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greengeek

Joined: 20 Jul 2010 Posts: 4936 Location: Republic of Novo Zelande
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Posted: Sun 31 Mar 2013, 15:03 Post subject:
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Are there any special considerations to installing the GZ iso? I just did my usual frugal, copying across the sfs, vmlinuz and initrd.gz but it "boots" into a very weird and unusable (but very pretty) kaleidoscope of cyan / white / speckly lines and smudges all over the screen. Had to use hard power off to clear.
This is a Toshiba TE2100 lappy with 2ghz and 512MB and with nvidia GeForce4 420 Go video card (which usually has no trouble running any puppy, including the previous THINslacko - although most of my puppies do not run any acceleration)
md5 checks out.
Will try on a couple of other machines as I really want to use thinSlacko as a base for remastering a special purpose puppy.
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01micko

Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 8670 Location: qld
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Posted: Sun 31 Mar 2013, 15:25 Post subject:
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greengeek
try: Code: | puppy pfix=ram nouveau,noaccel=1 |
failing that: Code: | puppy pfix=ram nouveau,modeset=0 |
Let us know
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Ted Dog

Joined: 13 Sep 2005 Posts: 4013 Location: Heart of Texas
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Posted: Sun 31 Mar 2013, 15:29 Post subject:
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LOL posting this with the links browser, not as horrible as I recalled it to be. Just remember <Esc> for drop down menu
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peebee

Joined: 21 Sep 2008 Posts: 3253 Location: Worcestershire, UK
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Posted: Sun 31 Mar 2013, 16:15 Post subject:
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Broadcom wl driver
for ThinSlacko 5.5.01 is available:
here
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01micko

Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 8670 Location: qld
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Posted: Sun 31 Mar 2013, 16:28 Post subject:
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peebee wrote: | Broadcom wl driver
for ThinSlacko 5.5.01 is available:
here | Did the sfs load ok in pfix=ram? (I saw your failure in PHAT)
Thanks for the drivers!
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peebee

Joined: 21 Sep 2008 Posts: 3253 Location: Worcestershire, UK
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Posted: Sun 31 Mar 2013, 16:30 Post subject:
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01micko wrote: | peebee wrote: | Broadcom wl driver
for ThinSlacko 5.5.01 is available:
here | Did the sfs load ok in pfix=ram? (I saw your failure in PHAT)
Thanks for the drivers! |
No problems on ThinSlacko......with or without the a-drive - I tested both.
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greengeek

Joined: 20 Jul 2010 Posts: 4936 Location: Republic of Novo Zelande
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Posted: Sun 31 Mar 2013, 19:12 Post subject:
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01micko wrote: | try: Code: | puppy pfix=ram nouveau,noaccel=1
puppy pfix=ram nouveau,modeset=0 |
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Neither worked unfortunately...however, maybe I'm using the parameters in a different way to what you intended? I am simply appending each one to the kernel line of the menu.lst stanza:
Code: | # Linux bootable partition config begins
title thinslackonewGZ frugal in sda1 dir thinslackonewGZ
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
kernel /thinslackonewGZ/vmlinuz pmedia=atahd psubdir=thinslackonewGZ pfix=ram nouveau,noaccel=1
initrd /thinslackonewGZ/initrd.gz
# Linux bootable partition config ends |
(now that I think about it I have no savefile anyway...)
Maybe this would work differently when entering the code manually when booting Live from a CD?
I have another "identical" laptop which seems to work better than this one for some reason so will make some comparisons and post back if I have no joy. Thanks for the suggestions.
EDIT : Solution for my problem is here:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=706021#706021
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Adagio
Joined: 06 May 2011 Posts: 126 Location: TerraAustralis
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Posted: Sun 31 Mar 2013, 20:12 Post subject:
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Heh, what fun using Links browser.
It has improved a bit since I last used it in another lifetime.
Using it now, it makes the appearance of the forum more bearable.
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Q5sys

Joined: 11 Dec 2008 Posts: 1126
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Posted: Sun 31 Mar 2013, 21:33 Post subject:
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01micko wrote: | This is Slacko designed for slightly older kit. It should run fine on a PIII 600MHz with 256MB RAM, or even lower specs. Flies on fast kit.
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Do you think it could run on my Libretto 50ct?
I can overclock it to 166mhz... but I havent yet.
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starhawk
Joined: 22 Nov 2010 Posts: 5056 Location: Everybody knows this is nowhere...
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Posted: Sun 31 Mar 2013, 21:46 Post subject:
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Q5sys, I've sent you a PM.
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01micko

Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 8670 Location: qld
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Posted: Sun 31 Mar 2013, 22:05 Post subject:
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Q5sys wrote: | 01micko wrote: | This is Slacko designed for slightly older kit. It should run fine on a PIII 600MHz with 256MB RAM, or even lower specs. Flies on fast kit.
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Do you think it could run on my Libretto 50ct?
I can overclock it to 166mhz... but I havent yet.
Specs attached. | No, don't think so.
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James C

Joined: 26 Mar 2009 Posts: 6717 Location: Kentucky
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Posted: Tue 02 Apr 2013, 00:40 Post subject:
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Still doing fine on my Athlon XP box.
Only real thing I've had to do was a bit of tweaking to get some smaller fonts.... otherwise smooth sailing.
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peebee

Joined: 21 Sep 2008 Posts: 3253 Location: Worcestershire, UK
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Hi Mick
There is a library: libstartup-notification-1.so
that is present in Slacko 5.5 and in PhatSlacko but isn't included in either sfs for ThinSlacko.....
It's not very big so if it could be included for consistency in the main ThinSlacko sfs in a future version that would be great.
Cheers
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01micko

Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 8670 Location: qld
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Posted: Tue 02 Apr 2013, 16:20 Post subject:
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peebee wrote: | Hi Mick
There is a library: libstartup-notification-1.so
that is present in Slacko 5.5 and in PhatSlacko but isn't included in either sfs for ThinSlacko.....
It's not very big so if it could be included for consistency in the main ThinSlacko sfs in a future version that would be great.
Cheers
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Well the main sfs will rather shrink than grow
Maybe it can go to adrive.
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lemmy999
Joined: 12 Jan 2008 Posts: 104
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Posted: Wed 03 Apr 2013, 11:58 Post subject:
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Hi Mick
Nice Pup. Installed nicely onto my EEEPC 1000HG. On the way out it created a savefile ( as you'd expect). On reboot I installed Chromium from PPM. Ran into the usual "running Chrome as root" issue. On exit it prompted me ( again) to create a savefile??. Definitely something not right.
On my next boot Chromium was totally missing!!
Any thoughts?
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