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charlie6 · Joined: 30 Jun 2008 Posts: 800 Location: South of Belgium

Hi Biltoo,

jemimah · Joined: 26 Aug 2009 Posts: 4309 Location: Tampa, FL

I've updated midori.
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=73799

Saluki-004 should be out very soon.

Sage · Joined: 04 Oct 2005 Posts: 4623 Location: GB

Yippee! Will it use Midori as default?

yr1945 · Joined: 17 Apr 2010 Posts: 87

this is feedback / input from my own experience with the new midori browser...

overall, it is significantly improved and very stable /usable for browsing the internet...

it crashed a couple of times while i was tweaking my toolbar...

also, it crashed a couple of times while i was using the menu button at the top, far right of page... you get this menu button when you right click the the tool bar and turn the tool bar off...

in addition, i cannot open the main lupu / lucid / slacko / wary "ibiblio" websites (re:from the puppylinux.com page), but i can open the alternative sites listed below the main sites, however, when the alternative sites open, i cannot download the .pets...

anyway, other than the above mentioned issues, midori 0.4.3 works just fine and i am using it as my primary browser... it has never crashed on me while just browsing the internet...

thanks, Jemimah !!!

jemimah · Joined: 26 Aug 2009 Posts: 4309 Location: Tampa, FL

jemimah · Joined: 26 Aug 2009 Posts: 4309 Location: Tampa, FL

Saluki-004 has been released.

http://smokey01.com/jemimah/saluki/isos/

New in 004:
updated and patched glib now shows mounted drives in file open/save dialogs

gtk returned to 2.24.8 - possible fix for gseal errors included in devx

vattery

acpid - supend,hibernate,powersaving modes,etc

sven - most hotkeys should work

annoying welcomefirstboot message moved to the tray

gxmessage replaces xmessage

sfs-on-the-fly

RoxRightClicks

grandr

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My next projects are frisbee, icewm, and various other enhancements.

Volhout · Joined: 28 Dec 2008 Posts: 242

just FYI...

Tried Saluki 004 from CD. Did not get any video, had audio though (bark, and goodbye at powerdown.
Rebooted several times with pfix=nox and tried manual XORG and VESA settings. Anything other than 640x480 failed.
I guess the SIS drivers are not in this kernel. I never tried Racy on this PC, but Wary runs fine, as does lucid 525/528.

This PC may be too old for Saluki anyway. Don't get distracted by this report, and make Saluki into a marvelous product for newer PC's.

P.S. on 640x480 recognized puppeee touches.....

pemasu · Joined: 08 Jul 2009 Posts: 5169 Location: Finland

Not sure what module is possibly missing but this is what I find:

technosaurus · Joined: 18 May 2008 Posts: 3843

I am kinda working on a side project that will run the boot process in X (X will start in <1s, so its not that a big deal to push the init process into it) ... hopefully it can work with Saluki - I already tested against its kernel
I did have a couple of questions about the default Xvesa settings
1. for older 586+ PCs and newer tablets/netbooks is 800x600 supported universally?
2. does defaulting to 16bit color mess with any newer boxes?
Note: this is just for a bootstrap X, the user can either stay in it, if they need lower resource usage (<3Mb) or run the Xorg wizard after "init" is finished

James C · Joined: 26 Mar 2009 Posts: 4742 Location: Kentucky

Quick live pfix=ram test run of 004.Booted to a working desktop with sound....had to run through xorgwizard to get the correct 1440x900 resolution and the Network Wizard to get connected .Using Opera 11.60 to post this because I had it handy.

Computer
Processor AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2400+
Memory 1033MB (227MB used)
Operating System Unknown distribution
User Name root (root)
Date/Time Thu 29 Dec 2011 03:31:13 PM CST
Display
Resolution 1440x900 pixels
OpenGL Renderer Software Rasterizer
X11 Vendor The X.Org Foundation
Multimedia
Audio Adapter VIA8233 - VIA 8235

PCI Devices
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]

James C · Joined: 26 Mar 2009 Posts: 4742 Location: Kentucky

jemimah · Joined: 26 Aug 2009 Posts: 4309 Location: Tampa, FL

Billtoo · Joined: 07 Apr 2009 Posts: 1496 Location: Ontario Canada

I burned the iso to a DVD+R
So far I've just installed firefox-3.6.25-i686.pet and
report-video-glx-0.6.pet, mtpaint from ppm

Thu 29 Dec 2011 Operating System: Saluki-004 Linux 2.6.39-ski
0.0 VGA compatible controller:nVidia Corporation GF108[GeForce GT 430](rev a1)
oem: NVIDIA product: GF108 Board - 1071v0p1 Chip Rev

X Server: Xorg Driver: # vesa
X.Org version: 1.11.0
dimensions: 1280x1024 pixels (382x302 millimeters)
depth of root window: 24 planes

direct rendering: Yes
server glx vendor string: SGI
server glx version string: 1.4
OpenGL vendor string: Mesa Project
OpenGL renderer string: Software Rasterizer
OpenGL version string: 2.1 Mesa 7.10.3

AMD Phenom(tm) II X6 1045T Processor
Core 0: 2699 1: 2699 2: 2699 3: 2699 4: 2699 5: 2699 MHz

# glxgears
2812 frames in 5.0 seconds = 562.227 FPS
2805 frames in 5.0 seconds = 560.885 FPS
2804 frames in 5.0 seconds = 560.683 FPS

technosaurus · Joined: 18 May 2008 Posts: 3843

jemimah · Joined: 26 Aug 2009 Posts: 4309 Location: Tampa, FL

I've adjusted various scripts to make Puppy mount drives by label (if there is one) instead of device name. This is rather handy because each drive will always get the same mount point and it's easier to tell which drive is which.

Let me know if I've broken anything.

Test this pet on a save file you don't care about since uninstalling it will break things.

After installing the pet, run Puppy Event Manager and check the box that tells it to redraw the icons. Then restart x.

I've also attached the patches in case someone wants to implement this on a system that is not a recent woof build.