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Posted: Fri 22 Feb 2013, 06:36
by ally
thanks micko

will report back tomorrow

:)

Posted: Fri 22 Feb 2013, 07:27
by James C
01micko wrote:firefox-19.0 is available in the updates manager
Appears to be working well....... :)

Posted: Fri 22 Feb 2013, 23:51
by 01micko
I just compiled the latest chromium-25.0.1364.97.

25 has just gone stable. It *should* run on i586 (Athlon-XP, pentium-2) and you will notice there are far less errors logged due to being compiled against true slackware dependencies. (as with the other chromium-24.xxxx that I compiled at ibiblio and mirrors). I'll upload it soon, but as usual, ibiblio is giving troubles. EDIT: uploaded, see below

See http://www.chromium.org/developers/calendar for the current status of chromium. A handy reference.

Download

http://distro.ibiblio.org/puppylinux/pe ... 86-s14.pet

checksum <-- 3b2f13e9b6376298a3433971da99d672 chromium-25.0.1364.97-i486-s14.pet

PET REUPLOADED with fixed start script

Posted: Sat 23 Feb 2013, 03:34
by James C
gcmartin wrote:Hi @James C
James C wrote:No wonder it's slower, using swap with just the browser open.........
This is an interesting comment. Having swap, you've done a good thing is protecting that your system wouldn't quickly lock as you increase system workload. But I am curious because of an observation I've made about 32bit PUPs I/O subsystem usage when running "pfix=RAM".

If you turn off SWAP, via

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swapoff /dev/...
could you notice any difference in behavior of the P3 PC? Just curious of what you might observe.

Thanks in advance.
I already knew what would happen but........ Slacko 5.4.0.3 frugal install with 256 mb ram and swap off.

Pretty obviously got much,much slower...... almost too slow to use.

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# free
             total         used         free       shared      buffers
Mem:        253280       245724         7556            0        17988
-/+ buffers:             227736        25544
Swap:            0            0            0
#
Just took about 30 seconds to open the terminal to run "free".

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# free
             total         used         free       shared      buffers
Mem:        253280       246544         6736            0        17812
-/+ buffers:             228732        24548
Swap:            0            0            0
#

Posted: Sat 23 Feb 2013, 03:47
by James C
Went ahead and posted the above because I'm expecting a freeze-up at any moment.

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# free
             total         used         free       shared      buffers
Mem:        253280       246916         6364            0        20576
-/+ buffers:             226340        26940
Swap:            0            0            0
#
Opened a video in another tab.....don't know if it's the low-ram issue but cannot play a Youtube video......repeated flash crashes.Going to turn swap back on and try the video again.

Posted: Sat 23 Feb 2013, 04:05
by James C
Swap back on...... much better.

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# free
             total         used         free       shared      buffers
Mem:        253280       248284         4996            0        22432
-/+ buffers:             225852        27428
Swap:      1020092        10064      1010028
#
Much quicker and videos play again. Swap on slow but usable and swapoff is basically useless.

Testing...... :lol:

Posted: Sat 23 Feb 2013, 04:43
by James C
01micko wrote:I just compiled the latest chromium-25.0.1364.97.
I get......

Posted: Sat 23 Feb 2013, 07:56
by 01micko
Sorry everyone! wrong start script for chromium!

This is it at /usr/bin/chrome.sh

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#!/bin/bash
# start script for chromium
USER_DATA_DIR=$HOME/.chromium_dir
[ -f $HOME/.chromium_data ] && . $HOME/.chromium_data
if [ "$UID" = 0 ];then
  exec /usr/lib/chromium/chrome --user-data-dir="$USER_DATA_DIR" "$OPTS" "$@"
  else
  exec /usr/lib/chromium/chrome "$@"
fi
If you want to add extra options, like --allow-outdated-plugins just add a line to it..

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OPTS="--allow-outdated-plugins"
and older flash will work. This is added to the file $HOME/.chromium_data which you need to create. (HOME=root most of the time). You can add multiple options to OPTS,

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OPTS="--allow-outdated-plugins --disk-cache-size=10000000"
which limits cache to 10M

Or you can add a different user-data dir with

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USER_DATA_DIR="/mnt/home/chromium"
I'll pet the script but the package is reuploading and I'll edit my post with new checksum soon.

Posted: Sun 24 Feb 2013, 14:31
by Jejy69
Hello !

I made KDE 4.10 sfs for Slacko 5.4/5.4.1. :)

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 431#687431

Have a nice day !

Posted: Sun 24 Feb 2013, 19:46
by peebee
01micko wrote:I just compiled the latest chromium-25.0.1364.97.
The new Chromiums (yours and 27 from JamesTheAwesomeDude) seem to be Chrome under the skin - see attached screenie.

slacky has uploaded google-chrome instead of updating Chromium...
http://slackware.org.uk/slacky/slackwar ... le-chrome/

I wonder what's happening?

Cheers
peebee

Posted: Mon 25 Feb 2013, 00:11
by 01micko
peebee,

I guess it just makes it easier for google... they call the shots. :roll:

Only difference really is pepperflash and dependency on gconf (which I hate incidentally.. did I ever mention that? :lol: ).

network_tray

Posted: Mon 25 Feb 2013, 01:11
by 01micko
This is for testing before I do the next build, (I finally have a little time to do one!)

network_tray 18k

It is a rewrite of rerwin's version for frisbee integration.

You lose the ability to change themes though, but the icon theme is close to jemimah's frisbee original, except they are in svg format.

Also, I fixed a bug with my IP address showing in the tooltip. It now shows correctly if you connect over ppp. (direct modem). The icon *should change to a mobile phone if you are connected by a mobile phone or 3g modem or to an old phone if connected by analog modem. This is taken care of by a script by rerwin. If connected by ethernet you get blinking screens or by wireless you get the antenna.

This is designed to be NooB friendly :)

Reports please.

Re: network_tray

Posted: Mon 25 Feb 2013, 09:48
by gcmartin
01micko wrote:This is for testing before .. This is designed to be NooB friendly ... Reports please.
no adverse behavior to report. Used a permanent system to download PET to USB.

Booted pristine, set hostname in FirstRUN, installed PET from USB, setup Frisbee. Nothing abnormal has occurred. All information is current and accurate. And IP is stable without issues.

Is this the kind of report you wanted?

Here to help

network_tray

Posted: Mon 25 Feb 2013, 12:30
by SFR
01micko wrote:Reports please.
Everything's fine here (eth0).

Greetings!

Posted: Mon 25 Feb 2013, 15:11
by bigpup
O1micko,

An example of a problem that seems to be common with USB flash drive installs. Not finding the Puppy main sfs file on bootup. I am seeing reports of this, more and more, dealing with Slacko and Precise.
As rcrsn51 points out.
This may be a timing issue. Other distros, like Fatdog, have a "waitusb" option to handle the problem.
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=84601

Re: network_tray

Posted: Mon 25 Feb 2013, 17:48
by peebee
01micko wrote:This is for testing before I do the next build, network_tray
Reports please.
Hi Mick

Works fine for me on wifi - icons are nice and familiar from Frisbee - and good quality from svg.

Tested on both Slacko 5.4.1beta and Precise 5.5beta with Rerwin's latest Frisbee - all good - it could lose the -s suffix as its not specific to Slacko?

Cheers
peebee

Re: network_tray

Posted: Tue 26 Feb 2013, 08:27
by James C
01micko wrote:This is for testing before I do the next build, (I finally have a little time to do one!)

network_tray 18k

Reports please.
Appears to be working fine here too.

Posted: Tue 26 Feb 2013, 09:11
by 01micko
Thanks guys for network_tray reports

There is a bug though if you have 2 wired network interfaces..particularly noticeable if you are connected to the second one, this would have been in the original by Barry (and inherited by rerwin's) anyway. Also, there is a bug if you have a ppp (any kind of modem) interface. though it's not as serious as the 2 eth interface bug. The fix should fix both. On the hunt.

Posted: Wed 27 Feb 2013, 13:31
by 01micko
**************

5.4.0.4 is out

See main post

**************

Slacko 5.4.1 Beta

Posted: Wed 27 Feb 2013, 14:13
by Billtoo
I did a manual frugal install to an 8gb SDHC card formatted ext4,
using grub4dos as the bootloader.
VIDEO REPORT: Slacko Puppy, version 5.4.0.4

Chip description:
VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon HD 3200 Graphics
Multimedia video controller: Conexant Systems, Inc. CX23885 PCI Video and
Audio Decoder (rev 04)
Requested by /etc/X11/xorg.conf:
Depth (bits, or planes): 24
Modules requested to be loaded: dbe
Drivers requested to be loaded: fglrx
Probing Xorg startup log file (/var/log/Xorg.0.log):
Driver loaded (and currently in use): fglrx
Loaded modules: amdxmm dbe ddc dri dri2 extmod fb fglrxdrm glesx glx kbd
mouse ramdac record vbe vgahw
Actual rendering on monitor:
Resolution: 1440x900 pixels (380x238 millimeters)
Depth: 24 planes
OpenGL
Vendor Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
Renderer ATI Radeon HD 3200 Graphics
Version 3.3.11672 Compatibility Profile Context
Direct Rendering Y_es
# glxgears
19584 frames in 5.0 seconds = 3916.722 FPS
19695 frames in 5.0 seconds = 3938.826 FPS
19734 frames in 5.0 seconds = 3946.735 FPS
Computer
Processor 4x AMD Phenom(tm) II X4 810 Processor
Memory 3374MB (198MB used)

I installed kdegames from ppm (the devx wasn't loaded) and the broken
pinboard bug is gone.
I loaded the devx and installed the proprietary ati driver and
compiled a few pets with no problems.
Looks good so far :)
I'll attach the htop and cmus pets that I made, also made pets of
fox-1.6.47-i686.pet and xfe-1.34-i686.pet but they are too large to attach.
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