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Sage · #61 Post by **Sage** » Fri 30 Sep 2011, 06:04

Have you run this on another Puppy?

No - Mint Xfce. On that, it installs and runs without dep. grief. Tried to install it from a Ubu series of files as alluded by muggie, but, as anyone who tries it will find, it requires a lot more knowledge/selection/manipulation for Puppy (I started with Luci001 to try to ameliorate matters). I do not understand anything about Puppy structures and requirements and am far too busy with eg HW projects. Apart from which, after trying for ~50yrs to learn about programming & co. failed at every turn. Part of the problem is complete lack of interest! Skills in almost every other quarter (except poetry?!) probably well exceed the average. Can't be all things to all men/women....

Stripe · #62 Post by **Stripe** » Fri 30 Sep 2011, 06:33

hi all

running on multisession dvd, has worked with all my hardware (full install on my 800mhz amd 256mb ram)

only 1 slight problem, occasionally drops wireless connection (sns)

apart from that all good

cheers

don

peebee · #63 Post by **peebee** » Fri 30 Sep 2011, 07:37

Stripe wrote:only 1 slight problem, occasionally drops wireless connection (sns)
don

Hi Don

Have you tried Frisbee - in the Internet menu - solved this problem for me with my B43 wifi...

Cheers
peebee

tasmod · #64 Post by **tasmod** » Fri 30 Sep 2011, 08:37

Tried for you Sage, but after two hours of downloading and compiling I gave up. There are just so many convoluted deps required.

Cheese binary sorted, cheese libs sorted, libgnome-desktop-0.2 sorted, vala-0.14.0 sorted, then fell down at gstreamer-0.10. This had so many other requirements I would be there for a day.

Sorry.

Sage · #65 Post by **Sage** » Fri 30 Sep 2011, 08:48

Tried for you Sage

Hero, tas - thanks a bunch! These things are so far beyond me - have to rely on the wizards of Perengori...

Stripe · #66 Post by **Stripe** » Fri 30 Sep 2011, 11:12

hi all

Ive just spotted the deliberate mistake, we have the frisbee pet for those with difficulty connecting to the net . but it is of no use in the ppm if they cant access the net

hope this helps

don

Lobster · #67 Post by **Lobster** » Fri 30 Sep 2011, 13:19

Tried booting from an external USB DVD on my Asus Eeepc 700

Booting up went OK. Plugged it in. Booted. Connected.

I could not do a save because too much screen resources are being used. Could not get to the save or or other choice buttons.
The 800x480 is being addressed by Barry who is aware of the situation in the next Woof I believe.

It gave me an option to load the Firewall during connection. I did. Nice

Now if I go to Menu/Network/Growl
Load the browser securely. Press f11 (browser maximize)
No need to install Flash.
Ready to connect to my offshore bank account and see how many sardine cans I have in storage . . .

Bank on Puppy
to save $

Lobster · #68 Post by **Lobster** » Fri 30 Sep 2011, 14:00

The portabase databse set of pets (puppy and linux for user and passw)
http://puppylinuxstuff.meownplanet.net/DaveS/
seem to work OK in Slacko?

mavrothal · #69 Post by **mavrothal** » Fri 30 Sep 2011, 16:18

Stripe wrote:we have the frisbee pet for those with difficulty connecting to the net . but it is of no use in the ppm if they cant access the net

That would be the case if the frisbee.pet was not included in the sfs

jim3630 · #70 Post by **jim3630** » Fri 30 Sep 2011, 17:18

mavrothal wrote:
Stripe wrote:we have the frisbee pet for those with difficulty connecting to the net . but it is of no use in the ppm if they cant access the net
That would be the case if the frisbee.pet was not included in the sfs

thanks to 01micko big time!

Stripe · #71 Post by **Stripe** » Fri 30 Sep 2011, 18:06

hi all

I just couldn't see frisbee in the menus

cheers

don

chrismt · #72 Post by **chrismt** » Fri 30 Sep 2011, 19:26

peebee wrote:
Stripe wrote:only 1 slight problem, occasionally drops wireless connection (sns)
don
Hi Don

Have you tried Frisbee - in the Internet menu - solved this problem for me with my B43 wifi...

Cheers
peebee

I had similar problem. I switched off the Firewall and removed it from the boot. I restarted it is pretty fast till now. I dunno, what was wrong with the Firewall though

James C · #73 Post by **James C** » Sat 01 Oct 2011, 04:26

Finally got to do a manual frugal install of B5 on the old P3 test box........no problems yet.Everything basically working on initial boot and survived a couple of reboots.

01micko · #74 Post by **01micko** » Sat 01 Oct 2011, 08:28

Hi guys

Great hol.. fishies won

[

or was it lobsters? ]

Anyhow.. got 2.6.39.4 compiled, ndiswrapper, sysprof, PAE.. including scsi and broadcom drivers (and firmware, updated wag_progiles.sh) [many thanks pemausu, Barry, tempestuous].. I am posting from it now.. however don't know when I'll be able to post as there is a little bit of adverse weather around.. had an power outage just as I finished compiling firefox-7.0.1. What's with mozilla anyway? seamonkey-2.4.1? These were only betas to the main number just days ago

.. oh well both sm and ff are compiled.. same deal though depends on if weather clears if I upload tonight. (been using a few hours, survived the hard poweroff from the power outage..

happened to have at least 6 drives mounted too..

, checked the lot, took time)

About Frisbee, I included it as a pet on the iso because it was too problematic to include with net-wiz and sns. I didn't make a menu entry because it's in the connect wizard.. I can though.. something like "install Frisbee".. and it activates the install. BTW, I need to take it out of PPM. Actually have grown to prefer Frisbee, it connects quicker than sns, it used to drop out when exiting X but now it doesn't. It was a pain to get right but worth it in the end.. you can read about my frustrations in the earlier beta threads

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Firefox-7.0.1 (14M) is uploaded

Seamonkey-2.4.1 (18M) is uploaded

peebee · #75 Post by **peebee** » Sat 01 Oct 2011, 11:44

01micko wrote:Actually have grown to prefer Frisbee, it connects quicker than sns, it used to drop out when exiting X but now it doesn't. .

Hi Mick

I'm also a fan of Frisbee - but mainly 'cos it maintains my wifi connection over time which sns and wizard can't manage.....

The only problem I know with Frisbee is that it seems to use its own internal version of ip-info which isn't quite the same as the main one in the menu and it's exit button is "dead" - doesn't exit...

Cheers
Peter

01micko · #76 Post by **01micko** » Sat 01 Oct 2011, 11:55

The only problem I know with Frisbee is that it seems to use its own internal version of ip-info which isn't quite the same as the main one in the menu and it's exit button is "dead" - doesn't exit...

Yeah, noticed that, should be an easy fix, probably because we switched to straight gtkdialog4, I'll look at it.. or call the orig now that it supports small screen, which is why jemimah would have changed it.

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in other big news...

slacko b5x is uploading... see main post soon.. (k2.6.39.4, xz compression)

Sage · #77 Post by **Sage** » Sat 01 Oct 2011, 12:07

...or kamoso works well in Mint, too....

Lobster · #78 Post by **Lobster** » Sat 01 Oct 2011, 13:12

01micko wrote:Hi guys
Great hol.. fishies won [ or was it lobsters? ]

This fish always win. It is a numbers thing.

Glad you had a good hol. Welcome back to the kennels.
We are having a heatwave (for UK).

Took a few photos this morning, just at random with my phone as I walked. Phone has to be mounted to use in Slacko. Then some cropping (highlight and press delete and effects/transform colour in Mtpaint . . . then a bit of cloud processing . . .and we have a shareable short vid . . . Most of pics out of focus and weird angles, which I liked.
http://youtu.be/-1ZModYh0Iw

Anyway it is a technique I might use in a Slacko promo vid
. . . we still need a logo . . .

Any holiday pics to share . . . ?

01micko · #79 Post by **01micko** » Sat 01 Oct 2011, 13:37

Sorry no pics..

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Attention laptop users:

This is the new powerapplet_tray that Barry re-wrote to work with newer kernels, that's why I dropped it in favour of vattery.. let me know if it works for you.

Thanks

Billtoo · #80 Post by **Billtoo** » Sat 01 Oct 2011, 13:44

Manual frugal install of beta5++.

Display
Resolution 1920x1080 pixels
OpenGL Renderer ATI Radeon HD 5570
X11 Vendor The X.Org Foundation

OpenGL
Vendor ATI Technologies Inc.
Renderer ATI Radeon HD 5570
Version 4.1.11079 Compatibility Profile Context
Direct Rendering Yes

Computer
Processor 6x AMD Phenom(tm) II X6 1045T Processor
Memory 8310MB (175MB used)

# glxgears
40089 frames in 5.0 seconds = 8017.733 FPS
41486 frames in 5.0 seconds = 8297.056 FPS
41487 frames in 5.0 seconds = 8297.202 FPS

I installed mesa from slickpet after installing the ati driver, I should
have installed mesa first I think but it's working okay.

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