Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

[jim3630]

trying find out what distro is compatible with racy?

looking in "DISTRO_COMPAT_VERSION is defined in this file:

/etc/DISTRO_SPECS" show "puppy" then farther down mentions wary.

slacko is in the ppm so can use other slack repos? thanks

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see now slacko was just used as an example in the add repo help.

still not sure what repos can use to add pets?

[aarf]

http://puppylinuxstuff.meownplanet.net/aarf/racy-5.2.1.90.iso___racy-5.2.1.91.iso.delta
5.79mb

md5sum racy-5.2.1.90.iso___racy-5.2.1.91.iso.delta 3a2c8b95732fdca550c471810e9fcd8

other deltas and md5sums at offical site.

[aarf]

I binned it already same as slacko, disappearing windows.

[Billtoo]

Manual frugal install to acer netbook.
Everything worked properly on first boot, I used SNS to setup the
wireless network connection and start the firewall.
The flashplayer plugin downloaded as is working.

Racy Puppy, version 5.2.2 on Thu 17 Nov 2011

Chip description:
5.0 VGA compatible controller
ATI Technologies Inc M880G [Mobility Radeon HD 4200]
oem: ATI ATOMBIOS
product: RS880M 01.00

X Server: Xorg
Driver used: radeon

X.Org version: 1.11.0
dimensions: 1024x600 pixels (270x158 millimeters)
depth of root window: 24 planes
# glxgears
1128 frames in 5.0 seconds = 225.405 FPS
1144 frames in 5.0 seconds = 228.616 FPS
1115 frames in 5.0 seconds = 222.978 FPS
Computer
Processor AMD Athlon(tm) II Neo K125 Processor
Memory 1812MB (97MB used)
OpenGL
Vendor Mesa Project
Renderer Software Rasterizer
Version 2.1 Mesa 7.10.3
Direct Rendering Yes
Ethernet controller Atheros Communications AR8151 v1.0 Gigabit Ethernet
Network controller Broadcom Corporation BCM43225 802.11b/g/n

The clock was an hour fast and I used Psync time server synchronizer to
fix it.

[BarryK]

Billtoo,
You are quick! Yes indeed, 5.2.2 "TESTING" is uploaded:

http://bkhome.org/blog/?viewDetailed=02599

[jim3630]

BarryK

suppose this is a stupid question. what repos can use for pets in racy other than what are in ppm? is racy built from ubuntu or which?

[Billtoo]

[Jim1911]

I'd like to install the proprietary driver the latest Nvidia driver, where is the kernel_source for kernel-3.0.7-pae-i686 used for this distribution located?

Thanks,
Jim

[Billtoo]

[Jim1911]

[Jim1911]

Frugal installation on an ext4 partition with a 4fs save file. It is fast and stable and the Nvidia driver installed and runs properly. However, upon reboot the nvidia driver did not work. To correct the driver problem, I removed the nouveau driver and reinstalled the proprietary driver which appears to be working properly now.

I spoke too soon, after a reboot, I could not restart regardless of driver selection. The NVIDIA-Linux-x86-285.05.09.run file installed the driver properly and was running great until I rebooted. I'll keep trying but not this evening.

Cheers,
Jim

[jim3630]

after looking at all of the racy thread including the 6 links
on the first page one of which points to the wary thread.
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=72258

wary's first page has 10 links and somewhere in the middle is a link
leading to another site that does mention wary is built from T2 sources.

I'm a user not a programmer, builder, or computer science student
nor aspire to be. don't know what t2 sources are.

racy testing was to target wary repo doesn't indicate what wary
is compatible with.

just want to know what pets are compatible with racy.

what would help on racy first page state what is the distro_compat_version.
and in /etc/DISTRO_SPECS instead of listing "puppy" perhaps ubuntu, slacko,
debian, or whatever would be helpful.

[jim3630]

slacko does show up in PPM. kind of confusing what
pets are compatible.

pfix=ram of 5.2.2. updated PPM then it shows slacko repo.

[James C]

Wary and Racy are based on T2 ....... just as Puppy 4.00 and Quirky were.
http://t2-project.org/

That would seem to lead to the "Puppy Common", "Quirky" and "Puppy 4" repos being the ones most compatible.

[aarf]