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BarryK · Posted: Tue 22 Dec 2009, 03:14 Post_subject:

Something important to note about Quirky, both 001 and 002, is that it only has the Xorg 'vesa' driver, nothing else.

The downside of this (mostly) is it lacks hardware acceleration of the video that the correct driver offers.

I think also xrandr seems not to be functional.

It does not have the kdrive Xvesa driver either, that most normal puppies have as a fallback.

The upside is the significant saving of space in the ISO file.

Plus, I'm finding its performance to be quite respectable. In fact, today I tested on my Intel Classmate laptop and for the first time I got a display without left-over streaks appearing all over the screen.

I could provide a PET with the other video drivers, if there is interest.

Terryphi · Posted: Tue 22 Dec 2009, 03:35 Post_subject: Sub_title: Pesky persistent panel

I upgraded Quirky 001 to 002 and now the panel from Quirky 001 will not go away. I can right click>Remove panel but it comes back when I reboot.
Any suggestions how I can remove it permanently?

LATER EDIT: To remove panel permanently delete or rename /root/Choices/Rox-Filer/PuppyPan1 .

Terryphi · Posted: Tue 22 Dec 2009, 03:42 Post_subject:

DaveS · Joined: 09 Oct 2008 Posts: 3695 Location: UK

timremy · Joined: 27 Jun 2009 Posts: 238

hello

i installed quirky 002 to my hard drive and everything worked.

but when i am booting up, and i select quirky 002,

i get overwrite on the screen as it is processing.

is there a way to put a clear screen so i would not get the

overwrite?

thankyou

merry christmas

timremy

pakt · Joined: 04 Jun 2005 Posts: 1089 Location: Sweden

Quirky-002 seems to have problems with international keyboards.

If I choose 'Sv-Fi', the keyboard doesn't work in X Window - completely dead - but does work in the CLI.

Choosing 'Us' or 'Uk' does work (got it set to 'Uk' now as I write this).

timremy · Joined: 27 Jun 2009 Posts: 238

hello

i thought i would install quirky 002 on the 2gig sd flash drive.

everything went ok. will going through the loading process

their was a clear screan and no over write.

timremy

bigpup

BerryK
[quote]I could provide a PET with the other video drivers, if there is interest.

I would like that!

smokey01 · Joined: 30 Dec 2006 Posts: 1642 Location: South Australia

Barry, Video would not work for me on either Quirky 001 or 002.

My hardware is in my signature line.

Thanks

davec51 · Joined: 13 Apr 2006 Posts: 474 Location: Virginia

I'd love to test Quirky, which seems delightfully quirky, but all I can get on the screen is the VESA configuration with a very low resolution. With all the taking out of drivers, I guess they took out mine (Intel card).

pemasu · Joined: 08 Jul 2009 Posts: 5174 Location: Finland

Wireless problem. Connection cuts of frequently. I have to autoDHCP to restore connection. I havent had that problem ever with 4.3.1 Puppy or with any puplets/derivates.

Touchpad moves was corrected using 3 times bigger numbers to certain rows in the xorg.conf file.

Tap to click touchpad was also corrected by adding missing information to xorg.conf manually. Google is good friend. Mouse config wizard didnt do the trick although tap to click was enabled.

Lobster · Posted: Tue 22 Dec 2009, 11:05 Post_subject:

tronkel · Joined: 30 Sep 2005 Posts: 1067 Location: Vienna Austria

The xvesa video driver does drive this LCD monitor - an improvement on previous Puppies.

Fonts are not too well displayed though via XVESA. Could really do with either a working ATI radeon/radeonhd driver to get better font rendering/aspect ratio control. FGLRX does this but is huge. The open-source drivers are sufficient and much smaller. A pet of extra video drivers seems like a good idea then. My card is an ATI Radeon 3450.

Instead of having to download and install a proprietary Brother printer driver each time, it would be great to have this included in the ISO. The model is a fairly common Brother DCP-7030 laser/copier/scanner. I can recommend this printer. It's not expensive to buy, works a treat and is cheap to run.

I'm writing this from Quirky 2.00 now. It's very fast. I reckon it's a keeper.

PupTV seems not to want to load GXINE, so this is a bit problematical. Hardly urgent though. Will try more stuff soon.

I daresay Puplets based on this will not be long in surfacing. An updated Abiword would be good.

Great job again Barry. A lot of work for you yet again. Have a great time at Xmas.

Tronkel

rameshiyer

In Quirky 002 ( Full HD Install ) also same problem i.e shut down or reboot through Menu is not possible. When applying Poweroff, nothing happening. Screens goes sometimes and comes back . I don't know, why this has been overlooked. even after repeatedly point it out at the time of quirky 001. I observing this prblem only Quirky otherwise Quirky is good tome. In Puppy 4.3.1, there is no shutdown or reboot problem. Kindly provide immediate patch.

I still facing problem of reboot after sudden power failure or forced shutdown after hang of machine in Full Install. Any permanent solutions for these critical issues?

Jota · Joined: 15 Mar 2009 Posts: 6