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peebee · Joined: 21 Sep 2008 Posts: 902 Location: Malvern, Worcs, UK

First - my congratulations - this is the first of the "modern" Puppies that has both booted up and closed down cleanly on my ancient IBM Thinkpad 600 laptop with just 196MB memory - running as a frugal install dual boot with XP...

I have 2 "issues" both of which I think are Woof related so I'll try to post them in a Woof thread as well:

1. my PCMCIA wifi card is not detected at all - no sign of it if I do "pccardctl info" - it's a Netgear MA401RA 000B,7300 and was last detected OK in Pup 4.3.1

2. a huge 200MB puppy swap file is created whether you want one or not which makes the bootup time take forever - it can be subsequently deleted again but it would be nice to be asked if you want one in the first place.

Thanks
Peter

Tasgarth · Joined: 06 Oct 2008 Posts: 197 Location: France, Besancon

Playdayz wrote:

Lobster · Posted: Sun 22 Aug 2010, 08:50 Post subject:

Iguleder · Posted: Sun 22 Aug 2010, 12:16 Post subject:

Hey, great work there, playdayz and 01micko. Can you include shinobar's JWM in the next Luci? RTL support is very important to many arabic speakers.

And if you want it a-la Lobster ...

Puppy developers
Heroes in a Bash shell Laughing

DaveS · Joined: 09 Oct 2008 Posts: 3669 Location: UK

One has to be amazed at how FEW bugs are being reported. Mainly just a few folks with perennial problems, but in the main, practically nobody Smile

Stripe · Posted: Sun 22 Aug 2010, 13:01 Post subject:

Hi all

back in 800mhz mode again and everything is working fine (after replacing netsurf with seamonkey1-1.1.18-special-q1 to sort out the cups menus and being able to download from puppynews straight away) remastered 217 and it put the size up to 137mb

Have taken a screenshot and am attaching it to make sure it works.

Cheers
Stripe

rjbrewer · Joined: 22 Jan 2008 Posts: 4350 Location: merriam, kansas

Stripe · Posted: Sun 22 Aug 2010, 14:10 Post subject:

rjbrewer · Joined: 22 Jan 2008 Posts: 4350 Location: merriam, kansas

tasmod · Posted: Sun 22 Aug 2010, 17:41 Post subject:

Just a hint when posting pics, if you keep it below 500kb it will display in forum, rather than needing a download.

scsijon · Posted: Sun 22 Aug 2010, 17:44 Post subject: report 511/217

use classic video setup since i usually Smile

have problems:

-working area only appeared in the top corner, not a full screen as has been in the past (5.1)

- noted that timezones still only have perth in the ausie timezones, about time this was fixed.

- usual video problems in setting screen/video card so won't duplicate here

- qpet ok (would hope so too)

- icon for showing online is missing (between speaker icon and "processor load" bar even though sat modem says connected and space is there.

- each time restart x via menu>shutdown>restart x server the screen is being reset to the max matrix not the configured matrix

- frugal install ok, we still have to change the savefile directory though, this should be by default folks, please fix.

- installed a number of pets and rebooted, all work ok except for the browsers (ff,sm,ns) ALL have that vertical page stretch again. This had been fixed before 5.1 was released, it's back again folks. Sad

that will do for a start, lets see what comes out fixed in 511/218.

regards
scsijon

bigpup · Posted: Sun 22 Aug 2010, 17:47 Post subject:

Why no real ATI video card drivers for Lucid Puppy?
ATI support site has Linux drivers for download, but they need compiled for the kernel that is being used.
There are Nvidia drivers for Lucid Puppy but us ATI video card scum, get just one, and it does not fully empower an ATI video card.
Some person please take on this mission.