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sfs and desktop icons

If I re-arrange desktop icons, then add an sfs like devx_racy_5.5.sfs, and reboot... the desktop icons are messed up.

Is there a way to prevent that, to keep my desktop icons order?

Bill

Hi Barry,

The Service Pack for Wary 5.5 does not show the version update to 5.5.1 in DISTRO_SPECS and therefore HardInfo does not report the update either. While I can edit DISTRO_SPECS to reflect the version update, the change is not permanent, but session specific only. I am wondering if there is a bug in the pinstall.sh script?

Also, while running Pupmode 13 I am noticing that sometimes my mounted flash drive is reported as: sdb1 and following a re-boot it is reported as: sdc1 Note that I have two flash drives plugged in all the time and at same location, but I am not sure why the drive labels are changing intermittently... maybe a timing issue with hardware detection?

Thanks,
Monsie

I made and tested xfe-1.34 in racy-5.5
The download links are:

fox-1.6.47-i686.pet


http://www.datafilehost.com/download-177cfd2b.html


xfe_NLS-1.34-i686.pet


http://www.datafilehost.com/download-13ee2b18.html


xfe-1.34-i686.pet


http://www.datafilehost.com/download-4e46ee01.html

EDIT: I tested these pets in Wary-5.5 and they work in it as well.

I'm reporting what I guess is a bug. It seems the HP 210-1010NR touchpad just doesn't want to allow right click. I have tried many things to get it working and still doesn't work on Precise and Racy 5.5

See this thread for what I have personally tried (maybe something I tried could end up working if someone with more knowledge in this could try it):
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=694127

Barry can you please compile all kernels for 486 ? Because many computers won't boot on racy, like the amd k6, k6-2, k6-3, geode lx, geode gx1. Is it easy and possible ? Thanks in advance.

Monsie wrote:Hi Barry,

The Service Pack for Wary 5.5 does not show the version update to 5.5.1 in DISTRO_SPECS and therefore HardInfo does not report the update either. While I can edit DISTRO_SPECS to reflect the version update, the change is not permanent, but session specific only. I am wondering if there is a bug in the pinstall.sh script?

Also, while running Pupmode 13 I am noticing that sometimes my mounted flash drive is reported as: sdb1 and following a re-boot it is reported as: sdc1 Note that I have two flash drives plugged in all the time and at same location, but I am not sure why the drive labels are changing intermittently... maybe a timing issue with hardware detection?

Thanks,
Monsie

Yes, the version update value in /etc/DISTRO_SPECS does not survive a reboot.
This is due to it getting reverted by the 'init' script in the initrd.
Although this is a "bug", it doesn't have any adverse consequences.

Yes, the device node assignments can vary with more than one usb drive plugged in.
It is ok, just a bit disconcerting to see.

linuxcbon wrote:

anikin wrote:

linuxcbon wrote:Barry, for privacy, can you do this ?

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rm -r /root/.adobe/
rm -r /root/.macromedia/
ln -s /dev/null /root/.adobe
ln -s /dev/null /root/.macromedia

= avoiding cookies from flashplayer

linuxcbon,
to be on the safe side, should I run these commands before remastering *any* puppy? No side effects?

You can do it , no problemo.
You can add these ones too :

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 rm /root/.local/share/recently-used.xbel
 mkdir /root/.local/share/recently-used.xbel

Regarding:

/root/.macromedia/
/root/.adobe
/root/.local/share/recently-used.xbel

I don't think 'remasterpup2' will copy these to the remastered CD.

Wary-5.5 2.6.32.59 first boot on
Processor Information
Socket Designation: Socket-A
Type: Central Processor
Family: Other
Manufacturer: AMD
ID: 62 06 00 00 55 00 00 00
Version:
Voltage: 3.3 V 2.9 V
External Clock: 66 MHz
Max Speed: 1200 MHz
Current Speed: 1050 MHz
Status: Populated, Enabled

RAM: 1GB

frugal installed on ntfs partition on a non-WindowsOS IDE-HDD .
Boot ok, and I like them both the old-style setup way and the quicksetup way.
The old had an unexpected long delay from keyboard-layout to time-zone. Have an us-keyboard but in older days there had been also the possibility to select Language.
Will check code for an if case that makes it "jump over this section" if I have time.

Anyway for others : Seamonkey is really heavy on the load, I am suspecting libflashplayer - that's also on the todo list.

BarryK wrote:I don't think 'remasterpup2' will copy these to the remastered CD.

When remastering, the users have the choice to keep these or not. But can you make it by default in puppies ? (ps : it seems that recently-used.xbel cannot be overridden).

If another Xorg upgrade package is developed for Wary, could Xorg be moved up to 7.7, specifically X server >=1.13?
I just played around with Upup Raring, and using a quick and unscientific test (xlock -nolock -mode goop)
I have found display to be smoother than default Xorg in Wary... that's a first for me (going up, that is).

Barry, can you add this workaround by default in xorg.conf for intel graphic cards ? That corrects a bad fonts display. See related topic http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=85344

Barry,

Edit: The xorg.conf work-around shown above fixed it.

Edit 2: It was back this morning....

I did a full hard disk install of Racy 5.5 with the updates on my Toshiba laptop. It's awesome fast and everything works. (Thank you for this!)

But I ran into a problem that made me think something was wrong with Grub.

Exactly every second time I power up after shutting down Racy, I don't get the Grub menu screen. If I start the machine, see the menu, start Racy, then shut down and power up again, I get either a blank screen or the manufacturer's splash screen and that's all. Hitting the power button to shut down and trying again brings up the menu screen. 100% repeatable.

I discovered it may not be Grub, because it doesn't do this after restarting after shutting down the other OS (win).

It turns out, since Racy is the second menu choice, if I hit the down arrow once and then hit enter even without the menu showing, it boots Racy, but the text screens are rendered with a grey background instead of black.

The system information tool reports that Intel Mobile 4 series chipset is what's in this machine.

Wary 5.5 live pfix=ram on an old P3 test box.Everything appears to be working on initial boot.

# report-video
VIDEO REPORT: Wary Puppy, version 5.5

Chip description:
Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82810E DC-133 (GMCH) Graphics Memory Controller Hub (rev 03)
VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82810E DC-133 (CGC) Chipset Graphics Controller (rev 03)

Requested by /etc/X11/xorg.conf:
Depth (bits, or planes): 24
Modules requested to be loaded: dbe type1 freetype xtrap glx dri
Drivers requested to be loaded: intel

Probing Xorg startup log file (/var/log/Xorg.0.log):
Driver loaded (and currently in use): intel
Loaded modules: dbe ddc dri extmod fb freetype GLcore glx int10 kbd mouse pcidata ramdac type1 vbe vgahw xaa xtrap

Actual rendering on monitor:
Resolution: 1024x768 pixels (321x241 millimeters)
Depth: 24 planes

...the above also recorded in /tmp/report-video
#

-Computer-
Processor : Pentium III (Coppermine)
Memory : 254MB (130MB used)
Machine Type : Physical machine
Operating System : Wary Puppy - 5.5
User Name : root (root)
Date/Time : Thu 06 Jun 2013 01:19:55 AM CDT
-Display-
Resolution : 1024x768 pixels
OpenGL Renderer : Mesa GLX Indirect
X11 Vendor : The X.Org Foundation
-Audio Devices-
Audio Adapter : ICH - Intel 82801AA-ICH

-Processor-
Name : Pentium III (Coppermine)
Family, model, stepping : 6, 8, 6 (Pentium III/Pentium III Xeon/Celeron/Core Duo/Core Duo 2)
Vendor : Intel
-Configuration-
Cache Size : 256kb
Frequency : 731.03MHz
BogoMIPS : 1462.06
Byte Order : Little Endian

Wary still working fine on the old Athlon XP box.....

I did a hard drive install of wary 5.5 to a thinkpad x24 laptop. wlan was a dlink pcmcia card. It all worked great. Picked up the audio, video, pcmcia including the flash drive, eth0, phone modem as well.

The computer is a unicore 1ghz mobile Pentium 3 and 256mb ram. The computer is USB 1.1 and the bios won't boot from USB and has no internal CD drive so the HD install is about the only alternative and it completely revitalized this computer. Just a vote to continue with support for this class of hardware. I could easily give this computer to some kid or pensioner who could otherwise not afford a computer and he/she would have a blast.

a few new backgrounds.

Very nice, and might I add a subtle way of dropping hints.

My full install of Wary 5.5 is still performing excellently on my K6-2 500, which is more than I can say about the current alleged reccommended Official Puppy for older machines, Precise Retro, which can't even boot. I think I'll be staying with Wary for quite some time.

Small problem on my Dell Latitude CPi (aka The Infernal Dell) whilst trying Wary 5.5 on it.

The sound doesn't work.

Somewhat bigger problem: /usr/sbin/alsaconfig won't run.

Start the ALSA Wizard from the Puppy Menu, it pops up. Select "Run ALSA Wizard" and the orange box pops up and I never see any text in it -- nor do I see the alsaconf dialog boxes. Running from the terminal is slightly different -- no output at all, it just hangs.

The sound card in question is a Crystal 4237B. It's legacy ISA junk (the laptop is a 1999 model, after all!) and it's particularly persnickety with Puppy -- somewhere in the early 4 series Pups, the driver that should work with it (confusingly enough, it's the -4232 driver IIRC) stopped working with it. IIRC most Pups based on 412 will work, but 420 and later Pups won't. No idea why.

Here's the Pups I've tried and what happens with them --
TurboPup -- (pup420 based) probably the fastest I've found that's almost modern -- but USB is not hotpluggable.
pUPnGO -- (pup412 based) tried several variants, oddly sound does not work despite being a 412 derivative. extremely fast tho -- ties with TurboPup.
pup432v3 -- no sound and a little slow all round.
Precise 57 -- no drivers for the sound card.
RetroPrecise 543 -- either no drivers or alsaconf broken (don't remember)
Wary 55 -- alsaconf does not start, no sound
Wary 53 -- alsaconf does not start, no sound
Wary 513 -- alsaconf runs (!) but freezes at "loading sound driver". Did not test to see if the driver actually loaded or worked (I highly doubt it!). I'll try again later and choose the other driver (I chose the -4236 driver this time, which can sometimes work -- rarely).

Oh right -- @BarryK -- blog comment incoming about keyboards

EDIT: tried Wary 513 again -- ISA probe failed because the cs4232 driver (the one that's needed here) is missing. Oh well.