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[BarryK]

Wary Puppy 5.1.103 (5.2beta1)

See my blog announcement:

http://bkhome.org/blog/?viewDetailed=02520

Testers are welcome!

Note, I will update this thread for successive betas and the 5.2-final, so feedback is all in one place.
Feedback on Wary prior to this is here:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=67572

October 12, 2011: Wary Puppy 5.1.106 (5.2beta2)

See my blog announcement:
http://bkhome.org/blog/?viewDetailed=02538

Discussion starts on page 3 of this forum thread:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=72258&start=30

October 14, 2011: Wary Puppy 5.2

See my blog announcement:
http://bkhome.org/blog/?viewDetailed=02543

Discussion starts on page 5 of this Forum thread:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=572975#572975

October 28, 2011: Wary 5.2.1

See my blog announcement for download link:
http://bkhome.org/blog/?viewDetailed=02573

Discussion starts on page 15 of this Forum thread:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=577273#577273

...5.2.1 is currently only available as an upgrade PET package for 5.2.

Wary 5.2.1.90 (5.2.2 RC): 10 Nov. 2011

See my blog post for download:
http://bkhome.org/blog/?viewDetailed=02590

Discussion begins on page 17 of this thread:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=581573#581573

Wary 5.2.2: 18 Nov. 2011

See my blog post for details and download:
http://bkhome.org/blog/?viewDetailed=02602

Discussion begins on page 19 of this thread:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=583947#583947

[James C]

Fresh manual frugal install of Wary 5.1.103 on my main Athlon XP box.Sound,internet and display all working and correct on initial boot.Everything persistent through a couple of reboots.
Kinda like the new wallpaper and theme.


Wary Puppy, version 5.1.103 on Mon 3 Oct 2011

Chip description:
0.0 VGA compatible controller
nVidia Corporation NV18 [GeForce4 MX 440 AGP 8x] (rev c1)
oem: NVidia
product: NV18 () Board Chip Rev A2

X Server: Xorg
Driver used: nv

X.Org version: 1.3.0
dimensions: 1440x900 pixels (411x263 millimeters)
depth of root window: 24 planes


# glxgears
1656 frames in 5.3 seconds = 314.468 FPS
1656 frames in 5.3 seconds = 312.642 FPS
1656 frames in 5.2 seconds = 318.777 FPS
1656 frames in 5.2 seconds = 317.717 FPS
1656 frames in 5.3 seconds = 314.711 FPS
1656 frames in 5.3 seconds = 312.334 FPS
1656 frames in 5.2 seconds = 317.385 FPS


-Computer-
Processor : AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2400+
Memory : 1034MB (117MB used)
Operating System : Unknown distribution
User Name : root (root)
Date/Time : Mon 03 Oct 2011 10:18:30 PM CDT
-Display-
Resolution : 1440x900 pixels
OpenGL Renderer : Mesa GLX Indirect
X11 Vendor : The X.Org Foundation
-Multimedia-
Audio Adapter : VIA8233 - VIA 8235

Ethernet controller : Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+
Multimedia audio controller : VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller
VGA compatible controller : nVidia Corporation NV18 [GeForce4 MX 440 AGP 8x]

Looks good so far.

[linuxcbon]

Not a bug, but package manager has fat programs like amaya, ati, git...why not let forum users take care of this ?

/dev/shm needed ? No program uses it.

[linuxcbon]

Using gdmap, I can see big files (also seen using command : find / -size +3M)

From seamonkey :
libxul.so 22Mb
places.sqlite 10Mb
omni.jar 6Mb

In /lib/modules/2.6.32-smp/intelmodem/
Intel537.HIDE 4Mb
4 times ? 537 537EA 537EP 537SP

/usr/sbin/gpartedbin 3.4Mb
mplayer 4Mb
abiword 6Mb
libavcodec 4Mb
libgs 4Mb

[broomdodger]

flash pref crash
Wary Puppy 5.1.103 frugal
installed flash at the dialog
Menu > Utility > Adobe Flash Player preferences
click the 'Playback' tab and it 'crashes' (flash pref quits)

[gjuhasz]

Pupradio files referencing radio and TV stations are missing from /root/.pupradio
After importing them from another Puppy, pupradio works fine.

[Volhout]

Installed frugal on USB stick.

When selecting VESA, the mediaplayer does not scale video to full screen, when selecting Xorg, video scaling works OK.

Nice new default theme. a bit dark (forces you to turn the backlight high on laptops at cost of battery life. For that reason I mostly select a lighter theme).

Tested on Athlon64 stsem, Intel dual core7500 system and HP pavilion dv2000 laptop. No problems found.

eeePC 1001HA wireless does not work (RT3090).

[Billtoo]

Manual frugal install to hp desktop pc.
Wed 5 Oct 2011 Operating System: Wary Puppy-5.1.103 Linux 2.6.32-smp
0.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GT216 [GeForce GT 220] (rev a2)
oem: NVIDIA product: GT216 Board - 0682vb12 Chip Rev

X Server: Xorg Driver: nvidia
X.Org version: 1.3.0
dimensions: 1280x1024 pixels (342x271 millimeters)
depth of root window: 24 planes

direct rendering: Yes
server glx vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
server glx version string: 1.4
OpenGL vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
OpenGL renderer string: GeForce GT 220/PCI/SSE2
OpenGL version string: 3.3.0 NVIDIA 285.05.09

Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E4500
Core 0: 1200 1: 1200 MHz
# glxgears
31381 frames in 5.0 seconds = 6276.044 FPS
31428 frames in 5.0 seconds = 6285.450 FPS
31396 frames in 5.0 seconds = 6279.056 FPS

Working good so far.

[L18L]

[tronkel]

I needed the alsa wizard to set up sound. Succeeded OK though. Haven't had to do that for some time with recent Puppy versions.

Didn't have much luck with test calls via PuppyPhone.
I got registered with IPTEL OK though.

Like this version and the theme as well. It runs nice and fast on my middle-aged hardware.

[Volhout]

Running from USB drive on laptop HP pavilion DV2000

Start gtkam from menu, then add camera (laptop buildin camera is "sonix"), while scrolling down the list system freezes. Mouse cursor moves, but keyboard and mouse clicks are dead. Only hard poweroff works.

I am not sure this ever worked, since this is the first time I try to use the webcam from puppy linux on this laptop.

edit: works OK for wary 5141 (camera is not in the list, but it allows selection of other camera's). 5141 does not freeze.

[James C]

A bit more testing today.....no real problems.Used default SeaMonkey to watch a bunch of videos.......no shuddering or crashing just smooth video replays.
All settings still persistent through a couple of more reboots.

# free
total used free shared buffers
Mem: 1034520 305044 729476 0 39364
Swap: 1228932 0 1228932
Total: 2263452 305044 1958408

The amount of resource usage is very impressive as well.Looking pretty good.

[linuxcbon]

/usr/share/pixmaps/ktsuss.png doesn't exist.

[JonT]

Wary 5.1.103 manual frugal install on Dell Inspiron 1100 with an uneventful boot. Sound is fine, mplayer worked well.

Oddly, yesterday, I was unable to connect wirelessly (inability to get WPA IP assigned) despite multiple tries, multiple reboots pfix=ram, but no trouble with wary 5.1.4. I carefully checked my passphrase and even the hashed version in /etc/simple_network_setup/wpa_supplicant.conf-xxxxxxxxx. Today, no troubles at all. Cannot reproduce the problem.

pwidgets.2.0.8 lists "Wallpaper" as a dependency, but it is unavailable (and maybe unneeded).

Icons are missing from the main pwidgets window (see jpeg). Looking at the code, it appears to me (ignorance in action perhaps) that /usr/share/icons/gtk-add.png is used but missing are:

gtk-remove.png
gtk-go-up.png
gtk-go-down.png

So back to wary 5.1.4, the pwidgets window is fine though I cannot find any of the mentioned icon files. Can somebody take pity and educate me as to where the pwidget button icon files are in wary 5.1.4?

Jon

[esmourguit]

Bonjour,

About using gparted, localization in french :

French locale file is in /usr/share/locale/LC_MESSAGES directory.

Gparted launched by clicking on the /usr/sbin/gparted file, it appears in french. OK!

Gparted launched by clicking on the /usr/sbin/gpartedbin file, it appears in french. OK!

But, Gparted launched by clicking on the /usr/sbin/gparted_shell file, it appears in english only.

Does anyone have this problem also in another language?

Cordialement