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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.

01micko wrote:This version already has mesa,

Is that so?
But the slickpet offered to install mesa.

Yes slickpet is not really ready for this version. The test for mesa is on installed packages. Of course if it's there already it's not going to be in the install log. I mentioned it has mesa in the first post.

I may even abandon slickpet or more correctly, break it up into sfs management and video management. It was never a planned application and is a bit of a nightmare to maintain without a full rewrite anyway.

ETP wrote:I had had some problems using shinobar's getnvidia.

Well then, try nvidia-glx-295.59-k3.2.21-4g.pet, made by the getnvidia-0.5.

nvidia-glx-295.59-k3.2.21-4g.pet
http://shino.pos.to/party/bridge.cgi?puppy/slacko/

getnvidia-0.5
http://shino.pos.to/party/bridge.cgi?puppy/opt/

shinobar wrote: getnvidia-0.5
http://shino.pos.to/party/bridge.cgi?puppy/opt/

Just tried, working well

shinobar

Thanks for trying to help. If you re-read my previous post however you will see that it was precisely when I changed to the pet so produced that I encountered the problem "Failed to query the GLX server vendor". I went on to comment “A subsequent manual install of the latest driver worked fine

Another quick run pfix=ram. No problems.Everything working on initial boot.

# report-video
nouveau
Slacko Puppy, version 5.3.3.1 on Wed 27 Jun 2012

Chip description:
d.0 VGA compatible controller
nVidia Corporation C61 [GeForce 7025 / nForce 630a] (rev a2)
oem: NVIDIA
product: MCP61 - mcp61-86 Chip Rev

X Server: Xorg
Driver used: nouveau

X.Org version: 1.9.5
dimensions: 1440x900 pixels (380x238 millimeters)
depth of root window: 24 planes

...the above also recorded in /tmp/root/ as report-video,
and archived with xorg.conf and Xorg.0.log as report-video-full.gz
#

...the above also recorded in /tmp/root/ as report-video,
and archived with xorg.conf and Xorg.0.log as report-video-full.gz

# glxgears
Running synchronized to the vertical refresh. The framerate should be
approximately the same as the monitor refresh rate.
5032 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1006.310 FPS
5254 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1050.657 FPS
5189 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1037.628 FPS
5235 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1046.754 FPS
5261 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1052.028 FPS

Not bad with just Nouveau and Mesa.

-Computer-
Processor : 2x AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5200+
Memory : 3374MB (166MB used)
Operating System : Unknown distribution
User Name : root (root)
Date/Time : Wed 27 Jun 2012 12:04:55 PM CDT
-Display-
Resolution : 1440x900 pixels
OpenGL Renderer : Gallium 0.4 on NV4C
X11 Vendor : The X.Org Foundation
-Multimedia-
Audio Adapter : HDA-Intel - HDA NVidia

# free
total used free shared buffers
Mem: 3374292 497720 2876572 0 52648
-/+ buffers: 445072 2929220
Swap: 8265724 0 8265724
#

(SOLVED) I burned Slacko 5.3.3.1 alpha to a CD. It booted vmlinuz and initrd, but then I got the message that the .sfs. file couldn't be found. I looked, and there it was on the CD. What am I doing wrong?

I have two CD players, internal and external. I was trying to boot from the external one, which apparently the program couldn't find. Strange, because that has not happened before as I tried live CD's.

I'm sorry to have intruded prematurely; I should have investigated further.

I have made the transmission pet smaller by upxing the binaries and removing the icon cache file, seems to work ok.

Download <-- transmission-2.51-i486-supx.pet ~1.4M

I don't know how to enable magnet protocol in seamonkey ootb (working on it, bearing in mind I dislike setting up a profile in /root) but it's pretty easy to set up in a running seamonkey/firefox, see here.

I tried with aria2 but it's a bit finicky to get set up, never mind.

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

missing spaces between '-q' and 'xz'.

/usr/sbin/remasterpup2 at line 243 wrote:grep -q'xz' /tmp/mk &>/dev/null

To be:

grep -q 'xz' /tmp/mk &>/dev/null

But also the remasterpup2 in the most recent woof may work.

remasterpup2-120512 wrote:grep 'xz' /tmp/mk &>/dev/null

Any chance of a reply to my post, or is it just lost in another multi-page thread on this server that's impossible to search?

(query re Alpine and uxrvt)