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Posted: Sun 31 Mar 2013, 19:03
by greengeek
Are there any special considerations to installing the GZ iso? I just did my usual frugal, copying across the sfs, vmlinuz and initrd.gz but it "boots" into a very weird and unusable (but very pretty) kaleidoscope of cyan / white / speckly lines and smudges all over the screen. Had to use hard power off to clear.
This is a Toshiba TE2100 lappy with 2ghz and 512MB and with nvidia GeForce4 420 Go video card (which usually has no trouble running any puppy, including the previous THINslacko - although most of my puppies do not run any acceleration)
md5 checks out.
Will try on a couple of other machines as I really want to use thinSlacko as a base for remastering a special purpose puppy.
Posted: Sun 31 Mar 2013, 19:25
by 01micko
greengeek
try:
failing that:
Let us know
Posted: Sun 31 Mar 2013, 19:29
by Ted Dog
LOL posting this with the links browser, not as horrible as I recalled it to be. Just remember <Esc> for drop down menu
Broadcom wl driver
Posted: Sun 31 Mar 2013, 20:15
by peebee
Broadcom wl driver
for ThinSlacko 5.5.01 is available:
here
Re: Broadcom wl driver
Posted: Sun 31 Mar 2013, 20:28
by 01micko
peebee wrote:Broadcom wl driver
for ThinSlacko 5.5.01 is available:
here
Did the sfs load ok in pfix=ram? (I saw your failure in PHAT)
Thanks for the drivers!
Re: Broadcom wl driver
Posted: Sun 31 Mar 2013, 20:30
by peebee
01micko wrote:peebee wrote:Broadcom wl driver
for ThinSlacko 5.5.01 is available:
here
Did the sfs load ok in pfix=ram? (I saw your failure in PHAT)
Thanks for the drivers!
No problems on ThinSlacko......with or without the a-drive - I tested both.
Posted: Sun 31 Mar 2013, 23:12
by greengeek
01micko wrote:try:
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puppy pfix=ram nouveau,noaccel=1
puppy pfix=ram nouveau,modeset=0
Neither worked unfortunately...however, maybe I'm using the parameters in a different way to what you intended? I am simply appending each one to the kernel line of the menu.lst stanza:
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# Linux bootable partition config begins
title thinslackonewGZ frugal in sda1 dir thinslackonewGZ
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
kernel /thinslackonewGZ/vmlinuz pmedia=atahd psubdir=thinslackonewGZ pfix=ram nouveau,noaccel=1
initrd /thinslackonewGZ/initrd.gz
# Linux bootable partition config ends
(now that I think about it I have no savefile anyway...)
Maybe this would work differently when entering the code manually when booting Live from a CD?
I have another "identical" laptop which seems to work better than this one for some reason so will make some comparisons and post back if I have no joy. Thanks for the suggestions.
EDIT : Solution for my problem is here:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 021#706021
Posted: Mon 01 Apr 2013, 00:12
by Adagio
Heh, what fun using Links browser.
It has improved a bit since I last used it in another lifetime.
Using it now, it makes the appearance of the forum more bearable.
Re: ThinSlacko - March 2013
Posted: Mon 01 Apr 2013, 01:33
by Q5sys
01micko wrote:This is Slacko designed for slightly older kit. It should run fine on a PIII 600MHz with 256MB RAM, or even lower specs. Flies on fast kit.
Do you think it could run on my Libretto 50ct?
I can overclock it to 166mhz... but I havent yet.
Specs attached.
Posted: Mon 01 Apr 2013, 01:46
by starhawk
Q5sys, I've sent you a PM.
Re: ThinSlacko - March 2013
Posted: Mon 01 Apr 2013, 02:05
by 01micko
Q5sys wrote:01micko wrote:This is Slacko designed for slightly older kit. It should run fine on a PIII 600MHz with 256MB RAM, or even lower specs. Flies on fast kit.
Do you think it could run on my Libretto 50ct?
I can overclock it to 166mhz... but I havent yet.
Specs attached.
No, don't think so.
Posted: Tue 02 Apr 2013, 04:40
by James C
Still doing fine on my Athlon XP box.
Only real thing I've had to do was a bit of tweaking to get some smaller fonts.... otherwise smooth sailing.
Posted: Tue 02 Apr 2013, 20:11
by peebee
Hi Mick
There is a library: libstartup-notification-1.so
that is present in Slacko 5.5 and in PhatSlacko but isn't included in either sfs for ThinSlacko.....
It's not very big so if it could be included for consistency in the main ThinSlacko sfs in a future version that would be great.
Cheers
PeeBee
Posted: Tue 02 Apr 2013, 20:20
by 01micko
peebee wrote:Hi Mick
There is a library: libstartup-notification-1.so
that is present in Slacko 5.5 and in PhatSlacko but isn't included in either sfs for ThinSlacko.....
It's not very big so if it could be included for consistency in the main ThinSlacko sfs in a future version that would be great.
Cheers
PeeBee
Well the main sfs will rather shrink than grow
Maybe it can go to adrive.
Posted: Wed 03 Apr 2013, 15:58
by lemmy999
Hi Mick
Nice Pup. Installed nicely onto my EEEPC 1000HG. On the way out it created a savefile ( as you'd expect). On reboot I installed Chromium from PPM. Ran into the usual "running Chrome as root" issue. On exit it prompted me ( again) to create a savefile??. Definitely something not right.
On my next boot Chromium was totally missing!!
Any thoughts?
Posted: Thu 04 Apr 2013, 07:54
by 01micko
lemmy999 wrote:Nice Pup. Installed nicely onto my EEEPC 1000HG. On the way out it created a savefile ( as you'd expect). On reboot I installed Chromium from PPM. Ran into the usual "running Chrome as root" issue. On exit it prompted me ( again) to create a savefile??. Definitely something not right.
Looks like the savefile isn't being found at boot. How exactly did you install? Where is the save file in relation to the other files? (vmlinuz, initrd.gz, puppy_slacko_5.5.01.sfs)
Posted: Thu 04 Apr 2013, 12:58
by lemmy999
I installed using the Puppy Universal installer. The savefile resides on a different partition.
Guess that may answer my question- partition isn't mounted until after Puppy boots and therefore the savefile isn't going to be visible. I'll try making a savefile within the Puppy partition and see if it makes any difference.
Re: NM10
Posted: Thu 04 Apr 2013, 20:37
by 01micko
raffy wrote:On Intel NM10 laptop with 1024x600 screen, direct rendering works at 175 fps (glxgears). However, xorgwizard has to be commanded at first boot to get into X (same with PHATslacko).
Did not see VLC, so installed it via PPM/puppy-slacko14 together with ffmpeg. When playing video full-screen, load gets to as high as 85% CPU utilization (only 75% in PHATlacko).
Had to reboot 2x to use adrv (is this correct?).
Thanks, Micko.
Hi raffy,
First, adrive should load on first boot. It must be in the same location as the other puppy files (see example I offered lemmy999 above). Also, xorgwizard is probably to be expected for these machines. I tried to get them going to desktop but I think something is missing. I do not have access to one for tests. All feedback has been from JustGreg, and great his help was too.
Second, I have no idea why cpu usage for VLC is higher in Thin than PHAT, but I do know why it is high for your machine. It's to do with the lack of an accelerated video driver for your machine (see
tempestuous' explanantion, mention of lousy MPlayer performance). Also, the cpu is a bit of an underperformer for a newish device.
HTH
Posted: Mon 22 Apr 2013, 19:20
by pemasu
Some proprietary graphics drivers for ThinSlacko. Catalyst and Nvidia.
http://www.smokey01.com/pemasu/spup/
Mouse hover
Posted: Mon 29 Apr 2013, 15:34
by Smithy
Seems quite zippy this distro!
Any way of changing the icon when the mouse hovers over close boxes and the like? where does it live? Gbdfed, xcur2png, cursor.pcf all draw a blank.
It's the "glyph"(s) I would like to change.