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BarryK

Announced on my blog:

http://bkhome.org/blog/?viewDetailed=01883

I will appreciate testing of this fellow. Do take particular note of the two buglets I mention in my blog announcment:

First time you boot Wary, open a terminal window and type these:

James C · Joined: 26 Mar 2009 Posts: 4742 Location: Kentucky

Just a quick run of Wary 092 (2.6.34.6) live pfix=ram on my main Linux box.
Initial boot had working internet and sound and I easily got my desired screen resolution.
At the moment I'm making this post and burning the 2.6.30.5 iso to disc,so things appear to be working pretty well. Smile

Ran the 2 commands too.

VIDEO REPORT: Wary Puppy, version 092

Chip description:
oem: S3 Graphics ProSavage DDR Family BIOS
product: VBE 3.0 Rev 0.0

Driver used by Xorg:
savage

Video mode used by Xorg:
Resolution: Depth 24 Depth: "Display"

...the above also recorded in /tmp/report-video
#

-Computer-
Processor : AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2400+
Memory : 1002MB (146MB used)
Operating System : Puppy Linux 0.09
User Name : root (root)
Date/Time : Sun 24 Oct 2010 01:45:58 AM CDT
-Display-
Resolution : 1400x1050 pixels
OpenGL Renderer : Unknown
X11 Vendor : The X.Org Foundation

-Version-
Kernel : Linux 2.6.34.6 (i686)
Compiled : #1 SMP Fri Oct 22 10:15:31 GMT-8 2010
C Library : GNU C Library version 2.10.1 (stable)
Default C Compiler : Unknown
Distribution : Puppy Linux 0.09
-Current Session-
Computer Name : puppypc
User Name : root (root)
Home Directory : /root
Desktop Environment : Unknown (Window Manager: JWM)

Just tried the Video Upgrade Wizard..........it failed.
More testing tomorrow....almost 2 am here..... Laughing

BarryK · Posted: Sun 24 Oct 2010, 02:54 Post subject:

I found another little bug. Testing PPM (Puppy Package Manager), after installing a package it reported 'dpkg' missing dependency.

No, that should not be. I have fixed it in Woof. It is easy, you can also fix it -- edit file /root/.packages/PKGS_MANAGEMENT and insert "dpkg" as shown here:

Sage · Joined: 04 Oct 2005 Posts: 4623 Location: GB

Alleluhia - sound is back again!

BarryK · Posted: Sun 24 Oct 2010, 03:17 Post subject:

James C,
I just tested it, mesa pkg installed ok for me.

But, it makes me think though, PPM should put up more information why the install failed -- like corrupted download for example. I have added that to the to-do list.

Note that the 'bluefish' pkg in the puppy-wary5' repo is broken. This was compiled in T2 and the PET auto-generated, but it has lost some needed images along the way.

Anyone want to volunteer to compile Bluefish in Wary 092 and create a PET? If you do, you can use this old PET as a guide to what the insides will look like:

http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/puppylinux/pet_packages-4/bluefish-1.0.7.pet

...that's a very old version though.

Note, you can open up a PET pkg to see it's insides by doing this:

BarryK · Posted: Sun 24 Oct 2010, 03:28 Post subject:

Oh, one important point about creating PETs for Wary. I will only accept PETs that are compiled in Wary, not binary files obtained from elsewhere.

Also, it is most desirable when compiling a package to do so in the most pristine Wary system possible. Do not install the Intel or nVidia X upgrade packages, or ATI for that matter -- these introduce new openGL and some other files that make the environment potentially incompatible with other hardware.

peebee · Joined: 21 Sep 2008 Posts: 911 Location: Malvern, Worcs, UK

Hi Barry K (& Richard rerwin)

Wary092 K2.6.34 on HP550 laptop, frugal install, B43 wep wifi, Agere HDA modem.

Good news - all started up OK - wifi, touchpad and battery tray all working as expected (except wifi still disassociates after a time).

However, this puppy has the old 2.1.60 version of the Agere HDA modem driver rather than the 2.1.80 version that Richard provided and I have been helping him to test. As a result modem-stats crashes and no modem in pupdial.....

Thanks
Peter

rjbrewer · Joined: 22 Jan 2008 Posts: 4352 Location: merriam, kansas

No problems booting live cd after full install, like I had with 090.

No problems with mms streams.

DaveS · Joined: 09 Oct 2008 Posts: 3669 Location: UK

'34 kernel. Sound muted at first so had to be set up. This missing from xorg.conf and has to be included to enable transparency effects

tronkel · Joined: 30 Sep 2005 Posts: 1051 Location: Vienna Austria

Working fine. Seems faster than Wary 0.90.

Has a spot of trouble with DaveS's LibreOffice sfs. This works beautifully in Lucid 511, but crashes this latest Wary in spectacular style, requiring a system reset. Then swapped out the LibreOffice sfs for Jemimah's OpenOffice 3.2.1. whereupon everything was back to normal. My latest UbuntuFont.pet works OK here too.

The version of Seamonkey is still held at 2.0.7. This version has a tendency to instability, bombing out on a regular basis. The 2.0.8 version (actually 2.0.9 now) has now solved this.

Has anyone by any chance got a proven set of configure options for Seamonkey? If so I'll have a go at compiling the latest version over the weekend. If not, I'll try it anyway.

DaveS · Joined: 09 Oct 2008 Posts: 3669 Location: UK

Oh Oh. Frugal install, '34 kernel. Open Office/LibreOffice hangs system as in '35 kernel version.

DaveS · Joined: 09 Oct 2008 Posts: 3669 Location: UK

tronkel · Joined: 30 Sep 2005 Posts: 1051 Location: Vienna Austria

@daveS

Has your version of LibreOffice got a JRE built in?
If so there may be a conflict with the Oracle Java version that I use here.

The problem seemed to arise when I started LibreOffice for the first time and complained that no Java was available.

I then inadvertently pointed it to a 64-bit JRE that I had earlier downloaded for Maverick - silly me! No joy of course.

Don't know though. Might also be a kernel related problem just as you say.

With this Oracle takeover of Java, who knows what sort of problems are going to manifest themselves in Puppy Linux as well as other Linuces.

Billtoo · Joined: 07 Apr 2009 Posts: 1496 Location: Ontario Canada

I'm running wary 092 kernel 2.6.34.6 from a 4gb usb drive.I've
installed the devx and kernel sources sfs and the
ati-driver-installer-10-10-x86.x86_64.run file.
The builtin wireless rt2860 on this pc showed up as wlan0 on the connect screen
but it didn't work, an rt73usb linksys adaptor showed up as wlan1 and it is
working fine.
I put a movie dvd in the drive and just clicking on it brought up Ogle
and the dvd menus screen came up, the movie plays at full screen.
The video upgrade wizard advises installing the commercial ATI driver
even though it's already installed, nexuiz,openarena,and sauerbraten are
on the hard drive and they work fine.
This pc is not in the target group for Wary (too new) but it's working
pretty well so I'm going to use it Smile

edit: Videos at cnn played okay in seamonkey 209 but there was no sound.
I downloaded the latest libflashplayer.so from adobe and put it in
~/.usr/lib/mozilla/plugins and the cnn videos have sound now.
The old libflashplayer.so was 10 mb and the new one is 12 mb.

tronkel · Joined: 30 Sep 2005 Posts: 1051 Location: Vienna Austria

Just noticed that OpenOffice 3.2.1 (Jemimah's) also crashes in this Wary k2.6.34.6, so it's not just DaveS's LibreOffice to blame.

This has happened just recently with a version of Puppy/Wary - can't rmember which one exactly.

No joy so far with building Seamonkey 2.0.9. Got it to configure (thanks to Coolpup), but won't build yet. Source is the stable version of 2.0.9. from Mozilla.

Normally there is a directory called .openoffice that gets created in /root. This does not seem to get created here, so I wonder if this has got anything to do with the AUFS problems that Barry has seen recently.