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[smokey01]

[tronkel]

01micko wrote:

[01micko]

Hi Smokey

AFAIK Xvesa is not in Quirky. ("Xvesa" and "vesa" are different animals )

"vesa" is the generic Xorg driver and since you have a later model nvidia card I almost bet that that driver is loaded in /etc/X11/xorg.conf. I have trouble playing any video on this old box if "vesa" driver is loaded. I can manually load "nv" driver in xorg.conf and it all works well for me. There are 2 nvidia drivers, "nv" and "noveau". Maybe you could try either of those in your xorg.conf, but I would recommend to use the xorgwizard and going to "test", just click enter at the test window and another dialog screen will appear and you should choose the "tweak" option. I'm guessing you'll get three options in the list.. "vesa", "noveau" and "nv", try them out. Using xorgwizard, the worst that can happen is that X wont start in which case you can run xorgwizard again.

Good luck!

Cheers

[smokey01]

[Béèm]

Back home now I tried sns.
There are so many routers seen by sns here in the building and around that the fields to enter the WEP key are way off the screen.

[01micko]

[Béèm]

01micko,
With Dougal's netw wizard when doing the scan, I have a scrollable list, which is fine. The field to enter the codes are still in place.

[BarryK]

01micko wrote:

[01micko]

Barry

One more thing I should remind you about SNS.. my main box connects first go.. the only difference is that ndiswrapper is used on the old box. I might try my usb adapter on my old box, see if there is a difference.

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Er post crossover! Yes I will try that too.

Cheers

[`f00]

dunno, just . . . dunno

Maybe it's me or a bad run of bad choices. Somehow I thought perhaps this quirky could put it together (fix the pieces/parts I had-have in q008 - nice even if dredging the lower layers for hard-to-reach functions is a bit inconvenient), but q010 gives me a hard time with saving on demand or by choice at shutdown/reboot so far. I came to regard any save as a fluke since the end result was almost always to boot to the base and start from square one - loose notes follow, fwiw.

Starting in q008 (to mangle a bugman idea, the poor remastered baby might be considered 'unreasonably sane' since the last few boots have been RAMFULL after the multisession savedirs have loaded .. some early stuff on the remaster like wine and most all of mycons theme is there but not up - she retains a high level of functionality in spite of the condition ). Actually this is real basic bh stuff of procreation (BK bloodlines breed well!), a few moments in the crib for mystery of xdelta and such.. (mm, so hard to give up all the personal amenities here like openbox usw...)

___firstlook___
Nope, Xorg is same as previous for me at boot (needs edit to get it proper so test displays, almost-right is only for wasting time playing horseshoes..). For me the proper driver is "ati", not the suggested 'radeon' ("ATI Technologies Inc" replaces 'Unknown Vendor', "RV280 [Radeon 9200]" or "RV280 [Radeon 9200 SE]" replaces the 'Unknown Board' entries and the buses get switched for the two cards so the agp is primary as spec'd in BIOS). Or so all previous successful xorg.confs have worked on this rig. Setting up for extended or multi monitors was a minor pitb even in win32, so haven't bothered in pups (yet).

Keep forgetting notecase is in personal rather than document category Some sort of menu-edit (like from stardust) would be helpful in trimming. Oh well, nico's quite doable. Fonts are nice and crisp (xftdpi is fine at default? 7. Jwm is same-old alpha-issue-in-quirky warts but otherwise seems fine. Retrovol r-click File->Configure still kills it (or at least poofs it out of tray and whacks the window) - manual edit for the rc (looks like a whole lot of fun there, 200? sliders/ctrl on r-click isn't too many if you know what you're doing (the top bunch corresponds to alsamixer, but the rest ). Alsamixer not on menu - BUT the trash barks when fed, so it's academic for me atm .. set rox options to personal pref (no wonder gtk officially deprecates spin buttons since they really bog for sizing sometimes).

I can understand Béèm's (and others') point of view on jwm alpha-issue (yep BK, no prob with any other wm or app besides Jwm as far as I can tell - e16 chroma-ghosts a bit for me but that's just stale cache in e's mo) - small but annoying like a pebble in your shoe (menu is not that awful, but say abiword or any non-black alpha'd icon on the header/titlebar just makes for a 3rd-rate look on an otherwise fine wm)

(minor polish dept) Small glitch with pmount in tabview? Usb sticks have an "optical" tab, optical drives/discs have a "floppy" tab - kind of simple fun guessing what's under the tab (no such fun in single-page view)

Crud, 'musical disc trays' seems to be back (not for long, %#&@) .. (actually disc trays sometimes properly prompted a la JP and other times would play silly in/out games). Lost almost every session of testing 'til I finally gave it up as a bad job when it went to kybd/locale/tz intro for the last time a few hours ago. Most everything seemed fairly doable in session, reboots and even re-Xs were iffy. Likely my bad since I used a liveCD boot and smallish savefile on thumb with what may possibly have been an unwise mod in this particular setting (PG's save/no-save option edited in on the /etc/rc.d/rc.shutdown file - usually I really prefer to have a choice as to whether to save or not). Might even be the el-cheapo Kingston thumbdrive

[pri]

i run openoffice on quirky and get this :

[jpeps]

[01micko]

[sinc]

I posted earlier that this is the first puppy I have been able to keep and continuous wireless connection without reestablishing every 60 seconds or so. Well let me expound... Using internet connection wizard I get "unable to find a live network". using pwireless2 I get "unable to find an active device" using SNS i get connected and everything works right EXCEPT it is not persistent over my next boot. when I boot up again I have to rerun SNS to get connected to the internet again. is there a way to see why SNS has to be rerun to connect again?

[nooby]

Worked on my machine that usually fail with the graphic setup in quirky 08 and q06 and so on. so thanks for the change.

What I don't like is that Q10 doesn't have what puppy431std have.

GXine can do both .flv and .mp4 while Q10 can not.

I write in it now. It doesn streaming video good. Can do ram or rm files from streaming radio so very good.

I have not tested the nv or novea nvida drivers. I just accepted what it suggested and that wrked out of the box.