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[BarryK]

Here is the announcement from my blog:

This is the release candidate for Quirky 1.1. The build is actually numbered 104.

Preliminary announcement and release notes:
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/quirky/quirky-1.1rc/release-Quirky-110.htm

Download:
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/quirky/

There is the normal Quirky, qrky-104.iso, built with the 2.6.33.2 kernel. Note that I have changed the file prefix from "quirky" to "qrky", so the save-file will now be named "qrkysave.2fs".

A bonus is another build, Quirky-Retro, built with the 2.6.30.5 kernel (same as used in Puppy 4.3.1). This build has all the analog modem and SCSI drivers. Note, the file prefix is "qret", so the save-file is named "qretsave.2fs".

Please note the scope of the fixes and improvements of 1.1 relative to 1.0, explained in the release notes. I plan multimedia improvements for 1.2.

ibiblio.org has become incredibly slow for me right now. Downloading might be a problem.

Everyone is welcome to try out this 'rc'!

[broomdodger]

quirky100 frugal

I found the problem I was having with e3, specifically e3vi.

In .Xdefaults I set:

Rxvt.geometry: 88x44+3+33

With that setting, cursor keys and any vi style movement keys would create error messages in blue at the bottom of the console window, a new one with each keystroke.

Resizing the console window AFTER e3vi is running causes NO problem.

I have not seen a problem with the geometry setting in any other terminal app that I have tried.

[rcrsn51]

Now that JWM is back, have you thought about putting the official Quirky logo on the Menu button?

[panzerpuppy]

[James C]

Fresh frugal install of Quirky 104.Nice to see JWM back as default and SeaMonkey 2.0.4 is an improvement over the one series.

Looks good.

[rjbrewer]

I tried qret retro kernel version on laptop with Intel 855gme graphics.

So far, Wary 020 is still the only Quirky that lets me use xorg or vesa
without black screen hang-ups.

No version will let me install and run an alternate media player.

I use ttuuxxx vlc for video and audio on my other Puppys', it doesn't
have dvd playback problems like gnome-mplayer does.

[tubby]

Tried the retro release on this Dell Inspiron 1150 laptop and xorg goes to black screen and locks up, vesa gives a tearing screen,Intel 855GM Chipset.

[upnorth]

1st run from fresh frugal install 466mhz/256meg mach64 24bit:
everything displays correctly and it's holding up well and performing well with many things running simultaneously.

Successfully did gtktheme change and jwmtheme change while streaming audio in seamonkey and ayttm running. Overall, gave it a good torture test and it stayed stable and responsive.

Then exited without save, dropped in my old quirky savefile and renamed to "qrkysave-" and restarted. Update process was smooth and it's running fine now.

[Jim1911]

Fresh frugal installation, setup is flawless, everything appears to be working properly.

Thanks for the nvidia driver and also reverting back to jwm.

[nooby]

Sorry, I am not good at this but did my best and sadly q1 = q104 crashed when I installed wine and tried to play Spotify while it just works in q100 and q021 and so on.

Symptom is that when I start the spotify program then the X shut down and I write xwin to prompt and it start and all is there and works until I try spotify again. it crash when I log in and hit enter so the first part of the spotify prog survive but not when it shall load the browser window.

Could be me doing something wrong so if there is something to look into hopefully others can give more relevant details.

Nvidia seems to have installed properly. First time that happens for me I guess.

Here is how it looks in q100 which I write from now. I finally got the radio going by PPM the mplayer plugin from puppy4 repo.

# report-video
VIDEO REPORT: Quirky, version 100

Chip description:
oem: NVIDIA
product: G98 Board - 5610001u Chip Rev

Driver used by Xorg:
nvidia

Video mode used by Xorg:
Resolution: Depth 16 Depth: "Display"

...the above also recorded in /tmp/report-video
#
as I remember that is how it looked in q104 too.

[upnorth]

just spotted this in another thread:

http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=418434&sid=17fcaa72b080431d34ea4db88a4bfa66#418434

but is line 232 in q104

Also, spotted the following in xerrs.log but I couldn't find cause and there aren't any associated problems:

** (ROX-Filer:2914): WARNING **: Failed to open file '/usr/cocal/lib/X11/pixmaps/connect48.png': No such file or directory

[BarryK]

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[upnorth]