(old)Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

If Only:
Folks would listen to the great advice from mick and James !
Folks would grasp the nettle and finally, once and for all delete everything NTFS, short of nuking Redmond !

Deleting everything NTFS from Puppy would in fact make it unusable as a rescue CD for use on a Windows system.
Of course, one still has to work around the secure boot shit from Microsoft.
And I have used it myself to get rid of a persistent file that was scareware in that it would pop up a window when one tried to run any application saying it was infected and to install their anti-virus software at a cost.
That one took me a while to track down.

The rox "error" is a storm in a tea cup. People are free to do what they choose, including installing to ntfs. Rox is correct in reporting the permissions have changed and probably due to the file signature being changed (speculation) reports that it failed to copy/move. It's a simple rox bug, nothing more. I will not screw with the init or roll back ntfs-3g.

EDIT: looks like rox wont be patched without a lot of work. Rox in this case relies on the output of cp or mv. If no output it's all good, if there is then rox spits the dummy. It's actually a bug in the old ntfs-3g binary that rox didn't spit the dummy.

The only way to suppress the error is to change the init call from to as suggested by SFR.

I'll leave that up to BK. This is as far as I am caring.

01micko wrote:

tlchost wrote:get libreoffice is now broken with bootable usb drive...tells me it does not support DVD or low ram installs....works fine in the non-beta versions of Slacko.

This is strange, but I guess there is some conflict. I'll resolve it soon

Fails not only on the desktop with 16 gig of ram,but also on the laptop with
4 gig.

Works fine with the non-beta version of Slacko.

Just as a test,,,,what do I need to delete in the getlibreoffice script to disable the memory check and the usb check? I'm willing to test it with each one disabled if that would help you isolate the problem.

Thom

Manual frugal install to an ext4 formatted SDHC card on AAO netbook
(11.6" screen)
video-info-glx 1.5.1 Thu7Feb2013 on Slacko Puppy 5.4.0.2 Linux 3.4.28-PAE i686
5.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI TechnologiesIncM880G[MobilityRadeonHD4200]
oem: ATI ATOMBIOS
product: RS880M 01.00
X Server: Xorg Driver: fglrx
X.Org version: 1.12.3
dimensions: 1024x600 pixels (270x158 millimeters)
depth of root window: 24 planes
direct rendering: Yes
server glx vendor string: ATI
server glx version string: 1.4
OpenGL vendor string: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4200 Series
OpenGL version string: 3.3.11672 Compatibility Profile Context
AMD Athlon(tm) II Neo K125 Processor
Core 0: @1700 MHz
# glxgears
8573 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1714.574 FPS
8716 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1743.173 FPS
Network controller Broadcom Corporation BCM43225 802.11b/g/n (rev 01)
It's working well but installing qt-482 from ppm took a long time.

There is an error in line 214 of /usr/bin/updates_mgr. Variable shouldn't be a parameter to gettext. It works but it's not detected by xgettext. I have changed it like this and have also added gettext to line 216:
Something in Opera consumes 50%CPU with only two tabs opened.

Hi 01Micko,

Any idea how to change 5.4 into a dutch puppy ???

Regards,

Volhout

Chromium is uploaded.

chromium-24.0.1312.56-i486-s14.pet 43 M (should be at nluug and other mirrors soon)

This I compiled myself in Slackware-14.0 so should be very compatible with slacko. It is the latest in the ~24 line, built with slackbuild.

I built in a unique feature. If you create the file /root/.chromium_dir ($HOME/.chromium_dir, hidden file, note the preceding DOT) with a path to your user-data-dir the chromium.sh starter script will detect it and use the path, you can selct the path in /mnt/home if you wish (you may already have settings for google-chrome/chromium in /mnt/home).

You might need to update flash-player. I think I better update the one in the iso to the latest in the ~10 series.

Manual frugal install to an ext4 formatted SDHC card on an Acer laptop.
video-info-glx 1.5.1 Thu7Feb2013 on Slacko Puppy 5.4.0.2 Linux 3.4.28-PAE i686
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: fglrx
X.Org version: 1.12.3
dimensions: 1600x900 pixels (423x238 millimeters)
depth of root window: 24 planes

direct rendering: Yes
server glx vendor string: ATI
server glx version string: 1.4
OpenGL vendor string: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5400 Series
OpenGL version string: 4.2.12002 Compatibility Profile Context 9.012
# glxgears
23054 frames in 5.0 seconds = 4610.689 FPS
22873 frames in 5.0 seconds = 4574.458 FPS
23384 frames in 5.0 seconds = 4676.722 FPS

Intel(R) Core(TM) i5 CPU M 430 @ 2.27GHz
Core 0: @1199 1: @1199 2: @1199 3: @1199 MHz
Atheros Communications Inc. AR928X Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express)
(rev 01)

After testing (stuff that I use) on computers with intel,nvidia,and
ati graphics I give 5.4.0.2 a thumbs up No problems here.

Got my girlfriends laptop setup w/Slacko 5.4.1 Beta. It has win7 on it too.
I hope the splash screen clears up when I grub4dos it in a momemt.
Because I also installed ArchPup it's making her beloved win7 harder to find
due to the advanced menu (kind of a grub thing, right?).

I like your Slacko's because they work excellent on this budget laptop.
HP G60-441 (3 1/2 years old)

Everything works with little or no interventions.

rodin.s wrote:There is an error in line 214 of /usr/bin/updates_mgr. Variable shouldn't be a parameter to gettext. It works but it's not detected by xgettext. I have changed it like this and have also added gettext to line 216:

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<text><label>'$(gettext "Your last update was on")' '$LASTUPDATE'</label></text>
    <tree>
		<label>'$(gettext 'Package|Version|Description')'</label>

I have rebuilt updates manager but I see the error of my way and have adjusted accordingly, thanks.

rodin.s wrote:Something in Opera consumes 50%CPU with only two tabs opened.

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Mem: 479436K used, 25016K free, 0K shrd, 70940K buff, 286836K cached
CPU:  65% usr  20% sys   0% nic  14% idle   0% io   0% irq   0% sirq
Load average: 3.01 2.01 2.23 2/77 3320
  PID  PPID USER     STAT   VSZ %VSZ CPU %CPU COMMAND
 7112  6626 root     R    57392  11%   0  47% {opera:libflashp} /usr/lib/opera/pluginwrapper/operapluginwrapper
 3779  3778 root     S <   154m  31%   0   8% X :0 -br -nolisten tcp
 6626  5229 root     S     128m  26%   0   4% /usr/lib/opera/opera
 5306     1 root     S    21504   4%   0   1% /root/Startup/parcellite
 5390     1 root     S    19392   4%   0   1% /usr/local/firewallstate/firewallstate

opera-12.14 was released the same time I released this beta, so it's likely there was a major bug in 12.13 (Feb 1) so maybe it's cured? I posted about this earlier, there is a new opera pet at ibiblio and mirrors.

01micko wrote:Chromium is uploaded.

chromium-24.0.1312.56-i486-s14.pet 43 M (should be at nluug and other mirrors soon)

Hi Mick

I am interested to understand why you didn't compile
chromium-25.0.1323
as this is the one in the slacky.eu repository....
it's been available since November and apparently works fine - I use it all the time.

Cheers
peebee

peebee wrote: Hi Mick

I am interested to understand why you didn't compile
chromium-25.0.1323
as this is the one in the slacky.eu repository....
it's been available since November and apparently works fine - I use it all the time.

Cheers
peebee

Simply because I could not find the slackbuild! I expect they may have just repackaged the deb version.

While I had the source I searched for a way to disable the "run as root" message, but it was a bit out of sight for me.

EDIT: it seems the latest stable version is chromium-24.0.1312.69, anything from 25 series is beta and 26 dev (at this point in time).

see http://www.chromium.org/developers/calendar

EDIT: just compiled 24.0.1312.69, 3h12m59s on an AMD Athlon X2, 2GB RAM, 2GB Swap, slackware-14.0, NO X running. (Slackbuilds compile in RAM so hdd speed is of little importance).

EDIT: 24.0.1312.69 now up at ibiblio, mirrors will follow within 24hrs

Just wanted to report that things are still operating smoothly with the frugal install of 5.4.0.2 on the Athlon XP box.....

Had the chance to wind up my old K7N420Pro (MSI) board yesterday. That's the one with the nV chipset, just before nV was acquired. A real beast. It failed to run stably with either Slacko or Precise using the onboard nV graphics with any driver. The trick is to write out the nV graphics in BIOS and install an ATI card! Works OK then, even with o'c-ing.

Noticed that both Slacko and Precise still contain the disappearing sr0 bug, despite much earlier discussion. Remember: a quick r.h. click on the sr0 icon causes it to disappear rather than offer the options menu. Can't remember what was the outcome of previous reports?

Latest Flash Player from GetFlash (11.2.202.262) working fine with Opera 12.13 on this Pentium D machine on Slacko 5.4.0.2.

Just d/l Libreoffice4.0
Created Pet and Installed.

Very fast - no problems to report on this version.

Samba -4.0 is uploaded.

Boy they have shrunk it, only 12M, was around 40M in 3 series IIRC

http://distro.ibiblio.org/puppylinux/pe ... 0-i486.pet .. mirrors will catch up soon.

Has the "Samba Simple Management" gui, useful for simple setups. For more complex setups SWAT is usually used but seems broken. Oh.

I notice in the release notes that "share modes" has been removed. I suspect that this refers to the "security=share" option often used in Puppy Samba packages for simple, unauthenticated filesharing.

In the recent Samba 3 releases, this feature was being flagged as deprecated.

Have you tested this?

Yes, doesn't work.

I might remove the swat stuff and reupload, broken in this build anyway, and swat is a pain. The simple gui should be enough for most home users.

Also, with the new "categories.dat" PPM totally changes the menu entry! I don't know why it would do that for something packaged for puppy . I think I might have to fool it using a different name, one not in categories .dat or at least one that falls under Network.

For some reason "Samba" is pigeon-holed under "BuildingBlock"

On a side note, many compiled packages with desktop files might need rebuilding :EDIT: no, easier to edit categories.dat if needed