Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

[artsown]

Micko, I'm not sure my "hang" problem starting one machine here is worth pursuing, but I want to
update you on something just in case you put effort into it. Recall I had mentioned that disconnecting
the cables from the DVD drive allowed slacko to start. But that was not the case when I tried both
PAE and 4G versions of 5.5. I can't get either to start. The message at the point of hang is:
Recognising media devices ... optical input_
where the last character is the frozen cursur. However, I've seen freezes where there was no
cursor, and also where there was no word "input" at the end.

The freezes only occur when attempting a fresh frugal. If I manage to get it started and create
a personal save file, I don't experience any more freezeups during startup.

The machine is a Dell Dimension 8200 with a p4 2.0 ghz cpu and 768 meg RAM. It does have
a USB 2.0 upgrade PCI card. I looked at the IRQ assignments in the BIOS and was tempted
to play with them, but the machine works fine and I don't want to mess it up i I did pull that
USB card but that didn't affect the freeze problem. The machine though does have a problem
when I try PLOP on a boot diskestte to get a puppy frugal on a USB drive to boot. PLOP works
fine on my other desktops, so this quirk is another oddity of the Dell 8200 that I don't know
the cause of.

Art

[dejan555]

Here are some apps compiled on slacko 5.5

Fluxbox WM:
after install exit x then type "xwin startfluxbox"
fluxbox-1.3.5-i686-slacko55.pet

Optional:
fluxbox_STYLES-1.3.5-i686-slacko55.pet
fluxbox_DOC-1.3.5-i686-slacko55.pet


Ncurses IRC client
weechat-0.4.0-i686-slacko55.pet

Optional:
weechat_DEV-0.4.0-i686-slacko55.pet

Multiprotocol chat client:
pidgin-2.10.7-i686-slacko55.pet

Optional:
pidgin_NLS-2.10.7-i686-slacko55.pet
pidgin_DOC-2.10.7-i686-slacko55.pet
pidgin_DEV-2.10.7-i686-slacko55.pet

[Doglover]

I am having trouble with connecting wirelessly with my rt2500 card, it works flawlessly in dpup.

rt2500 did not work with the previous slacko either.

I use Dougal's. Cannot figure it out. Tried Frisbee and the
Simple Network Setup and no luck at all.

[artsown]

Doglover, have you tried this workaround?

http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=84266

[gcmartin]

Hi _SWE and welcome to Puppyland

The PAE version has a newer kernel than the 4G version.You may find that one version may have better results in working with your hardware than the other, especially in an Out of the box (OOTB) boot.

Please ID which distro you are using so that community can replicate and assist.

[duke93535]

I have found four missing font types in Slacko compared to Precise. The problem is the file “local.conf” in /etc/fonts. Replacing it with the one from Precise fixes this. Barry has most of that file remarked out.

I also dropped back to JWM 590 because of incompatibility with the tray icon for VLC media player. May have something to do with running xcompmgr.

[Jim1911]

Working great on my hardware.

Thanks,
Jim

[loubapache]

Slack 5.5 4G

Tried on two different computers and wireless does not work on either.

Computer 1: Dell 11z with Broadcom wireless adapter. It can never connect so I blacklisted the one recognized by slacko and used a windows driver via ndiswrapper. That worked. However, after each shutdown/reboot with lightly encrypted save file, everything is lost and I had to re-connect. Tried the link posted by "artsown" and it did not make a difference.

Computer 2: This one has a RTL8192cu wireless adapter. Again slacko recognized it but can never connect. After blacklist the default driver and install a windows driver using ndiswrapper, it connected. However, after shutdown/reboot, it will not be automatically connected.

Downloaded pcmanfm from the repo. Several missing library files.

Other than that, things seem to work.

Thanks,

[Ray MK]

Slacko Puppy version 5.5, released Mar 2013
# uname -a
Linux puppypc32595 3.2.33-4g #1 SMP Fri Nov 2 20:42:54 EST 2012 i686 Intel(R) Core(TM) i3 CPU M 370 @ 2.40GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
# free
total used free shared buffers
Mem: 1804992 519916 1285076 0 26380
-/+ buffers: 493536 1311456
Swap:
# top
Mem: 533024K used, 1271968K free, 0K shrd, 28952K buff, 350504K cached
CPU: 4% usr 1% sys 0% nic 93% idle 0% io 0% irq 0% sirq
Load average: 0.08 0.16 0.21 2/113 6697

Uptime = 3 days and running perfect throughout - suspend / resume, wifi, browser, the lot - Luvly Puppy. Many thanks.

[_SWE]

[rcrsn51]

@_SWE: On Page 2, you were given some suggestions. What is your update on them?

[_SWE]

[_SWE]

[_SWE]

All versions and puppys I tried so far have been non-PAE,

The reason for that is pentium-M ! The laptops we have dont have that PAE-flag in processor, I think it is still without PAE in the HP/qompac n620c for example, I can investigate this further maybe, but my guess is that all Pentium M 1.4-1.6MHz from year 2003-2005 Does not have a PAE-flag. http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/quickspecs/11580_div/11580_div.HTML <-- That one is one of more professional series laptops I have. Very nice and (was) about 3 000 usd.. Not tested any Puppy on it yet. Regarding the error in IBM NetVista desktop tower, yes, that should be a P4 and should also have the PAE flag, I will remove the extra power-hungry AGP-card and test the other ISO when I have the time.

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[gcmartin]