Slacko64-6.3.0

[666philb]

good work!

running well on my netbook but i needed to swap kernels for it to run on my desktop, my nvidia card really doesn't like the 4 series kernels, hopefully this will be resolved as the 4 series progresses.

installed a few applications from the PPM ...wesnoth, audacious, gimp, gnuchess all working fine.

one thing i noticed ... with the new firewall_ng , if you have a wireless connection and set up the firewall before setting up your wireless connection, the firewall stops the browser connecting to the internet, it's rectified by re-running the firewall setup.

[mavrothal]

but i needed to swap kernels for it to run on my desktop

I also needed to swap kernels to run in VMWare fusion.

In general I have the sense that 4.x kernels have more issues that the LTS 3.x. Or maybe is just a configuration issue. How do they compare with the 3.x

A far chance might be the firmware compatibility with the new kernels. Is the firmware tarball updated after the 4.x kernels?

[watchdog]

Hi

Anyone want to test Skype?

http://distro.ibiblio.org/puppylinux/pe ... 3.0.37.sfs

It works! I edited in /opt/pa4-32/etc/pulse/default.pa the following lines:

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load-module module-alsa-sink device=hw:1,0
load-module module-alsa-source device=hw:0,0

[watchdog]

I attach motion detector for slacko64-6.3.0.

[sszindian]

sheldonisaac wrote:
Sorry, can you please tell me where to get those libraries?
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The 32bit libs are here-

http://distro.ibiblio.org/puppylinux/pe ... lacko6.sfs


>>>---Indian------>

[01micko]

sheldonisaac wrote:
Sorry, can you please tell me where to get those libraries?
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The 32bit libs are here-

http://distro.ibiblio.org/puppylinux/pu ... 4-6.0.3.9/

>>>---Indian------>

IDK if 666philb's are the same. I have put them in slacko's SFS Manager. Menu(Applications) > Setup > SFS Manager download and install sfs files.

As for running old opera, you have to start it differently. If it is tarted with a script (/usr/bin/opera?) you have to start it like this:

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start32 opera "$@"

[sheldonisaac]

Sorry, can you please tell me where to get those libraries?

I have put them in slacko's SFS Manager. Menu(Applications) > Setup > SFS Manager download and install sfs files.

As for running old opera, you have to start it differently. If it is started with a script (/usr/bin/opera?) you have to start it like this:

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start32 opera "$@"

Understood (I hope). Thanks a lot, 01micko and sszindian .
Will try it soon and let you know.

Sheldon

[sszindian]

Sorry guy's Yes, I had the WRONG URL in the original post above... 'It's Been Corrected!'

>>>---Indian------>

[Sage]

Wired connection with SiS190:
Retried all three options many times. SNS and Frisbee never work (the latter has never worked on any of my kit, GB is mostly on PPPoA).
After a while, managed to get Douglas' setup to stick, but the procedure is definitely flaky. Vaguely seems a bit deja vu, but memory cells can't recall previous discussions.
No issues with SiS190 on Werewolf64.

[BarryK]

Wired connection with SiS190:
Retried all three options many times. SNS and Frisbee never work (the latter has never worked on any of my kit, GB is mostly on PPPoA).
After a while, managed to get Douglas' setup to stick, but the procedure is definitely flaky. Vaguely seems a bit deja vu, but memory cells can't recall previous discussions.
No issues with SiS190 on Werewolf64.

I have made improvements to SNS. I used to have lots of trouble getting a connection.

We need to do a diff on /usr/local/simple_network_setup, latest Quirky 7.3.3, with latest Slacko/woof-CE.

[muggins]

hello barry,

i know you"re pretty much hands-off, (retired), but was wondering if you have any idea why
full install is broken in modern pups? I understand that frugal is the main aim of pup, but, for some ram challenged pc people, full install is the best option,

this issue has been raised in several threads...with no resolution forthcoming.

tks for any ideas

[01micko]

muggins.

Have you tried a full install from slacko?

I have tried several on Vms and bare metal with no issues. If you run a 3 series kernel a full install can be done to an f2fs flash stick. There is something broken with full installs to an f2fs flash drive with 4 series kernels but that doesn't affect normal full installs.

[muggins]

hello micko,

i'm a bit unaware of latest releases...which version do you rexcommend?

cheeers

[01micko]

If your hardware is old (as in old P3 or even P2) go for slacko 5.3.3. But if it is a decent P3 ( > coppermine && > 1000MHz) or better there should be no reason the current slacko 6.3.0 series shouldn't work. A full install should be right with as little as 128MB RAM. Booting off CD will be slow as you know but patience should get you there.

[muggins]

OK, will have a squizz later, but....as i know you're a keen contributor to woof etc, do you have any idea why/when full install became broke in pup? something to do with the install wizard.

e.g. see http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... start=1710

Hi new to the forum and a relative novice in experience but not in years unfortunately.

Have used Carolina previously, version 1? but at that time was able to do a full install on my netbook asus 1005ha.

Coming back to 1.3 after a bit of trying other distro's I'm getting the same issue as johnywhy raised and Geoffrey confirmed, the option to chose full or frugal install is "missing" with frugal being the only option.

Is there a fix or a easy not to involved workaround available??

thanks

Edited to add - just tried 1.1 and 1.2 and full install option is present on both.
Have used unetbootin in all cases to create bootable usb.

Does this suggest a bug or is it a deliberate omission?

There are other threads mentioning broken full install. I've tried taking working pupinstaller, which used to work with full install, (from older pups), but doesn't work with newer versions. Something is broken...any ideas welcome.

[01micko]

Hi Muggins

Late last year we totally rewrote the universal installer. Full installs were tested by several people including James C and Billtoo (iirc).

As far as I know, Carolina is based on wary/racy, which well and truly pre-dates woof-CE. Of course old slacko 533 is of the same or similar vintage so may well have bugs with full install.

I even have a regular slacker (Ryan McQuen) as an advocate for full installs. I walked him through an install using lilo as the boot loader! Worked like a charm. This was slacko 5.7 (before the full revamp of universal installer). See here.

A long time ago, I do remember (vaguely) fixing something to do with full installs (possibly around the time of slacko 5.3x).
Sorry I'm not motivated to find the evidence right now, I've had a few long days! Perhaps we should continue this discussion in another thread (we are way off topic) or feel free to email me.

Cheers

[muggins]

Cheers,

sorry for derailng thread...but, here i go again, hope you've got a few lychee trees growing in your backyard...fresh off the tree they are the ultimate!

regards

[bigpup]

I have made improvements to SNS. I used to have lots of trouble getting a connection.

We need to do a diff on /usr/local/simple_network_setup, latest Quirky 7.3.3, with latest Slacko/woof-CE.

Thanks for the information!!

I was wondering if any of the stuff you are doing with Quirky is getting into Woof-CE?
The changes you are doing to some of the base Puppy programs?

[Griot]

Hello, 01micko & fellow Puppians!

Downloaded latest .iso (after Tue Nov 17 00:04:24 UTC 2015) of Slacko64-6.3.0 and booted with Lilo. (01micko's How to Lilo thread)
Everything is running strong on my desktop PC.
All seems to work OOTB, even Skype version from official repo.
Congratulations!!!

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Pup-SysInfo Hardware Report (Summary), Wed 18 Nov 2015

Current Time: 12:51:56 (CET)
System Uptime: 2 hr 25 min
Load Average: 0.09 0.20 0.22

▶—— BASE SYSTEM ——◀

PC Manufacturer: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
Product Name: To be filled by O.E.M.

Motherboard Vendor: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
Product Name: J1800M-D3P

BIOS Vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
Version: F1
Release Date: 01/28/2015

Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU J1800 @ 2.41GHz
Max Speed: 2400 MHz
Current Speed of Core 0:2382 MHz, 1:2584 MHz
Core Count: 2
Thread Count: 2

Frequency governor   : powersave
Freq. scaling driver : intel_pstate

Memory Allocation:
 Total RAM: 3843 MB
 Used RAM: 1896 MB
 Free RAM: 1947 MB
 Buffers: 155 MB
 Total Swap: 6377 MB
 Free Swap: 6377 MB

Display Specifications:
• Monitor Name: Philips 190X
• Monitor VertRefresh: 75.0 times/s
• Screen Dimensions: 1280x1024 pixels (338x270 millimeters)
• Screen Depth: 24 bits (planes)

Xorg Startup Log (/var/log/Xorg.0.log):
• Xorg Driver in use: ati
• Loaded Modules: dbe dri2 exa extmod fb glx kbd mouse radeon ramdac
• X.Org version: 1.14.3

OpenGL 2D/3D Rendering:
• Direct Rendering: Yes
• Vendor: X.Org
• Renderer: Gallium 0.4 on AMD CAICOS
• Version: 2.1 Mesa 9.1.7

VGA controller [0300]: AMD/ATI [Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.] Caicos [Radeon HD 6450] [1002:6779]
• Kernel Driver: radeon
• Memory Used: 1446.83 KB
• Path: /lib/modules/4.1.11/kernel/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon.ko
• Description: ATI Radeon

Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation ValleyView High Definition Audio Controller [8086:0f04] (rev 0e)
• Kernel Driver: snd_hda_intel

▶—— NETWORK ——◀

Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller [10ec:8168] (rev 0c)
• Kernel Driver: r8169
• Memory Used: 65.06 KB
• Path: /lib/modules/4.1.11/kernel/drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169.ko
• Driver Version: 2.3LK-NAPI
• Description: RealTek RTL-8169 Gigabit Ethernet driver

▶—— SCSI DEVICES ——◀

ATA TOSHIBA DT01ACA0 Rev: A750
TSSTcorp CDDVDW SH-224DB Rev: SB01

[mavrothal]

We need to do a diff on /usr/local/simple_network_setup, latest Quirky 7.3.3, with latest Slacko/woof-CE.

Zigbert has rewritten the UI so there are a lot of changes but shifting through those the ones below appear to be relevant.

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--- woof-CE/woof-code/rootfs-skeleton/usr/local/simple_network_setup/rc.network	2014-01-06 14:00:04.000000000 +0800
+++ /usr/local/simple_network_setup/rc.network	2015-10-25 18:44:04.000000000 +0800
@@ -104,6 +109,8 @@
 DROPWAIT="$(dhcpcd_dropwait_option)"
 echo -n "" > /tmp/simple_network_setup/rc_network_wireless_connection_log
 grep '|Wireless|' /tmp/sns_connections_available > /tmp/sns_connections_wireless
+ESSIDSwant="$(grep '|Wireless|' /etc/simple_network_setup/connections | cut -f 12 -d '|')" #151025
+echo -n "$ESSIDSwant" > /tmp/simple_network_setup/essids-want #151025
 for INTERFACE in $INTERFACES #exs: wlan0 eth0
 do
  [ ! -d /sys/class/net/${INTERFACE}/wireless ] && continue #only want wireless.
@@ -111,13 +118,21 @@
  ifconfig $INTERFACE up
  [ $? -ne 0 ] && continue
  echo " SUCCESS: ifconfig ${INTERFACE} up" >> /tmp/simple_network_setup/rc_network_wireless_connection_log
- sleep 2 #100513
+ sleep 3 #100513. 151004 increase delay from 2 to 4. 151008 4 to 3, see also below. 151025
+ SECS=3 #151025
  SCANRESULT="`iwlist $INTERFACE scan`" ###SCANNING### 110203
  echo " EXECUTING SCAN: iwlist ${INTERFACE} scan | grep -v 'Scan completed'" >> /tmp/simple_network_setup/rc_network_wireless_connection_log
  echo " SCANRESULT=${SCANRESULT}" >> /tmp/simple_network_setup/rc_network_wireless_connection_log
  #note, possible to get: 'wlan0     No scan results' so delay then try again...
- if [ "`echo "$SCANRESULT" | grep 'Scan completed'`" = "" ];then #100513 110203
+ #if [ "`echo "$SCANRESULT" | grep 'Scan completed'`" = "" ];then #100513 110203
+ if [ "$ESSIDSwant" ];then #151025
+  SFLAG="$(echo "$SCANRESULT" | grep 'ESSID' | grep -f /tmp/simple_network_setup/essids-want)"
+ else
+  SFLAG="$(echo "$SCANRESULT" | grep 'Scan completed')"
+ fi
+ if [ "$SFLAG" == "" ];then #151025
   sleep 2
+  SECS=5 #151025
   SCANRESULT="`iwlist $INTERFACE scan`" ###SCANNING###
   echo " EXECUTING SCAN AGAIN: iwlist ${INTERFACE} scan | grep -v 'Scan completed'" >> /tmp/simple_network_setup/rc_network_wireless_connection_log
   echo " SCANRESULT=${SCANRESULT}" >> /tmp/simple_network_setup/rc_network_wireless_connection_log
@@ -168,6 +183,7 @@
     MODTIME1="`stat --format=%Y /etc/resolv.conf`"
     ifconfig $INTERFACE up #hmmm, it seems need to bring up after all the iwconfig operations!
     if [ $? -eq 0 ];then
+     sleep ${SECS} #151008 new. 151025
      echo "     RESULT=$? FOR: ifconfig $INTERFACE up" >> /tmp/simple_network_setup/rc_network_wireless_connection_log
      wCNT=0
      if [ "$RUNWPASUPP" = "yes" ];then
diff -urN usr/local/simple_network_setup/sns /usr/local/simple_network_setup/sns
--- woof-CE/woof-code/rootfs-skeleton/usr/local/simple_network_setup/sns	2015-11-18 18:53:03.000000000 +0800
+++ /usr/local/simple_network_setup/sns	2015-11-01 17:03:05.000000000 +0800
@@ -352,12 +331,14 @@
 ############WIRELESS SETUP###############
 if [ "$IF_INTTYPE" == "Wireless" ];then
  #scan for networks...
+ #140201 peebee reported need this... 140217...
+ WIF="$(echo -n "$INTERFACE" | grep 'wlan' | sed -e 's%[0-9]$%%')" #convert wlan0 to wlan
+ [ "$WIF" ] && [ "`rfkill list ${WIF} | grep 'Soft blocked: yes'`" != "" ] && rfkill unblock $WIF
  FLAGERR=
  rm -f /tmp/sns_scan_radiobuttons
- rm -f /tmp/sns_scan_radiobuttons_shield
- rm -f /tmp/sns_scan_radiobuttons_strength
  rm -f /tmp/sns_scan_rawoneline
  rm -f /tmp/sns_scan_oneline
+ #xmessage -center -bg orange -buttons "" "Please wait, scanning for wireless networks..." &
  yaf-splash -placement center -bg orange -text "$(gettext 'Please wait, scanning for wireless networks...')" &
  PIDXMSG=$!
  echo "Information about this interface:
@@ -370,7 +351,7 @@
  if [ $? -ne 0 ];then
   FLAGERR=1
  else
-  sleep 2 #100513 increase from 1.
+  sleep 4 #100513 increase from 1. 151004 increase from 2. 151008 see also below.
   echo "STEP1b: iwlist $INTERFACE scan" >> /tmp/sns_wireless_log
   SCANRESULT="`iwlist $INTERFACE scan`" ###SCANNING### 110203
   if [ "`echo "$SCANRESULT" | grep 'Scan completed'`" = "" ];then #100513 110203
@@ -666,7 +542,7 @@
  
      echo "STEP5a: ifconfig $INTERFACE up" >> /tmp/sns_wireless_log
      ifconfig $INTERFACE up
-  
+     sleep 4 #151008 new sleep.
      if [ "$RUNWPASUPP" = "yes" ];then
       echo "STEP5b: wpa_supplicant -B -D${WPA_DRIVER} -i${INTERFACE} -c"/etc/simple_network_setup/wpa_supplicant.conf-${CELL_ESSID}-${MACADDRESS}"" >> /tmp/sns_wireless_log
       wpa_supplicant -B -D${WPA_DRIVER} -i${INTERFACE} -c"/etc/simple_network_setup/wpa_supplicant.conf-${CELL_ESSID}-${MACADDRESS}" >> /tmp/sns_wireless_log 2>&1
         else

ie sleep times, the wifi soft block and the ESSIDSwant.
Do you think I may have missed something more?