Slacko 5.7 final - 8 March 2014

[01micko]

- is k3.10.19 the likely final pae kernel version? If it is, do you want the Broadcom-STA pet for k3.10.19?

No, what I should do is see if I can automate the process in kernel-kit.

- is the Slackware base 14.0 or 14.1? Distrospecs shows 14.0. Will we be moving to 14.1 during the update process?

No, staying with 14.0 for a little while. When we add 64 bit support it will be logical to support 14.1 then, however, I think salix is suffering from the lack of dev syndrome too as I don't think they have the human resources to build 14.1 packages or a 14.1 based distro.

If the first $1 isn't wrapped, an arg with spaces willl cause "too many arguments" error and empty ARGS var.

got it, thanks.

Somehow have survived my previous hunting - fixed broken icons in xlock & firewallgtk (attached).

Ok, firewallstate is in slacko repo, easy fix, xlock_gui is in common, I don't have access so I will throw it in the z_base_hacks pet.

[James C]

Upgraded frugal from 5.6.1 to 5.6.3....... no troubles.

# report-video
VIDEO REPORT: Slacko Puppy, version 5.6.3

Chip description:
VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV18 [GeForce4 MX 440 AGP 8x] (rev c1)

Requested by /etc/X11/xorg.conf:
Resolution (widthxheight, in pixels): 1440x900
Depth (bits, or planes): 24
Modules requested to be loaded: dbe

Probing Xorg startup log file (/var/log/Xorg.0.log):
Driver loaded (and currently in use): nouveau
Loaded modules: dbe dri dri2 exa extmod fb glx kbd mouse record shadowfb

Actual rendering on monitor:
Resolution: 1440x900 pixels (380x238 millimeters)
Depth: 24 planes

...the above also recorded in /tmp/report-video
# glxgears
Running synchronized to the vertical refresh. The framerate should be
approximately the same as the monitor refresh rate.
1795 frames in 5.0 seconds = 358.573 FPS
1762 frames in 5.0 seconds = 352.379 FPS
1806 frames in 5.0 seconds = 360.741 FPS
1814 frames in 5.0 seconds = 362.755 FPS
1845 frames in 5.0 seconds = 368.903 FPS

-Computer-
Processor : AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2400+
Memory : 1033MB (215MB used)
Machine Type : Physical machine
Operating System : Slacko Puppy - 5.6.3
User Name : root (root)
Date/Time : Wed 27 Nov 2013 10:03:42 PM CST
-Display-
Resolution : 1440x900 pixels
OpenGL Renderer : Mesa DRI nv18 x86/MMX+/3DNow!+/SSE
X11 Vendor : The X.Org Foundation
-Audio Devices-
Audio Adapter : VIA8233 - VIA 8235

[sszindian]

Upgrade from 5.6.1 to 5.6.3 (w/Delta file) went smooth, just had to replace desktop background and remove desktop icons... wbar icons came through without a hitch.

I really couldn't find any major faults with 5.6.1

This build with the 3.10.19 Kernel is without doubt, the best yet at least for my P-4 Dell 3000. Most responsive and very very fast.

About the only issue I could find is with xscreensaver. The program functions well with all the standard screensaver modules included but... that darn old GLslideshow, Carousel, or others that require pictures or graphics to display... just won't work! Sure would be nice to see that little thing 'fixed' (or explain how we can fix it ourselves) before the 5.7 release? You're probably the only one capible of correcting that!

Otherwise... very nice piece of work!

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

[gcmartin]

@Iguleder is working along with several others on fashioning this offering. Collaboration is a beautiful thing as everyone is assisting to test and help where possible. A 64bit Slacko to accompany the 32bit Slacko is another version which will cover most, if not all of the x86 architectures with a consistent framework for the user community. An enormous feat and a great demonstration in how we CAN work together for a common good!

The 2 flagship 64bit PUPs, up until now, were built with the knowledge of a PC that is of the 2007 design and up. That is to say, there is enough RAM on the MB to accomodate a RAM-centric 64bit distro with applications which mirror 32bit PUPs. Both of these, FATDOG and LightHouse64 also acknowledged that they could ship a distro which eliminated the need and stress of installing-setup SMB sharing. This sharing is essential to provide Linux with the same kind of sharing on the LAN that Windows and Apple have had for over a decade (in fact, in 2015 it will be 2 decades). 01Micko assisted LightHouse64 with his SAMBA Simple Management (SSM) which is an all-in-one visual utility for SAMBA operations and LAN sharing for those who would struggle to launch OOTB. He provides the same with his built-in SAMBA in his PhatSlacko, as well.

I want to make a 64bit system request and ask that you evaluate/consider
Since FATDOG and LH64 has provides a very good pattern of including SAMBA technology in 64bit implementations with little to no impact on system operations, would you also package 01Micko's or TaZoC's SAMBA as they embrace current IEEE standards for LAN operations across all platforms in an OOTB distro? (This would provide consistent LAN sharing, OOTB, from all of PUPs mainline 64bit distros whereas consistent and equivalent functionality is provide the user.) In testing, I have NOT observe any negative behavior from either of these 2 systems in the 3 years of their use. RAM impact is less than 10MB and system or application performance is not impacted because of a running SAMBA service. Latest SAMBA 4.10 from 01Micko has already been tested in this 32bit Slacko and as it was in PhatSlacko, there is no observable impact that comes with its functionality. They have a painless implementation that is built-in/OOTB.

I know that this is going to bring a very fast high-octane distro just as we've seen in the Puppy past. 64bit offers good channeling and services to applications and ultimately to the user's desktop.

Hope this helps

[SFR]

About the only issue I could find is with xscreensaver. The program functions well with all the standard screensaver modules included but... that darn old GLslideshow, Carousel, or others that require pictures or graphics to display... just won't work

Hey Sszindian

It's enough to always run xscreensaver and xscreensaver-demo as user spot, e.g.:

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su spot -c xscreensaver-demo

Carousel works fine, but GLSlideshow segfaults (probably due to missing Helvetica font).

Additionaly, if you also want to use 'screen-lock' feature, set 'suid' bit for /usr/bin/xscreensaver:

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chmod +s /usr/bin/xscreensaver

And make sure that password for spot is set!
Then restart xscreensaver daemon (as spot).
Screen can be unlocked using both root and spot passwords.

The only downside I've noticed is that if one of GL screensavers is running, the box with password prompt may not be displayed and password has to be entered "blindly" then.
But this can be overridden by setting 'Settings -> Advanced -> Visual' to be "TrueColor", which is unfortunately slower than GL.

HTH
Greetings!

[sszindian]

SFR

'Thanks for that info on xscreensaver, I'll give it a try this weekend and see if I can accomplish what you wrote here ' That said, this should be the perfect puppy for those wanting to display all those family pictures.

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Also:
If anyone's looking for a Google Earth that runs very well in Slacko...

google_earth-6.0.3.2197.sfs

but since this is a 'Less than version 7' you will get the 'Invalid HTTP request dialog box' when trying to find a location with the search function so...

here's the fix...

Go to: /opt/google/earth/free/libcurl.so.4 and just rename the 'libcurl.so.4' module to something like 'OLD-libcurl.so.4' so that the libcurl.so.4 module is no longer used (you could delete the module, I just renamed it)! (This is also posted in the How To section on this forum.)

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

[Ted Dog]

are there other run as spot type issues with slacko like the screen saver topic addressed above. The one thing I eztremely DISLIKE about fatdog64 is its dumb hybrid mode of run as spot. It only serves as a bug magnet. seemingly normal tasks are bungled by its non standard implentation. Either go multiuser in a clean standard linux mode or back to everthing as root like with only outgoing web and ftp stuff as run as non root.

[rcrsn51]

Mick: It looks good. Other than being built with woof-CE, are there any other changes from 5.6 that we should be testing?

[musher0]

Edit, Nov. 30, 2013
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Hello, Mick and all.

The pupsave-creation bug has decided it was not done with me. (hehe)

@Mick: Which blkid version did you use ?

BFN.

musher0

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To the users:
For suggested workarounds, please see
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... ost#740525
and
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... ost#740519

[playdayz]

The screen does not come back from standby.

Slacko 5.6.0 and 1 also have this problem. It is on the ex-windows 8 Lenovo 580, Intel 4000 graphics, which are becoming very widespread I believe, so it is worth reporting. 5.5 had this problem very infrequently, maybe 1 in 10 times, but 5.6+ have it every time. ACPI is working so if I close the lid, the computer goes to standby but when I open the lid, the screen stays black (no backlight in other words).

Add: This might help--the problem is not acpi. If I disable acpi and reboot the same problem happens when the screen blanks itself after 5 minutes or however long. It will not unblank.

Graphics work fine otherwise. Intel driver is found, and i915 kernel model is loaded, and modeset takes effect. Just let me know what other info to post. Thanks.
video-info-glx 1.5.1 Thu 28 Nov 2013 on Slacko Puppy 5.6.3 Linux 3.10.19 i686
2.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Device 0166 (rev 09)
oem: Intel(R) Sandybridge/Ivybridge Graphics Chipset Accelerated VGA BIOS
product: Intel(R) Sandybridge/Ivybridge Graphics Controller Hardware Version 0.0

X Server: Xorg Driver: intel
X.Org version: 1.12.4
dimensions: 1366x768 pixels (361x203 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) Ivybridge Mobile x86/MMX/SSE2
OpenGL version string: 2.1 Mesa 8.0.4

Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-3120M CPU @ 2.50GHz
Core 0: @1200 1: @1200 2: @1200 3: @1200 MHz

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Might as well also report 1) frisbee (rather than SNS) is necessary for connection to come back from standby, but it works perfectly; 2) touch pad with two finger scrolling works perfectly ootb.

Also, Firefox 24 ESR is released and is running fine in 5.6.3 So is that nasty gnome-mplayer 1.08 also released.

More success: All of the test videos play in gnome-mplayer in the suite I used for Lucid. Even better, gnome-mplayer orrectly handles DVD menus.

Another glitch: On my desktop the Microsoft Wireless mouse scroll wheel does not work--no scrolling happens. I have looked for a setup option for that but found none.

Has anyone else had trouble with mirror repos. The google-chrome 30 stable in Puppy Slacko 14 Official, was not found or otherwise a problem in several of the repos, nllug, vcu, and aarnet. I have seen this putting some new browsers in the lucid repos also. The Slackware google chrome did run after installing polkit and gconf. ibiblio seems reliable but it is so slow as to be unusable imho--not a good impression on new users..

[bark_bark_bark]

The screen does not come back from standby.

Slacko 5.6.0 and 1 also have this problem. It is on the ex-windows 8 Lenovo 580, Intel 4000 graphics, which are becoming very widespread I believe, so it is worth reporting. 5.5 had this problem very infrequently, maybe 1 in 10 times, but 5.6+ have it every time. ...

...Graphics work fine otherwise. Intel driver is found, and i915 kernel model is loaded, and modeset takes effect. Just let me know what other info to post. Thanks.

I have the same problem with my Acer Aspire One since 5.5. It seems that there is no solution to it.

[Karl Godt]

Hello, Mick and all.
The pupsave-creation bug has decided it was not done with me. (hehe)
@Mick: Which blkid version did you use ?
Edit, 14h10, my time:
For the time being, as a work-around, here are a couple of antidotes. Use
one OR the other. BFN.
musher0

Musher, please do not scatter your workarounds everywhere again .

You had said that it was solved because of blkid .

I was able to reproduce your bug slightly by playing with the code :


We need you to run it in urxvt terminal an post the content of /tmp/schoices.txt in [ code ] tags .

Many thanks !

[James C]

Another fresh frugal install on yet another old test box.All good so far.

VIDEO REPORT: Slacko Puppy, version 5.6.3

Chip description:
VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82865G Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02)

Requested by /etc/X11/xorg.conf:
Resolution (widthxheight, in pixels): 1024x768
Depth (bits, or planes): 24
Modules requested to be loaded: dbe

Probing Xorg startup log file (/var/log/Xorg.0.log):
Driver loaded (and currently in use): intel
Loaded modules: dbe dri dri2 extmod fb glx kbd mouse record

Actual rendering on monitor:
Resolution: 1024x768 pixels (270x203 millimeters)
Depth: 24 planes

...the above also recorded in /tmp/report-video
# glxgears
Running synchronized to the vertical refresh. The framerate should be
approximately the same as the monitor refresh rate.
365 frames in 5.0 seconds = 72.973 FPS
367 frames in 5.0 seconds = 73.378 FPS
369 frames in 5.0 seconds = 73.747 FPS
358 frames in 5.0 seconds = 71.545 FPS

-Computer-
Processor : Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.40GHz
Memory : 1025MB (143MB used)
Machine Type : Physical machine
Operating System : Slacko Puppy - 5.6.3
User Name : root (root)
Date/Time : Thu 28 Nov 2013 09:36:53 PM CST
-Display-
Resolution : 1024x768 pixels
OpenGL Renderer : Mesa DRI Intel(R) 865G x86/MMX/SSE2
X11 Vendor : The X.Org Foundation
-Audio Devices-
Audio Adapter : ICH4 - Intel ICH5

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# free
             total         used         free       shared      buffers
Mem:       1025232       656772       368460            0        43292
-/+ buffers:             613480       411752
Swap:      2150396            0      2150396
#

[oldyeller]

I am downloading now. Will test some tomorrow

Cheers

[mavrothal]

The screen does not come back from standby.

Slacko 5.6.0 and 1 also have this problem. It is on the ex-windows 8 Lenovo 580, Intel 4000 graphics, which are becoming very widespread I believe, so it is worth reporting. 5.5 had this problem very infrequently, maybe 1 in 10 times, but 5.6+ have it every time.

Sounds a lot like this kernel 3.10-specific issue but should have been fixed in late 3.10 versions.

[musher0]

Hello, Mick and all.
The pupsave-creation bug has decided it was not done with me. (hehe)
@Mick: Which blkid version did you use ?
Edit, 14h10, my time:
For the time being, as a work-around, here are a couple of antidotes. Use
one OR the other. BFN.
musher0

Musher, please do not scatter your workarounds everywhere again.

You had said that it was solved because of blkid.

I was able to reproduce your bug slightly by playing with the code :


We need you to run it in urxvt terminal an post the content of /tmp/schoices.txt in [ code ] tags .

Many thanks !

Hi, Karl.

No offense intended, but I spent enough time on this bug already.
Maybe you have too: it's up to you to decide that, of course.

You may recall that I reported this bug a few years ago. I suggested
then a workaround that worked -- perhaps by chance, but nevertheless
it worked.

This bug has been reported occasionally, as far back as mid-2008
(Puppy 4.0), AFAIK.
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 47&t=30718

This time, with the input of developer Mick and others testers, I was
able to present a summary of 4 workarounds that will enable use of a
pupsave in slacko, pretty much no matter what hardware combination
the user has.

As I understand it with the info provided, this is a rare bug that occurs
occasionally on some older hardware combinations, whatever the Puppy.
And there are workarounds. So the problem has been greatly reduced,
IMO, almost to the point of being simply an annoyance.

From a project management point of view, it would make sense that
talent be better applied to a more common problem.

Again, no offense intended. But there are times when one has to accept
that being obstinate simply yields no results. That's where I'm at.

Respectfully,

musher0
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PS. Don't worry, I won't spread the workarounds further!

[Ted Dog]

go on and keep harping on petty quirks that need fixing. upload those bad boys code fixes to wolfce and let the rest of us cboose to include them. One great benefit of open woofce is some of this tiny pet peeves can finally be fixed. Mine are the multisession bug AND mouse freeze on non racy or wary builds.
do not let the rising dictators of the code base force you into silence. Im fighting this mindset from the get-go. And be rude, they are! how dare they force their will on a open source project!!!

[playdayz]

There is a kernel module driver named alx.ko. It is for Atheros AL8162 Fast Ethernet. The ethernet port doesn't work without it. I need it, but more important I think it is becoming "popular." As I recall Ubuntu left it out of maybe 12.10 (not sure which version) and heard a lot about it.

On the lighter side: I found out this morning that the warning about putting a pupsave on an ntfs disk should be taken seriously And, oh yeah, the ntfs disk is an SSD which should not be defragmented. As 01micko has said, I am also struggling with how to run Puppy on new laptops and Windows 8 computers. When Windows 7 boots in 15 seconds (!) everything else seems quite slow. A fast usb 3 flash drive would be a solution, but evidently many computers won't boot reliably from usb 3 (including mine). Resizing the existing hard drive caused Windows copy protection to go off. My solution will likely be to replace the dvd drive with a second ssd but I know that is not really feasible in most cases.

[Deacon]

I'm new at testing puppy and virtualization (I installed VB yesterday and still learning how it works).

I get to the intro screen but then it says my CPU doesn't have pae installed. Does this mean (a) I need to check off some kind of compatibility in VB or (b) that I need a delta? (I don't even know how the deltas work so, keep in mind, kind of new at this. Never tested an Alpha Puppy before.)

Or should I wait till I have another flash card handy?

EDIT: I found the PAE option in VB, sorry., trying to get it to work

[SFR]

Just for the record: it turned out that the case of "always max quality" is strictly connected to rtl8192se/rtlwifi driver (my Toshiba's wireless card).

Got ya!

http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-wire ... 14353.html

I _knew_ the problem was with this specific file, but had no idea what to do with it!

@Mick: I'd be grateful if the patched version would be included in the next version.

Thanks &
Greetings!