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Sage · Joined: 04 Oct 2005 Posts: 4680 Location: GB

supra. - probably an HW issue!

Diminutive repo! Bunch of stuff won't work and dependencies not listed eg 'jack', 'portaudio','v4l-utils', inter alia. Not to mention Claws, EudoraOSE, etc. Afraid my old memory box doesn't run to remembering where every reference to individual files resides on the Forum, esp. as I juggle dozens of distros and rather more machines simultaneously daily. The PPM is the cornerstone for any distro. Sine qua non...

Jasper · Joined: 25 Apr 2010 Posts: 999 Location: England

Sage reported:

".... I juggle dozens of distros and rather more machines simultaneously...."
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Yet he is doubtless unable to edit his posts singly, let alone two-at-once.

I suggest he should probably edit his last two posts to rectify any mistakes.

Addendum:

I have just seen that "jack", "claws", etcetera, etcetera, etcetera are available from the Slacko Repository via the Slacko PPM. Perhaps 01micko has added them very recently as a result of Sage's compulsive appeal.

James C · Joined: 26 Mar 2009 Posts: 5097 Location: Kentucky

Manual frugal install of 5.3.2.4 on the old P3 test box. Everything working correctly on initial boot.

gcmartin · Joined: 14 Oct 2005 Posts: 3092 Location: Earth

James C · Joined: 26 Mar 2009 Posts: 5097 Location: Kentucky

Been experimenting again, now if I can just get motivated to finish tweaking it........ Laughing

jim3630 · Joined: 13 Feb 2011 Posts: 792 Location: Northern Nevada

5.3.2.4 frugal install pfix=ram to ext4 hdd on dual p6100 hp. frisbee menu installed with auto-detected broadcom wifi driver and connection made without issue. mesa installed via slickpet. glxgears shows expected output.

everything works so far will keep testing next few days. thanks

Lobster · Posted: Wed 22 Feb 2012, 02:01 Post_subject:

I have upgraded from RC1 to RC2
- it has been a bit of a mess.
What I may have done is move from normal to PAE Embarassed

Adobe Flash (the well known proprietary disaster area) it tells me is the wrong version
Sound is not working.

OK I will go for a pristine puppy pfix=ram install
as I notice many little improvements despite my difficulties

Other people seem to be having a better experience
Thanks Mick. Thanks guys.
Smile

gcmartin · Joined: 14 Oct 2005 Posts: 3092 Location: Earth

Lobster · Posted: Wed 22 Feb 2012, 23:35 Post_subject:

Jades · Posted: Thu 23 Feb 2012, 19:01 Post_subject:

Jades · Posted: Thu 23 Feb 2012, 20:31 Post_subject:

Performance of 5.3.2.4 continues to be excellent on the Pentium D machine, I'm very pleased! Still using it as LiveCD and USB stick as I strongly suspect that the hard drive is failing on me, can't even start to boot XP at the moment.

I forgot to report earlier that setting up the wireless networking with the Netgear WN111v2 has a couple of additional steps compared to setting it up on other versions of Puppy. I've attached screen grabs of the two windows. I assume these pop up because some devices using the carl9170 drivers don't always work properly. I chose 'Add to List' on the first one as I knew the device is capable of WPA2 and for the second one I clicked 'OK' without changing anything.

Security I'm using is WPA2 with maximum-length hidden SSID and maximum-length key. Speed is very good, at least the same as Lupu 528 and possibly better.

James C · Joined: 26 Mar 2009 Posts: 5097 Location: Kentucky

Don't know if it's affected anyone else but I was unable to reformat an ext3 partition on my P4 test box using Gparted in my frugal installation of 5.3.2.4. I attempted to format to both ext3 and ext4 but Gparted errored out both times.
Installing the latest Exprimo so I used that to format...... no problem.

01micko · Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 7317 Location: qld

That's weird James, I have been using gparted a fair bit lately, ext 4, no problems.

Anyway.. the bug with aufs has reared it's head again.. it seems to be hanging intermittently mostly in USB installs. A bloke in my class (a linux head) has this issue on a fairly fast lappy, 4G RAM.

I didn't want to recompile a kernel but I have, with union fs, made a new build script too, the headers package is fixed (pemasu Wink

). Worked first go.. building a test woof now.

I am considering moving to the latest woof, just because development has been slow with my heavy schedule. I have managed to keep seamonkey up to date and that's about it!

Thoughts?

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Later..

Ok, the union_fs kernel boots and runs fine, small bug with xorg that wasn't apparent with aufs but I know why. Smile

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Jades, just noticed about your carl9170 issue, this is because the module name is changed apparently (formerly ar9170) and wag-profiles.sh (netwizard functions library) doesn't know about it, Thanks for the heads up, it's an easy fix.