ThinSlacko - March 2013 (deltas released May 2013)
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.
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.
greengeek
try:
failing that:
Let us know
try:
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puppy pfix=ram nouveau,noaccel=1
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puppy pfix=ram nouveau,modeset=0
Let us know
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Broadcom wl driver
LxPup = Puppy + LXDE
Main version used daily: LxPupSc; Assembler of UPups, ScPup & ScPup64, LxPup, LxPupSc & LxPupSc64
Main version used daily: LxPupSc; Assembler of UPups, ScPup & ScPup64, LxPup, LxPupSc & LxPupSc64
Re: Broadcom wl driver
Did the sfs load ok in pfix=ram? (I saw your failure in PHAT)
Thanks for the drivers!
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Re: Broadcom wl driver
No problems on ThinSlacko......with or without the a-drive - I tested both.01micko wrote:Did the sfs load ok in pfix=ram? (I saw your failure in PHAT)
Thanks for the drivers!
LxPup = Puppy + LXDE
Main version used daily: LxPupSc; Assembler of UPups, ScPup & ScPup64, LxPup, LxPupSc & LxPupSc64
Main version used daily: LxPupSc; Assembler of UPups, ScPup & ScPup64, LxPup, LxPupSc & LxPupSc64
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:01micko wrote:try:Code: Select all
puppy pfix=ram nouveau,noaccel=1 puppy pfix=ram nouveau,modeset=0
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# 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
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. ... 021#706021
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Re: ThinSlacko - March 2013
Do you think it could run on my Libretto 50ct?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.
I can overclock it to 166mhz... but I havent yet.
Specs attached.
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Re: ThinSlacko - March 2013
No, don't think so.Q5sys wrote:Do you think it could run on my Libretto 50ct?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.
I can overclock it to 166mhz... but I havent yet.
Specs attached.
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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.
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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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
PeeBee
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
PeeBee
LxPup = Puppy + LXDE
Main version used daily: LxPupSc; Assembler of UPups, ScPup & ScPup64, LxPup, LxPupSc & LxPupSc64
Main version used daily: LxPupSc; Assembler of UPups, ScPup & ScPup64, LxPup, LxPupSc & LxPupSc64
Well the main sfs will rather shrink than growpeebee 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
PeeBee
Maybe it can go to adrive.
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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?
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?
Looks like the savefile isn't being found at boot. How exactly did you install? Where is the save file in relation to the other files? (vmlinuz, initrd.gz, puppy_slacko_5.5.01.sfs)lemmy999 wrote: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.
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I installed using the Puppy Universal installer. The savefile resides on a different partition.
Guess that may answer my question- partition isn't mounted until after Puppy boots and therefore the savefile isn't going to be visible. I'll try making a savefile within the Puppy partition and see if it makes any difference.
Guess that may answer my question- partition isn't mounted until after Puppy boots and therefore the savefile isn't going to be visible. I'll try making a savefile within the Puppy partition and see if it makes any difference.
Re: NM10
Hi raffy,raffy wrote:On Intel NM10 laptop with 1024x600 screen, direct rendering works at 175 fps (glxgears). However, xorgwizard has to be commanded at first boot to get into X (same with PHATslacko).
Did not see VLC, so installed it via PPM/puppy-slacko14 together with ffmpeg. When playing video full-screen, load gets to as high as 85% CPU utilization (only 75% in PHATlacko).
Had to reboot 2x to use adrv (is this correct?).
Thanks, Micko.
First, adrive should load on first boot. It must be in the same location as the other puppy files (see example I offered lemmy999 above). Also, xorgwizard is probably to be expected for these machines. I tried to get them going to desktop but I think something is missing. I do not have access to one for tests. All feedback has been from JustGreg, and great his help was too.
Second, I have no idea why cpu usage for VLC is higher in Thin than PHAT, but I do know why it is high for your machine. It's to do with the lack of an accelerated video driver for your machine (see tempestuous' explanantion, mention of lousy MPlayer performance). Also, the cpu is a bit of an underperformer for a newish device.
HTH
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Some proprietary graphics drivers for ThinSlacko. Catalyst and Nvidia.
http://www.smokey01.com/pemasu/spup/
http://www.smokey01.com/pemasu/spup/
Mouse hover
Seems quite zippy this distro!
Any way of changing the icon when the mouse hovers over close boxes and the like? where does it live? Gbdfed, xcur2png, cursor.pcf all draw a blank.
It's the "glyph"(s) I would like to change.
Any way of changing the icon when the mouse hovers over close boxes and the like? where does it live? Gbdfed, xcur2png, cursor.pcf all draw a blank.
It's the "glyph"(s) I would like to change.