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[Sailor Enceladus]

I tried a Slacko 6.9.9.9-uefi (32-bit) build with last night's woof-CE here: http://www.mediafire.com/folder/o2hpqpbhd2ohi/14.2

Changes:
- The adrv has Palemoon 27.6.2 (Walter Dnes SSE version) and Abi/Gnumeric
- patched jwm-2.3.2 with the first freezing fix mentioned here, it is working much better for me now so far
- chose Original Pup as the default theme, and gnome-mplayer as the default music player
- kernel has firmware-140621-cut, if you are missing any drivers/functionality there's instructions on how to swap kernels here

[norgo]

@Sailor Enceladus
thank you very much for sharing

regarding "intel freezing problem"
since I'm using uxa acceleration I had no kind of hanging or freezing any more

[Sailor Enceladus]

Using both the woof-CE 6.9.9.9 iso builds from me and norgo I have noticed that after a while my wifi connection will just die completely. My wifi is not great and goes on and off in other distros but here when I try to reconnect it will say "no wireless signals available" even though there's always 10-15 around here so it is like the entire wifi interface has been turned off or service terminated. Using slacko 14.0 with the same woof-CE has not caused this problem so I'm guessing it might have been an upgrade in slackware 14.2 dhcpcd that broke something but haven't scanned the logs yet just booted into something else.

edit: I used SNS to connect, might try Frisbee next and see if it acts the same or not later.

[HerrBert]

frugal install of norgos slacko-700-RC3_k4.4.70-PAE_2017-12-10.iso without savefile/folder:

[norgo]

[norgo]

Performed the tests today at my laptop with internal intel wifi card.

Result: No problems at all

This means, the problem is hardware depending and more and more my guess is a power management issue.

[Sailor Enceladus]

Thanks norgo. I haven't seen the issue at all today so glad to see it's not an everyday occurrence (knock on wood ).

[torm]

Hello.

slacko-6.9.9.9-uefi-k4.4-PAE-PM-LO.iso
frugal install with savefolder on HDD ( ext3, subfolder )

Some notes. Or the first impression of..
sry for not reading all 27 pages.
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Got the impression that the et_EE and am_ET locales are mixed/messed up some...
See the screenshot below, however XKB Configuration Manager can fix it runtime.
To have the correct layout:
Setup -> Mouse/keyboard wizard -> Input Wizard -> Advanced configuration -> (OK) -> XKB Configuration Manager
-> Layouts -> (Change) -> (OK) -> (Yes) -> (Exit)

Can be "long running" as I have not tested prior versions.
Not an issue with any other Puppy so far, that I know of..
Kinda wild quess about first-run.. ?

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JWM.
Is it possible to remove the "XY location pop-up" window?
From graphical UI? Maybe I did not find it..
One could edit the /root/.jwm/jwmrc-personal ( /root/.jwm is a hidden folder )
with Geany or Leafpad, and change lines:

<!-- The move mode (outline or opaque) -->
<MoveMode>opaque</MoveMode>
<!-- The resize mode (outline or opaque) -->
<ResizeMode>opaque</ResizeMode>

to look like this:

<!-- The move mode (outline or opaque) -->
<MoveMode coordinates="off" >opaque</MoveMode>
<!-- The resize mode (outline or opaque) -->
<ResizeMode coordinates="off" >opaque</ResizeMode>

..while that is not the most intuitive way.
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How to turn off the "bleep" at startup?
Only for Slacko, others don't bleep..
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I hope it helps.. someone.. maybe.
Good luck!

[gyro]

[gyro]

@norgo,

Given the success of "slacko-6.9.9.9-uefi_r5737.iso" I decided to give "slacko-700-RC3_k4.4.70-PAE_2017-12-10.iso" a go.
And it worked without a hitch, without me applying any "uxa acceleration" fix.

Yes I was using it as test of my "mk-overlay-iso" script, and hence replaced the "initrd.gz", but that should be irrelevant to the "intel freezing problem".

So thanks, it was such a pain doing first boots of slacko, with the "intel freezing problem".

gyro

[norgo]

Hello @gyro

thank you for testing and feedback
Downloaded today Sailor's ISO for test.
Sorry but I can't detect a difference to the former versions, unfortunately.

Freezing happened extrem rarely and I don't know how to force it.
After usage of uxa acceleration I've never seen such a behave.

To reproduce a hanging of an application window is quite easy, see intel_test_-vo_xv.mkv

As the file name indicate, this only happens under usage of XV video output driver.
After that I did this test once again using uxa acceleration.

Result: absolute impossible to get a hanging or freezing of application windows.

greetins

[torm]

Xenialpup64 7.5 appears to have the same locale bug..

No idea. Does it originate from Puppy, or comes from upstream?

[Dry Falls]

Downloaded slacko64-6.9.9.9-uefi-k4.9-FF-LO.iso yesterday. I have an intel box which has a history of freezing and/or dropping the keyboard and mouse without the boot kernel parameter, <intel_idle.max_cstate=1>. Booted slacko64 without the fdrive and no boot parameters other than 'ram' and everything worked without so much as a hiccup. I think it's the best slacko yet!

df

[norgo]

Wanted to build a snapshot of today's Slacko-700 testing branch, but unfortunately it fails.

./1download alerted that following packages couldn't downloaded: grub, installwatch and xdg_puppy_jwm

So I had a look into downloaded DISTRO_PET_REPOS.
The table of contents of "Packages-puppy-common-official" is empty and "PKG_DOCS_PET_REPOS" doesn't contain such an entry.

Unfortunately this commit deleted the table of contents of this REPO and a recent version doesn't become loaded because there is no address defined.
So the download of some PET's fails.

Because the pet_packages-common and pet_packages-noarch differ it would be useful to remain both DOC entries in PKG_DOCS_PET_REPOS.
I added "z|http://ftp.nluug.nl/ftp/pub/os/Linux/distr/puppylinux/Packages-puppy-common-official|z" to PKG_DOCS_PET_REPOS
and got the table of contents and PET's downloaded again.

The real problem comes now
./3builddistro-Z stopped working with following error message:

[Sailor Enceladus]

@norgo: Same behavior here when running ./1download. Packages-puppy-common-official seems to be empty.