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Hi,

Internal microphone not working in SKYPE using an Asus 1015pem computer. The sound card is alc269vb.

All seems OK in generic sound mixer.

Regards Tony.

I used my slacko-54 pae remaster iso and did a manual frugal install
to a 32gb flash drive, running on acer laptop.
Report Video 1.4 - Tue 4 Dec 2012 on Slacko Puppy 5.4 - Linux 3.4.17-PAE i686
Chip description:
0.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Manhattan
[Mobility Radeon HD 5400 Series]
oem: ATI ATOMBIOS
product: PARK 01.00
X Server: Xorg Driver used: fglrx
X.Org version: 1.12.3
dimensions: 1600x900 pixels (423x238 millimeters)
depth of root window: 24 planes
OpenGL
Vendor Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
Renderer ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5400 Series
Version 4.2.11931 Compatibility Profile Context
Direct Rendering Yes
# glxgears
17606 frames in 5.0 seconds = 3521.072 FPS
21049 frames in 5.0 seconds = 4209.769 FPS
19695 frames in 5.0 seconds = 3938.939 FPS
Network controller Atheros Communications Inc. AR928X Wireless Network Adapter

With the devx and kernel source sfs files already in the remaster it
was easy to download and compile the
amd-driver-installer-catalyst-12.10-x86.x86_64.run file.

It's working well on this laptop.

Bug report...

When I tried to install my pet package Advanced Bash Scripting Guide v6.6
I noticed that the desktop entries wouldn't show in the Start menu.

The most likely reason is because the package has two desktop files inside.

The fix was to type 'fixmenus' after the installation of the pet package.

Note that Barry Kauler made some change to his Precise distro
a couple of months ago that solved the problem.

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Just as an experiment I booted up with kernel option
"i915.modeset=0" on my IBM desktop with intel graphics.

The firstrun application has a confusing message. I took
a screenshot.




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Geany was listed under 'Utility' rather than Texteditor'

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X not work on VIA EPIA M, driver openchrome or vesa , error segmentation fault . How fix that?

Will there be a Fat Slacko 5.4?

May I ask the reason for having most of the JWM main menu items broken down into submenus? Some of them have only one item in the submenu, which seems silly to me. I had no problem with Slacko 5.3.3. and the normal xdg system.

duke

Slacko 5.4 is working well on my Acer Aspire with an Intel Atom processor and Nvidia graphics. I am using Pmode=6 fugal install. This is the first time that I have not had a problem with the Pmode=6 fugal install. It works well. I am using the default Nouvea driver for the graphics and it works fine. Thanks for all the work.

I hope I'm not asking this in the wrong place...

I can't get PPLOG to launch in Slacko 5.4 Opera4 (non-pae version) I get error 500.

Machine is HP laptop, i7 sandybridge and Intel video (didn't change driver) 4gb ram, booting from CD iso image. I tried it after saving a couple of times, and also pfix=ram.

I Really like Slacko thanks so much for this!

FirstRun end,i check "save" ->.2fs or .4fs
nothing saved and the pc reboot,why?
maybe i lost something?

i found the way.
My USB-HDD have 4 saved files of slacko-5.3.3
so,i delete they.
that okay,i can save-file for slacko-5.4

I find JWM menu sub-categories very uncomfortable. How can I remove them to have the menu just like Wary or Precise? I mean: Menu > Category > Program.

This Puppy is real nice, BTW.

Mobi wrote: ... I Really like Slacko thanks so much for this!

Hi Mobi

My comments more than likely will not solve the "500" problem. But, I noticed that your running non-PAE on a system.equiped with a PAE designed processor.

If you or anyone is running an "I-series processor" you will probably get better performance with PAE versions of Puppy. It has to do with the Linux-Puppy design, method of RAM usage, and the Intel hardware. This was shown and documented when we did testing of PUPPY with PAE earlier. Similar testing by other groups outside of Puppyland show this as well. And, this is consistent with Intel and AMD testing a decade ago. This performance increase is independent of how much RAM you have but certainly makes Puppy a capable RAM user on all systems 4GB or greater.

Here to help

gcmartin wrote: If you or anyone is running an "I-series processor" you will probably get better performance with PAE versions of Puppy.

Notwithstanding test conclusions by others, in my personal experience there is no appreciable benefit from using a PAE version of Puppy.

Hi

@ vicmz

vicmz wrote:I find JWM menu sub-categories very uncomfortable. How can I remove them to have the menu just like Wary or Precise? I mean: Menu > Category > Program.

To quote 01micko from the Slacko 5.4 - FINAL 2 Dec 2012 thread (page 45 post 5)

01micko wrote:...Generally, some folks don't like submenus at all. You can be rid of them by editing /root/.jwm/JWMRC and you'll see SUBMENUS="0" (or is it 1?), doesn't matter, change it to SUBMENUS="" and run fixmenus

Hope this helps
CatDude
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@CatDude
Thank you

no appreciable benefit from using a PAE

Agree.
Apart from which, it's pretty dumb using those sorts of machines for a compact distro, however good it is; a trip to the tip would be more appropriate. Big machines and server farms run well on RH, mid-sized machines and for kiddies with big eyes and overloaded pockets can choose one of the major distros. The rest of us are trying to save the planet.
The mistakes so many make is with specification. Since e.g. picture- and video- editing, the big resource consumers, seem to work so well in Puppy, it would appear that there is only a requirement, and that for a tiny minority perhaps occasionally, for extra memory up to the non-PAE limit, as Terryp. testifies, or machine limit, and/or a large (extra?) partition. BK and his troupe have made things so easy and flexible that not even a bootable HD is required, just an USB stick or SD card. Anyone worried about power consumption of older kit can use the RPi and save to a RAID bank. And check the wattage of those multiple core cpu s that bigI promised would save power - just ain't true.

Experimenters are granted a get-out-of-jail-free card....

I'm not going to express my personal opinions on the PAE issue. But I am concerned by the recent trend in releasing multiple versions: PAE+new kernel and non-PAE+old kernel.

This complicates any problem-solving exercise. And makes it that more difficult to build add-on kernel modules.

I'm hoping someone running Slacko 5.4 on a bootable USB drive can
run get_libreoffice-0.18-3 and confirm that the following menu items do not work:

Document > Compose > New Document
Business > Sheets > New Database
Business > Sheet > New Spreadsheet

Thanks

Thom