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ecube · Joined: 11 Jul 2008 Posts: 88 Location: Västerås, Sweden

Partview (Free Space in Drives) shows a "Please wait ..." splash window during the processing of the All Drives option.

However, for Slacko 5.3 and Racy-51110 the splash window does not dissappear when the calculation is finished.

The problem is illustrated by the following script, which intended to start yaf-splash, and to kill its process after 3 seconds.

shinobar · Joined: 28 May 2009 Posts: 2257 Location: Japan

wuwei · Joined: 15 Sep 2007 Posts: 739 Location: de

This might be a duplicate question, but I haven't checked the 13 pages before.

Just wondering why Racy and Wary 5.2 don't allow running Firefox and Thunderbird from /mnt/home anymore?
Also, neither FF 7.0.1 (or 8.0) nor TB is available by way of PPM.

I'd appreciate some comments as to the reasons for these surprising restrictions.

upnorth · Posted: Mon 31 Oct 2011, 12:23 Post subject:

probably only need libdbus and libdbus-glib. These two pets should suffice:

ftp://ftp.nluug.nl:21/pub/metalab/distributions/quirky/pet_packages-wary5/dbus-glib-0.82-w5.pet

ftp://ftp.nluug.nl:21/pub/metalab/distributions/quirky/pet_packages-wary5/dbus-1.2.4.2permissive-1-w5.pet

DaveS · Joined: 09 Oct 2008 Posts: 3669 Location: UK

DaveS · Joined: 09 Oct 2008 Posts: 3669 Location: UK

wuwei · Joined: 15 Sep 2007 Posts: 739 Location: de

YES

that was it.

dbus pets from above installed, Firefox runs.

However, all dbus links in PPM are dead!

Thanks for the help!

rcrsn51 · Posted: Mon 31 Oct 2011, 13:13 Post subject: Re: FF and TB

DaveS · Joined: 09 Oct 2008 Posts: 3669 Location: UK

hoven · Joined: 21 Jun 2010 Posts: 145

Video works well, mplayer/gmplayer works full screen. However, there is no audio even after I try running the ALSA sound wizard. It says it doesn't detect any supported PnP or PCI cards.

Dell Latitude D830.
Are there any suggestions to resolve this? Audio works out of the box with the Lupu Puppies like 5.28. Shouldn't it be the same get audio to work here?

James C · Joined: 26 Mar 2009 Posts: 4743 Location: Kentucky

Billtoo · Joined: 07 Apr 2009 Posts: 1497 Location: Ontario Canada

Manual frugal install to hp desktop.

Tue 1 Nov 2011 Operating System: Racy Puppy-5.1.110 Linux 3.0.7
0.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GT216 [GeForce GT 220] (rev a2)
oem: NVIDIA product: GT216 Board - 0682vb12 Chip Rev

X Server: Xorg Driver: nvidia
X.Org version: 1.11.0
dimensions: 1280x1024 pixels (342x271 millimeters)
depth of root window: 24 planes

Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E4500
Core 0: 1200 1: 1200 MHz

# glxgears
31377 frames in 5.0 seconds = 6275.313 FPS
31449 frames in 5.0 seconds = 6289.661 FPS
31422 frames in 5.0 seconds = 6284.344 FPS

Computer
Processor 2x Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E4500 @ 2.20GHz
Memory 4146MB (171MB used)

It's working well.

Sage · Joined: 04 Oct 2005 Posts: 4623 Location: GB

SiS video grief persists. So what changed? Who doesn't like SiS? ATI & nV require bloated drivers to produce the goods whereas SiS in other distros does not.

Later:
Some progress. With some, but not all, HW combos, using initial default 1900x??? and an electron microscope to view, then CTRL-ALT-BKspce, XOrgwizard, select native res. (1440x900 in this case) from a 'regular' Probe, ignore predictions about what might/might not work and set 1024x768@24bit gives the desired result. This result cannot be obtained by jiggling the Quickset utility. All this Mickey Mouse shouldn't be necessary because, evidently, all the correct information lies somewhere within the installed kernel/code/drivers.

Sage · Joined: 04 Oct 2005 Posts: 4623 Location: GB

ALSA no longer detecting legacy ISA sound cards, even though it runs through the process and lists the drivers.
SM crashes after ~5mins on older AGP cards, eg RIVA TNT2. Might not be able to handle more than 5 open tabs/one window? No such problems with Opera. Why isn't Opera in the PPM list?!

Sage · Joined: 04 Oct 2005 Posts: 4623 Location: GB

PCLinux- Phoenix Edition has an utility Systeminfo v0.6.3 which gives a textual list of options. The first of these reads some basic BIOS info (dmidecode). It's very difficult for regular folk to remember all the arcane Unix commands that a simple list like this is perfect. This is so valuable in testing that it's worth booting this distro just for that. Any chance of adding this to Racy or Wary? Probably only a kb or so in code?
Lots of other goodies along with my favourite desktop - Xfce - in that distro.