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

I installed all of the pets to fix the broken "p" programs on the install on my Athlon XP box.Seems to have done the trick.

No problem here running Pmount from the terninal (one gtk error but still functions normally)or the menu.

drblock2 · Joined: 19 Jan 2009 Posts: 118

Was able to test Wary 5.1.4 on three different machines:

1. ThinkPad R60 Intel dual core T2500 2 Ghz, 2 GB RAM. This machine has the ATI Mobility Radeon X1400 graphics chip that was a plague even under XP for which it was supposedly designed. The Lucid family recognized the chip and installed the radeon driver. The result was a freeze up of the machine within a few minutes. The Lucies do run well if one can manage to install the vesa driver in time.

Wary 5.1.4 installs the radeon driver and works satisfactorily - if a bit on the slow side - ca. 350 FPS. Connection to eth0 worked on boot up with no intervention necessary. Sound and flash video okay.

2. AMD Athlon 2 GHz home brew (9 years old) with 2 GB RAM and nvidia GeForce FX 5200 graphics card. Wary 5.1.4 in stalls nv driver, eth0 automatic on boot up. Sound and flash video fine.

Attempt to upgrade to nvidia 71.86.14 fails with black screen. Xwin refuses to start. This is strange as this driver produces excellent results with Wary 5.1.3.

3. AMD Duron 700 MHz with 448 MB RAM (11 years old), nvidia NV6 Vanta/VantaLT graphics. Perhaps thanks to ample RAM, the nv driver yields about 90 FPS. Attempt to update to nvidia 71.86.14 fails as with the AMD Athlon. Connection via WLAN with SNS with no problems.

rodin.s · Joined: 22 Sep 2010 Posts: 326 Location: Ukraine

I don't know why, but 'Offset to UTC' in 'Europe/Kiev' in Psync is +2300. It's strange.
I am sorry. Everything is OK with new save file. My mistake.

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

don570 · Joined: 10 Mar 2010 Posts: 2473 Location: Ontario

Note to Barry Kauler

I made a new Acrobat.pdf file.
The benefit is the size is 21k rather than
45k. All Adobe's text is included.

BarryK · Posted: Thu 01 Sep 2011, 19:50 Post subject: Re: new Acrobat.pdf file

rodin.s · Joined: 22 Sep 2010 Posts: 326 Location: Ukraine

L10n in pschedule doesn't work. $APPDIR should be changed to $PROGPATH in line 45.
Zigbert fixed it in the new version.

Billtoo · Joined: 07 Apr 2009 Posts: 1497 Location: Ontario Canada

I installed a lot of my favorite applications in Wary 5.1.4.1 and
remastered the live cd, then I did a full install of this on my hp
desktop pc.
I'm also running this remaster from a DVD RW on another pc.
It has three window managers (jwm,icewm,and window maker).

Fri 2 Sep 2011 Operating System: Wary Puppy-5.1.4.1 Linux 2.6.32-smp
0.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GT216 [GeForce GT 220] (rev a2)
oem: NVIDIA product: GT216 Board - 0682vb12 Chip Rev

X Server: Xorg Driver: nvidia
X.Org version: 1.3.0
dimensions: 1280x1024 pixels (342x271 millimeters)
depth of root window: 24 planes

direct rendering: Yes
server glx vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
server glx version string: 1.4
OpenGL vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
OpenGL renderer string: GeForce GT 220/PCI/SSE2
OpenGL version string: 3.3.0 NVIDIA 280.13

Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E4500
Core 0: 1200 1: 1200 MHz

# glxgears
Running synchronized to the vertical refresh. The framerate should be
approximately the same as the monitor refresh rate.
31525 frames in 5.0 seconds = 6304.856 FPS
31539 frames in 5.0 seconds = 6307.705 FPS
31550 frames in 5.0 seconds = 6309.838 FPS
#
It's working fine, love it, etc, etc, Smile

Looking forward to the next Wary too.

BarryK · Posted: Fri 02 Sep 2011, 20:47 Post subject: Re: pschedule

JonathanD · Joined: 19 Aug 2010 Posts: 3

I scavenged an old Dell Inspiron 8200, Hyperthreading 2Ghz P4-M 512MB's of RAM, Nvidia 440 graphics with 32MB's of RAM, I installed an old RTL 8185 mini PCI wireless card. Works perfectly in Puppy 4.2.1 with the NDIS wrapper.

Try any of the newer puppies and everything boots and runs fine, (loving it) but as soon as I scan for wireless networks the whole system freezes. Sad

This happens if I run off the CD or I do any install, Frugal or Full.

I have tried both versions of the Network tool and both do the same for me.

Edit: Found a PET for the native driver for 4.X I am going to try that and see if the issue is the native driver? (Flying blind here if you haven't guessed lol) If 4.2.1 crashes with the native driver I know its something to do with that (Although Wary did let me try the NDIS wrapper and it still locked up and scanning for the network.) I would stick with 4.2.1 if I could get a couple of PET's for it (still looking.)

Also thank you for all your hard work on Puppy just getting one thing working seems to be more then a match for me, so how you do it for thousands of pieces of hardware I will never know. Shocked

Edit 2: Native driver for RTL 8185 works fine in that it installs and no dependencies are missing, but when I go to use the Wireless wizard it does not show up and I used the NDIS wrapper to install the windows file. Now if some one could point me to the new version of Opera or Chrome for Puppy 4.2.1 (if its even possible lol) I would just stick with that and call it done Smile

Not that Seamonkey is bad but I am used to Opera and Chrome and really really want them. (My preference right now is to use both but for different reasons lol)

`f00 · Last edited by `f00 on Tue 06 Sep 2011, 19:07; edited 1 time in total

disc-swap upgrade to w514 details here as addenda to my earlier post on p19 of this thread.

@Billtoo - nice looking wmaker! Any chance of a dotpet in say the desktop section of this forum (even if it is sort of 'specialized' for w514)? I haven't had much luck at the windowmaker site dl'ing the source directly or I'd attempt a compile myself..

Various other alternate wms on my pups all work well - afterstep, blackbox, e16, ede, fluxbox, flwm, icewm, openbox, pekwm, twm and wmx-7 as well as the standard jwm (even a more-or-less dysfunctional fvwm95, lol). Almost embarassing Embarassed

but all serve in their niches for when a different setup works more to my liking or I get the urge to figure things out.

(see below) Thanks a bunch!

Billtoo · Joined: 07 Apr 2009 Posts: 1497 Location: Ontario Canada

Jades · Posted: Wed 07 Sep 2011, 06:42 Post subject:

session · Joined: 07 Feb 2011 Posts: 44 Location: Valley of the Sun

Haven't tested thoroughly, but the universal installer in Wary 5.1.4 isn't copying ldlinux.sys to a USB flash drive install.

Jades

Further to my previous post, I've now managed to install Wary 514 on my K6 2 500 machine and while the upgrade of the Live CD install's Warysave seems to have gone through without incident I'm still having the same problem with playing MP3 files as before. Pmusic loads with the file but doesn't play it and running FFMPEG from the command line generates an Illegal Instruction error.

Is the FFMPEG in Wary, Lupu and Slacko i686+ only? K6 2 500 is i586 according to both Puppy and HardInfo (see sig for report for Lupu 511 on that machine).

Madplay still plays MP3s and I've changed the Run Action in ROX so that Madplay is the default for those files.