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James C · Joined: 26 Mar 2009 Posts: 6643 Location: Kentucky

Just tried the X-precise 2.0 cd on my Athlon XP box......same result....black screen with the error message.
No problems on newer AMD hardware.

Marv · Joined: 04 May 2005 Posts: 714 Location: SW Wisconsin

My Athlon is a real mutt. It is a repackaged mobile sold as a desktop chip so I've no real notion of new/old. Very very few out there like it. Run startxfce4 from your 'black screen' command line. Looks like it is a D-Bus error. Is it worth chasing?

Tman · Joined: 22 Jan 2011 Posts: 814 Location: Toronto

JamesC and Marv,

Have you tried Saluki and gray's Xfce based Pups on those computers? It would help to know if other versions of Xfce can work on them.

Marv · Joined: 04 May 2005 Posts: 714 Location: SW Wisconsin

I've run all the Salukis and lina up through lina lite 005 sucessfully on this box. I believe it ran Grays xfce NOP ok also but I currently don't have a copy to doublecheck. Right now it's up in a remastered lina-lite 005 with no problems at all.

James C · Joined: 26 Mar 2009 Posts: 6643 Location: Kentucky

rg66 · Posted: Fri 27 Sep 2013, 01:05 Post subject:

I can confirm that lina lite works on my Athlon XP 1600 box.

Tman · Joined: 22 Jan 2011 Posts: 814 Location: Toronto

Deacon · Joined: 19 Mar 2013 Posts: 187 Location: USA

Testing X-Slacko-- it actually works more nicely than early X-Precise I downloaded, as far as I can see! The biggest change is the fact on the Precise (this may have been fixed) certain installation attempts will crash Xfce and freeze the system. Even if a program doesn't work on install here, the system works smoothly.

Great work! This is really a system that looks easy for Win-users to transition with.

rg66 · Posted: Fri 27 Sep 2013, 05:41 Post subject:

rg66 · Posted: Fri 27 Sep 2013, 05:45 Post subject: Re: Nice!

sszindian · Joined: 24 Apr 2010 Posts: 684 Location: Pennsylvania U.S.

X-Slacko

MPlayer will not play downloaded MP4's, FLV's etc., when activated with a mouse-click on the file.

MPlayer starts but before playing the file, it appears to load the file but then stops and drops back to a tiny dialog box.

Not sure if it's just my system or a problem? X-Precise, not a problem, all plays nice there.

>>>---Indian------>

rg66 · Posted: Fri 27 Sep 2013, 09:10 Post subject: Re: X-Slacko

rg66 · Posted: Fri 27 Sep 2013, 09:10 Post subject: Re: X-Slacko

Double post Embarassed

sszindian · Joined: 24 Apr 2010 Posts: 684 Location: Pennsylvania U.S.

rg66 wrote:
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Plays everything I throw at it here, I even dl'ed a sample .flv and it played no probs.
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Don't know what else to tell you, let's see if anyone else reports a problem with MPlayer then I'll know if it's my setup or not!

>>>---Indian------>

dawg · Joined: 09 Aug 2009 Posts: 116 Location: still here

Hi guys

Unfortunately, I can report the same problem(s), plus some more:
- the (Gnome) Mplayer doesn't play anything for me, either; not mp4, flv, avi, nor mp3.
The machine is a P4 lappy.

- on a P3 lappy the X/Xfce won't even start, reporting the same as mentioned by some of you guys.

- (only) on XSlacko and XPrecise I'm getting an annoying constant high-pitched buzzing noise (much "TV-like"), which doesn't seem to be coming out of the built-in speakers (can't say for sure about this without opening the lappy up, as I've malfunctioning headphone & mic jacks), and it seems to be connected to CPU throttling somehow (P4 lappy), as only in powersave mode it finally stops (or maybe it just gets out of the hearing frequency range). Maybe some infinitely-looped script running somewhere, that shouldn't be? Just an uninformed guess.
(Forgot about this) I guess I should also try the PAE/non-PAE difference, whichever version I don't have.

- Thunar file list font is too big (for me), and it's also at a fixed size, which it shouldn't be! I was also hoping for a newer version (1.6.x, as in XPrecise).

- Frisbee isn't acquiring the eth0 IP or anything, although I had it set up (can't recall which way, though; I might re-test this later), and I have to click the Enable wireless network (which I'm not even using and have it disabled!) for it to bother with the eth0 (which isn't wireless)! Very strange.

- Unloading of SFSes (on-the-fly) doesn't seem to be refreshing the menus until after reboot or so.

- FireFTP: doesn't seem to exist (apart from the menu entry).

- (I'm not sure about this, haven't checked it properly yet, so feel free to ignore this point for now, but..) I think this works on other Puppy systems:
are Thunar and/or Xfce/X ignoring my .bashrc? I've some paths and stuff set in there.

Other than that, I love the ability (and I would need) to have double monitors set up! (unlike with Lina, which simply starts some strange infinite disk activity and becomes unresponsive so I have to turn the machine off and back on).
So I really wish those other things can get sorted out somehow, as I would love to see and have a fully-functioning XFce Puppy Slacko... or if not XSlacko, maybe XPrecise. Then again, I've yet to give PCLinuxOS a try, but that's not a pup.