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rameshiyer wrote:Dear 01MIcko

I would like to inform you that your solution (terminal command) worked for me. Now I am able to see the Icons on the Desktop. Micko Sir , Thank you very much.

You are most welcome Sir,

What troubles me more is why did it happen?

I will investigate.

Thank you.

Moving back up on Distrowatch.......
http://distrowatch.com

James C wrote:Moving back up on Distrowatch.......
http://distrowatch.com

I guess it would be #1 if everyone bothered to download from Distrowatch.

Anyone know if icewm can be made to work in Slacko?I've experimented with several .pets without success so far.
Thanks for this great new Puppy.

I'm experiencing some problems with this particular build

These are the specs of the pc:

Compaq Presario F700 Notebook PC

CPU - AMD Turion(tm) 64 X2 Mobile Technology TL-58 (1900 Mhz)
RAM - 2gb DIMM DDR2 667 MHz
GFX - nVidia GeForce 7000M / nForce 610M
SFX - nVidia MCP67 High Definition Audio
LAN - nVidia MCP67 Ethernet 10/100
Wifi - Atheros AR5001 Wireless Network Adapter

I have successfully managed to run the ISO, then install it onto a USB Flash drive, however when I made a 'save file' it fails to restart. I am choosing ext2 - heavy encryption for the save file.

chrome307 wrote:I'm experiencing some problems with this particular build

I have successfully managed to run the ISO, then install it onto a USB Flash drive, however when I made a 'save file' it fails to restart. I am choosing ext2 - heavy encryption for the save file.

I have the same problem and have reported in the bug thread.

I saw this in RC1, RC2, and the final release.

chrome307 wrote: I have successfully managed to run the ISO, then install it onto a USB Flash drive, however when I made a 'save file' it fails to restart. I am choosing ext2 - heavy encryption for the save file.

Quite often, when I had problems with USB and SDcards was because of some corruption. Some USB sticks were totally useless in transferring big files while others had problems with random write speed (many small files).

This first thing I do now after a USB transfer is to check the md5sum. In this case of the original vmlinuz, initrd.gz and puppy_slacko_5.3.sfs in the iso and the ones copied to the USB.

If they are OK, check if the stick will boot without a save file.
(Rename "slackosave-abc.2fs" to "slackosave-abc._2fs" so will not be recognized as a save file)

If it boots OK make a new non-encrypted save file and see if it boots OK now.

The outcome of these may give a clue where the problem might be.

PS: I use puppy and other OS with 6 USB sticks and 4 SDcards

Hello,

First - thanks for Slacko, great work.

I have succesfully run Slacko on the following ATOM hardware:

ASUS AT5NM Mini-ITX with Intel ATOM D525 onboard
1 GB DDR3 RAM
Sony AD-7280S Sata DVDR

Everything works great until an encrypted SaveFile is created.

This issue, as depicted by chrome307's picture, occurs with an encrypted save file.

Non-encrypted / normal save is okay as is Save to drive (Save to sda1 in my case)

This issue is repeatable using several different USB Flash Memory sticks formatted with EXT2, FAT16 and FAT32

Looks like something is missing with regards to the encrypted save.

Mikrodots

Mikrodots wrote: Looks like something is missing with regards to the encrypted save.

Just a hunch, but see if commenting out lines 382 and 383 in /usr/sbin/shutdownconfig before the first shutdown, fixes this issue.
Edit: No, this is not it

Brown Mouse wrote:Anyone know if icewm can be made to work in Slacko?I've experimented with several .pets without success so far.
Thanks for this great new Puppy.

I'm working on getting ICEWM to work with 5.3 right now since it is my main WM, I'll let you know if I get it working in the day or so.

Edit: Nevermind got it working real quick, icewm-1.3.7pre2-L519-lucid.pet and zlibs4v2.pet

First not so much a bug, more an observation that may help others.
I've been trying to get to work in slacko 5.3. It works fine in lupu 528 and 431 but Bootmanager doesn't even see it in slacko.

All came good when I changed the file name to ie changing the _ to a - after ooolight.

Same with other sfs files I tried. And it doesn't recognise either. So slacko seems to be a bit fussier than lupu or 431 as to sfs naming. Beware.

Another issue: In slacko ooolight-1.0_linux_intel_x86-32_us-en.sfs runs but without the "decoration" at the top ie the top most bar which has the app name and - + x at the right. All is okay in lupu and 431 and I note that in lupu 528 there is an option Un/Decorate on right clicking the top bar. Is this a JWM issue? Anyone any idea how I can fix this?

Thanks

edit: pix added

DPUP5520 wrote:

Brown Mouse wrote:Anyone know if icewm can be made to work in Slacko?I've experimented with several .pets without success so far.
Thanks for this great new Puppy.

I'm working on getting ICEWM to work with 5.3 right now since it is my main WM, I'll let you know if I get it working in the day or so.

Edit: Nevermind got it working real quick, icewm-1.3.7pre2-L519-lucid.pet and zlibs4v2.pet

Sweet!

DPUP5520 wrote:

Brown Mouse wrote:Anyone know if icewm can be made to work in Slacko?I've experimented with several .pets without success so far.
Thanks for this great new Puppy.

I'm working on getting ICEWM to work with 5.3 right now since it is my main WM, I'll let you know if I get it working in the day or so.

Edit: Nevermind got it working real quick, icewm-1.3.7pre2-L519-lucid.pet and zlibs4v2.pet

Thank you DPUP5520 it worked very well.
I found that I also had to add 'wmswitcher_lucid52-0.pet'.Others I tried wouldn't switch without a manual exit to prompt.

Long term linux user, finally jumped on the puppy bandwagon a few weeks ago with lucid 528 and have been incredibly impressed with how fast and useful it is on my netbook (Acer Aspire D257).

I was excited to try out Slacko with a manual frugal install. Unfortunately I'm essentially unable to really use it with the netbook touchpad because most settings entered into flSynclient seem to have no effect. In particular, Max speed and Acceleration, which would allow me to get a useful pointer speed, simply have no effect. The touchpad still requires me to swipe my finger 20 times just to move the pointer across the screen. flSynclient worked perfectly in 528.

Saving the settings, restarting the X server, rebooting with savefile, all have no effect.

Has anyone else seen this behaviour or know of a fix?

From what I/ve seen so far, Slacko looks very impressive. Thanks 01micko, Barry, and all the other contributers.

tpw

Welcome to puppy

You will notice after you run flsynclient there is a Xdialog which pops up asking if your touchpad settings are ok. if you answered "yes" then run flsynclient again and answer "no". restart X. I have the issue with the main version on my r51 Thinkpad and this resolves the issue.

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Several users report problems with encrypted save files. This is priority one to fix. Anyone with any knowledge of encryption?

EDIT: this bug seems to be a woof bug, reported by mavrothal in Racy puppy, so I'm sure Barry will help solve this one.
http://bkhome.org/blog/?viewDetailed=02570
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I can confirm a bug in PPM that lists too many dependencies from the Slacky repo in particular. The file it reads seems fine. Investigating.

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Thanks for all reports.

Are the repositories for slacko package manager working for anyone? About to give up on this distro, nothing will download from the repositories from me besides slackpet.

KBD47 wrote:Are the repositories for slacko package manager working for anyone? About to give up on this distro, nothing will download from the repositories from me besides slackpet.

works for me. did slickpet>morepets>updatepuppypackagemanager first.

this problem is long standing and unreported since didn't know but just tried racy beta2 and found out how good it can be when it works correctly.

racy auto-detects 1920x1080 display with a HDMI cable connected to external monitor AND fills the width of my computer monitor. How sweet!

slacko auto-detects 1024x768 with a HDMI output to large screen but the computer display monitor has a diminished width.

slacko highest can choose is 1600x900 and computer display is full width but cannot get HDMI output to external screen. kind of box looking and 1024x768 is only resolution can get to work with external monitor.

slacko unable to choose 1920x1080. noticed Racy auto-detected vesa driver and Slacko uses my intel driver.


how can get 1920x1080 or 1600x900 display on external monitor display? Or how can get 1024x768 display that fills the width of computer display?
thnaks

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persistance... got 1600x900 on HDMI external and full screen computer monitor by re-running xorg Wizard instead of trying menu>XorgWizard>resolution changer.

can get 1024x768 display that fills the width of computer display and external monitor?

Just realized audio is not working either on my Satellite E205-S1980, tried reconfiguring audio options and checked everything I could think of and still cannot get it working.

# report-video
VIDEO REPORT: Slacko Puppy, version 5.3

Chip description:
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation N10 Family Graphics Controller
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation N10 Family Graphics Controller

Driver used by Xorg:
intel

Video mode used by Xorg:
Resolution: “1024x600“ Depth: Depth 24

# glxgears
Running synchronized to the vertical refresh. The framerate should be
approximately the same as the monitor refresh rate.
301 frames in 5.0 seconds = 60.197 FPS
300 frames in 5.0 seconds = 59.957 FPS
300 frames in 5.0 seconds = 59.957 FPS
300 frames in 5.0 seconds = 59.957 FPS
300 frames in 5.0 seconds = 59.958 FPS
300 frames in 5.0 seconds = 59.957 FPS

-Computer-
Processor : 2x Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU N450 @ 1.66GHz
Memory : 1023MB (174MB used)
Operating System : Unknown distribution
User Name : root (root)
Date/Time : Thu 27 Oct 2011 09:10:09 PM CDT
-Display-
Resolution : 1024x600 pixels
OpenGL Renderer : Mesa DRI Intel(R) IGD x86/MMX/SSE2
X11 Vendor : The X.Org Foundation
-Multimedia-
Audio Adapter : HDA-Intel - HDA Intel
-Input Devices-
AT Translated Set 2 keyboard
ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse
Power Button
Sleep Button
Lid Switch
Power Button
PC Speaker
1.3M WebCam
Video Bus
-Printers (CUPS)-
CUPS-PDF : <i>Default</i>

Hardware: See signature. Touchpad still thinks it's a mouse

EDIT: Forgot to mention that my built-in ENE card reader is working flawlessly with this Pup. Thank you for all the hard work! This Pup is working well for me.