Wary Puppy 5.2.2, 18 Nov. 2011

Please post any bugs you have found
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kenbanistu
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#226 Post by kenbanistu »

Wary 5.2 won't release the CD drive.
I am using a computer that can't boot from USB (too old), so I use the CD to boot. I created a warysave file on a USB flash drive (the hard drive died about a year ago) and when asked if I wanted to copy the wary sfs to the same location I said yes. When I boot, the warysave file is seen but the wary SFS file apparently is not. Wary is using the sfs file on the CD still instead of the one on the flash drive, and that means I can't use the cd drive for other things, it won't unmount.

--Ken

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#227 Post by smokey01 »

kenbanistu how much memory do you have?

You need adequate memory to load puppy, if not it needs to access the cd drive.

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#228 Post by `f00 »

@kenbanistu

Yep .. have that issue as well (no direct boot from usb) on my vintage machine. You could try "puppy pmedia=usbflash" at the bootsplash to force it to recognize/load the sfs that's on usb (thus hopefully freeing the optical drive after boot). It's been awhile since I've used usb, but as I recall a few other files are needed on the stick for the pmedia dodge to work properly..

Sorry to hear about the dead hdd - that really limits you in terms of 'fast' parts for swap if you're RAM-challenged also. Swap part on stick is do-able but slow..

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#229 Post by kenbanistu »

smokey01 wrote:kenbanistu how much memory do you have?

You need adequate memory to load puppy, if not it needs to access the cd drive.
I only have 192 megs, but I don't see why that should matter. There is a copy of the sfs file on the flash drive. Wary should be using it instead of the one on the cd, thus freeing up the cd drive for other uses.

--Ken

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#230 Post by kenbanistu »

`f00 wrote:@kenbanistu

Yep .. have that issue as well (no direct boot from usb) on my vintage machine. You could try "puppy pmedia=usbflash" at the bootsplash to force it to recognize/load the sfs that's on usb (thus hopefully freeing the optical drive after boot). It's been awhile since I've used usb, but as I recall a few other files are needed on the stick for the pmedia dodge to work properly..

Sorry to hear about the dead hdd - that really limits you in terms of 'fast' parts for swap if you're RAM-challenged also. Swap part on stick is do-able but slow..
I'll give the pmedia=usbflash a try, but having to type that in every bootup will get annoying.

I'm not sure what other files would need to be on the stick. In puppy 4.3.1 all that is needed is the pupsave and the sfs.

--Ken

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#231 Post by linuxcbon »

The popup asking to download flashplayer is annoying. Can you remove it ?
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#232 Post by linuxcbon »

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#233 Post by linuxcbon »

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#234 Post by linuxcbon »

http://www.yolinux.com/MIME-EXAMPLES/launch.mpg
Video plays bad.
right click full screen = not full screen.
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Re: vlc

#235 Post by Frank Cox »

I have had much better luck with this version of VLC
VLC8.6 but I can't find it anywhere. If you want I can upload it to dropbox for you. It worked fine to download streaming video with no worries at all.

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#236 Post by linuxcbon »

Barry, can these be removed, not needed : inkscape, cups, python.
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stu90

#237 Post by stu90 »

linuxcbon wrote:Can these be removed, not needed : inkscape, cups, python.
Use menu > Setup > remove builtin packages and remaster - or edit .sfs and delete using the application files in /root/.packages/builtin_files/

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#238 Post by linuxcbon »

stu90 I was talking to Barry.

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#239 Post by stu90 »

linuxcbon wrote:stu90 I was talking to Barry.
ho-hum, was only trying to help - i wont bother next time! :(

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#240 Post by rcrsn51 »

If you boot Wary off its Live CD, then try to set up a flash drive, syslinux needs /tmp to have 1777 permissions. If the sticky bit is not set, it gives the error "possibly unsafe /tmp permissions".

Slacko has the same problem.

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#241 Post by rcrsn51 »

rcrsn51 wrote:If you boot Wary off its Live CD, then try to set up a flash drive, syslinux needs /tmp to have 1777 permissions. If the sticky bit is not set, it gives the error "possibly unsafe /tmp permissions".

Slacko has the same problem.
Currently, /usr/bin/syslinux is a symlink to /usr/bin/syslinux-nomtools. Perhaps it should be a wrapper script instead.

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chmod 1777 /tmp
exec /usr/bin/syslinux-nomtools "$@"

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Other Files-Upgrade Bios?

#242 Post by Frank Cox »

Hi:

Have you tried finding an updated bios? It is possible there is a new bios version that allows USB booting.

Also try copying the vmlinux and intrid files to the USB .

If all else fails try installing puplite or even 4.3


Hope this helped

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#243 Post by BarryK »

rcrsn51 wrote:Here is guvcview for Wary. The separate DEP package contains the dependencies - libportaudio, libv4l2, libSDL and libavcodec. Because of their size, I have uploaded them externally.

guvcview_wary-1.5.0.pet
guvcview_wary_DEP-1.5.0.pet

Look in the menus under Multimedia.

This also works in Racy.

(If someone else has already posted this, I apologize.)
Thanks. PETs combined and uploaded to:

http://distro.ibiblio.org/quirky/pet_pa ... .0-w5c.pet
[url]https://bkhome.org/news/[/url]

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#244 Post by BarryK »

Wary 5.2.1.90 (5.2.2 Release Candidate) uploaded.

See blog post:
http://bkhome.org/blog/?viewDetailed=02590

Testers welcome!
[url]https://bkhome.org/news/[/url]

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Wary Puppy 5.2.1.90 (5.2.2 RC), 10 Nov. 2011

#245 Post by Billtoo »

Manual frugal install to emachines D620 laptop.

Wary Puppy, version 5.2.1.90 on Wed 9 Nov 2011

Chip description:
5.0 VGA compatible controller
ATI Technologies Inc RS690M [Radeon X1200 Series]
oem: ATI ATOMBIOS
product: RS690 01.00

X Server: Xorg
Driver used: radeon

X.Org version: 1.3.0
dimensions: 1280x800 pixels (338x211 millimeters)
depth of root window: 24 planes

# glxgears
1693 frames in 5.3 seconds = 317.871 FPS
1584 frames in 5.2 seconds = 304.253 FPS
1656 frames in 5.4 seconds = 307.574 FPS

Computer
Processor AMD Athlon(tm) Processor 2650e
Memory 1813MB (86MB used)
Ethernet controller Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8040 PCI-E Fast Ethernet
Controller
Network controller Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY
I used SNS to setup the wireless network connection.
I will try the mega video upgrade later,this is working well right now.

I made an sfs in racy 5.2.1.90 on another pc and it works in
wary-5.2.1.90 too.

It has xine,goggles,ltris,links,emelfm2,and midnight commander + all
the dependencies, it is 13 mb in size.

The download link is:

http://www.datafilehost.com/download-fb7d883d.html[url]

Edit:
Wary is running fine after applying the gtk fix.
I've been having fun customizing :)
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