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[Billtoo]

I did a manual frugal install of Precise 564 alpha to a 4gb flash drive.
Computer is a 9+ year old Compaq Presario S6700NX.

Computer
Processor 2x Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz
Memory 1554MB (207MB used)
Machine Type Physical machine
Operating System Precise Puppy - 5.6.4
User Name root (root)
Date/Time Fri 12 Jul 2013 11:57:22 AM EDT
Display
Resolution 1440x900 pixels
OpenGL Renderer Mesa DRI R200 (RV280 5961) x86/MMX/SSE2 TCL DRI2
X11 Vendor The X.Org Foundation
Audio Devices
Audio Adapter CMI8738-MC6 - C-Media CMI8738
Input Devices
AT Translated Set 2 keyboard
Microsoft Microsoft® 2.4GHz Transceiver v6.0
Microsoft Microsoft® 2.4GHz Transceiver v6.0
Microsoft Microsoft® 2.4GHz Transceiver v6.0
Power Button
Power Button
PC Speaker
OpenGL
Vendor Tungsten Graphics, Inc.
Renderer Mesa DRI R200 (RV280 5961) x86/MMX/SSE2 TCL DRI2
Version 1.3 Mesa 8.0.4
Direct Rendering Yes
Compact Wireless-G USB Adapter [rt73]

I needed to update ppm before I could download Vlc-2.0.5
Also added Firefox-22 from ppm

There is a modem in this pc but don't have time to check it now.

No problems yet.

EDIT:I installed Seamonkey 2.17.1 with ppm and the latest flashplayer plugin with getflash.
It's working great, videos at cnn play well at fullscreen.

EDIT:Hardinfo shows that the modem in this pc is a:
Communication controller LSI Corporation LT WinModem (rev 02)

I set up pupdial and entered a password and username for the local internet provider, it dialed out and connected but the username and password weren't valid so it hung up, does work though.

[James C]

Manual frugal install of Precise 5.6.4 alpha on the old trusty Athlon XP box.Sound,internet and display correct and working ootb.
The first thing I did was grab QTWeb ........so far appears to be working fine.Will give it a good test run later.Small and works well.....may be a contender for default browser.


# report-video
VIDEO REPORT: Precise Puppy, version 5.6.4

Chip description:
VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation NV18 [GeForce4 MX 440 AGP 8x] (rev c1)

Requested by /etc/X11/xorg.conf:
Resolution (widthxheight, in pixels): 1440x900
Depth (bits, or planes): 24
Modules requested to be loaded: dbe

Probing Xorg startup log file (/var/log/Xorg.0.log):
Driver loaded (and currently in use): nouveau
Loaded modules: dbe dri dri2 exa extmod fb glx kbd mouse record shadowfb

Actual rendering on monitor:
Resolution: 1440x900 pixels (380x238 millimeters)
Depth: 24 planes

...the above also recorded in /tmp/report-video
# glxgears
125 frames in 5.0 seconds = 24.854 FPS
151 frames in 5.0 seconds = 30.140 FPS
146 frames in 5.0 seconds = 29.029 FPS
146 frames in 5.0 seconds = 29.118 FPS
144 frames in 5.0 seconds = 28.785 FPS

-Computer-
Processor : AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2400+
Memory : 1034MB (202MB used)
Machine Type : Physical machine
Operating System : Precise Puppy - 5.6.4
User Name : root (root)
Date/Time : Fri 12 Jul 2013 12:05:21 PM CDT
-Display-
Resolution : 1440x900 pixels
OpenGL Renderer : Gallium 0.4 on softpipe
X11 Vendor : The X.Org Foundation
-Audio Devices-
Audio Adapter : VIA8233 - VIA 8235

[simargl]

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[James C]

[James C]

Returning back to the normal thread........

Manual frugal install on the old P3 (733 Mhz/256 Mb ram/1Gb swap) test box.Sound and display correct and working on initial boot...... used SNS to get internet connection.Installed QTWeb once again.



# report-video
VIDEO REPORT: Precise Puppy, version 5.6.4

Chip description:
Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82810E DC-133 (GMCH) Graphics Memory Controller Hub (rev 03)
VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82810E DC-133 (CGC) Chipset Graphics Controller (rev 03)

Requested by /etc/X11/xorg.conf:
Resolution (widthxheight, in pixels): 1024x768
Depth (bits, or planes): 24
Modules requested to be loaded: dbe

Probing Xorg startup log file (/var/log/Xorg.0.log):
Driver loaded (and currently in use): intel
Loaded modules: dbe ddc dri dri2 extmod fb glx int10 kbd mouse ramdac record vbe vgahw xaa

Actual rendering on monitor:
Resolution: 1024x768 pixels (321x241 millimeters)
Depth: 24 planes

...the above also recorded in /tmp/report-video
# glxgears
36 frames in 5.0 seconds = 7.139 FPS
39 frames in 5.1 seconds = 7.688 FPS
35 frames in 5.1 seconds = 6.900 FPS
36 frames in 5.1 seconds = 7.062 FPS
38 frames in 5.1 seconds = 7.392 FPS
39 frames in 5.1 seconds = 7.664 FPS

-Computer-
Processor : Pentium III (Coppermine)
Memory : 253MB (133MB used)
Machine Type : Physical machine
Operating System : Precise Puppy - 5.6.4
User Name : root (root)
Date/Time : Fri 12 Jul 2013 01:50:35 PM CDT
-Display-
Resolution : 1024x768 pixels
OpenGL Renderer : Gallium 0.4 on softpipe
X11 Vendor : The X.Org Foundation
-Audio Devices-
Audio Adapter : ICH - Intel 82801AA-ICH

Seems fairly zippy....even on this old hardware.

[Keef]

If anyone trying QTWeb is bothered by tiny fonts in the menus, do a search for pemasu's qt-font-fix.pet, which deals with this.

[James C]

Been testing QTWeb on a variety of sites....... no real problems yet.Seems pretty smooth.

[Keef]

Frugal install to HDD in a Toshiba Satellite Pro M10.
Processor
Name Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1700MHz
Family, model, stepping 6, 9, 5 (Pentium M)

Memory
Total Memory 514168 kB
Free Memory 9092 kB

1600x1200 resolution using nouvea driver.

All ok so far - seems very responsive.

[simargl]

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[pemasu]

If QtWeb pops up ssl certificate errors from time to time, installing ssl certificates and needed folders will stop them. Here is pet to enable installing them. You need /etc/ca-certificates.conf file. Only this file is included in the pet.

Install the pet.
PPM > ca-certificates-some-date.deb
In console: update-ca-certificates
Done.

[pemasu]

http://bit.ly/18SC6N5

[simargl]

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[James C]

[pemasu]

I checked this pet:
http://distro.ibiblio.org/quirky/pet_packages-precise/openbox_with_extras-005-english.pet

It has included this file:
/etc/xdg/menus/puppy-multimedia.menu

That file does not have the new multimedia submenu entries. It will cause that openbox does not show for example: Asunder, Gnome-Mplayer, Mhwaveedit, Pdvdrsap.
I think fix and reupload is recommended.

[ally]

I have many alpha, beta and rc builds in the list

a search on BKs blog shows many alpha's, new and old