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[Ray MK]

Raring Puppy version 5.6.92, released Jun 2013

# uname -a
Linux puppypc30952 3.9.5 #1 SMP Thu Jun 13 19:58:11 GMT-8 2013 i686 i686 i686 GNU/Linux
# free
total used free shared buffers
Mem: 1804736 619404 1185332 0 71420
-/+ buffers: 547984 1256752
Swap: 0 0 0
# ^C

Manual frugal to ntfs partition and booting with grub4dos from an ext2 SDcard. E732 laptop using an old external LCD monitor.

Only issue, it went to prompt at startup, so typed “xwin” and pressed “enter”, then all good - everything seems to work as normal.

Seamonkey is faster. Resource usage almost zero. Feels very fast and does all the normal stuff as expected. Nice.

Edit: It drops to prompt when attempting to setup locale etc.
Setting date / time manually via menu works.
Still very usable for a 1st alpha. Those that have cli knowledge could probably easily set keyboard, locale, etc.

[OscarTalks]

I have copied this over into this new thread which is more suitable.

For those testing Raring Puppy 5.6.92 (5.7-alpha1)

Confirmed that PPM from the menu causes drop out to prompt. This also happens with QuickSetup first-run settings from the menu. I think this is what is causing the momentary desktop dropping to prompt at first boot because the first-run dialog thingy is trying to run.

I think this is happening because the newer JWM needs some newer config files. I installed 01micko's jwmconfig from here:-

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=83949&start=131

and PPM and QuickSetup first-run settings start OK from the menu now.

ffmpeg / avconv has 3 missing dependency libs, libtbb2, libopencv-core and libopencv-imgproc
These can easily be installed via PPM.

NOTE:- BarryK has now posted a fix for the JWM / jwmconfig issue in his blog:-

http://bkhome.org/blog2/?viewDetailed=00294

[tlchost]

THe Alpha gave me hope that it would work with my system....at first boot it recognized my network and sound chip.

After the first reboot, with the detected settings in the save file(USB Bootable), the network and sound were still detected.

Flushed with success. I installed a terminal program and pidgin from the PPM and rebooted.

Amazing...the network settings were lost...I had to set it up again....and now no sound, no sound device detected.

I'm not posting any of the particulars, since reports of simiilar problems with the latest version(s) of Precise have gone unanswered in any thread in the forum. Asking for help in diagnosing the problem with the sound card have also gone unanswered.

Thom

[Billtoo]

Manual frugal install to a 16gb SDHC card, running on an Acer desktop
pc.
Computer
Processor 2x Athlon(tm) Dual Core Processor 4850e
Memory 2853MB (138MB used)
Machine Type Physical machine
Operating System Raring Puppy - 5.6.92
User Name root (root)
Date/Time Mon 17 Jun 2013 02:35:49 PM EDT
Display
Resolution 1280x1024 pixels
OpenGL Renderer GeForce 9200/integrated/SSE2/3DNOW!
X11 Vendor The X.Org Foundation
Audio Devices
Audio Adapter HDA-Intel - HDA NVidia
OpenGL
Vendor NVIDIA Corporation
Renderer GeForce 9200/integrated/SSE2/3DNOW!
Version 3.3.0 NVIDIA 319.17
Direct Rendering Yes
Network controller Ralink corp. RT2790 Wireless 802.11n 1T/2R PCIe

I installed an openbox+ pet from the forum to avoid the jwm problems.
Installed propietary Nvidia driver too.

I backed up my savefile and then installed vlc with ppm, next reboot
the network connection and sound were broken so I restored my backup
savefile.
Removing an application and all the dependencies that go with it is impossible
so when you add an application from ppm it could break things and you
don't find out until the damage is done.

Looking forward to the next release.

[don570]

Faster download of Raring 5.6.92

http://ftp.nluug.nl/os/Linux/distr/quirky/test/raring-5.6.94-5.7alpha2/
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[anikin]

The boot issue has been solved.
I followed Barry's tip in the link above, provided by OscarTalk and used sfsedit to modify jwmrc. The result is perfect boot. Haven't done much testing yet, however at first glance this build is very responsive and fast. Very fast. My little eeepc loves this new kernel. Although, it hasn't met a new kernel it didn't like, but this one looks really good.

[backi]

Hi !
Could boot to desktop (after typing xwin to prompt )

but when trying to connect to internet...... desktop crashed ---went to prompt .

Could not recover desktop again ........
my experience

[rameshiyer]

I am unable to create save file in my frugal installation. The machine is not creating any save file and also showing that "session not saved" after opting save option while rebooting or shutdown of my PC . How to solve this problem? May be corrected next beta version.

[rameshiyer]

I am unable to create save file in my frugal installation. The machine is not creating any save file and also showing that "session not saved" after opting save option while rebooting or shutdown of my PC . How to solve this problem? May be corrected next beta version.

[anikin]

[backi]

Hi anikin !

Did help ...... a bit ...

Cannot exactly determine but sooner or later desktop crashes .

Uptil now ...too crashy ... Will have a look later .

[Sage]

You did better than me, Bill. Can't get any picture by any method, any driver [XP@3000/1Mb/Radeon7000-64]. This is particularly annoying because the 'Test now' always gives 'OK' whether I use 'unaccelerated', 'Radeon' or 'let it choose'. Sometimes can get back to a prompt but it doesn't help; sometimes just a flashing cursor.
Seem to remember issues with Rarin' previously. One step forward, two steps back is the strategy at Canonical?!

Later: stuck an nV MX440/128n card in. Interesting; picture came up at correct resolution then straightaway returned me to a prompt. Selected nouveau driver and came up with the wrong resolution! Unable to select another. Got the same PPM=prompt feature as Bill, supra.

This one has a very long way to go. Get the feeling that BK's skills would be best deployed on honing Precise, Wary and Racy - possibly ARMs ?

Update: Hi, Bill, thanks for your PM.

[dennis-slacko531]

Not getting any sound from pMusic. However, GNOME MPlayer sounds very rich. Other minor issues occurred with this manual frugal install pertaining to the Intel graphics driver (like it rebooted twice when the screen "blanker" occurred). Don't know why, but it resolved itself later.

[Billtoo]

Here's a text file of radio stations that I'm using in PupRadio,
mostly oldies but other stuff too.
If you want it just delete the .gz and load into geany or any text
editor then copy/paste into PupRadio.

[Fishy]

Tried to get Calibre ebook manager working but a problem with Python installation. Will wait until more mature. This is the only problemen countered although mouse clicks have to be very precise to open program.