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#1181 Post by belham2 »

Hi rg!

Saw that you did even more xfce-plugins yesterday (uploaded to your smokey01 pages). Gracias!! Also wanted to tell you, and I don't know how and/or why this has always been the case, but how in heck is frugal bootup so doggone quick with your x-slacko spins? I timed it, then tried a wide swath of all my other frugal pups & ddogs (~25 of 'em) I maintain & keep up, and it wasn't even close. Seriously, IT wasn't even close! With X-Slacko, it's freaking 19 secs from dead-cold off machine-turn on to staring at the fully loaded xfce desktop. Dam#! :shock: The closest competitor(s) are old slacko 5.7, precise 5.7 & racy spins, at ~35-40 secs. But all the other newer pups over the past few years? Sheeez..... My AMD Athlon II X2 2.80GHz, 8GB ram machines (and one i3 laptop 7 years old now) struggle anywhere from ~50 secs to 100+ secs with them all. Just amazing to me. 8) And best of all is using Slimjet as my default browser in X-Slacko, along with using Stemsee/Mike's "--silent-launch" hint feature in Startup, it is like "BAMMM" in your face with the whole setup, lol. I am literally cruising the net in 20 secs from a dead cold start with X-Slacko. This s#cker rocks! Can't believe more people on murga here, who I know must still be using X-Slacko, aren't posting saying "thank you" for updating to this latest spin. It's just us old dinosaurs (marv, mike and me).........the last of the herbivores :wink:

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#1182 Post by Marv »

Just did a clean frugal install of 4.3 on my NAS box as part of testing a new Yassm version. The old savefile had enough patches in it from days of yore so I lost track of what was what and just started over. No data on it anyway, it's just look'n'fee so the setup is pretty fast. At any rate, no problems of any sort on the wired BayTrail desktop running samba and supporting a couple of elderly all-in-one printer/scanners.
# inxi -F
System: Host: X-Slacko Kernel: 4.1.31 i686 (32 bit) Desktop: Xfce 4.12.4
Distro: Slacko Puppy 6.3.2
Machine: Device: desktop Mobo: ASRock model: Q1900M serial: M80-44015700338
UEFI [Legacy]: American Megatrends v: P1.20 date: 03/25/2014
CPU: Quad core Intel Celeron J1900 (-MCP-) cache: 1024 KB
clock speeds: max: 2415 MHz 1: 2257 MHz 2: 2315 MHz 3: 2148 MHz
4: 1526 MHz
Graphics: Card: Intel ValleyView Gen7
Display Server: X.org 1.14.3 drivers: intel (unloaded: fbdev,vesa)
tty size: 80x24 Advanced Data: N/A for root
Audio: Card Intel ValleyView High Definition Audio Controller
driver: snd_hda_intel
Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture v: k4.1.31
Network: Card: Realtek RTL8111/8168 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller
driver: r8169
IF: eth0 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full
mac: d0:50:99:20:e4:05
Drives: HDD Total Size: 160.0GB (14.9% used)
ID-1: /dev/sda model: INTEL_SSDSA2M160 size: 160.0GB
RAID: No RAID devices: /proc/mdstat, md_mod kernel module present
Sensors: None detected - is lm-sensors installed and configured?
Info: Processes: 132 Uptime: 11:17 Memory: 116.1/3493.5MB
Client: Shell (bash) inxi: 2.3.7

cheers,
Pups currently in kennel :D Older LxPupSc and X-slacko-4.4 for my users; LxPupSc, LxPupSc64 and upupEF for me. All good pups indeed, and all running savefiles for look'n'feel only. Browsers, etc. solely from SFS.

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#1183 Post by rg66 »

Thanks for the feedback Marv. I've found a few small bugs so I have decided to do one more 4.xx release and then I'll start playing with Slacko-6.9.9.9
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Simple scan

#1184 Post by Rodney Byne »

Hi to all,

Simple scan in PPM only downloads the sensor files
and has no Menu entry.
Entering whereis simple-scan to Terminal yields no output.

Is there available a full frontend gui for this program.
Thsnks

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#1185 Post by rg66 »

I just installed from ppm and it downloaded lm_sensors-3.3.4-i486-1.txz, net-snmp-5.7.2-i486-2.txz and simple-scan-2.32.0.2-i486-1gv.txz. Menu entry is in Graphic and the gui opens.
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#1186 Post by rg66 »

X-Slacko-4.4 is available for download

This will be the last release of the 4.x series

Download ISO and md5
http://smokey01.com/rg66/X-slacko/iso/

Download delta and md5
http://smokey01.com/rg66/X-slacko/iso/delta/

Changelog
http://smokey01.com/rg66/X-slacko/change_log.txt
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#1187 Post by belham2 »

rg66 wrote:X-Slacko-4.4 is available for download

This will be the last release of the 4.x series

Download ISO and md5
http://smokey01.com/rg66/X-slacko/iso/

Download delta and md5
http://smokey01.com/rg66/X-slacko/iso/delta/

Changelog
http://smokey01.com/rg66/X-slacko/change_log.txt

Hi rg66,

Thanks for 4.4! Had a question about the md5 sum for it. Maybe this pic from smokey's site shows it best:
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#1188 Post by rg66 »

Thanks belham2, md5 is right but just didn't change the version number! :oops:
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#1189 Post by Marv »

Updated the 4.3 frugal Grub4Dos install in my Fujitsu S761 i5 based laptop using the 4.3 to 4.4 delta. Delta md5sum correct, nice normal boot, sound, video, wifi, all good. I do use the 4.1.31 kernel across the board on the X-Slackos as my Bay Trails need that for USB support. Since my Pentium M fleet retired I'm non-PAE/PAE/32b/64b agnostic, at least so far as hardware is concerned. Running Slimjet Version 15.1.2.0 from SFS and PWF 4.1 as usual.

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#1190 Post by rg66 »

Xfce-4.12.x running on slacko-6.9.9.9
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#1191 Post by rg66 »

Just an update, I've made 2 slacko iso's from woof-ce testing branch and have Xfce running on both 32 and 64 bit.
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#1192 Post by mistfire »

@rg66 I noticed that the files in /lib/keymaps in X-Slacko 4.4 and base.xml together with xorg.xml in /etc/X11/xkb/rules is missing. Luckily I fixed that on my pup

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#1193 Post by rg66 »

mistfire wrote:@rg66 I noticed that the files in /lib/keymaps in X-Slacko 4.4 and base.xml together with xorg.xml in /etc/X11/xkb/rules is missing. Luckily I fixed that on my pup
Those are missing on slacko-6.3.2 as well as tahr, precise and carolina. They are present on slacko-6.9.9.9 and for once, the xfce keyboard panel plugin works.
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#1194 Post by Sage »

Sorry - wrong version - intended for 'slim', - moved.
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#1195 Post by mistfire »

@Sage it looks like you tried the latest X-Slacko Slim.

Did you try the initrd-fallback mode? It was only a pristine initrd from X-Slacko compressed in xz.

By the way did you boot it on BIOS or UEFI?

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#1196 Post by kiramm »

only 2.3.2 iso boots in my dvd slot others not
i tried min 10 times....and also different days
cdburnerxp...iso burn with other laptop
goo sleep .... getting tiered all time :bootmgr missing or now after some testdisk (rescuepup2.5 greattttttest of all internettools THANNKKK UIUUU) action windows refix starts
i naturaly with f2 chang booting to dvd slot from hd everytime
but with lick they all worked ....


now i cant use lick because bootmgr broken

so i need with dvd


also xenial xfce not booting xenial 64 but boots works im slot
also slacko 64 dvd iso im slot works and takes also old slacko save 64 from
sda3 bbbest


u all just use as usb ?

i have no usb:(

or i have different dvd player in laptop than other world?
how to do it with dvd in my case ??

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#1197 Post by rg66 »

If anyone is interested, I've got save session working. There's a check box added to the shutdown gui, pet is attached below.
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#1198 Post by mistfire »

@rg66 you may look at my changes and fixes on X-Slacko here https://drive.google.com/open?id=1c_BNW ... 363PxRi69H

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