Slackware for Pandora 14.0

[MisterBrisby]

Pandora button + power switch. 3 days lost.


This story is true.

Life's a bitch, sometimes.

 

[mcobit]

OpenGL programs might be compileable, but as long as they do not use gles they will be slow as hell, as they should use mesa softwareemulation...

 

[Linux-SWAT]

Yup, i confirm that. I compiled many games with the 13.37, and only a few were playable.

 

[kingoddball]

@ Swat - My login on SL4P is "kingoddball". :blink:


I did not use root.... :wacko:

 

[Linux-SWAT]

Did you pushed up when you created your user, to be in the right groups ?

 

[apersonthinks]

Could you update the first post with the latest slackware downloads? I don't like digging through pages of posts

 

[Linux-SWAT]

Well, just check the rootfs folder, and grab the latest release ^^.


http://slackware.openpandora.org/pandora/index.php?dir=sl4p%2Fsl4p-14.0%2Frootfs


And there's a lot of nice things in those "pages of posts" ;^p.

 

[Askarus]

Got slackware running now .

 

[Impulss]

I'm having troubles untar'ing the .tar. It's fine until it starts creating the symlinks. "Cannot create symlink to '../../bin/rpm': Invalid argument"


Does that for the rest of them too, then exits with with failure status due to previous errors.


Can't really work out what I'm doing wrong. It's a 32GB card, 14GB mounted in ext2 (first partition), 1gb of swap and the rest in FAT32. I'm using the command from the wiki. I'm using debian, if it makes a difference.


Thanks for any assistance you guys can offer.

 

[Genboo]

Reflash your Firmware. Solved a similar Problem for me.


With best regards


Genboo

 

[Impulss]

I'm assuming you're meaning on the Pandora? I meant I'm using debian on a laptop, should I be doing it on the Pandora? I thought you could do it on any linux distro to get the same effect?

 

[hmc]

I'm having troubles untar'ing the .tar. It's fine until it starts creating the symlinks. "Cannot create symlink to '../../bin/rpm': Invalid argument"


Does that for the rest of them too, then exits with with failure status due to previous errors.


Can't really work out what I'm doing wrong. It's a 32GB card, 14GB mounted in ext2 (first partition), 1gb of swap and the rest in FAT32. I'm using the command from the wiki. I'm using debian, if it makes a difference.


Thanks for any assistance you guys can offer.

Are you sure that you untar onto the correct partition?


What happens, if you try to create a symlink manually on the target partition? Does that work?

 

[Impulss]

Seems to create it fine, I'm more noob than I thought I am apparently.


I created a symlink to my downloads folder and it worked just fine. No errors or anything.


**Edit** I just checked on GParted, and i'm using the EXT2 partition. Should I format the whole card as EXT2 and just have 1GB for swap?

 

[Linux-SWAT]

First partition must be ext2 (8G size minimum). And the second should be swap.

 

[Linux-SWAT]

Ardour. It's not usable (yet):

 

[mcobit]

Nice


If you get a jackserver setup running that can use the Pandora soundhardware I will definately try slackware again.

 

[Linux-SWAT]

Seems hard with the internal soundcard :/.


I will retry with another usb audio.


Some updates:


So i fixed many little stuff again, compiled new packages, and i also now ship Notaz's recompiled and optimized SDL.


I have to fix two or three cosmetic things, and the screensaver (do someone knows how the Zaxxon screensaver works ? There is no trace of xscreensaver, and xorg.conf does not contains any sign of DPMS).


Unfortunately, Libre Office compilation failed again, which wasn't a surprise because meanwhile, i read somewhere that 1G RAM were needed for the compilation to succeed. I've read after on Gentoo boards that it can succeed with 512M. There's still a possibility to do it 100% native.


I hope ED will allow donations for Slackware project through his site, this way i may complete my original preorder to a 1GHz as fastest as possible and make a last stand before going stable.


I'd really like to ship LO out of the box...

 

[hmc]

Wouldn't also swap space work instead of physical RAM?

 

[Linux-SWAT]

I read that swap can't be used during the linking phase. I may even disable zram if i try on 1GHz unit.


I have a Slackware cross-compile set up, i will probably try this in the next days.


--Edit:


The cross-compile setup is too basic to build LO. I have to find another solution...

 

[apersonthinks]

I can't seem to get sound to work at all in slackware. When I load the mixer, it says "GStreamer was unable to detect any sound devices. Some sound system specific GStreamer packages may be missing. It may also be a permissions problem."


Also, there seem to be a lot of broken symlinks such as ones to java-7-openjdk. I think I might redownload the tar file or something and see if I can fix it.