 2008 Posts: 771 Location: UK

Slacko Puppy version 5.5, released Mar 2013

video-info-glx 1.5.1 Wed 6 Mar 2013 on Slacko Puppy 5.5 Linux 3.2.33-4g i686
2.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 1 Cool

oem: Intel(R)Ironlake Mobile Graphics Chipset Accelerated VGA BIOS
product: Intel(R)Ironlake Mobile Graphics Controller Hardware Version 0.0

X Server: Xorg Driver: intel
X.Org version: 1.12.3
dimensions: 1366x1024 pixels (361x270 millimeters)
depth of root window: 24 planes

direct rendering: Yes
server glx vendor string: SGI
server glx version string: 1.4
OpenGL vendor string: Tungsten Graphics, Inc
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI Intel(R) Ironlake Mobile x86/MMX/SSE2
OpenGL version string: 2.1 Mesa 8.0.4

Intel(R) Core(TM) i3 CPU M 370 @ 2.40GHz
Core 0: @933 1: @933 2: @933 3: @933 MHz

Manual frugal to ntfs hdd and booting from ext4 SDcard with grub4dos. Using an E732 laptop with a cracked screen and an old proview LCD monitor.
Everything seems to work extremely well, looks and feels really nice. What a luvly puppy - many thanks and very best regards - Ray

peebee · Posted: Wed 06 Mar 2013, 11:43 Post subject:

Hi Mick

Looking really good - have so far tested Frisbee, Samba, Chromium and LibreOffice and all work as expected.

I've had a tiny problem with Firefox - a Clear List button on the downloads screen that is greyed out and doesn't work - see screenie.

I also tried to upgrade my desktop's 5.4 frugal install savefile without success - I know you recommend a clean install because of the kmod module changes but the lack of an upgrade path when you've invested a lot of effort in the previous version (and probably forgotten some of the changes you've made) is a bit of problem which should maybe be highlighted in the release notes?

Cheers
peebee

drblock2 · Joined: 19 Jan 2009 Posts: 145

I downloaded and installed slacko 5.5 (k3.2.33). Looks beautiful and stable - and fast.

I did have some fun, however, with nvidia and VirtualBox.

I booted with nouveau.modeset=0, but both nouveau and vesa were loaded. report-video reported that nouveau was in charge xorg.conf voted for vesa. In any case, glxgears reported 35 fps with the FX5200 card.

The nvidia_legacy pet in the PPM was easily installed with dramatic increase in fps, but my Opera 12.14 standalone did not display correctly. The menu bar and a rectangle in the upper left corner of the screen showed squiggly lines instead of text. I have never seen this effect before with any number of puppies.

The simplest solution (although not the first tried) once again turned out to be the best. I located and installed the kernel sources and the OEM nvidia 173.14.36 run file. Problem solved. Opera once again performs.

vbox also presented a challenge. Once more, The Asterix came to the rescue, see: http://www.silverdollarsolutions.com/PuppyLinux/asterisk/VirtualBox/4.2.6/packages_guide.html.

The pet required is virtualbox-4.2.6-x86_src.install.pet, you will find it at the bottom of the page. Please note that it requires that the devx and kernel sources be installed before hand.

All in all - a really super pup!

duke93535 · Posted: Wed 06 Mar 2013, 20:47 Post subject: Repaired Menus, Back to Normal

I’ve got the menus back to working normally, by changing out the libgnome-menu.so.2.0.2 for the one out of Precise 5.4.3 in /usr/lib (the lib out of Precise is a little larger). Now the menus work correctly with the /etc/xdg/menus configuration files there.

In order to get xcompmgr in /usr/bin working, I had to drop back to an older one out of Slacko 5.3.3.

duke

majorfoo · Joined: 07 Mar 2011 Posts: 446 Location: Wish I knew

anikin · Joined: 10 May 2012 Posts: 612

Hi majorfoo,
My point was, that typing "alsamixer" in the terminal would give you *direct* access to sound settings, and perhaps you can "catch" it there.

OscarTalks · Joined: 05 Feb 2012 Posts: 969 Location: London, England

Anikin,

I was having a tinker with DeaDBeeF and can upload a compile from source if you want but as I said it won't have ffmpeg support. In Precise, Pemasu came up with a way of avoiding the libiconv dependency involving juggling the headers, but either the method doesn't work in Slacko or I have forgotten exactly how we did it at the time so I would have to include the lib in the package which is not a major problem.

As a suggestion you might like to take a look at the static build version which (I believe) is a way of having DeaDBeeF with full functionality in Slacko 5.5

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=82026

_SWE · Joined: 07 Mar 2013 Posts: 9

Hi!
And thank you for the work with Puppy!

I did try the 5.5 in this : http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/detail.page?LegacyDocID=MIGR-42771
My newest P4 computer. 2.4GHz. A very nice Bios and so on. Seems to be a good one. Look for MODEL : 8307-73G of IBM Net Vista 8307 in that list.

But. Error Fail etc.. , Crying or Very sad

it does boots up fine from CD. but can not start X grafic. Some 3-4 hours of probes and change things in xorgwizard ands so on, I have no idea what to do now..

PuppyPrecise5.4 did work yesterday before I erased that CD
So it is possible. At least before now, as I now also have tried with a reset of bios to defalult settings.. to get Slacko55 Xwin to start. But no luck.

In the bios it says "Brookdale-G" grafic chip.

At the homapage (Lenevo nowdays) it says "
Integrated Intel 845G (2D/3D graphics)

15-pin VGA output on planar
Intel Dynamic Video Memory Technology (DVMT)
AGP 4x equivalent speeds

For models without a separate video card, memory supports both system and video.
640 x 480, 16M colors (60, 72, 75, 85, 100, 120 Hz)
800 x 600, 16M colors (60, 72, 75, 85, 100, 120 Hz)
1024 x 768, 16M colors (60, 70, 75, 85, 100,120 Hz)
1152 x 864, 16M colors (60, 70, 75, 85,100 Hz)
1280 x 1024, 16M colors (60, 75, 85, 100 Hz)
1600 x 1200, 16M colors (60 Hz)
1920 x 1440, 64K colors (60, 75 Hz)
2048 x 1536, 64K colors (60Hz)"

rcrsn51 · Posted: Thu 07 Mar 2013, 11:56 Post subject:

These Brookdale graphics chips are a problem. When your CD boots up, there is an initial 5-second pause. Type

rjbrewer · Joined: 22 Jan 2008 Posts: 4422 Location: merriam, kansas

rjbrewer · Joined: 22 Jan 2008 Posts: 4422 Location: merriam, kansas

5.5-4g

Been looking for a replacement for the Win7 install on my
MSI Wind netbook for almost a year.

-Computer-
Processor : 2x Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU N270 @ 1.60GHz
Memory : 1542MB (126MB used)
Machine Type : Physical machine
Operating System : Slacko Puppy - 5.5
User Name : root (root)
Date/Time : Wed 06 Mar 2013 07:01:29 PM GMT-8
-Display-
Resolution : 1024x600 pixels
OpenGL Renderer : Mesa DRI Intel(R) 945GME x86/MMX/SSE2
X11 Vendor : The X.Org Foundation
-Audio Devices-
Audio Adapter : HDA-Intel - HDA Intel

Slacko 5.5 is great.

Did a full install to empty SATA drive using the new
"legacy_grub_ 2013 1.1."

http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=690112#690112

dejan555 · Joined: 30 Nov 2008 Posts: 2745 Location: Montenegro

Hey Mick, nice work on slacko.

Ethernet automatically working, video card recognized, although I use lower res then 1280x1024 automatically detected, I like that these new puppies come with dri built in although I guess my video card works better with some older pups but I don't have any lag for regular apps so far on 5.5.