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[Lobster]

In Seamonkey I was answering a google+ message.
Seamonkey crashed. Any combination of tabs - including none and restore and it still crashed. Downloaded and installed Firefox 6. That crashed too.

. . . now if I was cynical I would have loaded Chrome Browser and expect that to work - surely that would be evil . . .
Just reporting . . .

When you install 'Cloud' it appears on top of 'plan' icon

[Jades]

I've realised that I may be coming across as a little negative about Slacko, for which I apologise. While the wireless thing is a concern, the rest of the distro is looking pretty solid. I particularly like the fact you've included up-to-the-minute applications with it, particularly Abiword and Gnumeric. Playdayz could be a little conservative sometimes (in some cases with good reason) about which versions went in to Luci and Lupu test builds.

It's also been interesting trying it on the K6. The most obvious non-working thing I've encountered is playing MP3s through apps which depend on ffmpeg (which is currently i686 only in all of the recent Woof-built Puppies). Other than that things seem to work quite well. In the longer term Wary is probably the Puppy for that machine, but I've enjoyed trying other versions on it.

[majorfoo]

Full install to ext 4 partition

zero problems - everything works OTB

Added a number of pets from Lucid and all work well

Looks like a keeper to me.

majorfoo

[playdayz]

I did 3 boots fresh and then created a savefile and did 3 more boots. This was on a Phenom 9850 and Asrock motherboard--about 2 years old. Measured with Hardinfo.

[playdayz]

[01micko]

[jpeps]

[jim3630]

b4 manual frugal install to ext4. pfix=ram. continue unable to wifi connect with sns and connection wizard after installing broadcom wl.ko spup pet. installed frisbee from the menu acquired wifi configured and made connection without issue. Nice to see frisbee readily available. sm from menu and my Nightly firefox used without issue and all survived reboot x1.

[sszindian]

01micko wrote:

That's weird.. I have a very similar SiS chip and it uses the correct driver, I'm hooked up to an old 17" crt, I get 11280x1024 with no issue, what monitor do you have? I wonder if we booted direct to desktop if Xorg would pick it right? Sorry indian
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I'm running a Gateway 19" Widescreen 1440x900 - Inputs DVI VGA, Contrast Ratio 1000:1
My concern is that possibly others are using my same setup and will experience the same problem... What I can't understand is why all the other puppy's don't have a problem with getting the correct resolution, just the slacko series, Spup (99 & 100) didn't have a problem with my setup and I haven't changed anything, in fact just booted Spup and it was just perfect so doubt any type of boot will make the differance... don't know?

EDIT: One thing forgot to mention, Icons (top row) are only 'Half-Visible' top of them are off the screen somewhere?

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

[01micko]

[pa_mcclamrock]

OK, I'm using SeaMonkey on Slacko B4 to send this message. Internet connection (Ethernet + router) works automatically, so does sound, printing with AbiWord is no problem. On reflection, I do like having SeaMonkey all ready to go, instead of having to download a browser (other than Dillo or some such thing) before getting to use it. Aside from a couple of bugs that need to be squashed, this looks like an excellent example of how much can be done in the "Puppy 4.x extended" line. (I like Lucid 5.2.8 a lot, but I never did understand why Ubuntu was supposed to provide a better basis for a Puppy build than good old Slackware.)

Here are the two bugs I've found:

When I clicked the Desktop Icon Switcher menu item, I did get the icon switcher, but I also got both the "Personalize Settings" and "Network Connection Wizard" boxes, which I hadn't requested.

In Pmusic, there's no progress bar when I'm playing some music; the status line just keeps saying "Buffering . . . Please wait." I don't know if this version of Pmusic does this everywhere or only in Slacko for some reason, but the versions of Pmusic I used to use did have a progress bar that gave actual information about the playing time.

Squash those bugs, and keep up the good work!

[01micko]

Thanks for report Pa, good to have you aboard

[James C]

[James C]

Second frugal install on my Windows 7, PCLOS 2011,Lucid box......actually used the installer this time.
Everything working on initial boot.No problems so far.

# report-video

VIDEO REPORT: Slacko Puppy, version 4.99.6

Chip description:
oem: NVIDIA
product: G98 Board - 5610002u Chip Rev

Driver used by Xorg:
nvidia

Video mode used by Xorg:
Resolution: " 1440x900 " Depth: Depth 24

...the above also recorded in /tmp/report-video

# glxgears
11582 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2316.400 FPS
11592 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2318.400 FPS
11856 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2371.200 FPS
11546 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2309.200 FPS
11750 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2350.000 FPS

-Computer-
Processor : Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.80GHz
Memory : 1034MB (160MB used)
Operating System : Unknown distribution
User Name : root (root)
Date/Time : Fri 23 Sep 2011 08:25:18 PM CDT
-Display-
Resolution : 1440x900 pixels
OpenGL Renderer : Unknown
X11 Vendor : The X.Org Foundation
-Multimedia-
Audio Adapter : CMI8738-MC6 - C-Media CMI8738
Audio Adapter : ICH4 - Intel ICH5

Ethernet controller : ADMtek NC100 Network Everywhere Fast Ethernet 10/100
Multimedia audio controller : C-Media Electronics Inc CM8738
VGA compatible controller : nVidia Corporation G98 [GeForce 8400 GS]

[jim3630]