Wary Puppy 5.0-final feedback

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BarryK
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Wary Puppy 5.0-final feedback

#1 Post by 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!
[url]https://bkhome.org/news/[/url]

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#2 Post by DaveS »

LOL.. skiboardsonline.com still scrolls awful.
Everything else looks great so far.
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#3 Post by 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. :)

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slideshow pet?

#4 Post by broomdodger »

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

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#5 Post by 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!

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Wary Puppy 5.0-final feedback

#6 Post by 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

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#7 Post by 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.

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#8 Post by tiangeng »

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

but wary1.0.4 works fine.

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#9 Post by 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.
Last edited by Sage on Wed 29 Dec 2010, 10:44, edited 1 time in total.

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Logitech ball mouse not found

#10 Post by 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:

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# dmesg | grep -i usb
usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs
usbcore: registered new interface driver hub
usbcore: registered new device driver usb
ehci_hcd: USB 2.0 'Enhanced' Host Controller (EHCI) Driver
ehci_hcd 0000:00:08.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
ehci_hcd 0000:00:08.2: USB 2.0 started, EHCI 0.95
usb usb1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
ehci_hcd 0000:00:10.4: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
ehci_hcd 0000:00:10.4: USB 2.0 started, EHCI 1.00
usb usb2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
usb 2-5: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 3
usb 2-5: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
usb 2-6: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 4
Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
scsi4 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
usb 2-6: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
usb-storage: device found at 3
usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage
USB Mass Storage support registered.
hub 2-6:1.0: USB hub found
uhci_hcd: USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver
uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3
usb usb3: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found
uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.1: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 4
usb usb4: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 4-0:1.0: USB hub found
uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 5
usb usb5: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 5-0:1.0: USB hub found
usb 3-2: new low speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2
uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.3: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 6
usb usb6: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 6-0:1.0: USB hub found
usb 3-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
usbcore: registered new interface driver hiddev
generic-usb 0003:051D:0002.0001: hiddev96: USB HID v1.10 Device [American Power Conversion Back-UPS RS 1000 FW:7.g3 .D USB FW:g3 ] on usb-0000:00:10.0-2/input0
usbcore: registered new interface driver usbhid
usbhid: v2.6:USB HID core driver
usb-storage: device scan complete
Is there some other diagnostic data that I can gather to help?

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#11 Post by 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 .

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#12 Post by Terryphi »

DaveS wrote:LOL.. skiboardsonline.com still scrolls awful.
Everything else looks great so far.
Scrolls OK for me in Opera 11.00.

I am surprised it displays at all - the HTML is full of errors.

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#13 Post by DaveS »

Terryphi wrote:
Scrolls OK for me in Opera 11.00.
Ha Ha.. using the exact same fix :)
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#14 Post by Gyle »

Sage wrote: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...
I have had problems like that with a bad support under the mouse.
I guess it was electrostatic effect or something like that, The trick to cure was to raise the mouse and to slide it several times on another material.
It's worth to try it, or may be to clean some dust on the sensor or to change the support.
I have no problem at all with Abiword or any else appli.

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#15 Post by Terryphi »

DaveS wrote:
Terryphi wrote:
Scrolls OK for me in Opera 11.00.
Ha Ha.. using the exact same fix :)
I assumed you were using Opera 11.00 anyway. Haven't we totally converted you yet? ;)

Testing the site on Seamonkey scrolling is not particularly bad on my set up.

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#16 Post by DaveS »

Terryphi wrote:Haven't we totally converted you yet? ;)
99% :)
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#17 Post by DaveS »

Barry, I dont know why this should be but Wary runs cooler on my system. I have been monitoring this over time, and Lucid runs at around 58 deg while Wary runs at around 50deg. Now, the actual numbers dont matter, but temperature HAS to be a measure of work being done right?
I have been checking it by booting clean, loading Opera, and leaving it open on Yahoo mail, which gives the system some load.
Fascinating.............
Others have reported fast boot times. Overall, Wary must be efficient. No other conclusion is realistic.....
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No Audio

#18 Post by tlchost »

Wary doesn't detect my onboard sound chip....Quirky and older Puppies do...using the non-small iso.

Help would be appreciated.

Thom

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#19 Post by taca0 »

I still can not resolve the problem of the X crash when plays videos with xv driver. I only find that the problem is with the Libxv maybe sounds obvious but... some one could knows how to fix it??

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#20 Post by Flapdoodle »

Oh, very nice!
Mouse pad is smoother and responsive,
Ethernet is faster,
Runs cooler.

May have found a minor bug....
The lower right time thingy says GMT+7, but when I look at set timezone it says it is set correctly at GMT-7

It does not seem to cause any problems though.

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