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Posted: **Sat 05 May 2012, 23:56**

Hi when i close my laptop goes to sleep or hibernate but when i opened slowly came back to life, touchpad not funtioning or mouse.
this not happen in lucid 528. Iron browser seems inestable versus lucid one.

Posted: **Sun 06 May 2012, 05:30**

I like this Slacko, but (as with each), still get screen artefacts with Intel card. Someone suggested 2.17.0 intel driver fixes this, but I simply can't find it. Tried the Slackware current 2.19.0 driver - no good. Any clues?

Posted: **Sun 06 May 2012, 06:38**

01micko wrote:
nooby wrote:First boot without save file works very well but all the reboots
after creating savefile fails.

It start all over not being able to use the savefile.
Icons show _ in triangle How do I get them back?
No wall pater background is shown.

Do I use wrong code?

title Slacko 533 4g Puppy Linux
kernel (hd0,1)/slacko-533/vmlinuz PMEDIA=idehd PDEV1=sda2 psubdir=slacko-533
initrd (hd0,1)/slacko-533/initrd.gz

Should I have PMEDIA=satahd maybe

Seamonkey lack the scrollbar to the far right.
I tested with saving to ntfs partition and in a previous beta I did observe this. There is a reason. The ntfs-3g driver is very finicky and will mount ntfs READ ONLY if there is a single error or suspicion of an error. This is a safety mechanism to preserve data. Consequently, your newly created save file doesn not get mounted RW (read/write) at shutdown and your session is not saved.

You are warned to defragment the ntfs drive before saving in the shutdown save process. It should also carry a warning to run CHKDSK.EXE which checks the disk for errors.

If the problem persists there may be some damage to your drive.

There is a work around which I have explained before. I'll do it again.
When you boot and you get no desktop open a terminal and type.
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gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders --update-cache
restart X, reset your wallpaper. Things should save now but be aware that if there are errors on the ntfs drive it is possible the save file will not mount.

This begs the question.. "Why does it mount at all if it didn't save?"

The answer is that in the initial RAM disk there is a different, older version of ntfs-3g which is a bit more forgiving.This one mounts the save file. The version in the main filesystem is newer and more pedantic.

HTH

I think this is a WOOF bug : rc.shutdown should take care for that with checking for mount | grep DRIVE | grep -w 'ro' && echo "Failure to mount DRIVE read-write" >/dev/console && dialog --yesno "Do you want to return to desktop ? if $? = 0 && kill `pidoff poweroff`

Posted: **Sun 06 May 2012, 10:05**

Thanks 01micko and Thanks Karl Godt.

If the error comes back I have to do that.
Maybe rcrsn51 was right that it had to do
with reusing an old savefile. When I deleted both
and started all new it has survived now for some 4 boots.
Even an update to the PAE thing.

celeronM wrote:Hi when i close my laptop goes to sleep or hibernate but when i opened slowly came back to life, touchpad not funtioning or mouse.
this not happen in lucid 528. Iron browser seems inestable versus lucid one.

I am not only a total noob I am confused too but my poor memory
tells me that only Jemimah on her EEEPC and maybe Pemasu
on his derivatives can do such things so correct me if I am wrong
but neither Lupu not Slacko or Wary nor any official Puppy has
implemented sleep or similar tricks? Am I wrong?

But maybe the kernel itself has sleep and then one only have
to find out how to address that from within puppy???

Posted: **Sun 06 May 2012, 10:28**

Congrats Mick

Posted: **Sun 06 May 2012, 11:07**

ozsouth wrote:I like this Slacko, but (as with each), still get screen artefacts with Intel card. Someone suggested 2.17.0 intel driver fixes this, but I simply can't find it. Tried the Slackware current 2.19.0 driver - no good. Any clues?

ozsouth.. can you run lspci -nn | grep -i vga in a terminal please? I want to see if it's an intel Brookdale video chip, of which I have one that gave trouble in earlier Slacko but charlie6 and MHHP found a good work around. That work around was removed but may still apply.

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drblock2.. did that script to unload nouveau not work? Nouveau works fine for me but the same script is needed when installing the proprietary nvidia driver, which unfortunately wouldn't compile for me for your older chipset. In saying that, the nv driver should be fine for your card, just no hardware acceleration.

Posted: **Sun 06 May 2012, 11:32**

Thanks for the quick reply Mick. Xorg.0.log says 'Arrandale'. Screenshot of lspci attached.

Posted: **Sun 06 May 2012, 14:25**

The non-pae version would work very well on both of
my laptops, if xorg setup had the i810 driver needed
by 700m Inspiron with 852/855gm graphics.

Posted: **Sun 06 May 2012, 18:23**

zigbert wrote:Congrats Mick

Zigbert does your Widgets work for Slacko?
I have it on Lupu but did not see it in Slacko.

Posted: **Sun 06 May 2012, 18:36**

It does for me.

Posted: **Sun 06 May 2012, 19:31**

Thanks for all the hard graft on 533 Mick.

Been running flawlessly for more that 36 hours now.
Had a couple of minor problems setting up the Nvidia driver after removing Nouveu and rebooting.I got a 'unsupported' message until selecting 'Xorgwizard'and hitting a few buttons.No big deal!
Also,I didn't see the 'install Flashplayer' box (as in past Slacko's )when opening SeaMonkey Browser but no problems with 'GetFlash'.
Seems to boot faster than Lucid but possibly a tad slower when running on my hardware.

A job well done!!

Posted: **Sun 06 May 2012, 21:32**

Did full install on ext4 partition and only problem encountered is that cannot get cpu-bar to work in pwidgets

Great job on this

Posted: **Sun 06 May 2012, 21:34**

Hi Brown Mouse,

Yep, sometimes when unloading nouveau and rebooting the monitor can't handle the resolution, that's why I mention it in the 'help' for the drivers gui in Slickpet. It instructs you (if that occurs) to CTRL-ALT-BKSPCE and run xorgwizard.

That's the best I could come up with for now, but perhaps there is a better way, I am always looking into better ways for everything

Cheers

Posted: **Mon 07 May 2012, 01:52**

UPDATE: nvidia-glx-sdl-295.49-slacko.sfs (Update: 2012-05-07)
http://shino.pos.to/party/bridge.cgi?puppy/opt/pup5/
For Slacko 5.3.1/5.3.3 with kernel 2.6.37.6, 2.6.39.4, 3.1.10-slacko_4gA, or 3.1.10-slacko_paeA. . (contains glx, OpenGL and SDL)

Load, but do not run the nVidia Settings at this point of time, just exit the sfs_load, and run xorgwizard or reboot PC following the coming message.
Slacko 5.3.1 may need not reboot PC, go straight to the xorgwizard.
Slacko 5.3.3 may need to reboot PC with your session saved before the xorgwizard.

Posted: **Mon 07 May 2012, 08:14**

shinobar wrote:UPDATE: nvidia-glx-sdl-295.49-slacko.sfs (Update: 2012-05-07)
http://shino.pos.to/party/bridge.cgi?puppy/opt/pup5/
For Slacko 5.3.1/5.3.3 with kernel 2.6.37.6, 2.6.39.4, 3.1.10-slacko_4gA, or 3.1.10-slacko_paeA. . (contains glx, OpenGL and SDL)

Hi shinobar

Do you advise to run 01micko's

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nouveau_unload

before installing your sfs on slacko?

Many thanks
peebee

Posted: **Mon 07 May 2012, 08:41**

peebee wrote:Do you advise to run 01micko's nouveau_unload
before installing your sfs on slacko?

No. The code of 01micko's nouveau_unload is integrated and automated. No matter which X-server is currently running when you load the sfs. (You will be offered to reboot PC to remove nouveau if your X is nouveau.)

Posted: **Mon 07 May 2012, 13:50**

Hi,

I accidentally found when using SeaMonkey (with Slacko/jwm) that right clicking on the top or bottom vertical scroll bar arrow (if lit and active) took me to the top or bottom of my screen. Also, for example, using Slacko's Package Manager, the horizontal scroll bar arrows can also be right clicked.

This right click method does not work for me using Opera, though it might well work with Firefox (which I no longer use).

For any jwm users who may be interested in the possible convenience of extra vertical (and horizontal) right clickable arrows see http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 621#441621

My regards

Posted: **Mon 07 May 2012, 14:34**

New slacko does not recognize my via_rhine.

No internet at all.

(Edit) I was mistaken, after a reboot I'm back online.

Posted: **Mon 07 May 2012, 17:29**

slacko533 frugal

After upgrading Puppy Package Manager, searching for packages, and then quitting, it would not start.

I tried to start it in terminal and got this error:

cd /usr/local/petget

./pkg_chooser.sh

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** ERROR **: gtkdialog: Error in line 47, near token '</default>': syntax error

aborting...

Posted: **Mon 07 May 2012, 23:59**

broomdodger, confirmed thanks, a bug in the Ziggy ui, attached pet will fix, please report.

Patch removed, see http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 479#626479

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--- ui_Ziggy.orig	2012-04-25 15:35:02.000000000 +1000
+++ ui_Ziggy	2012-05-08 09:49:04.000000000 +1000
@@ -81,28 +81,28 @@
     <default>${DEF_CHK_EXE}</default>
     <label>EXE</label>
     <variable>CHK_EXE</variable>
-    <action>/tmp/filterpkgs.results.postfilter.sh EXE $CHK_EXE</action>
+    <action>/tmp/filterpkgs.results.postfilter.sh EXE \$CHK_EXE</action>
     <action>refresh:TREE1</action>
    </checkbox>
    <checkbox>
     <default>${DEF_CHK_DEV}</default>
     <label>DEV</label>
     <variable>CHK_DEV</variable>
-    <action>/tmp/filterpkgs.results.postfilter.sh DEV $CHK_DEV</action>
+    <action>/tmp/filterpkgs.results.postfilter.sh DEV \$CHK_DEV</action>
     <action>refresh:TREE1</action>
    </checkbox>
    <checkbox>
     <default>${DEF_CHK_DOC}</default>
     <label>DOC</label>
     <variable>CHK_DOC</variable>
-    <action>/tmp/filterpkgs.results.postfilter.sh DOC $CHK_DOC</action>
+    <action>/tmp/filterpkgs.results.postfilter.sh DOC \$CHK_DOC</action>
     <action>refresh:TREE1</action>
    </checkbox>
    <checkbox>
     <default>${DEF_CHK_NLS}</default>
     <label>NLS</label>
     <variable>CHK_NLS</variable>
-    <action>/tmp/filterpkgs.results.postfilter.sh NLS $CHK_NLS</action>
+    <action>/tmp/filterpkgs.results.postfilter.sh NLS \$CHK_NLS</action>
     <action>refresh:TREE1</action>
    </checkbox>
   </vbox>

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