Dpup482-beta5 testing
Not sure if there's somewhere better to post this, but .....
thought I'd download the retro version, but the dpup.org server is breaking the
connection every 50 to 60 secs as regular as clockwork
Is this a design feature
I'm on dialup, download will take about 8 hrs, so that makes for
around 500 reconnection attempts by poor ol' wget
It's lucky I'm a patient sort of guy .......
thought I'd download the retro version, but the dpup.org server is breaking the
connection every 50 to 60 secs as regular as clockwork
Is this a design feature
I'm on dialup, download will take about 8 hrs, so that makes for
around 500 reconnection attempts by poor ol' wget
It's lucky I'm a patient sort of guy .......
Actually I think it is, but I never had it break connections every minute, for me it's like every 30-40 meg.Is this a design feature
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Apache/2.2.11 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.11 OpenSSL/0.9.8e-fips-rhel5 mod_auth_passthrough/2.1 mod_bwlimited/1.4 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635 PHP/5.2.9 Server at www.dpup.org Port 80
Joe
- gposil
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Yes, bandwidth limiting is very dialup unfriendly...sorry, but until I win the Lottery or find a more economical host for my domains...that's how it is...In the very near future, Dpup will be on the official ibiblio site, but unfortunately, that does not suffer the limiting problem, but is far slower...We'll get there in the end.
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10:05:31 (4.20 KB/s) - Connection closed at byte 31026290. Retrying.tubeguy wrote:Actually I think it is, but I never had it break connections every minute, for me it's like every 30-40 meg.Is this a design feature
10:06:38 (4.40 KB/s) - Connection closed at byte 31279835. Retrying.
10:07:56 (4.36 KB/s) - Connection closed at byte 31580100. Retrying.
10:08:56 (4.14 KB/s) - Connection closed at byte 31788385. Retrying.
10:09:53 (4.41 KB/s) - Connection closed at byte 31996670. Retrying.
That's how it was all morning, though no sooner had I posted here
than it changed to about every 10 mins now. Is it governed by
current traffic?
Only 3 more hours to go .......
But I'm sure it will be well worth this wait!
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Shep, yes..the bandwidth limiting is governed by the number of users logged in at the time...it endevours to give everyone a fair slice...it's obviously not that good at it....especially when low speed dialup logins are competing with high speed logins.
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hehe.. I might go to this and hand out Dpup beta5 cds...
hehe.. I might go to this and hand out Dpup beta5 cds...
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R40 num lock
The num lock problem on my R40 is still alive.
The circumvention is known to me.
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Everything seems fine here so far, I haven't rebooted yet though, running clean frugal install.
Numlock was NOT on by default here.
Abiword seems good, drec works, also tested a bit gimp 2.6.6 package so far works smooth, but I'm gonna test it more.
Control Panel and first wizard also better.
SSH & remote clients are also nice additions.
Mplayer still starts below taskbar though.
Ayttm crashes when trying to connect to msn account but I expected that, that's ayttm's problem.
Um, not sure how smart it is but should we ditch ayttm?
It crashes on amsn and I doubt it works with current yahoo messenger either. Maybe just put xchat in instead? Or even pidgin but I know that's a lot of fat on already very greasy dpup
Numlock was NOT on by default here.
Abiword seems good, drec works, also tested a bit gimp 2.6.6 package so far works smooth, but I'm gonna test it more.
Control Panel and first wizard also better.
SSH & remote clients are also nice additions.
Mplayer still starts below taskbar though.
Ayttm crashes when trying to connect to msn account but I expected that, that's ayttm's problem.
Um, not sure how smart it is but should we ditch ayttm?
It crashes on amsn and I doubt it works with current yahoo messenger either. Maybe just put xchat in instead? Or even pidgin but I know that's a lot of fat on already very greasy dpup
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I just installed Dpup482-beta5 and ran the 1st install script and selected wbar, numlock on, locale, and then set up my internet connection.
When I rebooted, the pupsave was created.
But the wbar setting was not retained and I had to run the 1st install script again.
I have yet to see if that setting is retained this time.
Also, I tried installing the Floppy Formatter Pet that had the script that was written by the creator of ufiformat.
It failed on writing a dos file system to the disk.
So I used a fall back to a never released script that I had created that seems to work with Dpup.
For anyone that wants to try it, it is attached.
When I rebooted, the pupsave was created.
But the wbar setting was not retained and I had to run the 1st install script again.
I have yet to see if that setting is retained this time.
Also, I tried installing the Floppy Formatter Pet that had the script that was written by the creator of ufiformat.
It failed on writing a dos file system to the disk.
So I used a fall back to a never released script that I had created that seems to work with Dpup.
For anyone that wants to try it, it is attached.
- Attachments
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- Floppy_Formater-1.7.pet
- My never released floppy formater for USB and internal floppy drives.
- (20.05 KiB) Downloaded 1409 times
I installed SDL pet and libgl* debs and I get this when I want to run some games:
I compiled neverball on dpup beta4 it worked good, after installing sdl and glx/dri on beta5 it doesn't run with that message.
EDIT: Also with other games installed from debian:
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# ./neverball
X11 driver not configured with OpenGL
EDIT: Also with other games installed from debian:
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# torus-trooper
Error: Unable to create SDL screen: X11 driver not configured with OpenGL
# briquolo
BRIQUOLO v0.5.7
SDL tells that the following fullscreen resolutions are available:
1600x1024 1440x900 1280x1024 1280x960 1152x864 1024x768 800x600
There is no configuration file
Default options will be used
Fullscreen is false
Trying resolution from configuration file...
Resolution 800x600
Trying attributes and BPP: rMask=8 gMask=8 bMask=8 BPP=32 => Failed
Trying attributes and BPP: rMask=8 gMask=8 bMask=8 BPP=24 => Failed
Trying attributes and BPP: rMask=5 gMask=6 bMask=5 BPP=16 => Failed
Video Init error: can't create the window!
# chromium
WARNING: could not read config file (/root/.chromium)
WARNING: could not read score file (/root/.chromium-score)
randomizing.
SDL initialized.
Couldn't set GL mode: X11 driver not configured with OpenGL
#
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Yeah, this one is a pain, and as Béèm said, it appears when you do an fsck. I put pfix=fsck in my kernel line in grub's menu.lst, in my usual frugal installs so fsck checks file integrity every startup, and is constantly reporting unclean shutdowns. I did not do this with Dpup test installs , however, so forgot to mention it here.gposil wrote:ralphv said:Has this problem been reported before...I certainly haven't had any problems unmounting at shutdown....has anyone else had this problem...Want to see if a frugal will cleanly unmount the partition at shutdown. Beta4 didn't.
Also as Béèm says, it's been around for most puppies since, I believe, 4.x.
One workaround a user reported was to use the kernel switch PMEDIA=ataflash even on a hard drive instead of the more usual PMEDIA=satahd or idehd. This one does cleanly close. However, it has the disadvantage that you can lose work between the periodic automatic saves if power drops out.
It would be great to actually solve this problem, if that's possible. It creates an insecure feeling about shut-downs for me. Even if pfix=fsck corrects things.
EDIT that's ataflash, not usbflash
Last edited by vtpup on Mon 30 Nov 2009, 22:51, edited 1 time in total.
hello from beta5
firstrun frugal experience:
* numlock is deactivated
* setting firstrun use wbar
* apply settings -> immediate(!) x server restart; that was a little unexpected and killed my running firefox
* ok, icons are gone from desktop, but wbar doesnt show up
* doing a reboot, writing to savefile
* icons are back again, no wbar
next i'll check apt support
* numlock is deactivated
* setting firstrun use wbar
* apply settings -> immediate(!) x server restart; that was a little unexpected and killed my running firefox
* ok, icons are gone from desktop, but wbar doesnt show up
* doing a reboot, writing to savefile
* icons are back again, no wbar
next i'll check apt support
Wahoo!Beta5 will start in about 10 minutes...should only take 5-10 minutes to upload...
Mirror:
http://tubeguy.org/dpup-482beta5-2.6.30.5.iso
http://tubeguy.org/dpup-482beta5-2.6.30.5.iso.md5.txt
Last edited by tubeguy on Tue 01 Dec 2009, 22:53, edited 1 time in total.