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[tronkel]

Running Racy 5.2.90RC with ATI Radeon HD6050

The radeon driver included with this Puppy does not seem to work with the 3.0.17 kernel

I tried to compile the proprietary driver from the AMD web page. This compile fails with a DKMS error. The DKMS version that I installed was a DEB from Debian testing. I have a kernel source pet for k3.0.17 PAE installed - maybe this is a problem as well -it's the nearest kernel source version I could find. The DEVX used is the one for Racy 5.2.90

How can I set up the correct build environment for this driver?

I have got video to run using the VESA driver.
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[Billtoo]

[tronkel]

Thanks Billtoo - the link to the kernel source is here:

http://bkhome.org/sources/kernel-3.0.17/

Compiled without error this time.

"report-video" command still shows VESA as the driver though. Other people have also found this to be the case as well. Uhu I see why - the xorg.conf that got updated by the "aticonfig --initial" command now has two device sections in it - one of which shows the vesa driver.

This looks like a bug in the proprietary driver then?

[Billtoo]

[mdisaster2]

I installed Wary 5.2.90 under Virtualbox 4.1.10. I choose Wary instead of Racy because the emulated hardware in Virtualbox is nothing to write home about, and the lower resource usage of Wary doesn't hurt either.

Only problem I had was xorgwizard crashing to a black screen trying to start X (which is required if you want to install the Virtualbox Guest Additions which enable a number of useful features, such as mouse integration, shared clipboard, shared folders, 3D acceleration support, window resize and so on).

Selecting Vesa does work by the way, but you have to disable mouse integration from the vm dropdown menu and you don't have access to the above goodies.

However I restarted the virtual machine with puppy pfix=nox and found out that xorgwizard had left behing a xorg conf in a usable state - I only had to edit it and set the monitor resolution @ 1024*768*24, and this time xwin put me in a regular X (non-Vesa) environment.

Next step was to compile the Guest Additions, so I downloaded the kernel sources sfs and the devx sfs (btw, I didn't have to run anything to connect the network, it worked right out of the box). I made the boot manager mount the sfs, told the VM to load the Guest Additions iso image that comes with the Virtualbox install, then I gave these commands from a terminal:

[vicmz]

Latest Spanish langpack available here (2.4 MB):
http://www.datafilehost.com/download-e3e63da7.html

Added:
hunspell-es
P-series (Pmusic, Pburn etc.) locales

Work in progress, yet with lots of translations

[peebee]

[L18L]

# msginit
alsaconf.pot:208: missing `msgstr' section
msginit: found 1 fatal error
#

Thus "bad news" when trying to translate

fixed by:

[rodin.s]

I have created alsaconf.pot manually as it cannot be regenerated by xgettext. I have never used momanager to translate it (I used poedit only). It's good you've found this bug.

[L18L]

I have translated alsaconf now (geany and msgfmt)
2 changes in script, see image.

DIALOG='dialog' #has correct yesno
and
#export LANG=C

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edited 20120322

These test have been made from virtual console.
Launched from menu and alsawizard GUI
we need to change last line of /usr/sbin/alsawizard from

[Billtoo]

[peebee]

[Billtoo]

[tronkel]

It appears that the power-off and reboot menu options in JWM don't work. Maybe it's a kernel issue. Anyone else got this problem?

This Racy is fast - the fastest Linux distro on four legs!

[Billtoo]