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rcrsn51 wrote:If you boot Wary off its Live CD, then try to set up a flash drive, syslinux needs /tmp to have 1777 permissions. If the sticky bit is not set, it gives the error "possibly unsafe /tmp permissions".

Slacko has the same problem.

Currently, /usr/bin/syslinux is a symlink to /usr/bin/syslinux-nomtools. Perhaps it should be a wrapper script instead.

Hi:

Have you tried finding an updated bios? It is possible there is a new bios version that allows USB booting.

Also try copying the vmlinux and intrid files to the USB .

If all else fails try installing puplite or even 4.3


Hope this helped

rcrsn51 wrote:Here is guvcview for Wary. The separate DEP package contains the dependencies - libportaudio, libv4l2, libSDL and libavcodec. Because of their size, I have uploaded them externally.

guvcview_wary-1.5.0.pet
guvcview_wary_DEP-1.5.0.pet

Look in the menus under Multimedia.

This also works in Racy.

(If someone else has already posted this, I apologize.)

Thanks. PETs combined and uploaded to:

http://distro.ibiblio.org/quirky/pet_pa ... .0-w5c.pet

Wary 5.2.1.90 (5.2.2 Release Candidate) uploaded.

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

Testers welcome!

Manual frugal install to emachines D620 laptop.

Wary Puppy, version 5.2.1.90 on Wed 9 Nov 2011

Chip description:
5.0 VGA compatible controller
ATI Technologies Inc RS690M [Radeon X1200 Series]
oem: ATI ATOMBIOS
product: RS690 01.00

X Server: Xorg
Driver used: radeon

X.Org version: 1.3.0
dimensions: 1280x800 pixels (338x211 millimeters)
depth of root window: 24 planes

# glxgears
1693 frames in 5.3 seconds = 317.871 FPS
1584 frames in 5.2 seconds = 304.253 FPS
1656 frames in 5.4 seconds = 307.574 FPS

Computer
Processor AMD Athlon(tm) Processor 2650e
Memory 1813MB (86MB used)
Ethernet controller Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8040 PCI-E Fast Ethernet
Controller
Network controller Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY
I used SNS to setup the wireless network connection.
I will try the mega video upgrade later,this is working well right now.

I made an sfs in racy 5.2.1.90 on another pc and it works in
wary-5.2.1.90 too.

It has xine,goggles,ltris,links,emelfm2,and midnight commander + all
the dependencies, it is 13 mb in size.

The download link is:

http://www.datafilehost.com/download-fb7d883d.html[url]

Edit:
Wary is running fine after applying the gtk fix.
I've been having fun customizing

Just first run Wary 5.2.1.90 CD, the time display fast one hour. To see the attached picture will know. My hardware clock is local time. The local time is 13:36(see the Psync Time Server Synchroniser display), but the clock display in right corner is 14:36.
Also when start up, Wary haven't ask me for the time zone. Thanks.

Fresh manual frugal install of Wary 5.2.1.90 on my Athlon XP box.Sound.internet and display all working on initial boot. However, unable to change the time zone.
Both the "Quicksetup first-run settings" or the "set timezone" freezes the computer and maxes out the cpu (according to Htop)at 100%,Neither application responds at all and mouse not usable.Necessary to restart X with/ctrl/alt/backspace.
Otherwise, things appear pretty good.

-Computer-
Processor : AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2400+
Memory : 1034MB (131MB used)
Operating System : Unknown distribution
User Name : root (root)
Date/Time : Thu 10 Nov 2011 01:38:54 AM UTC
-Display-
Resolution : 1440x900 pixels
OpenGL Renderer : Mesa GLX Indirect
X11 Vendor : The X.Org Foundation
-Multimedia-
Audio Adapter : VIA8233 - VIA 8235

Rebooted. Still unable to change timezone but no problem setting the actual date and time.
Same problem in Racy....evidently not as bad on newer more powerful hardware.
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 656#581656

5.2.1.90: Because the locale settings are pre-determined textually, there weren't the same issues as with Racy. However, my Logitech Mouseman Wheel PS/2 also failed to sign on - had to use an USB device; have experienced this issue a couple of times previously. Fortunately, a cheap clone PS/2 worked OK. Also got the bizarre FlashPlayer 'File does no exist' message. These test versions aren't going to survive!
Later:
FlashPlayer d/l works from the PPM.

WARY 5.2.1.90
- why such a long name ?
- noticed it's faster to boot.
- pop up asking to download flashplayer is annoying
- what is file /puninstall.sh ?
- glxgears 1200 FPS as usual
----> Wary is 3x faster than Racy
- doesnt boot direct to desktop like RACY. too bad.

# ldd /usr/lib/*.so | grep found
ldd: warning: you do not have execution permission for `/usr/lib/libau.so'
ldd: warning: you do not have execution permission for `/usr/lib/libcap.so'
ldd: warning: you do not have execution permission for `/usr/lib/libc.so'
ldd: warning: you do not have execution permission for `/usr/lib/libexiv2.so'
ldd: warning: you do not have execution permission for `/usr/lib/libgcc_s.so'
/usr/lib/libgtkhtml-2.so: /usr/lib/libxml2.so.2: no version information available (required by /usr/lib/libgtkhtml-2.so)
/usr/lib/libgtkhtml-2.so: /usr/lib/libxml2.so.2: no version information available (required by /usr/lib/libgtkhtml-2.so)
ldd: warning: you do not have execution permission for `/usr/lib/libpthread.so'
ldd: warning: you do not have execution permission for `/usr/lib/preloadable_libintl.so'

- I have a desktop and it behaves like for a laptop, showing Battery charge ?
I am repeating the same things as for 5.1.110

After choice of Xvesa there was no welcome1stboot

Rebooted without save
then after vesa probe there was welcome1stboot

download flash
Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2011 15:17:15 GMT
Connection: keep-alive
Remote file does not exist -- broken link!!!

no time zone chosen
# date
Do 10. Nov 18:42:26 UTC 2011
#

BTW,
time is OK for me as I did not set my clock back from summer time

That's all for now
Release candidate -- wise decision

Bonjour,

Racy 5.2.1.90, Frugal install.

Very difficult to choose in quicksetup window the various parameters : language, timezone and keyboard. The combo box is extremely slow.
And no possibility to get the french keymap.

Cordialement

The Remove builtin packages feature freezes for about 30 seconds if I click on the vertical scrollbar (or press PgDown etc) to browse among items.

Wary: The fps rate is three times higher that in other puppies, but the gears do not rotate. It is strange that the displayed interval is not 5 seconds but 6 or more.
In contrast, they rotate well in Racy - but there is no sound for me in Racy..
(Ancient Toshiba Tecra PII 256MB laptop with ISA-bus sound driver)

Billtoo wrote:I made an sfs in racy 5.2.1.90 on another pc and it works in
wary-5.2.1.90 too.

It has xine,goggles,ltris,links,emelfm2,and midnight commander + all
the dependencies, it is 13 mb in size.

The download link is:

http://www.datafilehost.com/download-fb7d883d.html[url]

Thanks, I have uploaded it:

http://distro.ibiblio.org/quirky/sfs/

James C wrote:Rebooted. Still unable to change timezone but no problem setting the actual date and time.
Same problem in Racy....evidently not as bad on newer more powerful hardware.
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 656#581656

@james C
Found I could change timezone after savefile was created, using
menu>desktop>set timezone
BUT it is very slow to go down the list and using the up arrow just takes you back to the start so don't rush it.

Additional info for Barry
Anything requiring a vertically formatted list or scrollbar is horribly slow to select or move, yet if the list is horizontal it's response is almost immediate??? this includes a spreadsheet, database or even multiple page doc's and pdf's.

Also, isn't the calc icon on the desktop suppose to show a spreadsheet, not a calculator?

I do find this rc is clearly running slower than the last if opening windows or starting applications.

regards
scsijon

click the PET and PPM..nothing executed....click seamonkey..also not executed...PBurn is old version...3.3.7????

zulhilmi wrote:click the PET and PPM..nothing executed....click seamonkey..also not executed...PBurn is old version...3.3.7????

zulhilmi, you haven't given us a lot of information to work with, but to start with:

First check that the iso file downloaded properly by gtkhash (file telling what it should be is in the download directory on the website).

If that's right, it just sounds like a bad burn or install, try again.

Let us know what you did and where the problem starts at, like is it on starting the cd or after installing, if installed is it a frugal install or full, have you used the cd to do an upgrade of an earlier version, etc.

we don't mind more information than we need, especially as were not there.

regards
scsijon

Installed gtk+-2.24.8-w5c.pet with DEV on Wary Puppy 5.2.1.90.
http://bkhome.org/blog/?viewDetailed=02594

Some troubles remains with the nVidia commercial driver(gimp-2.7.1 still crashes),
but seems better:
Insert key on seamonkey... OK.
Combobox of gtkdialog3/gtkdialog4... OK.
I compiled gimp-2.6.11 against the gtk+-2.24.8-w5c and works OK(was crashed when opening new files).

gimp-2.6.11-w5c.sfs
http://shino.pos.to/party/bridge.cgi?puppy/opt/pup5/
(May NOT work on usual Wary/Racy)
./configure --prefix=/usr --host=i486-t2-linux-gnu --sysconfdir=/etc --with-x --without-dbus --without-webkit --disable-python

The "new" GTK solved the problem: opening Remove builtin packages does not hog the CPU. Thanks, Barry.
However, after I went thru the process and removed Abiword, Gumeric and Seamonkey (plus others) and finally got a directory for the new ISO, I found that it contains broken files: initrd.gz was about 760 bytes and vmlinuz was only 32 bytes long. What is strange, too: the sfs file was only a little smaller than the original one: 122 MB.
I repeated the process twice with the same result. Then I replaced the broken files with the original initrd.gz and vmlinuz to see what happens: yeah, the packages disappeared.