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[pacer106]

Can anyone tell me the name of the font used in this?

[Ray MK]

Hi all

Potential problem - no wifi working with Broadcom (is it wl.ko)? driver.

Just tried saluki on new laptop - Emachines (Acer) E732
and sadly no go with wifi.

I'm guessing the solution is kernel related and the appropriate modules
need to be activated (or whatever the proceedure is) but being a n00b,
I don't know how to do it.

I do know that racyNOP-5.2.2 with the later k3.0.7 kernel works 'cos
I just tried it.

Am sure Jemimah knows what's best - later kernel or tweek this one.

Many of the recently released budget (and expensive) laptops seem to have Broadcom wifi - and therefore - a large number of potential users
could be left wondering what to do.

Regarding acpi and suspend / resume etc, pemasu's ICE and DX series pup's have acpi etc working, as do the fatdog64 series puppy's.

Is it as simple as copying the folders over into saluki?
Probably not - but maybe some of what's there may be useful.

Hope the solutions don't produce too many headaches.

Thanks again to you all and very best regards - Ray

[Tman]

Ray MK,

Broadcom wifi drivers will be in the final release. I'm positive that Jemimah will fix the acpi suspend/resume issue. Thank you for the input.

[Ray MK]

Thanks Tman

Nice puppy - works really well on Acer TM 243LC with only 256mb ram.

Using it now with J's midori - really fast.

Next - try it on the EeePC 701SD - will feedback.
(Probably tomorrow as it is late here now)

Thanks again and best regards - Ray

[James C]

Quick test run live pfix=ram on my main Linux box. Sound and internet working on initial boot..... had to run through xorgwizard to get my desired 1440x900 resolution.Simple enough though.
Installed Opera 11.52 since I had it handy, working fine.

# report-video
Saluki, version 5.2.2 on Mon 28 Nov 2011

Chip description:
0.0 VGA compatible controller
nVidia Corporation NV18 [GeForce4 MX 440 AGP 8x] (rev c1)
oem: NVidia
product: NV18 () Board Chip Rev A2

X Server: Xorg
Driver used: nouveau

X.Org version: 1.11.0
dimensions: 1440x900 pixels (380x238 millimeters)
depth of root window: 24 planes

...the above also recorded in /tmp/root/ as report-video,
and archived with xorg.conf and Xorg.0.log as report-video-full.gz

Not real impressive,but working ootb.....
# glxgears
563 frames in 5.0 seconds = 112.530 FPS
572 frames in 5.0 seconds = 114.212 FPS
576 frames in 5.0 seconds = 114.898 FPS
570 frames in 5.0 seconds = 113.983 FPS
557 frames in 5.0 seconds = 111.345 FPS

-Computer-
Processor : AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2400+
Memory : 1034MB (157MB used)
Operating System : Unknown distribution
User Name : root (root)
Date/Time : Mon 28 Nov 2011 09:30:15 PM CST
-Display-
Resolution : 1440x900 pixels
OpenGL Renderer : Software Rasterizer
X11 Vendor : The X.Org Foundation
-Multimedia-
Audio Adapter : VIA8233 - VIA 8235

-Version-
Kernel : Linux 2.6.39.4 (i686)
Compiled : #1 SMP Tue Sep 13 23:40:41 GMT-8 2011
C Library : GNU C Library version 2.10.1 (stable)
Default C Compiler : Unknown
Distribution : Unknown distribution

Ethernet controller : Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+
Multimedia audio controller : VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller
VGA compatible controller : nVidia Corporation NV18 [GeForce4 MX 440 AGP 8x]

# free
total used free shared buffers
Mem: 1034016 408872 625144 0 34244
-/+ buffers: 374628 659388
Swap: 1228936 0 1228936
#

[tubeguy]

http://tubeguy.org/puppybg/saluki1280x1024.jpg

Did one with Saluki in Arabic after reading the Saluki Wiki article.

Is there a larger version of the Saluki logo?

[BHINTZ]

Midori has done everything I have asked including facebook and hulu and is very fast.

Dillo 3+ also works well and was used to download midori and seamonkey (also works well)

The only problem apart from not having a suspend function is that the Network Wizard is not persistent over reboot. The information is saved but must be reloaded. This was true of Racy as well

I sure hope you solve the acpi issue as suspend has become a necessity for me.

bob

[Sage]

Tman - thanks for .pet.

Yes, glad to hear J confirms her preference for Midori - long gone time to dump SM.

Opera lovers - go straight to 11.6beta - experience suggests their alpha s outperform any Moz offering.

As to deletions, still need a FD formatter somewhere! Oh yes, when everything goes pear-shaped, it's still the best way in, esp. BIOS repair.

re. Thunderbird/Eudora conflict - it may be because Moz. acquired Eudora. Although it's still 'the choice of professionals', Moz have fiddled with it and partly Thunderbirdised it. Another reason to abandon SM completely. Use the proper tools for the job! In this case, I even take my own advice - I have never liked nor used the (bundled) Opera email client!

Brits, and soon RoW, will need a flashplayer for BBC iPlayer. Adobe continues to get bad Press, but it may be unavoidable presently, esp. as alternatives get even worse reviews. It's an historical issue with Auntie, dating back to the time Blair gave Billyboy an honorary gong for showing him how to switch on his PC. As a result, the Establishment were pressurised into using Windoze, although some at the Beeb opted for Bananas (or was it Oranges? Pears?) with some BeOS hybrid.

[mavrothal]

Is it decided which kernel saluki is going to use? 2.6.x or 3.x.x?
Also is it decided if it's going to use Aufs or unionfs?
My experience with the 3.1 kernel is that unionfs has problems particularly when booting from USB and going to suspend. In contrast Aufs looks rock-solid.
BTW aufs 3.x-standalone patches fine without any issue.

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