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Country Bumkin · Joined: 25 Jul 2009 Posts: 27 Location: Australia

I ruin some BOINC projects on Puppy systems and when I converted from Official 431 to Wary 5 I noticed the BOINC benchmarks showed a substantial decrease in floating point performance.

For example on an Acer Aspire 1 (1.6Ghz N270, 1Gb ram) booted from USB drives.
BOINC Bechmark
Official 431 - Floating 480 Whetstone, Integer 1019 Dhrystone
Wary 5 - Floating 370 Whetstone, Integer 949 Dhrystone

I then tried the benchmarks in Hardinfo
(Elapsed time - shorter is better)
Official 431 - Blowfish 16.86 sec, Raytracing 51.58 sec
Wary 5 - Blowfish 16.98 sec, Raytracing 75.01 sec

It appears some change has substantially diminished floating point performance.

Regards C Bumkin

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starhawk · Posted: Sat 22 Jan 2011, 16:58 Post subject:

Running a frugal install on my HP Pavilion s7220n... ALSA can't find my sound device (Intel HD Audio). Is there something I can do about this?

zekebaby · Joined: 17 Nov 2010 Posts: 45

Shinobar,

I tried your suggested fixes below and would like to report that unfortunately, it does not fix the problem of sound detection on my Panasonic Toughbook CF-T2

rodin.s · Joined: 22 Sep 2010 Posts: 320 Location: Ukraine

I like wary. But on one of my PCs mplayer doesn't work. It has AMD-K6-3D CPU.
When I run mplayer I got this:

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

The GTK Dialog Text Markup Script is missing.

The man PET was added to "/usr" not "/". So in the Devx, one ends up with "/usr/usr" "/usr/etc".

dogle · Joined: 11 Oct 2007 Posts: 302

This is not a Wary-specific issue but one which, when I come to think of it, has been my biggest Puppy bugbear over years and which is perpetuated in Wary. Maybe this is the best place in which to mention it.

When I open a file manager, I am looking for information. When, by default, I see instead a box filled with useless images of folders I think, well, how stupid can you get. When, by default, stuff is hidden from me, I get annoyed.

Due respect and gratitude to ROX creator Thomas Leonard for his gift to the world but I fear that in electing to dumb things down Redmond-style he has done his product a great disservice. More to the point, the default presentation is IMHO quite unsuited to the needs of yer average Puppy user who operates as root - ooh! - contrary to Mr. Leonard's warnings.

Even more to the point, it is seriously difficult for yer average Puppy user to redress matters. Granted, expert CLI-jockeys may not have great need of ROX and granted, it is easy to fix the hide thing via the options menu (except for non-multisession CD, grrr).

Beyond that, saved display preferences are forgotten whenever you mount something new. The options menu seems severely limited as to controlling things at deeper level; no way there to command the presentation I usually want or suppress the permissions/owner/group entries which I generally don't. (I have had no success fiddling things per CLI per the ROX manual which I suspect is out of sync with the version being used).

So, the request is, could ROX defaults be arranged ab initio to something more appropriate to expected Puppy usage, in future Wary/Puppy releases?

(My own preferences would be nohide, list, minimal icons, full 'gen apart from permissions/owner/group columns, as the Wary/Puppy defaults - but I'm quite open to flak on these).

(Whatever, I'm pleased that mc is now an official PET).

Bill253 · Joined: 19 Jan 2011 Posts: 8 Location: New Mexico, USA

So I noticed on Barry's blog that:

ravensrest · Joined: 22 Feb 2008 Posts: 298 Location: Hood Canal, WA

I'll second Dogle's request for upgraded Rox-filer initial settings. I like his selection of settings too.
BS

Béèm · Posted: Tue 25 Jan 2011, 16:15 Post subject: