Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

tronkel · Joined: 30 Sep 2005 Posts: 1047 Location: Vienna Austria

Good results so far with this Wary 0.9. It all basically works on this hardware.

Cannot get full-screen video using PupTelly, but this has been a problem on this harware with most recent Puppies other than Puppy 5. WLAN needs several attempts to connect. This is also nothing new and could be related to a dodgy USB connection on the WLAN dongle itself.

To complement this fine new Puppy version, how about a slimmed-down version of the newly announced LibreOffice?

This is being managed by:www.documentfoundation.org as an initiative to free the community version from the shackles of Oracle. It's main philosophy is that no non-free extensions will be allowed and that pace of development will be accelerated unhampered by Oracle's priorities. Damn good thing IMHO. Watch this space.

BarryK · Posted: Sat 09 Oct 2010, 04:57 Post subject:

Sage · Joined: 04 Oct 2005 Posts: 4622 Location: GB

No problems with video, old or new kit, but cannot get sound working in 2.6.35.7 nor 2.6.30 (ALC658). [This version of HardInfo is cr*p - it cannot tell me my sound chip designation]. Where is the simple mixer? All the other distros have one, it can't be very big and makes checking problem sound issues so much easier.
35.7 also has SM set to offline as default, 30.? is OK.

Otherwise quite speedy. Can't wait for the smart guys to offer .pets for decent browsers!

01micko · Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 7018 Location: qld

NOTE: After creating a savefile SNS worked flawlessly, see post below
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ugh!

SNS and Dougal's network wizard both failed me on my old P3 with Acx card. This time ndiswrapper loaded just fine, but it is raining here, all the doors are shut on the house (I'm in the shed) and consequently I am getting a weaker than usual signal, BUT, with tempestuous' simple command line instructions, which I learnt awhile ago didn't fail me, so there is a bug, and it occurs on the second loop when we are testing for an 'open' key.. (which is what my wep is).. it seems from the log that the essid is forgotten because it says "essid off/any"

tronkel · Joined: 30 Sep 2005 Posts: 1047 Location: Vienna Austria

I'm also having sound problems with the later kernel.

While attempting to configure sound using the alsa wizard, a warning message on a yellow background appears (too fast to read fully) saying something about depmod-full.

There is also a warning about sound in the initial boot console text output.

01micko · Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 7018 Location: qld

tronkel · Joined: 30 Sep 2005 Posts: 1047 Location: Vienna Austria

Did 2 things with the sound problem.
Renamed the depmod symlink in /sbin to xdepmod. (i.e. disable it). then renamed depmod-FULL to depmod.

Then installed retrovol from the PPM. Started retrovol and noticed one of the capture channels was unchecked.

Microphone now works.

Alsamixer seems to be buggy therefore?

edit: renamed depmod back to depmod-FULL and restored the symlink to depmod as was the default. Sound is still OK, so the problem is somewhere in alsamixer.

mavrothal · Joined: 24 Aug 2009 Posts: 1058

I have wary90 running on the OLPC XO-1 and almost everything looks OK including sound!
All I had to do is provide a proper (OLPC-based) kernel and modify a bit xorgwizard to include the XO-1's resolution (1200x900)

However,
original wary failed to find the puppy files because could not determine the boot device (an etx3 formatted USB stick).
Defining "PDEV1=sda1" at boot solved this issue and booted fine but on exit failed to save the session. eg offer the option to save the session!
Further defining consecutively DEV1FS, PMEDIA and PSAVEMARK still failed to offer the save session option at shudown.
The Pupstate at the end looked like this

tronkel · Joined: 30 Sep 2005 Posts: 1047 Location: Vienna Austria

Seamonkey version 2.07 as supplied with Wary 0.9 had a problem with crashing. This is showing up in Wary 0.9.

This problem was solved by Mozilla in the subsequent 2.08 bug-fixed version.

So this current Seamonkey needs updating to the 2.08 version.

If you try to search for the update using the Help-> check for updates menu item, the dialog just keeps reporting that it is searching, but never finds the update. Can this be fixed for Puppy using an "update-enable" ./configure option when compiling from source?

Billtoo · Joined: 07 Apr 2009 Posts: 1495 Location: Ontario Canada

dingo53 · Joined: 14 Jun 2010 Posts: 21 Location: NSW Australia

Download, burn, reboot. Back on line. No problems, sound and network setup without questions. Video setup straight forward.

Mainboard: ASUS P4S533 with P4 2800 Ghz 512 Mb - 32 Mb (shared video) Found my HP scanner however missed the Dynalink RTA100+ router.

Now to do a frugal on my Acer 270 Smile

Well done Barry and the team.

01micko · Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 7018 Location: qld

I have successfuly compiled the nvidia-71.86.14 driver for the real old nvidia cards, such as Vantas and TNTs. I have never seen mine with such a good frame rate.(Look for a DOTpet soon)

jrb · Posted: Sat 09 Oct 2010, 09:20 Post subject:

Booted fine from CD on my:

tronkel · Joined: 30 Sep 2005 Posts: 1047 Location: Vienna Austria

Can confirm the Gnumeric crash when formatting cells.

A Lite version of OpenOffice or even better, the new LibreOffice would be a better idea IMHO. This would mean that Gnumeric could be dropped and thereby space could be saved. Same for Abiword.

Terryphi · Posted: Sat 09 Oct 2010, 09:59 Post subject: