Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

Ray MK · Joined: 05 Feb 2008 Posts: 668 Location: UK

Hi pemasu

Running ice-005 on my ram challenged laptop and all seems fine.

Seems to run much faster than most other puppy's,
in fact seems faster than all - even the tiny puppy's.

Runs at about same temperature as other's too,
maybe a degree or so higher sometimes - that's all.

No excessive cpu activity - seems to be normal + a tiny bit
occasionally.

JFYI another hardinfo report - which I suspect you will understand
better than me.

Again - many thanks for all you do for us.

This could and should be a trend setting puppy,
as far as I can see (with my very limited knowledge of
puppy and linux generally) isn't this the way all future
puppy's should be built.

So far looks like a winner - everybody benefits.

Very best regards - Ray

dWLkR · Joined: 23 May 2007 Posts: 39

screenshots?

kthxbye!

gcmartin · Joined: 14 Oct 2005 Posts: 2623 Location: Earth

All seems very well. See reports if interest.

pemasu · Joined: 08 Jul 2009 Posts: 5165 Location: Finland

smokey01 · Joined: 30 Dec 2006 Posts: 1603 Location: South Australia

pemasu can I ask that you upload a DIFF file every time you release a new version. It will probably help the people with slow connections.

Thanks

James C · Joined: 26 Mar 2009 Posts: 4737 Location: Kentucky

Béèm · Posted: Sat 23 Apr 2011, 18:11 Post subject:

It would be nice if people (pemasu) wouldn't embed pictures greater then 600 pixels wide.
So people with small screens (yes they still exist) won't have to side scroll to read postings.
Thank you for correcting.

Béèm · Posted: Sat 23 Apr 2011, 18:14 Post subject:

No luck for the 005.
Got the message that the machine doesn't support the kernel (PAE)

James C · Joined: 26 Mar 2009 Posts: 4737 Location: Kentucky

Ran into a problem.......

Had a frugal install of Ice Puppy 004 on the old P4 test box w/ Intel 865 onboard graphics and it worked fine. While making my last post I replaced it with a manual frugal of 005.... deleted old save file.

On initial boot, X wouldn't start.Just to make sure something didn't get copied incorrectly I booted up the cd pfix=ram. Still no X. Hmmmm.

Just booted the 004 cd as I'm typing, no problem......looking at the Ice Puppy wallpaper right now.Guess I'll revert back to 004 right now since it's working.

EDIT:

Just booted into the frugal install of 004.....no problems.

James C · Joined: 26 Mar 2009 Posts: 4737 Location: Kentucky

Billtoo · Joined: 07 Apr 2009 Posts: 1494 Location: Ontario Canada

I did a frugal install of icepup 05 on my acer revo nettop computer.

sh-4.1# glxgears
525 frames in 5.0 seconds
643 frames in 5.0 seconds
627 frames in 5.0 seconds
625 frames in 5.0 seconds
sh-4.1#
sh-4.1# report-video
VIDEO REPORT: Ice Puppy, version 005

Chip description:
oem: NVIDIA
product: MCP79 Board - hornet-0 Chip Rev

Driver used by Xorg:

Video mode used by Xorg:
Resolution: Depth:

...the above also recorded in /tmp/report-video

I installed the devx and the kernel_src-2.6.38.2-lupe13.sfs but when I
went to install the proprietary nvidia ION driver I got an error
message about the nvidia fb already installed in the kernel
conflicting with the nvidia fb in the NVIDIA-Linux-x86-270.41.06.run
file.I've never seen that before and have no clue what to do about it.

*************************************************************************

The following is after installing the NVIDIA-Linux-x86-270.41.06.run
file in my wary 5.1.1 remaster on this acer revo.

# glxgears
Running synchronized to the vertical refresh. The framerate should be
approximately the same as the monitor refresh rate.
8580 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1715.992 FPS
8719 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1743.716 FPS
8796 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1759.100 FPS
8846 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1769.083 FPS
# report-video
VIDEO REPORT: Wary Puppy, version 511

Chip description:
oem: NVIDIA
product: MCP79 Board - hornet-0 Chip Rev

Driver used by Xorg:
#card0driver

Video mode used by Xorg:
Resolution: Depth 24 Depth: "Display"

...the above also recorded in /tmp/report-video
#

Other than that problem icepup 05 is working good on this pc, although
it does run a few degrees hotter than wary 5,1,1 and spup on this pc.
It's jumping between 65C and 66C just typing this in geany.

marco07 · Joined: 18 Jan 2011 Posts: 176 Location: Lincoln , NE, USA

pemasu:
Where are the battery icons? They are not displayed on the system try of ice puppy 005. Startup file has the file powerapplet_try listed on it. It seems it does not load at bootup.

James C · Joined: 26 Mar 2009 Posts: 4737 Location: Kentucky

Just for testing purposes, I tried 005 in the Intel 865 box again pfix=ram. No X.
Added the "nomodeset" parameter. No X.
Added "xforcevesa" parameter. No X.

It's not just X not starting, it's killing everything. Ctrl/Alt/Bksp has no affect, necessary to do hard poweroff.CRT monitor by the way.

No problems with 004 though.

Béèm · Posted: Sat 23 Apr 2011, 19:13 Post subject:

James C · Joined: 26 Mar 2009 Posts: 4737 Location: Kentucky