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[ttuuxxx]

"gxine" ,Ok I still have no clue why this application even made it into the alpha 3, Please Just understand, Gxine and puppy just don't work! But xine does, very well. So why not just drop Gxine and replace it with Xine, I do it everytime I make a new Fire Hydrant and I always get a "thank you for doing that." from people. Other than that great stuff guys.
ttuuxxx

[Greatnessguru]

I tried booting
puppy-400alpha3-dingo393-seamonkey-k2.6.24-rc4-fullzdrv.iso
on my HP Vectra VE, 64 MB.
(It runs Puppy 3.01 just fine.)
I used "puppy pfix=ram".
Some errors went sailing by,
but now it is stuck repeating endlessly:
SQUASHFS error: Unable to read page, block d8ee08, size 8da2
SQUASHFS error: sb_bread failed reading block 0x365e

I do not know which of the two error lines above comes first.

Thanks,
Eddie

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Barry:

[Raman]

Dingo 4.00alpha3 passes the MD5 sum check, and passes the burner bit check of the burned iso relative to downloaded image file.

This test was run on an tired, old desktop with 256 MB of RAM, a 333 MHz Intel, an external USB DVD/CDROM, an external IDE CDROM burner, and an internal CDROM.

Boot Dingo 4.00alpha3 "puppy pfix=ram" takes 119 seconds (including set up of external RS232 dial up modem) on this old, slow desktop.

Boot Puppy 3.01 "puppy pfix=ram" takes 208 seconds (including set up of external RS232 dial up modem) on this old, slow desktop.

Via PupDial, Dingo 4.00alpha3: With or without firewall, the external RS232 dial up modem _WILL NOT CONNECT TO INTERNET_, although everything appears normal in the WvDial connection log. When firewall is used, the log report is normal. No change of the PupDial graphical interface settings will allow Dingo 4.00alpha3 to connect to the Internet via PPP and this RS232 external dial up modem.

Ditto to all of the above-described problems when using GNOME PPP under Dingo 4.00alpha3. Which is to say, GNOME PPP seems to work just fine, seems to connect to the Internet, but no functional Internet connection is available under GNOME PPP, just as it is not available under PupDial.

Via PupDial, Puppy 3.01: With or without firewall, the external RS232 dial up modem successfully connects to the Internet each and every time. When firewall is used, the log report is normal With or without firewall, Puppy 3.01 Internet connect and transfer speed is _very fast indeed_ relative to the same external RS232 modem used under Windows 98SE or Windows XP SP1 or SP2.

Dingo 4.00alpha3: Pmount successfully mounts all USB drives of whatever sort, while Dingo 4.00alpha 2 did not mount any USB drives.

Dingo 4.00alpha3 Pmount has not been compared to Puppy 3.01 MUT relative to successfully recognizing and successfully mounting otherwise unmountable and unreadable "broken" hard drives, an area wherein MUT seems to excel remarkably, even magically. In fact, MUT excels when even the native OS's and the specially designed task-specific OS's / recovery programs will not work at all. Is it possible, even conceivable, that I am secretly pleading for the inclusion of MUT in the final release of Puppy 4.00?

Dingo 4.00alpha3 and Puppy 3.01 both report usable RAM on this desktop as 127 MB RAM ("puppy pfix=ram" boot).

CUPS printer setup does not seem to work in Dingo 4.00alpha3, regardless of the amount of time I wait for the printer setup screen to appear after the initial explanation screen that generally tells you what to do when you finally get to the CUPS setup. In Puppy 3.01, this takes some time, but in Dingo 4.00alpha 3, "some time" never ends..

As an aside, now that I have used SeaMonkey on Puppy, I like SeaMonkey enough to use it on Windows 98 and XP, especially since SeaMonkey has a Composer with an English _DICTIONARY_ out-of-the-box, whereas AbiWord does not have a dictionary out-of-the-box, although AbiWord is an otherwise excellent word processor. Perhaps in the final release of Puppy 4.00, AbiWord can be equipped with an English dictionary?

Overall, Dingo 4.00 appears to be a major step forward, which is saying quite a lot when you factor in an otherwise excellent Puppy 3.01. Especially since Puppy 3.01 is equipped with MUT.

Hail Puppy!

Raman

[black]

Hey all,

My hardware:
Asus p4gpl-x mb
Intel P4 Prescott 3.0 gb processor
Radeon X800XT pci graphics
1 gb DDR2
MS trackball optical usb

Was really looking forward to the smp kernel. installed alpha 3 from an internal sata partition. On 1st boot and subsequent 1st boots on several more re-installs, bootup would only continuously "loop" @ xwin, never made it to desktop, never even offered up the the keyboard language/xorg/xvesa options. No, didn't burn to cd since it ran smartly from the directory. One other person in this thread was seeing a similar problem with looping.

After these failures, opened up the zdrv and swapped the whole of /lib out...still no joy. Finally swapped out /etc and /usr from the pre-install bootup and was then able to get to desktop, after tweaking the "PUPSTATE" file in /etc/rc.d. Able to narrow the problem down to /etc, so put the original /usr back in. Well, only a couple hours tossed.

When finally getting to desktop, had "no mouse"...RATS! Spent some time trying to access the keyboard/mouse wiz with only the keyboard, and even this was fun, as there was no indication of where one was in the menu gui, once you're in that particular gui. Anyway, got it down, and the mouse was up, and stayed up as long as one didn't "reboot". Mouse config was always lost on a reboot. Got quite good at getting the mouse cooking again though.

Chased around for a few more hours with the mouse issue 'til recalling that 390 had an issue with mouse also (none of the required modules were loaded) so decided to swap out the modules for those from 392, as the mouse was working on that install.

Of course, 392 has a 26217 kernel, but I figured ,prolly not much else could go as far south as has already, so, swapped the kernel and modules from 392, rebooted, Voilla!!! Destop with a working mouse...so much for the smp kernel. Minimal checks: alsa config'd nicely, gxine qui came up from icon/menu, pnethood works, and my favored cifs works. Not much else tried except I'm writing this from seamonkey.

The point...appears to be kernel or module issues with the 2.6.24-rc4. As far as modules, don't know for sure, but from previous observations, usb modules may be loading in the wrong order. Perhaps I'm in the wrong order, err...out-of-order...

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PS: Looping @ xwin=missing /etc/mtab file, not copied over with install. Dropped in mtab from another puppy install, reboot, and "country / xorg chooser led to desktop. Remaining issue: mouse still not functioning normally, have to revisit mouse/keyboard wiz via keyboard on every reboot.

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