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[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.

[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.

[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

[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 !!

[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.

[nooby]

[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.

[nooby]

[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 operation OTB

[PANZERKOPF]

Bugs:
1) Same problem with remasterpup2 I had mentioned here:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=67572&start=180
2) Timezone-set crashes. Missing files in directories (/usr/share/zoneinfo/DIR/*).
Dialog gets empty list (variable) and it crashes.

[rjbrewer]

Pentium M 1.6ghz, single core.

"Unable to boot; kernel requires features not on your cpu: PAE".

[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.

[gcmartin]

[gcmartin]