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[broomdodger]

Barry

some pics to show the vaio display when starting precise5610

+ wary5500 working great
+ precise5610 starting
+ precise5610 after 'Loading kernel modules
+ precise5610 fully started

Both of the vaio laptops are the same,
both exhibit the same problem.

Bill

[davids45]

G'day Sylvander,

I'm running pwidgets in a frugal precise-5.6.1 based on the 2.4.1 pet.

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=35601&search_id=827712100

Check the final few pages of the pwidgets thread for fixes to some of the problems you are likely to come across with some widgets.

Success or not seems to depend on just which widgets you want displayed.

David S.

[Sylvander]

Pwidgets-2.4.1 installed and functioning.

[linuxcbon]

Precise 5.6 :
- # ayttm
** (process:21467): WARNING **: Error loading plugin: libaspell.so.15: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

- # gadmin-rsync
** (gadmin-rsync:26051): WARNING **: Couldn't find pixmap file: gadmin-rsync.png

- Why are there 2 different gtkdialog links ? /usr/bin/gtkdialog and /usr/sbin/gtkdialog

- Still those 3 big bad files :
/usr/lib/libLLVM-3.0.so.1
/usr/lib/libicudata.so.48.1.1
/usr/lib/seamonkey-2.17.1/libxul.so
Is it possible to remove the first 2 ones, and replace seamonkey with lighter software.

[Jades]

After reading Barry's blog post about whether Precise could replace Wary, I've had a crack at running it on my trusty K6-2 500 machine and, as I suspected I might, I'm having problems.

I'm booting from the CD, effectively pfix=ram as I haven't set anything up yet. It's getting as far as setting up the layered file system, but is throwing a kernel panic at the switch root phase. I've attached a photo of the screen. At this point it is also flashing the Caps Lock and Scroll Lock lights on the keyboard.

There's a link to the HardInfo report from Wary 5.5 in my sig.

[ETP]

Hi Jades,

Do you get the same result if you press F2 as the CD boots and input:

puppy pfix=ram

[jrb]

[for_wov]

retrovol again doesn't choose/maybe it shouldn't? right snd_card (in my particular case have multiple cards). no big deal doing it manualy but that will not attract more users/maybe it shouldn't? [replaced hw:0 to hw:1 & unmuted speaker]. wifi works like a charm with SNS (simple network setup by BK) SEES NO MODULE in wlan section but WORKS (refused 'wl' for BCM4313 and no more experiments ). my #1 puppy. Thank's BK and others.

[Jades]

[Jades]

[ETP]

Hi Jades,

Sorry to be pedantic but booting from a CD will not prevent puppy looking for and loading anything that contains the string “precisesave” that just might still be on a hard drive or attached device. Such an old file from another Pup will cause a panic.

The only ways to prevent this are:

F2 followed by “puppy pfix=ram” (the puppy followed by the space is vital)

Or

Before you boot from the CD rename any old precisesave files by placing an x at the start. E.g. xprecisesave.

The above may well not apply in your case but I think it is worth mentioning. That code is AFAIK the only certain way of preventing the automatic search for save files when booting from CD.

[Jades]

[James C]

Finally got around to moving to 5.6.1 on the Athlon XP install.Zero problems so far.
Pleasantly surprised by how fast the PPM updated the package database..... much,much faster than in the past. All looking good so far.

[Jades]

[James C]