slacko-5.6 Final - plus testing next

[peebee]

The pet for the Broadcom wl driver for kernel 3.10.1-pae is available from:

broadcom_sta_v5.100.82.112_patched_x86_32-k3.10.1pae-slacko.pet

If your wifi is disabled on boot - you may need "rfkill unblock wlan"

(p.s. I had a lot of trouble downloading Slacko 5.5.71 from Mick's servers to the UK - very slow speeds and corrupt downloads - just interested if anybody else has had these problems?? Eventually managed it with Mick's help - thanks).

[DaveS]

(p.s. I had a lot of trouble downloading Slacko 5.5.71 from Mick's servers to the UK - very slow speeds and corrupt downloads - just interested if anybody else has had these problems?? Eventually managed it with Mick's help - thanks).

Confirmed

[SFR]

Problem with bootmanager GUI on small displays, this naturally concerns also Slacko, see here:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 833#713833
My proposal is to use <notebook>, what do you think (see screenshot)?
Script (real .gz) also attached.

Greetings!

[Billtoo]

I did a manual frugal install of 5571 to a 4gb flash drive, it's
running on an EeePc 701SD which is connected to an external lcd
monitor + using a wireless mouse/keyboard combination.
Computer
Processor Intel(R) Celeron(R) M processor 900MHz
Memory 505MB (71MB used)
Machine Type Physical machine
Operating System Slacko Puppy - 5.5.71
User Name root (root)
Date/Time Tue 16 Jul 2013 02:21:01 PM EDT
Display
Resolution 1440x900 pixels
OpenGL Renderer Mesa DRI Intel(R) 915GM x86/MMX/SSE2
X11 Vendor The X.Org Foundation
Audio Devices
Audio Adapter HDA-Intel - HDA Intel
OpenGL
Vendor Tungsten Graphics, Inc
Renderer Mesa DRI Intel(R) 915GM x86/MMX/SSE2
Version 1.4 Mesa 8.0.4
Direct Rendering Yes
# glxgears
Running synchronized to the vertical refresh. The framerate should be
approximately the same as the monitor refresh rate.
190 frames in 5.0 seconds = 37.980 FPS
195 frames in 5.0 seconds = 38.777 FPS
218 frames in 5.0 seconds = 43.482 FPS
#
Atheros Communications Inc. AR242x / AR542x Wireless Network Adapter
(PCI-Express) (rev 01)

I installed xine-ui in ppm, it plays a dvd movie fine but crashs if I
try to go full screen with it, will give vlc a try later.

EDIT:I installed openboxp-1.0.1.pet and xine goes fullscreen without crashing now.

[01micko]

I installed xine-ui in ppm, it plays a dvd movie fine but crashs if I
try to go full screen with it, will give vlc a try later.

EDIT:I installed openboxp-1.0.1.pet and xine goes fullscreen without crashing now.

Hmmm... that's interesting. I might give it a try on my eee and enable debug in JWM and make a report to Joe.

Cheers

[01micko]

Problem with bootmanager GUI on small displays, this naturally concerns also Slacko, see here:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 833#713833
My proposal is to use <notebook>, what do you think (see screenshot)?
Script (real .gz) also attached.

Greetings!

Yeah, there are still quite a few GUI in Puppy that are not eee/netbook friendly. One workaround I use is the _check_screen_size_if_ smaller_than_this_then_vscrollable_ or something like that! I did submit a few of those to Barry, but well, you know, his blog gets busy and he probably missed them.

We really should start a thread for that. That way we have a collection and a link to send BK. Eventually they will make it into woof.

[anikin]

Hi Micko,
I'm testing 3.10.1 and have a quick question:

Section "Device"
Identifier "Card0"
Driver "intel"
VendorName "Intel Corporation"
BoardName "Intel Corporation Mobile 945GME Express Integrated Graphics"
Option "AccelMethod" "sna"
Option "DRI" "true"
BusID "PCI:0:2:0"
EndSection

and

(WW) intel(0): Option "AccelMethod" is not used

Why is that? What's being used instead? Do I have "sna", or not?

[Billtoo]

Hmmm... that's interesting. I might give it a try on my eee and enable debug in JWM and make a report to Joe.

Cheers

Here's xine running under jwm on the latest raring 3.9.9, xine is a
newer version, the pc has the intel ironlake chip, pemasu compiled the
latest intel driver for this new release, lots different.
Anyhow, it doesn't crash under jwm.

[01micko]

I will stick with k3.10 series for the high end (PAE) version. I will wait until 3.10.1 before compiling. With the newer kernels though and an older lib base (slackware-14.0's base is approaching 12 months old, that is ancient in Linux Years) we run the risk of poor driver support in the graphics stack. A few kernel devs are also Xorg devs (Alan Cox comes to mind) so the kernel and Xorg are undergoing some parallel developments.

Billtoo, therein is your answer. I doubt that a newer intel driver will compile against the current mesa/xorg. I can try it I guess.

See if it crashes with k3.4.52 and that will supply proof (that is, if your chip even runs).

[Billtoo]

I will stick with k3.10 series for the high end (PAE) version. I will wait until 3.10.1 before compiling. With the newer kernels though and an older lib base (slackware-14.0's base is approaching 12 months old, that is ancient in Linux Years) we run the risk of poor driver support in the graphics stack. A few kernel devs are also Xorg devs (Alan Cox comes to mind) so the kernel and Xorg are undergoing some parallel developments.

Billtoo, therein is your answer. I doubt that a newer intel driver will compile against the current mesa/xorg. I can try it I guess.

See if it crashes with k3.4.52 and that will supply proof (that is, if your chip even runs).

I didn't mean to be critical, the fact that I can watch dvd movies on my old eeepc 701sd under slacko is great, they play perfectly,

[01micko]

I didn't mean to be critical, the fact that I can watch dvd movies on my old eeepc 701sd under slacko is great, they play perfectly,

I didn't mean to dodge the issue either. . We'll see what can be done.

As far as what I meant goes, does 3.4.52 run on the ironlake? If so, any good?

[Billtoo]

See if it crashes with k3.4.52 and that will supply proof (that is, if your chip even runs).

video-info-glx 1.5.1 Tue 16 Jul 2013 on Slacko Puppy 5.5.70 Linux 3.4.52 i686
2.0 VGA compatible controller:
Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 18)
oem: Intel(R)Ironlake Desktop Graphics Chipset Accelerated VGA BIOS
product: Intel(R)Ironlake Desktop Graphics Controller Hardware Version 0.0
X Server: Xorg Driver: intel
X.Org version: 1.12.4
dimensions: 1920x1080 pixels (507x285 millimeters)
depth of root window: 24 planes
direct rendering: Yes
server glx vendor string: SGI
server glx version string: 1.4
OpenGL vendor string: Tungsten Graphics, Inc
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI Intel(R) Ironlake Desktop x86/MMX/SSE2
OpenGL version string: 2.1 Mesa 8.0.4
Intel(R) Core(TM) i3 CPU 540 @ 3.07GHz
Core 0: @1200 1: @1200 2: @1200 3: @1200 MHz

Here's xine running fullscreen (Welcome to MoosePort) under jwm.
It wouldn't under jwm on the eeepc but okay here.
One advantage of the newest intel driver is that it supports 2
monitors, this one doesn't offer that option in pupcontrol.

EDIT:
I moved my flash drive over to a pc with the intel ivybridge chip,
xine works fine on it too at full screen.

direct rendering: Yes
server glx vendor string: SGI
server glx version string: 1.4
OpenGL vendor string: Tungsten Graphics, Inc
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI Intel(R) Ivybridge Desktop x86/MMX/SSE2
OpenGL version string: 2.1 Mesa 8.0.4

[gcmartin]

You can get SLACKO Beta here, also

Alternate site for downloading Slacko Beta version 5.5.71 PAE with latest Linux kernel

• slacko-5.5.71-SCSI.iso
  slacko-5.5.71-SCSI.iso.md5.txt
  
  devx_slacko_5.5.71.sfs
  devx_slacko_5.5.71.sfs.md5.txt

Alternate site for downloading Slacko Beta version 5.5.70 with older Linux kernel
(coming)

Provides very good download performance. Please report any problems.

[shinobar]

Um, I guess you mean ff-convert-1.3.2 . Thanks very much! This ffmpeg thing has been a headache, but I know Sigmund has put a lot of work into PMusic-4.1 and I didn't want to back out.

I will test directly

----test result----

Negative

I think because syntax for the output of -formats and -codecs is different (note, now using ffmpeg-2.0 because of mplayer issues).

I have tested on
slacko-5.5.71-SCSI.iso
http://01micko.com/packages/ffmpeg-2.0-i686-s14.0.pet
http://01micko.com/packages/mplayer-exp ... -s14.0.pet
http://shino.pos.to/linux/puppy/ffconvert-1.3.2.pet

No problem but need to use 'h264' and 'ac3' instead of 'libx264' and 'libfaac' for the ffconvert MPEG4-AVC encoding.

[DaveS]

This is odd. Have tried and tried to recreate a full install to USB using F2FS installer and failed every time. Terminal crashes immediately after gparted has finished.

[gcmartin]

Running pristine LIve media (DVD) and also tested via Netbooting from LH64. All seemingly works as expected on my meager Laptop.

BTW, thanks for the IP address in the taskbar icon. Great addition. Dont have to open the "Network status Information" to see current IPs. THX!

System Reports following
# uname -a
Linux Slacko5571Laptop1 3.10.1 #1 SMP Sun Jul 14 11:03:59 EST 2013 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.50GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux

# free
total used free shared buffers
Mem: 1025172 908696 116476 0 203484
-/+ buffers: 705212 319960
Swap: 4295676 4 4295672

# video-info-glx -r
video-info-glx 1.5.1 Wed 17 Jul 2013 on Slacko Puppy 5.5.71 Linux 3.10.1 i686
2.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Graphics Controller (rev 03)
oem: Intel(r)915GM/910ML/915MS Graphics Chip Accelerated VGA BIOS
product: Intel(r)915GM/910ML/915MS Graphics Controller Hardware Version 0.0

X Server: Xorg Driver: intel
X.Org version: 1.12.4
dimensions: 1280x800 pixels (338x211 millimeters)
depth of root window: 24 planes

direct rendering: Yes
server glx vendor string: SGI
server glx version string: 1.4
OpenGL vendor string: Tungsten Graphics, Inc
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI Intel(R) 915GM x86/MMX/SSE2
OpenGL version string: 1.4 Mesa 8.0.4

Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.50GHz
Core 0: @1500 MHz

[gcmartin]

My system with FF looks like below. Again, running in LIve mode. Running browsers as root...not spot.

Question
When a FF browser is running, is the system doing compression/decompression of FF program modules while FF operates?

Curious

[Billtoo]

Manual frugal install to a 32gb SDHC card, computer is an AAO netbook
connected to an external monitor via a hdmi cable.

video-info-glx 1.5.1 Wed 17 Jul 2013 on Slacko Puppy 5.5.70 Linux 3.4.52 i686
5.0 VGA compatible controller:
ATI Technologies Inc M880G [Mobility Radeon HD 4200]
oem: ATI ATOMBIOS
product: RS880M 01.00
X Server: Xorg Driver: fglrx
X.Org version: 1.12.4
dimensions: 2944x1080 pixels (778x285 millimeters)
depth of root window: 24 planes
direct rendering: Yes
server glx vendor string: ATI
server glx version string: 1.4
OpenGL vendor string: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4200 Series
OpenGL version string: 3.3.11672 Compatibility Profile Context
# glxgears
5866 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1173.077 FPS
5865 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1172.896 FPS
6164 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1232.742 FPS
#
AMD Athlon(tm) II Neo K125 Processor
Core 0: @1695 MHz
Broadcom Corporation BCM43225 802.11b/g/n (rev 01)

This setup is working well, the processor is working hard when 2 or 3
tasks are going at the same time but it doesn't miss a beat.

[gcmartin]

Help, I have found 2 issues

Issue 1 - Running V5571 via LIve media
Anyone know why MTPaint's "Tools Toolbar" settings (see View menu item) don't work, grayed out, and cannot be selected? Cannot select outline selections or etc on that toolbar.

Issue 2- Booting V5571 after positioning DVD contents in folder for boot use
Anyone have a problem after manually setting an HDD for Frugal where you get a

Code: Select all

"uncompression Error
system halted"

failure in boot; thus system locks at this boot error? pathname is /mnt/sda3/LinuxBoots/01Micko/Slacko56beta/5571 to boot materials in GRUB4DOS menu.lst. Is there a pfix parm necessary?

Ideas?
Edited: Corrected messages at boot time trying to read from a "bad disk"

[bigpup]

Issue 1 - Running V5571 via LIve media
Anyone know why MTPaint's "Tools Toolbar" settings (see View menu item) don't work, grayed out, and cannot be selected? Cannot select outline selections or etc on that toolbar.
Ideas?

Do you have an image file open and being viewed in Mtpaint, when this happens? I think Mtpaint has to be viewing an image so these settings are active.