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feelsub · Joined: 20 Jun 2012 Posts: 39

Tested on Core5, works fine, but:

* gThumb installs but fails to launch.

* ffmpeg is old, use the latest BUILD of 0.11 (many bug fixes since 0.11.1, but no 0.11.2 release yet)

* unfortunately can't find Chrome Browser

scsijon · Posted: Sat 25 Aug 2012, 21:47 Post subject:

feelsub · Joined: 20 Jun 2012 Posts: 39

I saw for Mageia 3, so I'll wait for new build.

scsijon · Posted: Tue 28 Aug 2012, 20:55 Post subject:

feelsub, the mage2 release will be mageia 2 compatable, not mageia 3 compatable.

Mageia 3 has a LOT of system and package location and version changes in it plus quite a few 'puppy system packages' won't be useable. It's first alpha is only appearing to the testers next month, release is next christmas or so away. From what i'm dealing with and reading, it may never become a puppy source for general use, so don't hold your breath for an alpha, as there will be quite a pet build requirement to deal with first.

I will be working on my qtpuppy after getting the mage2 release out and only return to trying to start to formulate a Mage3 packageset when mageia 3 is in beta.

UPDATE: 30Aug 2012
There will be a second Beta needed, due to some problems found to have sources from within the 3.3.6 Kernel. The new one will use 3.3.8 Kernel which has these problems fixed and be out hopefully next week. Sorry folks.

scsijon · Posted: Sat 01 Sep 2012, 19:04 Post subject:

had a 'little' corruption problem on my development partition, will have to rebuild it after moving packages and sources off so will be a few days late with the 3.3.8 kernel beta for mage2. Will try for a beta 1.9.95 next weekend.

scsijon · Posted: Sun 09 Sep 2012, 20:59 Post subject: Mage2 1.9.95 with 3.3.8 Kernel

The beta has been uploaded for testing. See page1.

Please note that the only differance between this and the 1.1.90 is the kernel, however a number of problems that were kernel related have already disapeared and marked as fixed on my list.

Peebee's Broadcom patch has yet to be built for this kernel and he will add a link in this thread when it's done.

Mplayer is out of the build due to conflicts with the differant back ends between puppy's and Mageia's. If someone wants to take on the project of building a compatable one, feel free.

The only 'nusance' problem I have still is 'Desktop Icon Switcher' not displaying the various icons, even though they are in the /tmp directory and it does switch the sets corectly! I suspect this is a gtk/gdk problem between the mixed set necessary for Mage2 to work. I have it in my fix list for qtpuppy, but don't intend to do anything further in mage2 about it.

Unless any serious problems appear the Mage2-2.0.0 Release will be out on the 21st of September, with a fix period until the end of the month.

Then finally I shall be working on qtpuppy!

For those wondering about and considering Mage3, with the number of changes in Build Structure, File Locations, Updates, and Formats they are working on I an not sure it will happen. It certainly won't be this year I start on it anyway, if we can ever do it. It will need most of the packages in our part of the build to be recompiled at least, if not replaced.

scsijon

peebee · Joined: 21 Sep 2008 Posts: 906 Location: Malvern, Worcs, UK

Colonel Panic · Joined: 16 Sep 2006 Posts: 1225

Hi, I've just downloaded Mage 1.95 and am posting from it now. Unfortunately it isn't going well.

Three times Abiword's crashed on me now, once when pasting a URL into a document there, once when spell checking and once when trying to save a document. Sorry, but I rate it as unusable on my machine as things stand.

CP .

scsijon · Posted: Tue 11 Sep 2012, 19:38 Post subject:

James C · Joined: 26 Mar 2009 Posts: 4741 Location: Kentucky

Manual frugal install of Mage2 1.9.95 on my Athlon XP box....... sound and internet working and correct on initial boot. Booted to an incorrect resolution but no problem using Xorgwizard to get the correct 1440x900.

# report-video
mage2, version 1.9.95 on Tue 11 Sep 2012

Chip description:

oem: NVidia
product: NV18 () Board Chip Rev A2

X Server: Xorg
Driver used: nv

X.Org version: 1.11.4
dimensions: 1440x900 pixels (411x263 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

James C · Joined: 26 Mar 2009 Posts: 4741 Location: Kentucky

Tried to compose and save a file in Abiword...... crashed immediately here too.

Relevant section of xerrs.log......

James C · Joined: 26 Mar 2009 Posts: 4741 Location: Kentucky

Real minor thing but missing the "filesystem" icon in the menu........

James C · Joined: 26 Mar 2009 Posts: 4741 Location: Kentucky

PupRadio doesn't launch.....

James C · Joined: 26 Mar 2009 Posts: 4741 Location: Kentucky

Installed Gnome Mplayer 1.0.6 from the Mageia repo plus the dependencies....... also needed to install libneon0.27-0.29.6-1.mga2.i586.

Now I get this familiar looking error message....