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Billtoo · Joined: 07 Apr 2009 Posts: 1495 Location: Ontario Canada

From previous message:

I installed 052 to a flash drive using bootflash.
On first boot chose vesa driver,configured wired network, sound was good.
Downloaded newest Nvidia driver, NVIDIA-Linux-x86-260.19.29.run and
installed the devx and kernal source sfs.
Rebooted and installed the nvidia driver.
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Update:

I moved my flashdrive to another pc with an nvidia card and I had to
exit to the prompt and enter "nvidia-xconfig" and then "xwin" to get
hardware acceleration going again.

report-video sees the nvidia graphics card on pc#2 but on pc#1 it sees the tv
tuner card and not the nvidia graphics card.
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pc#2

# report-video
VIDEO REPORT: Slack Puppy, version 052

Chip description:
oem: NVIDIA
product: MCP77 Board - mcp78pvo Chip Rev

Driver used by Xorg:
vesa

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

...the above also recorded in /tmp/report-video
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pc#1

# report-video
VIDEO REPORT: Slack Puppy, version 052

Chip description:
07:02.0 Multimedia video controller: Internext Compression Inc iTVC16 (CX23416)
MPEG-2 Encoder (rev 01)

Driver used by Xorg:
vesa

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

...the above also recorded in /tmp/report-video
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The vesa part is incorrect in both cases.

I had to configure retrovol to get sound working on pc#2 and also
reconfigure the wireless network.

nancy reagan · Joined: 22 Jan 2009 Posts: 435

01micko · Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 7018 Location: qld

Jim1911 · Joined: 19 May 2008 Posts: 2353 Location: Texas, USA

Hi Mick,

WOW, great job, already RC quality and it's only your second release. Extremely fast and stable on my hardware and I've loaded a lot of extra software. Everything works fine but amarok.

Consider adding wcpufreq-0.4, CPU Frequency Scaling Tool, which appears to work great and will fill one gap in your base software. It even picked up all 8 of my cores.

PPM has one problem with the puppy-spup repository, vlc-1.1.5 is not found.

Cheers,
Jim

01micko · Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 7018 Location: qld

Hi Jim, thanks for testing.

One thing you brought to my attention there is Snap2.. I wasn't aware that Lloyd had updated, that will be fixed in the next version.

Cheers

Jim1911 · Joined: 19 May 2008 Posts: 2353 Location: Texas, USA

Hi Mick,

After running it a few hours, I've run into several serious problems.
1. Rox cannot drag and drop files.
2. Puppy Wallpaper Setter v1.1 cannot change the wallpaper.
3. Note the backgrounds folder with missing files. I copied extra backgrounds over using a console cp command which copied fine, then later after trying the Wallpaper setter, some of the files disappeared except for the name.
4. Pointer focus is off for right click. The right click on an icon may or may not open the proper menu.

Amarok 2.3 from slackware is almost 500MB with lots of dependencies missing. (This has nothing to do with above since it was done in a different pupsave that has already been deleted.)

Sorry, I spoke too soon about it being RC quality.

Cheers,
Jim

Mick, Disregard above problems, 1-4, starting with a new pupsave and loading only Namoroka, numlockx-1.2, nvidia-260-19, hplip-3.9.12-scan, OpenOffice3.3rc7, and java_jre-6u22-Lucid, I have been unable to duplicate above problems. Apparantly, Rox is conflicting with some of the other programs I loaded.
The misbehaving program appears to have been PupClockset-pango-1.1 PupClockset manager, however the problem has been corrected with PupClockset-1.2. Jim

Béèm · Posted: Fri 17 Dec 2010, 19:48 Post subject:

James C · Joined: 26 Mar 2009 Posts: 4741 Location: Kentucky

Stripe · Posted: Sat 18 Dec 2010, 03:53 Post subject:

Hi all

Sorry for the poroblem with the namoroka pet. It was my fault.

052 is looking very good, I have been giving it a good test Razz

I have been editing and swapping files in the sfs, using it for everything from a portable usb secure web browser to a mega full install, been compiling kernels and I still cant break it (yet ) (NB: must get some more tips off lobster Razz

)

Cheers
Stripe

Béèm · Posted: Sat 18 Dec 2010, 05:37 Post subject:

Installed 052 (FRUGAL Lin'N'Win)
I tried my application environment.
I had an issue when clicking on a link in my e-mail client (running in wine) SeaMonkey froze and I had the tittle bar only with e-mail client contents frozen in it.

Terminating SeaMonkey and restarting it brought things back to normal.

Béèm · Posted: Sat 18 Dec 2010, 06:01 Post subject: 052 ipinfo network

052 ipinfo network
The window of ipinfo network displays in a strange full screen.
There is no response when pushing one or other tab.

abushcrafter · Joined: 30 Oct 2009 Posts: 1447 Location: England

spup suffers from this bug:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=478312#478312
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=478319#478319
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=478390#478390
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=478470#478470

Stripe · Posted: Sat 18 Dec 2010, 11:42 Post subject:

Hi all

Have been busy again Laughing

Just edited the 052.sfs to customize it to a particular machine by removing unused modules (from a standard sfs), by running "lsmod" & "lspci -k" in terminal to show what modules were actually being used and deleting the unused ones (made a spare copy of the sfs first just in case)

It has not affected the functioning of the machine at all (if anything it seems a bit more responsive) , and here are the results:
original sfs = 112mb custom sfs = 92mb which is a difference of 20mb (17%) less

then straight after loading the sfs with "pfix=ram" I ran "free" in terminal to see the amount of ram it occupied, (did it 3 times with each sfs and took the average)
original sfs = 284mb custom sfs = 191mb which is a difference of 93mb (32%) less

I know this ties the custom sfs to a particular machine without the ability to accept any new types of hardware, but I thought this may be of use to people with limited hardware resources.

Hope this helps
Stripe

Béèm · Posted: Sat 18 Dec 2010, 17:28 Post subject:

Very interesting experiment, Stripe.

01micko · Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 7018 Location: qld

Jim1911
Thanks for your detective work Smile

I'll look into the vlc issue. EDIT: ok, vlc issue is fixed, you'll need to update PPM

abushcrafter
Is there any solution you know of for your issue? I wonder if it's something in the shutdown script? I see it happens in LHP too..

Béèm
I'll check out that ipinfo bug

ttuuxxx
*I think* I got all your programs uploaded, take a look if you want on the brainwavescentral site. I have to update smokey01.. later today.. oh and I updated namaroka with ttuuxxx' fixes Stripe, I just removed the link to Smokey01 because it's not up to date.

Cheers