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Posted: Thu 21 Mar 2013, 20:01
by Tasgarth
Posted: Thu 21 Mar 2013, 21:54
by Karl Godt
mini-jaguar wrote:I seem to have a problem with rebooting.
If I shut down, shuts down regularly, no problems.
However, if I reboot, it gets stuck after the:
"acpid: exiting
# _"
line.
4G version.
I have checked the md5.
It does this every time, tried about 10-15 times at least. USB or hd installation, does it in both cases. I tried USB at first, the installed to the hard drive.
(edit: by the way, it only does this only on a Dell Inspiron 1501, works fine on another computer I tried)
I have the same problem with 2.6.37.x and 3.x kernels on my Dell-Optiplex 745 and 755 . The kernel source has some reboot fixes for Dell but only few dell are mentioned there . I am experimenting with the kernel parameter " reboot=f " and busybox reboot -f | busybox reboot -f -n in the /sbin/reboot script with unreliable successes - sometimes works, sometimes not .
French language pack
Posted: Fri 22 Mar 2013, 06:43
by Arefacti
thanks !
Posted: Sat 23 Mar 2013, 17:23
by mini-jaguar
Karl Godt wrote:mini-jaguar wrote:I seem to have a problem with rebooting.
If I shut down, shuts down regularly, no problems.
However, if I reboot, it gets stuck after the:
"acpid: exiting
# _"
line.
4G version.
I have checked the md5.
It does this every time, tried about 10-15 times at least. USB or hd installation, does it in both cases. I tried USB at first, the installed to the hard drive.
(edit: by the way, it only does this only on a Dell Inspiron 1501, works fine on another computer I tried)
I have the same problem with 2.6.37.x and 3.x kernels on my Dell-Optiplex 745 and 755 . The kernel source has some reboot fixes for Dell but only few dell are mentioned there . I am experimenting with the kernel parameter " reboot=f " and busybox reboot -f | busybox reboot -f -n in the /sbin/reboot script with unreliable successes - sometimes works, sometimes not .
This certainly hasn't been my experience with the 3.x kernels. A very small minority of them had problems, 10% at most, rest worked fine.
Slacko Repos
Posted: Sun 24 Mar 2013, 17:06
by jmccoy1
Hi - recently made a frugal install of Slacko 5.5 to upgrade my EeePC 900A from 5.4. GREAT OS! Everything works OTB. Thanks, Mick!
I have one suggestion, though. Perhaps the note about using Packages-puppy-slacko14-official could be in the release announcement? I had some problems with Gnome-Mplayer and tried to install about 6 versions of VLC before I found the feedback and bug reports thread and installed the right one (all is well, now).
error gimp entry menu
Posted: Wed 27 Mar 2013, 16:30
by wahyu
Hello, thanks for this awesome distro ...
i use in my Acer Aspire One AO722, all hw detected corectly...
just wanna report that i get this error menu after load gimp-2.8.2.sfs
how to fix this? thanks.
Posted: Thu 28 Mar 2013, 00:10
by don570
Try my packages of Gimp. They might be better packaged
to avoid double entries..
Gimp 2.8.4 for Slacko and Precise
.
Re: error gimp entry menu
Posted: Thu 28 Mar 2013, 14:53
by thunor
wahyu wrote:...
just wanna report that i get this error menu after load gimp-2.8.2.sfs
how to fix this? thanks.
I'm using that sfs without issue. Open a terminal and execute "grep gimp /usr/share/applications/*" -- you should only have gimp.desktop. The other place dekstop files go is ~/.local/share/applications.
I just want to report that this Puppy distro is absolutely fantastic. I've got a manual frugal install on a Compaq Presario C500 laptop with Intel graphics, Conexant audio and Broadcom wireless and I didn't have to do any fiddling, it just worked! It seems faster than my last slacko533 and it really looks nice. Also the majority of my games worked because the SDL libraries are built-in so I only had to compile SDL_sound and SDL_gfx.
I've downloaded audacious-3.3.1-i486.sfs because as you [Mick] said it comes with GTK+ 3 and I've actually used that to get a gtk3 test version of gtkdialog running, so I'm having a lot of fun at the moment
I didn't get on with JWM in slacko533 (SDL fullscreen corruption still) but I like Openbox with fbpanel anyway so it doesn't matter.
Awesome work, best Puppy that I've tried and you can even view TTF files now
Kindest regards,
Thunor
Re: error gimp entry menu
Posted: Thu 28 Mar 2013, 21:42
by 01micko
thunor wrote:I didn't get on with JWM in slacko533 (SDL fullscreen corruption still) but I like Openbox with fbpanel anyway so it doesn't matter.
JWM-692 (irrc this ships with) has many fullscreen bugs fixed, although I still have an issue with JWM-715 in virtualbox, though I can't be 100% sure that it is JWM. I'll do some more tests and report on Joe's github site. I don't have a problem running Nexuiz (Billtoo put me on to that one, a rather large shooter [~1 GB
], open source too, uses opengl or sdl, there is a choice).
Glad you are having fun
.
Posted: Mon 01 Apr 2013, 02:04
by 8-bit
I have been using Slacko 5.5 for a while and everything was working well.
So this may come under the category of "If it is not broke, don't fix it.
But I went to menu - desktop - fontwizard and clicked on all the options and tried apply.
All I saw initially was that the font in AbiWord seemed to be darker.
So I went back and unchecked those boxes.
Now, the fonts that appear in program headers, the menu, and other places seem ragged and I tried rechecking the boxes in fontwizard with no change.
So now I am at a loss as what to do beside reinstalling Slacko 5.5.
I should mention that the fonts were initially quite clear in all places and applications before I started playing with Fontwizard.
So, can this be verified that there is a problem with Fontwizard.
I do have the Nvidia pet installed by the way.
Also, is there an easy way out of my situation?
Posted: Tue 02 Apr 2013, 06:18
by 01micko
8-bit wrote:I have been using Slacko 5.5 for a while and everything was working well.
So this may come under the category of "If it is not broke, don't fix it.
But I went to menu - desktop - fontwizard and clicked on all the options and tried apply.
All I saw initially was that the font in AbiWord seemed to be darker.
So I went back and unchecked those boxes.
Now, the fonts that appear in program headers, the menu, and other places seem ragged and I tried rechecking the boxes in fontwizard with no change.
So now I am at a loss as what to do beside reinstalling Slacko 5.5.
I should mention that the fonts were initially quite clear in all places and applications before I started playing with Fontwizard.
So, can this be verified that there is a problem with Fontwizard.
I do have the Nvidia pet installed by the way.
Also, is there an easy way out of my situation?
Yes there is. Barry changed it, not so good for Slacko
. Easy fix, just delete ~/.fonts.conf (hidden file), restart X and you are back to square 1. If you still have problems search the LQ slackware threads for decent info.
Posted: Tue 02 Apr 2013, 06:25
by 8-bit
Thank you for that information!
I did not have a lot of stuff added to Slacko 5.5.00 so I made a new pupsave file and reinstalled the stuff I previously had.
I had forgot to mention that the monitor I am using is a LCD type and the fonts have always been very clear with any Puppy version.
Since I still have the old pupsave file though, I will try your suggestion and see what happens.
Thank you again.
Posted: Tue 02 Apr 2013, 17:46
by greengeek
Booted successfully from frugal install (without savefile) but during first shutdown (after selecting savefile parameters) I got messages regarding "Fixing recursive fault but reboot is needed". It was necessary to use the hard poweroff to complete shutdown.
Next reboot resulted in a corrupted desktop.
Toshiba TE2100 laptop
2GHz, 512MB.
EDIT : I deleted the savefile and tried again - this time successfully.
The first time around I had activated the firewall, and also changed timezone and language, so maybe that explains the different behaviour somehow.
I should have mentioned the savefile parameters are: ext2, 256MB
Hp printers on Slacko 5.5 and cam viewer
Posted: Tue 09 Apr 2013, 06:16
by watchdog
All working in my install of slacko 5.5 now but I had some hard problems due to the not mature repositories and a PPM not perfect. Attempting to install guvcview I destroyed my slackosave: I had success instead with wxcam from slackware14 repository and examining a few dependencies. I use wxcam with preloading libv4l or v4l-utils. I compiled 0.8.6 version of v4l-utils you can find in this post:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 726f43fd1e
Installing a hp printer-scanner all in one I had troubles: I had not success with hplip in repositories, neither puppy4 hplip works. I had success running the sh script from:
http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/in ... index.html
choosing debian 6.0 (slackware not listed). I don't have the skills to modify the script to put in a pet package the working hplip.
main sfs not found on SSD-drive
Posted: Tue 09 Apr 2013, 20:28
by rodin.s
Some interesting problem have been reported on Russian Puppy forum. I have made Russian
Slacko installer for Windows. After installation it in Windows-7 it gives message "main sfs not found". It was reported that Puppy directory with all files is created correctly. Windows installer creates something like this in menu.lst:
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title Slacko Puppy 55
find --set-root --ignore-floppies /Slacko-Puppy-55/initrd.gz
kernel /Slacko-Puppy-55/vmlinuz psubdir="Slacko-Puppy-55"
initrd /Slacko-Puppy-55/initrd.gz
boot
After modifying this line in menu.lst
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kernel /Slacko-Puppy-55/vmlinuz pmedia=ataflash psubdir="Slacko-Puppy-55" pupsfs=sda1:/Slacko-Puppy-55/puppy_slacko_5.5.sfs
main sfs was found, but there was kernel panic after switching to layered file system.
Precise-5.5 and Slacko-5.4 have also failed to find main sfs.
It's strange. Main sfs is not found even if it is next to vmlinuz and initrd.gz in the same directory and when in is specified as a parameter it gives kernel panic.
Installation on SSD-drive with one partition.
Re: Hp printers on Slacko 5.5 and cam viewer
Posted: Wed 10 Apr 2013, 15:15
by rcrsn51
watchdog wrote:Installing a hp printer-scanner all in one I had troubles:.
For information about printing in Puppy, read
here. It has print/scan drivers for your HP unit.
Re: main sfs not found on SSD-drive
Posted: Wed 10 Apr 2013, 15:25
by rcrsn51
rodin.s wrote:pmedia=ataflash ..... Installation on SSD-drive with one partition.
IIRC, there have been other reports of this problem with SSD's. I would try this.
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kernel /Slacko-Puppy-55/vmlinuz pmedia=cd
This is Puppy's most "aggressive" search mode.
However, the kernel panic suggests that Puppy is incompatible with the way that the SSD has been formatted.
Posted: Wed 10 Apr 2013, 20:41
by rodin.s
Thank you for the info. It might be useful.
Posted: Thu 11 Apr 2013, 01:38
by 01micko
rodin.s
Sounds to me like the driver for the ssd isn't loaded in time, or at all. Can you confirm if the driver exists in the initrd.gz? Or even in the main sfs?
Re: Hp printers on Slacko 5.5 and cam viewer
Posted: Thu 11 Apr 2013, 07:33
by watchdog
rcrsn51 wrote:watchdog wrote:Installing a hp printer-scanner all in one I had troubles:.
For information about printing in Puppy, read
here. It has print/scan drivers for your HP unit.
Thanks! I realized that your pets work on a fresh install. I always found hplip in repositories. With precise I use that of ubuntu repositories. With wary I use puppy4 hplip. I knew of your tutorial but it did not come in my mind.