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[futwerk]

Great work guys, slacko runs like a charm.

[Icyos]

Hi All

Many thanks for all the fab hard work may I just say we need more app's in the repos, also what is the max ram it can see please??????

[Stripe]

Hi icyos

ammount of ram seen depends on the version you are using

the 5.3-main can see about 3.5Gb of ram
the 5.3-PAE (SCSI) can see upto 63Gb(I think) of ram, well all of my 8Gb anyway

Hope this helps

Don

[Aitch]

Hi mick.....late to the party, I know....

I've just burned and booted slacko, pretty painless boot up, all OK, with 1 minor annoyance....
I have a usb VOIP phone and a Behringer UCA202 audio device, and my favourite sounds are playing through my VOIP phone....

Any idea what I need to do to specify/identify the Behringer as my main usb sound device, yet still get voice through the usb voip phone?

Also, a bit of a niggle,.... I specified 1024x768x16 for my video in xorg, to suit my poor eyesight and crap monitor, and xorg then informed me I had an SIS chipset and it needed tweaking or something, answer yes or no to proceed with tweak.....it reset my video to 1200x1024x24.....great picture, but text unreadable by my poor eyes.....so I had to answer no when re-running the xorg wizard to keep my settings

Otherwise, networking setup easily, 1st run of seamonkey installed flash....which promptly crashed on testing youtube...but otherwise, OK

savefile created OK, and smooth reboot

NICE! ....just I need the sound setup info, please

Aitch

[01micko]

Hi Aitch,

As a matter of fact I have a UCA202 (I think, if not an earlier similar model) in my shed, just haven't tested it yet.

You can try the multiple sound card wizard, by kirk, it is called by:

[Sage]

[Aitch]

Tman made a dotpet of the Multiple Sound Card Wizard

http://smokey01.com/Tman/apps/Multiple_Soundcard_Wizard.pet

Info thread, here

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=64841

Woohoo!

....though I'm still in windoze, so will be trying it soon

edit: yabbadabbadoo - it works! Youtube/music AND skypephone

Thanks, Tman/Mick/Kirk

Aitch

[Icyos]

[Icyos]

[Karl Godt]

Congrats for Slacko !
uname -a : Linux kalleSlackoFrugalnormKernel 2.6.37.6 #1 SMP Sun Jul 10 08:27:28 EST 2011 i686 GNU/Linux

runs well as all other puppies on my average P4-2,4GHz:448MBram:NV18-Board-Chip-Rev-A2 desktop pc .

PUPMODE=5
Working OK :
xsane-0.997/sane-1.0.21
cups-1.4.6:setup,printing directly from geany-0.20
sound:2barks to hear
the firstrun-wizard for language,hostname,etcetera

What i like :
desktop,icons,theme
no direct to desktop like lupu,new wary/racy
cups_shell ; )
not much in xerrs.log,bootinit.log,bootsysinit.log

Whats new :
xorg-server-1.9.5 ( Puppy4=1.3.0,5=1.7.x,new racy=1.11.0 )
/lib/libc-2.13.so
/usr/lib/libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0.2400.4
/usr/lib/libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.0.2300.3

What i can live with :
There had been suggestions on the forum to run the firstrun-wizard with an '&' , so the tray icons would show up in parallel , not after all that procedure .

Expect everything would work ok after restart .
Though , doing a cp -r /initrd/pup_rw to hostpartition/folder now , and try the encrypted savefile .

Very fine Puppy !!

[tasmod]

Psync updated to version 2.7.

Quite a bug that no-one mentioned till now.

The standard unaltered '/etc/clock' file contains two very similar lines.

I rewrote Psync a few versions back to accomodate 'hardware clock as UTC' being set in zone wizard. However the zone wizard rewrites the '/etc/clock' file with a one line UTC entry.

In my defence, I didn't see this at the time of testing as I had already run the zone wizard, so the new code faulted on a standard 'clock' file and didn't set the hardware clock. The software clock however was changed so most users wouldn't notice.

[Sage]

[Karl Godt]

Short note : The new shutdown-yaf-gui || && rc.shutdown [together]
seem to have failed copying the new installed files ie libflashplayer
to the ext2 encrypted heavy crypta file .

The crypta savefile on none-OS ntfs partition had been created

AND mounted at reboot successfully :

# cat /etc/rc.d/BOOTCONFIG
LASTUNIONRECORD='slackosave_crypta-2011_10_29_ext2_cryptA.2fs puppy_slacko_5.3.sfs

# mount
/dev/sda4 on /initrd/mnt/dev_save type fuseblk (rw,noatime,user_id=0,group_id=0,default_permissions,blksize=4096)
/dev/loop1 on /initrd/pup_rw type ext2 (rw,noatime,errors=continue)

# df
/dev/sda4 14964544 10477376 4487168 71% /initrd/mnt/dev_save
/dev/loop1 516040 6560 509480 2% /initrd/pup_rw

# lsmod
fuse 47224 2
aufs 119510 92
nls_iso8859_1 2945 0
nls_cp437 4473 0
squashfs 16791 1
cryptoloop 1491 1
aes_generic 25914 1
cbc 1971 1
ns558 1567 0

So the mounting of heavy encrypted save files @boot is not that problem ,
but the new shutdown [combination] and its save to the personal storage file [ i am guessing for now it had mounted it on wrong fstype or read-only ] .

[personal taste : don't like yaf much , especially the timeout thingy is kinda flaky ] .

The desktop is fun to look at : gtk-stock-icon "error" or whatever its name is everywhere , no background picture .

The command
# gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders --update-cache

worked great to make mtpaint-3-34-63 show up ;
AND also the desktop icons get back to their image picture , after hoovering with the mouse pointer over them !

I had thought gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders would have been inside rc.update but it is
/usr/bin/gtk-update-icon-cache -f /usr/share/icons/hicolor/

The further remarks by me regarding all this would go to the shutdown thread in the Cutting Edge section .
[ note : i have not tested shutdown via prompt AND to light cryptx savefile ]

[Karl Godt]

Now I have restored the files from backup ,

mtpaint-3.34.63 works OK saving LAYERS > Save composite image , while 3.34.64 and 3.34.69 froze @racy .

[arcanis]

Now using Slacko on multisession CD. No issues so far.

I still love 5.2.8 and hope that some more .pets appear for 5.3...really the only things I want are a wbar and the ability to disable the screen saver, which I really could learn to do from the command line if I just would cowboy up.

Should I post the 'disable screensaver' feature in the 'suggestions' subsection of the forum?