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[BarryK]

Decided to go for it. Here is the blog announcement, with all needed links:

http://bkhome.org/blog/?viewDetailed=02057

Of course, as always, there will be issues, bugs. You are invited to try Wary and provide feedback here. Success stories also welcome!

[DaveS]

LOL.. skiboardsonline.com still scrolls awful.
Everything else looks great so far.

[James C]

Quick manual frugal install on my main Linux box. Sound, internet and screen resolution all correct and working on initial boot.
Looking good so far.

[broomdodger]

Is there an app for doing a slide show?
-Bill

[taca0]

How I change only the Xorg with Woof?? I want to change only the Xorg of Wary 5 with Woof . Change from 7.3 to other higher than that. How I do that on Woof??


Thanks!

[Billtoo]

I booted the live cd pfix=ram.
Chose probe in xorgwizard and when it got to the desktop everything
was good.The wired network,screen resolution, and sound working.

# report-video
VIDEO REPORT: Wary Puppy, version 500

Chip description:
oem: ATI RADEON 9200

Driver used by Xorg:
radeon

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

...the above also recorded in /tmp/report-video
# glxgears
948 frames in 5.6 seconds = 169.122 FPS
940 frames in 5.1 seconds = 185.249 FPS
940 frames in 5.1 seconds = 185.892 FPS
940 frames in 5.1 seconds = 185.078 FPS
940 frames in 5.0 seconds = 186.749 FPS
#
I then downloaded and installed the Mesa DRI as advised by the video
upgrade wizard.
# glxgears
4758 frames in 5.0 seconds = 951.543 FPS
4745 frames in 5.0 seconds = 948.989 FPS
4761 frames in 5.0 seconds = 952.043 FPS
4748 frames in 5.0 seconds = 949.581 FPS
4759 frames in 5.0 seconds = 951.729 FPS
#
Computer
Processor AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3300+
Memory 1554MB (89MB used)
Operating System Puppy Linux 0.50
User Name root (root)
Date/Time Tue 28 Dec 2010 07:23:49 PM EST
Display
Resolution 1440x900 pixels
OpenGL Renderer Mesa DRI R200 20060602 AGP 8x x86/MMX+/3DNow!+/SSE2 TCL
X11 Vendor The X.Org Foundation
Multimedia
Audio Adapter CMI8738-MC6 - C-Media CMI8738

This computer is about 6 years old.

I also installed Wary 5.0 to my 3 year old Acer Aspire desktop which has an
Intel core 2 quad processor and Nvidia 8600 GT video card.
In the aspire I installed the devx and kernel source sfs and also
the newest nvidia driver for the graphics card. It's working well
too.I added a some apps to that one, Google Earth and VLC 106 (lupu
pets) and Pwidgets 2.31.I had to find a some extra libs to get vlc to
work and I needed to install a qt4.7 pet (40mb) that I made a while ago.

So it's working well on both computers.
Thanks

[James C]

Did another frugal install,this time on the old P3 test box. Everything was working correctly on initial boot on this old box too.

[tiangeng]

Quick manual frugal install ext2 partition, kernel panic: Attempted to kill init!

but wary1.0.4 works fine.

[Sage]

Interesting. Using the mouse that gave all the grief in RC (works normally on everything else), now find that highlighting in the URL box with SM seems to be a lot better (not cured), but highlighting in Abiword has become a disaster! There is detente in starting the highlight from the cursor, but much worse is a random amount of highlighting as well as in the start and finish positions of highlighting - just like it used to be in SM. Changing to a Logitech mouse seems to cure these problems, which certainly wasn't the case previously.
The mystery deepens...
Otherwise, everything seems to be working as advertised, thanks.

[pop-pop]

Did a full install on a SATA internal hard drive and my Logitech Trackman Wheel is not recognized. I keep a generic USB PS/2 mouse plugged in for events like this. Other USB devices are a UPS and a flash stick. I don't see any glaring errors in here:

[Terryphi]

I tested a new frugal install and an upgrade of a frugal install. Everything I have tested so far has worked as expected. Great work Barry!

One small point though. In the Blog you said "the first-boot dialog window that offers you a choice of locale now defaults to UTF8 on". It did not for me - at least I don't think it did and I have plenty of RAM. I did not check locale at the terminal so cannot be completely sure. Certainly, when I went to "Desktop -> Chooselocale country localisation" UTF-8 was not on. This could have been misreporting by the selection dialog. However, when I selected UTF-8 it was saved and worked as expected .

[Terryphi]

[DaveS]

[Gyle]

[Terryphi]