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pemasu
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#61 Post by pemasu »

Acer 5820TG laptop. Touchpad, wireless, seamonkey working fine. I havent got yet synaptics-synclien-flsynclient chain to work but touhpad movements are quite right anyway. Sound works. Older flashplayer and also the latest flashplayer works without errors. Xerrs.log does not accumulate any new errors. Libpng error were there after the boot.

Devx and kernel sourxe sfs loaded. Acpi_call module compiled and loaded. Works. Cpu temp under 50 c, Battery status comes from conky nicely.

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#62 Post by nooby »

Acer Netbook D250 with N270 Atom CPU and Intel video chips.

I was lazy and just upgraded from 001 instead of doing a pfix=ram.

I just tested if Seamonkey could do streaming of local TV station and it did.

So most likely it is a good version.
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#63 Post by James C »

Drake Puppy 0.3 on another old box.Once again,everything working on initial boot. Correct 1440x900 resolution.


VIDEO REPORT: Drake Puppy, version 0.3

Chip description:


Driver used by Xorg:
vesa

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

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


-Computer-
Processor : 2x AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5200+
Memory : 3888MB (180MB used)
Operating System : Unknown distribution
User Name : root (root)
Date/Time : Thu 28 Jul 2011 04:41:01 PM UTC
-Display-
Resolution : 1440x900 pixels
OpenGL Renderer : Unknown
X11 Vendor : The X.Org Foundation
-Multimedia-
Audio Adapter : HDA-Intel - HDA NVidia
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Drake puppy 03

#64 Post by elraven »

Drake pup 03 running smooth on my old 1.5 celeron . no issues to report . I'll say this : Its real smooth running for a beta .

Elraven :
ps - we should form a team and keep Drake alive ... every one chant ! Barry.......Barry ......Barry !!

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#65 Post by James C »

I decided to run Drake Pup 0.3 from a multi-session dvd on the old dual-core. The only minor problems so far were the internet connection wasn't detected on boot....used SNS so real quick fix...... and sound was muted...just had to check "center" in Retrovol and adjust the slider.Otherwise, looking really good so far.
Already saved a couple of sessions to dvd so no problems there either.
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#66 Post by nooby »

The only minor problems so far were the internet connection wasn't detected on boot
James C. now I should say nothing I am a poor reader of English but AFAIK Barry have not joined the idea that one should get internet automatically. so most likely it is set up that way by default. A wanted feature seen from the Dev's point of view? I could be wrong though
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ISA-bus sound fails

#67 Post by gjuhasz »

0.3 runs as smoothly as version 0.1, or a bit faster.
I see some problems, however:

1. On a PII 256 MB Toshiba Tecra 8000 laptop, the ISA-bus sound driver (snd_opl3sa2, snd_opl3_lib) seems loaded but Retrovol does not even appear. If I run Retrovol from terminal window, I get segmentation fault error. Alsa Sound Wizard recognizes the sound chip then also reports Retrovol segfault.

2. Under VirtualBox (and maybe elsewhere?), Retrovol appears but forgets the settings after reboot. Configured again, valid for the session only.

Edit:
3. The URL of pet_packages-common is wrong. Should be, e.g., http://distro.ibiblio.org/quirky/pet_packages-common
Thus, package manager returns with an error message. See the picture below.

4. ROX focus problem still exists but rox_filer-201012git-patched.pet crashes the app.
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#68 Post by nooby »

1. On a PII 256 MB
But Drake is not supposed to is it. As I get it Drake is a modern way to have a Puppy that can use Mandrake Linux which turned into Mandriva which turned into Mageia? So depending on the kernel and drivers and so on I don't trust Barry targetted very old CPU and only 256?

Or maybe he did. I should have read the blog entry. I would try Wary Puppy on your computer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandriva_Linux
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#69 Post by jim3630 »

hi, did frugal manual install to ext4. no support for my troublesome broadcom wl.ko driver, alternet usb ar9710 recognized, configured, connected to net and survived rebooting.

-Computer-
Processor : 2x Intel(R) Pentium(R) CPU P6100 @ 2.00GHz
Memory : 3936MB (164MB used)
Operating System : Unknown distribution
User Name : root (root)
Date/Time : Fri 29 Jul 2011 09:43:25 AM UTC
-Display-
Resolution : 1024x768 pixels
OpenGL Renderer : Unknown
X11 Vendor : The X.Org Foundation
-Multimedia-

Nice to see all memory recognized.

gcmartin

Live media Drake 003

#70 Post by gcmartin »

Live media operation OTB

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Fri 29 Jul 2011  Operating System: Drake Puppy-0.3  Linux 2.6.39

X Server: Xorg   Driver: # vesa
X.Org version: 1.10.1
  dimensions:    1024x768 pixels (270x203 millimeters)
  depth of root window:    24 planes

AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4600+
 Core 0: 2411  1: 2411  MHz
________________________________________________________
# hardinfo
-Computer-
Processor		: 2x AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4600+
Memory		: 4149MB (81MB used)

# free
              total         used         free       shared      buffers
  Mem:      4149488       345800      3803688            0        41180
 Swap:      4235672            0      4235672
Total:      8385160       345800      8039360
Excellent start for running 32bit and using ALL available memory for system operation(s).

Hope this helps

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#71 Post by PANZERKOPF »

Bugs:
1) Same problem with remasterpup2 I had mentioned here:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... &start=180
2) Timezone-set crashes. Missing files in directories (/usr/share/zoneinfo/DIR/*).
Dialog gets empty list (variable) and it crashes.
SUUM CUIQUE.

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#72 Post by rjbrewer »

Pentium M 1.6ghz, single core.

"Unable to boot; kernel requires features not on your cpu: PAE".
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Inspiron 700m, Pent.M 1.6Ghz, 1Gb ram.
Msi Wind U100, N270 1.6>2.0Ghz, 1.5Gb ram.
Eeepc 8g 701, 900Mhz, 1Gb ram.
Full installs

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#73 Post by tronkel »

First of all did a live-CD run with pfix=ram.
Same slow-scrolling video as with the earlier version.

I then went for a version upgrade of the old pup_save. This older pup_save had already been used along with the original devx_sfs - the use of which seemed to cure the ATI Radeon video scrolling problem. This improvement was sustained over the version-upgrade (no surprise really). The Xorg setup probably needs fixing at some point. The new single-image partition icons didn't appear to carry over from the version upgrade though. Dunno, maybe it did carry over and only retains the original icon appearance with the green indicators showing that a partition is mounted (instead of the new integrated 'x' symbol).

Then installed LibreOffice writer via PPM using th Mageia packages. Install was fine. Runs very fast as well. Only thing missing was the LibreOffice-java-common package. I installed this separately, which then allowed the Gdocs LibreOffice extension (created by P. Rumik) to be installed. Also runs fine.

All in all a fine rough diamond, well deserving of further attention from the developer community, seeing that Barry is snowed under with stuff to do.

I disagree with those who say that there are too many Puppy Linux variants. I don't think you can have too many flavours of Puppy. Availability of choice is what has carried this distro to the position in which it finds itself today.

I should really try to make time to co-ordinate on-going development of this version. Depends on work commitments etc. etc.
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gcmartin

No PAE on Pentium M ???

#74 Post by gcmartin »

rjbrewer wrote:Pentium M 1.6ghz, single core.

"Unable to boot; kernel requires features not on your cpu: PAE".
I'm not a hardware specialist, but, could you provide some information on YOUR processor. As far as I know, ALL Intels since 1995 had PAE.

Could there be a BIOS option problem here? Or maybe a firmware problem?

Or, just maybe, Intel may NOT have included this is this run of Pentium M. You may want to check the Intel site or the PC's site for update to this OTB CPU feature.

Hope this helps

gcmartin

#75 Post by gcmartin »

nooby wrote:
1. On a PII 256 MB
...
Check your PM on this.

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Re: No PAE on Pentium M ???

#76 Post by rjbrewer »

gcmartin wrote:
rjbrewer wrote:Pentium M 1.6ghz, single core.

"Unable to boot; kernel requires features not on your cpu: PAE".
I'm not a hardware specialist, but, could you provide some information on YOUR processor. As far as I know, ALL Intels since 1995 had PAE.

Could there be a BIOS option problem here? Or maybe a firmware problem?

Or, just maybe, Intel may NOT have included this is this run of Pentium M. You may want to check the Intel site or the PC's site for update to this OTB CPU feature.

Hope this helps
The processor is in my signature Dell laptop.

No! Not all intels had PAE.

Check number 41 in this list; check inspiron 8600 while you're at it.

http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index ... piron_700m

Inspiron 700m, Pent.M 1.6Ghz, 1Gb ram.
Msi Wind U100, N270 1.6>2.0Ghz, 1.5Gb ram.
Eeepc 8g 701, 900Mhz, 1Gb ram.
Full installs

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#77 Post by James C »

been running Drake 0.3 on multi-session dvd for a while now. Nothing major to complain about.Everything working on boot and persistent.

-Computer-
Processor : 4x AMD Athlon(tm) II X4 620 Processor
Memory : 3883MB (194MB used)
Operating System : Unknown distribution
User Name : root (root)
Date/Time : Wed 03 Aug 2011 01:26:57 AM UTC
-Display-
Resolution : 1366x768 pixels
OpenGL Renderer : Unknown
X11 Vendor : The X.Org Foundation
-Multimedia-
Audio Adapter : HDA-Intel - HDA NVidia



VIDEO REPORT: Drake Puppy, version 0.3

Chip description:


Driver used by Xorg:
vesa

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

...the above also recorded in /tmp/report-video
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#78 Post by PANZERKOPF »

The library libxcb-xlib is missing. Ayttm and Gtkam (and maybe other apps) need it.
SUUM CUIQUE.

aarf

#79 Post by aarf »

missing something basic. manual frugal.
file system is fat32.
md5sum 57e2484cf31ff7f275c194d0b8025d7e drake-0.3.iso
wont boot.
fail to find puppy_drake_0.3.sfs.

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title drake03 on sdb1
root (hd1,0)
kernel /drake03/vmlinuz psubdir=drake03 pfix=fsck
initrd /drake03/initrd.gz
copied puppy_drake_0.3.sfs to /mnt/sdb1/puppy_drake_0.3.sfs
still can't find it.
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aarf

#80 Post by aarf »

copied the whole directory as is above to sda2, file system ext3
booted with

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title drake03 on sda2
root (hd0,1)
kernel /drake03/vmlinuz psubdir=drake03 pfix=fsck
initrd /drake03/initrd.gz
found all files. failed to startx. was an error message that disappeared before i could read it. did xorgwizard then xwin . booted to desktop. wifi connected in network wizard.

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