slacko-5.6 Final - plus testing next

[mavrothal]

You will still need a script to tell which one to link to /usr/include/linux based on uname -r.

But the files are IN /usr/include/linux, built that way with make headers install. The only way yours would work is if I put the headers in a holding area then linked them, a bit ugly (oh, I forgot, we are FULL of ugly ).

In you build script put something like

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make INSTALL_HDR_PATH==$OUTPUT/usr/$KERNELVER headers_install

Then you link /usr/$KERNELVER/include/linux to /usr/include/linux
Is almost looking good

[Jades]

I'll also be updating, jre, libreoffice and skype sfs files

Can you do Open Office 4 as well please?

[simargl]

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[Jim1911]

What do people think about putting the kernel headers in the main sfs? They will add about 800k to the iso but it will mean 1 devx will be common to both flavours. That will save confusion.

Go for it, for your targeted hardware size isn't a factor.

[Karl Godt]

That is a good idea to put the headers into the main .sfs !

Otherwise it would be one devx.sfs containing both headers in /usr/include/linux-`uname -r` and the USER would need to manually symlink as needed .
Few lines in /etc/init.d/pup_kernel_headers could do such , too , but that would also add some bytes .

Michael : Don't listen to any Smeagols !

[Jim1911]

Hi Mick,

Installed nvidia_latest-325.45-3.4.52-4g.pet and nvidia_latest-325.45-3.10.5-PAE.pet on their respective distributions. Both worked flawlessly.

Cheers,
Jim

[zigbert]

Running 5.5.81 on it's fourth day - no issues !!!
Seems to be just another killer-OS from the Amadio-dude.


Sigmund

[simargl]

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[01micko]

LibreOffice-4.1
OpenOffice-4.0
Google_Earth-7.1

<-- sfs files

Look good to me, include mime for Puppy in the office suites. Should open most MS stuff by clicking, an exception is .pptx and .ppts

http://distro.ibiblio.org/puppylinux/pe ... -slacko14/ (US)

Plus up at mirrors
http://mirror.internode.on.net/pub/pupp ... -slacko14/ (AU)
http://ftp.nluug.nl/ftp/pub/os/Linux/distr/puppylinux/ (NL)

These are already in the updated sfs manager (Jades )
OpenOffice seems pretty nice since Apache took it over. These sfs are all xz compressed and should run in any recent 32 bit puppy or derivative.

[SFR]

Hi Mick

Spaces once more (it turned out to be an old bug, since 5.4), when I was trying to install a .txz package from a location with space in its path.
Easy fix as well, /usr/local/bin/pupzip, line 31:

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 [ $? -eq 100 ] && exec petget "$PARAMIN"   # SFR: double quotes

As you can see all I can find are some ancient, minor glitches.
5.6 βeta is really great, solid piece of work!
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However, I thought I would use screeny to take a screenshot of glxgears with the nouveau driver (some warnings do show up) and the screenshot looks like this below:-

When the graphics card is working xwd (the backend for screeny) doesn't do a great job, maybe we'll upgrade to SFR's capture app based on ffmpeg.

@Oscar - you may want to try if TAS would behave better, but during tests with 16bit color depth I got similar output when taking a screenshot of a window that was partially off screen. With 24bit depth all was fine though.
Anyway, worth a try...

@Mick - for me, personally, the advantage of ffmpeg over xwd is that under Compiz xwd won't take a screenshot of a window + its decorations (clicking on titlebar produces 0B sized file), but ffmpeg has no problems with this.
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@Zigbert - I just found your little Pmirror app to be very nice, but I have a questions about setting 'exception file'.
But first: here in Slacko it's version 0.6.1, so I upgraded to 0.6.2, but this one doesn't display some of messages and shows the following error:

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# pmirror 
/usr/local/pmirror/pmirror: line 41: eval_gettext: command not found

Diff shows lack of:

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. gettext.sh

at the beginning of the code, so I've added it and messages are back.

Anyway, in both versions I can only select a directory as 'exception file'.
Is it supposed to be this way?
In my understanding I should be able to select a file that contains a list of files (that are in target dir) to be ignored.
Or did I miss something?

Thanks &
Greetings!

[James C]

Slacko 5.5.80

[majorfoo]

full install of 5.5.81 on ext4 partition

Only minor problem I have encountered is with numlock

Unable to turn it off. Changed numlockx in /root/startup but still does not work

[01micko]

majorfoo

does it work from a terminal?

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# numlockx off

Works ok here, tested on a usb install, accidentally left it on when I shifted it to my eee, naturally was getting a garbled keyboard! So I flipped it to off in ~/Startup/numlockx and it worked fine.

[smokey01]

Micko, just had a look at your latest release, very nice. I couldn't break it.

Some observations:
The exit button in PPM is bigger than the other icons
A later version of Homebank is available 4.5, pls compile with ofx support if you include.
Viewnior 1.3 is available, you have 1.1
Transmission 2.60 is installed. I use 2.73 but I just noticed 2.82 is available.

Good job.

[01micko]

viewnior.. no, haven't got time.
homebank .. maybe, under consideration.
transmission .. no, 2.60 is the last in the gtk2 supported series, either need to add gtk3 or qt.

EDIT: Nope, sorry, passing on homebank too, got 2 deps, wouldn't compile without more deps, haven't the time for dependency hell ATM!

[Tman]

Attached is Viewnior 1.3 compiled in TintedSlacko 5.5, along with the buildpet scripts I created to compile it.

Shared-mime-info is needed as a compile-time dependency.

Mick,
if you haven't already, please take a look at buildpet (based on Iguleder's work). In the long run, it will save a lot of time for compiling apps.
Sc0ttman's created a front-end gui for it, which I wish to implement in future versions.

[01micko]

Tman, I was already uploading when you made your post. I will consider viewnior for final.

Thanks.

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RC is out

See main post.

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Minor update of the website. Got rid of the rotating image (relied on a google api) and now have a native css/js film strip, just for a bit of sizzle. (lighter on resources too )

http://slacko.01micko.com

[OscarTalks]

01micko and SFR,

Slacko 5.5.91 on my machine with the often-troublesome nvidia GeForce FX5200 card.

Nouveau driver. No missing menus or graphics

Take a Shot successfully took a shot of my screen.

Live CD with just pfix=ram gives higher FPS but there are some warnings.

Subsequent boot with pfix=ram nouveau.noaccel=1 gives lower FPS but without the warnings.

Nvidia driver bumps the FPS to around 1400 straight away.

[zigbert]

Just for the record
I have updated pBackup and pMirror 'as is' from Slacko-5.5.91


Thank you guys
Sigmund

[Billtoo]

Manual frugal install to the hard drive of a gateway deskop pc.

# report-video
VIDEO REPORT: Slacko Puppy, version 5.5.91
Chip description:
VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G84 [GeForce 8600 GT] (rev a1)
Multimedia video controller:
Internext Compression Inc iTVC16 (CX23416) MPEG-2 Encoder (rev 01)
Requested by /etc/X11/xorg.conf:
Depth (bits, or planes): 24
Modules requested to be loaded: dbe
Drivers requested to be loaded: nvidia
Probing Xorg startup log file (/var/log/Xorg.0.log):
Driver loaded (and currently in use): nvidia
Loaded modules: dbe dri dri2 extmod fb glx kbd mouse ramdac record shadow wfb
Actual rendering on monitor:
Resolution: 1440x900 pixels (373x231 millimeters)
Depth: 24 planes
# 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 = 60.417 FPS
300 frames in 5.0 seconds = 59.918 FPS
300 frames in 5.0 seconds = 59.918 FPS
#
It's working well so far.