Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

[James C]

[Brown Mouse]

[cowboy]

Initial results from using Slacko 3.12.37 on my 82845G Brookdale chip seem promising. Clean initial boot, went through xorgwizard probe, and got a desktop. Detected my wireless logitech mouse without issue. Had sound on first boot, and has been persistent on five reboots.

Created savefile on harddrive, and boot through Live CD. After five reboots, have had no issues with the screen. JWM seems steady at the moment, no jumping, or "matrix" like behaviors to report. Have not tried other desktop managers yet.

While Rox runs, nothing happens when I click on Thunar in the menu, not sure if this has been discussed. Installed firefox 3.6.15 direct from Mozilla, and upgraded without issue. Flashplayer installed itself. Will continue to use and test. Report-video results below:

IDEO REPORT: Slacko Puppy, version 312.37

Chip description:
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE Chipset Integrated Graphics Device (rev 03)

Driver used by Xorg:
intel

Video mode used by Xorg:
Resolution: "1024x768" Depth: Depth 24

see 01micko, I can survive without ICEwm looks like your recent efforts with JWM may be paying off. Thank you.

[cowboy]

[sszindian]

Lobster - jamesC

When I run Chromium from the command line, I get the same 'Illegal Instruction' that jamesC previously posted. I too am running a PIII and would think that's the problem BUT... on Luci, Dpups I have no problem with Iron or Chromium so it isn't the computer (jamesC is right)... it's something in this build.

>>>---Indian------>

[01micko]

Hi indian

I think the devs for chromium moved to i686 for multimedia capabilities. While PIII is supposed to be i686 they don't always work with i686 proggies. Bit of a bummer. Perhaps a mageia/mandrake build would work for you. They have many talented devs and usually compile i586. We may be able to track a build down.

Cheers

[James C]

[James C]

[nooby]

I was lucky using the Chromium pet. Just worked. Even Flash.

[sszindian]

01mick0:

Thanks for the offer to find a build but I have a build I am happy with!

My concern is not for myself but with the new 530 puppy and those that will be trying to use it. I can for-see a new user trying out 530 and trying to install their favorite browser CHROMIUM or CHROME or IRON and become dissapointed with Puppy real fast. Most who will be coming over to 530 from other distro's or Windows probably won't be Seamonkey users even though it is a 'pretty fair' browser.

I can't understand why this can't be fixed to run on all computers, not just a certain few?

>>>---Indian------>

[Jim1911]

I finally got around to installing my printer, however I get an error, so it can't be installed. Otherwise this distribution has been working fine and until I found the printer problem, it was my preferred OS.

Jim

[rcrsn51]

The 500 Server Error in CUPS is usually the result of installing some third-party PET or SFS package that corrupts the Puppy file system.

[01micko]

[sszindian]

Brown Mouse wrote:
Seems to work just fine for me though I've not tested it thoroughly yet.

nooby wrote:
I was lucky using the Chromium pet. Just worked. Even Flash.

Brown Mouse has Chromium working! nooby has Chromium working and NO nooby I don't believe you were just 'lucky', there HAS TO BE A REASON it works for you and Brown Mouse and I don't believe it has anything to do with your computers... What I believe (and I may be wrong here) is that you BOTH have a certain .lib installed maybe for some other program or function that is allowing Chromium to work for you.

I did a Chromium-15 download in Wary-5.1.3 and... IT DID NOT WORK there either so I did a command line on Chromium and it said it was trying to locate file libgcrypt.so.11

Would you both be kind enough to see if you each have that particular lib file installed or any libgcrypt.x files?

Appreciate it!

>>>---Indian------>

[jim3630]