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[Stripe]

Hi all

tried a manual frugal install on usb stick with grub4dos and boots ok here (with a hard drive installed)

hope that helps

stripe

[01micko]

Hi all

tried a manual frugal install on usb stick with grub4dos and boots ok here (with a hard drive installed)

hope that helps

stripe

Hmm.. yes thanks Stripe. Seems to me grub4dos is very good with USB drives. I have grub4dos on my 2GB SD card that has slacko, old spup and puppeee installed with libreoffice-sfs and skype! What other distro can do that? The only thing that bothers me is vanchutr's report of failing when the HDD is removed. I'm going to try it with different methods of USB install, and if I can get at least 1 to boot I'll leave the kernel.. else I'll have to recompile with usb_storage built in to the kernel, which will mean recompiling all those drivers!!

---Onwards..

Anyone know the game TORCS? Well it runs fine in Slacko, just needs one small dependency. [I simply had to try out a game once I got the new radeon card!]

http://www.smokey01.com/01micko/lupu520 ... .3.1-2.sfs 146M
7980eb799b43dbcfa56ca1ec0b5c28e9 torcs-1.3.1-2.sfs

See attachment for deps.

Have fun

[zigbert]

Torcs
Shouldn't that be in Slickpet

[01micko]

Charlie.. MHHP.. anyone else with an Intel Brookdale chipset (cowboy, you have one.. James .. you too)..

I have experienced exactly what Charlie described with my Brookdale by having no text in menus, a fuzzy section near centre screen,, only when the widescreen LCD monitor is used. When I plugged it into an old 15" CRT all was perfect .. .. which actually makes things worse as there are literally millions of different monitor and screen brands. Maybe, before I try to do gymnastics with xorgwizard, I'll re-compile i915. It can't hurt. I'll do this for the next version and we go from there.

[James C]

Charlie.. MHHP.. anyone else with an Intel Brookdale chipset (cowboy, you have one.. James .. you too)..

I have experienced exactly what Charlie described with my Brookdale by having no text in menus, a fuzzy section near centre screen,, only when the widescreen LCD monitor is used. When I plugged it into an old 15" CRT all was perfect .. .. which actually makes things worse as there are literally millions of different monitor and screen brands. Maybe, before I try to do gymnastics with xorgwizard, I'll re-compile i915. It can't hurt. I'll do this for the next version and we go from there.

I'll drag mine off the shelf tomorrow and give it a go.

I generally use it on a CRT monitor but I'll try it on my LCD too.Heading toward 3 am here so I need sleep first.

[charlie6]

Hi 01micko,

Charlie.. MHHP.. anyone else with an Intel Brookdale chipset (cowboy, you have one.. James .. you too)..

errh ... what does MHHP acronym(?) mean ?

I have experienced exactly ... only when the widescreen LCD monitor is used. When I plugged it into an old 15" CRT all was perfect ..

I remember, by 7 or 8 august (before my 9th august post on page 20 this thread) getting also a fuzzy screen and no menu text when used on a 17" CRT monitor. Will get (within a few days as I am out of work now) a try applying the i845G.conf and disable-composite.conf files.

I also installed the following:
mesa-7.10.2-i486-1.txz + needed
xf86-video-intel-2.15.0-i486-1.txz
libdrm-2.4.25-i486-1.txz
glew-1.5.7-i486-1.txz
with Load glx and Load DRI manualy enabled in xorg.conf;
my spupsave file is 256MB sized with freespace= 117MB.

In attachment my current xorg.conf file;
also installed: a wacom Bamboo tablet - see driver here:
http://www.datafilehost.com/download-bc55bec0.html

and go this

Code: Select all

# lspci | grep VGA
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE Chipset Integrated Graphics Device (rev 01)

# glxinfo
name of display: :0
display: :0  screen: 0
direct rendering: Yes
server glx vendor string: SGI
server glx version string: 1.4
server glx extensions:
...
    GLX_MESA_copy_sub_buffer, GLX_INTEL_swap_event
client glx vendor string: Mesa Project and SGI
client glx version string: 1.4
client glx extensions:
...
    GLX_INTEL_swap_event
GLX version: 1.4
GLX extensions:
...
    GLX_INTEL_swap_event
OpenGL vendor string: Mesa Project
OpenGL renderer string: Software Rasterizer
OpenGL version string: 2.1 Mesa 7.10.2
OpenGL shading language version string: 1.20
OpenGL extensions:
   ...

# glxgears
434 frames in 5.0 seconds = 86.760 FPS
568 frames in 5.0 seconds = 113.553 FPS
560 frames in 5.0 seconds = 111.873 FPS
568 frames in 5.0 seconds = 113.259 FPS
557 frames in 5.0 seconds = 111.381 FPS
558 frames in 5.0 seconds = 111.595 FPS
512 frames in 5.0 seconds = 102.341 FPS
516 frames in 5.0 seconds = 102.951 FPS
536 frames in 5.0 seconds = 107.074 FPS
563 frames in 5.0 seconds = 112.326 FPS
509 frames in 5.0 seconds = 101.650 FPS
...
^C
# 

CPU temperature is given 64°C while running glxgears after ca. 5 minutes (52°C if not).
Using this configuration since quite a week ... all looks OK.

Cheers, Charlie

[DaveS]

Given that Seamonkey is broken just now, would Firefox/SM 2.0.* be a better choice?

[01micko]

Charlie, Thanks again. I will try with the wide monitor. By the way, MHHP is for forum member MineHundHettePerro

Dave, I'm thinking to go with sm-2.3beta, will compile tonight. And what I'd love to do is have both FF and SM on the iso as sfs and hitting the browse button the first time gives the option to load either.. we'll see..

[zigbert]

MHHP should be read "my dog's name was Perro"

[01micko]

...Perro being Spanish for "dog".. so there is out Swedish/Spanish lesson for the day from a Norwegian and an Australian..

[pemasu]

Same in finnish: mun hurtta on Perro > MHOP

[MinHundHettePerro]

.... and if I ever get a dog again I'll call it Chien, or Koira, and change my username accordingly to MinHundHeterChien (MHHC) / MinHundHeterKoira (MHHK) ...


Intel 82845
On first boot I also get fuzzy patches on the screen and missing text in menus and window titles. This is using a 1280x1024 LCD monitor.

Cheers / MHHP

[Brown Mouse]

Glxgears not working for me.I get this, 'command not found'.

[01micko]

Glxgears not working for me.I get this, 'command not found'.

275 nvidia driver? I probably forgot it's inclusion..

[DaveS]

Charlie, Thanks again. I will try with the wide monitor. By the way, MHHP is for forum member MineHundHettePerro

Dave, I'm thinking to go with sm-2.3beta, will compile tonight. And what I'd love to do is have both FF and SM on the iso as sfs and hitting the browse button the first time gives the option to load either.. we'll see..

2.3 beta runs fine and seems bug free with regard to Komposer module

[Brown Mouse]

Glxgears not working for me.I get this, 'command not found'.

275 nvidia driver? I probably forgot it's inclusion..

Yes Micko 275 nvidia driver.

[DaveS]

I guess one of the problems with the grey tray icons is non match by third party ones.

[01micko]

Brown Mouse, next version (delayed a few days) will have at least nvidia-280, including glxgears

Dave.. SM-2.3b3 is 42 minutes through compiling at this minute.. (any second now ).. will upload when done.
I guess when theming tray icons it's great at first... (gnome, kde, win7 all have that issue! Apple don't.. but then what can you do with a mac apart from eat it?)

EDIT: Seamonkey-2.3 Beta 3 uploaded [17M]

[DaveS]

Mick.. put your compile of 2.3 into the iso, no problems. No bugs so far. Why do we have the zdrv? is it to make re-builds easier during the development phase?

[peebee]

peebee,
If you want to go the frisbee route, after your puppy install afresh, don't run any connection network wizard, but install directly frisbee and use it exclusively.

Hi Beem

Thank you for your advice which I have followed exactly including doing a reboot after installing Frisbee_beta-2-spup

After setting up my wifi connection I have no internet connection and the 2 versions of ip-info show quite different wifi states as shown in the attached screen shot.

Frisbee did work OK in the previous 311.37 spup.

Cheers
peebee