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Lobster wrote:Thanks Mick.
No obvious worries.
This morning I was in Slacko 5.3.3 and somehow I was getting no code being displayed in wiki or geany just showing tiny boxes for text or on websites were code was meant to be displayed - Nada, rein, nothing!

Weird. Some sort of font thing.

I installed Chromium and was OK. I think it may have been something to do with an installation of many fonts pet.

Anyway back to 5.3.3.1
I notice some new Jwm styles, very nice, I would recommend some more dark on light, such as gradient bluish as these are the easiest to see for most people. Also the sun and clouds wallpaper would make a great default. Nice!

Does anyone have a later Transmission than 1.20
that supports magnets? The later Transmission in 5.3.3 slickpet did not work with magnets. To use Transmission libevent.lib (I think it is) is also needed.

Another thing in 5.3.3 Flash when downloaded tended to freeze about 3/4 into youtube vids. Does anyone know which Flash is working best?

Have updated wiki front page for now.

Screeny (under graphics) needs xwd is that being provided - there is a screensaver in Mtpaint - and I think you have a script that makes use of mtpaint screensaver?

I use 5.3.3 and the default tranmission is 1.20. I downloaded the 2.51 pet from http://distro.ibiblio.org/puppylinux/pe ... es-slacko/

The magnets work. I don't know if there is a better way, but I copy the link address, go to transmission, click file - open url, then past the link address, click open, and it downloads great.

use 5.3.3 and the default transmission is 1.20. I downloaded the 2.51 pet from http://distro.ibiblio.org/puppylinux/pe ... es-slacko/

This may be the one Mick is after. 1.20 is the default in 5.3.3.1
Many thanks

Update:
the 2.7MB Transmission is not the one. There is another optimised and shrunk and closer to the 171K of version 1.20 Transmission. Anyone know of this and have a copy? It was compiled by 'gulk' . . .

Same as slacko 5.3.3, there is an issue when boot up slacko with 'pfix=ram.nox' option and choose 'en_US' locale in the coming dialog does not create /usr/lib/locale/en_US.
Was the mismatching between the firstrun and the woof, but still remains with the firstrun-2.1.

Please remove the entry 'export LC_COLLATE=en_US', which is not in the Multilingual/Japanese editions and not in the recent woof anymore.

shinobar wrote:Please remove the entry 'export LC_COLLATE=en_US', which is not in the Multilingual/Japanese editions and not in the recent woof anymore.

Ok thanks.

It will be fixed in the next firstrun release, but ...
/usr/share/i18n/keymaps has 2 entries for the slovakian keyboards. But it should be:

menu->Setup->Remaster Puppy Live CD
Click on it.
Nothing happens.

Grub4dos Bootloader config
Also entry in menu->Setup.
Thats 3 places now.

PupRadio
Click on help button.
Gets Index of file:/// in the Seamonkey browser.

Pburn
Click on help.
Get this error message:
The file /usr/share/doc/pburn/en_US:english.html cannot be found. Please check the location and try again.

01micko wrote:- ui-ziggy, PPM (not working, ui-classic works ok)

The PPM of the most recent woof has an issue launched at the first time. The second time, it works normally.

FYI, there is petget-20120418. (but lacking the function of the multi repository search)
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=73829

1. Decided to try [for the 1st time ever] to make a Frugal install of a Puppy [Slacko-5.3.3.1-SCSI] to a Flash Drive [4GB].
[Used the icyos2 video HOWTO as a guide]
It was successful, so this new PC is the first on which I've ever been able to BIOS-boot USB->[Flash_Drive].
(a) Used Xfe to navigate to the folder holding the ISO file.
(b) Opened a terminal window in that folder, and tried to use the filemnt command to mount the [file system within the] ISO file.
That FAILED!
Got some warning I forget.
So next I tried the following, which succeeded...
(c) Right-clicked on the ISO file and chose to "Open with...", and navigated to the filemnt program.
(d) Copied all of the files to the [FAT32] partition on the Flash Drive.
Must it be formatted FAT32? [If using grub4dos?]
(e) Ran "Menu->System->grub4dos", and did the necessary. How easy this is! Makes all the difference!

2. My BIOS Setup [ASRock H61M-S mobo] has a less-than-easy method of specifying the boot sequence/priority.
And even though I saved the setting changes...
Seems like they spontaneously changed back, and had to be re-specified, after...
I booted with the Puppy Slacko Flash Drive...
Then [shut down, and] removed it...
And rebooted with the Slacko CD in the drive/drawer, so that was what booted, then...
Shut down, plugged in the Slacko Flash Drive, and switched on.
No bootable drive was found!
(a) Went back into the BIOS Setup, and re-specified the settings, and saved them.
Seems to be working OK now.
Flash Drive is top of the list...
And that boots before the [disk in the] Optical Drive...
Then, if I [shut down, and] remove the Flash Drive, then switch on...
The disk in the Optical Drive boots OK.
WHEW!
Thank goodness for that.

Nowadays, most of Puppies allow 'sort -V', version sort....

Has slacko GUIs for md5sum check?

Hi, two queries on a new Slacko install;

- trying to find an Alpine package; the one in the linked Slackware repo has been compiled without stored password support, anyone seen an Alpine v2 package compiled with that support?

- any alternative terminal programs to replace that urxvt one? Pref with options that can be set without trial and error in the .Xresources file (ie with proper menus) ?

TIA

> Slacko is in the next cycle.

shucks...

@shinobar

I have now included Slackware coreutils which has the later sort utility.

On firstrun, there is a bug where modprobe nls_iso8859_1 is run. I see that the variable is used, but nls_iso8859_1 is compiled into the kernel, not a module. Most puppy kernels are compiled this way, I'm sure pemasu does it too. All other nls_iso???? are modules. Maybe if the variable contains that value you can skip the modprobe run? Not a big deal, but we all want to make out programs the best we can.

01micko wrote:On firstrun, there is a bug where modprobe nls_iso8859_1 is run.

Yes it does and fails. But does it make any problem?

Lobster wrote:

use 5.3.3 and the default transmission is 1.20. I downloaded the 2.51 pet from http://distro.ibiblio.org/puppylinux/pe ... es-slacko/

This may be the one Mick is after. 1.20 is the default in 5.3.3.1
Many thanks

Update:
the 2.7MB Transmission is not the one. There is another optimised and shrunk and closer to the 171K of version 1.20 Transmission. Anyone know of this and have a copy? It was compiled by 'gulk' . . .

Can't be certain, but I thought I had downloaded the 2.51 pet from this repository, as I got 2.51 working like a charm on 5.3.3.

shinobar wrote:

01micko wrote:On firstrun, there is a bug where modprobe nls_iso8859_1 is run.

Yes it does and fails. But does it make any problem?

No, just displays error on terminal, it's fine.

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Transmission 2.51 is a bit big to include, I've already bloated this with mesa. It can stay in the repo. Also requires libevent, which gets downloaded when you install from PPM.

There is aria2 in the repo which is ~900kB gz compressed, with a small gtkdialog gui it can replace Axel (which segfaults and is a seemingly dead project) and transmission-1x. Aria2 supports magnets too in the documentation. There is also the possibility of rtorrent, another commandline torrent version which could use a gtkdialog gui or perhaps the web interface (see the 3rd party link).

Minor issue:
The filter test in BootManager (*_5.3.3.1.sfs) is too rigorous & prevents the kernel source sfs from being seen & loaded via that route. (load on the fly is O/K)

Possible issue:
I had had some problems using shinobar's getnvidia. It seemed fine at first, producing both the NVIDIA SFS & PET.
It automatically blacklisted the nouveau driver & loaded the sfs. I then exchanged that for the pet & thought to check
for hardware acceleration. The OPEN GL/GLX information tab in nvidia-settings however showed "Failed to query the GLX server vendor"

It may be that I shot myself in the foot at some point whilst experimenting and I need to start afresh. I am therefore just flagging this up for anyone who has used
getnvidia to check the nvidia-settings. (A subsequent manual install of the latest driver worked fine)

ETP wrote:The OPEN GL/GLX information tab in nvidia-settings however showed "Failed to query the GLX server vendor"

For slacko, you need the mesa papckage (mesa-7.10.2-s.pet) to enable EGL.

shinobar wrote:

ETP wrote:The OPEN GL/GLX information tab in nvidia-settings however showed "Failed to query the GLX server vendor"

For slacko, you need the mesa papckage (mesa-7.10.2-s.pet) to enable EGL.

ETP

This version already has mesa, so it must be something else, check /etc/X11/xorg.conf and make sure the disable "glx" line is commented or change to load "glx". Failing that, check /var/log/Xorg.0.log for errors, you can gzip it and post it here if you like.