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Still testing 2 frugal installs of Insidious 002 some every day. No real problems to speak of...... and runs great,even on the old 733 MHz test box.

Went ahead and did a frugal install of 002 on the old P4 test box. Everything is working pretty well except scrolling in Firefox is pretty erratic.SeaMonkey is much smoother.


VIDEO REPORT: Insidious Puppy, version 002

Chip description:
Intel Corporation 82865G Integrated Graphics Controller

Driver used by Xorg:
intel

Video mode used by Xorg:
Resolution: Depth 24 Depth: "Display"

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

# glxgears
733 frames in 5.0 seconds = 146.599 FPS
761 frames in 5.0 seconds = 152.108 FPS
762 frames in 5.0 seconds = 152.250 FPS
880 frames in 5.0 seconds = 175.842 FPS
794 frames in 5.0 seconds = 158.572 FPS
608 frames in 5.0 seconds = 121.570 FPS
828 frames in 5.0 seconds = 165.471 FPS

Nice, nice program with unlimited possibilities... I would say this Puppy has the potential of going beyond even 520 ! and, one's not at the mercy of the Ubuntu system where versions are 'time-limited' so to speak.

One question, the default FONT seems to be a bit 'thin' and hard to read both at the desktop and on the Internet... How would one go about making 002 have the Font-Look that say... 511 or 520 has?

"Thanks"

Thank you of the feedback. About font. Good catch. I added font-improvements-for-Puppy-Five-0.0.2.pet, which is Sit Heel Speak`s created package with extra fonts and fonts.conf and local.conf hacks. It has font hinting and antialiasing features, which might make fonts look too thin to some.
I have used same package in Snow Puppies also. I havent expiremented with package more profoundly.

I have done a search of the forum and could not find anything similar.

Thanks for a great puppy. I've just done a frugal install of insidious 002 and its working really well. I have one small problem on my laptop. Left click and drag on the track pad does not work. The track pad and buttons work individually but not together. I am not able to Drag and Drop or drag to resize windows. The laptop is Dell D620 Dual Core.

I have done a search of the forum and could not find anything similar.

Thanks in advance for your assistance.

Terry H. I am clueless. Havent heard that problem before. Of course you can try tuning with menu - desktop settings - Flsynclient, which is the tool for touchpad settings.

Probably wont help, but sometimes my touchpad comes oversensitive. So when I am writing, touchpad autoselects and removes my text all the time.
Only way so far to correct the troublesome behavior has been to remove /root/.flSynclient config file and reboot. Then I launch menu - desktop settings - Flsynclient and reconfigure my touchpad.

Thanks for the quick response. It seemed rather odd as everything else is great. I'll give that a try. I also have had problems with over sensitivity, but I'd learned to live with it.

Naked icons ( ie. Gears Only showing ) on the Desktop, How do I Fix this Please?

Full install of 002 on a 400 MHz Pentium 2 w/ 384 MB RAMemory.

I Don't Think this an insidious Pup 002 Specific Bug, I've had this Once or twice B4 w/ other Puppies, perhaps a yea' or so ago, I'm Not Sure or wot I did @ the time 2 resolve it, maybe Just Re - install, But if this is going 2 be an intermittent issue I'd Much Rather Understand, wots happening & Howto Fix it!

Any Help or Suggestions, Please!

Could it be that your /root/Choices/ROX-Filer/PuppyPin is messed up ?

PupDial cannot find my modem with 001.

It is a simple USRobotics V.92 56K Faxmodem for dial-up, connected to COM1. Other Puppies are OK with it (i.e Quirky 1.2 Retro and Puppy 4.3.1), and other Linuxes, too. Pressing "probe" doesn't detect any modems, even though I also have a Winmodem that is detected on Quirky.

I have verified that the /dev/ttyS0 device exists, has the proper permissions, major/minor numbers, and so on.

Since PupDial has never failed me, I have never faced this issue before. What should I check next?

Thank you.

In woof build, the big modem drivers option. I left the big modem drivers out. Of course I can build Insidious 002 with those modem drivers included.
I dont know if that is the reason, but only thing I can answer straight.

Oh, never mind: I found it. And I'm happily online with 001 as I type this.

Kernel modules weren't loaded, duh. For anybody interested, I did:
Together they pulled in a few other modules, and voilà, serial ports.

I downloaded Insidious 002. Ran md5 check- ok. Burnt iso to cd, using slowest speed possible (=8x). Put cd into drive and powered up, but I get the following:

ISOLINUX 3.7.3 2009-01-20 ETCD Copyright (C) 1994-2008 H Peter Anvin

Could not find kernel image: linux

Boot:


I've checked what's on the cd, and it is ten files just like Wary.

Any ideas on what's wrong??

gerry

I think I've found the problem, isolinux.cfg appears to be an empty file.

Now what?

gerry

OK- in a fit of pique I've deleted the downloaded iso, and binned the cd. So I'll start again with a fresh download. That was my last cd though....

gerry

Check the md5sum of your download. The Iso has isolinux.cfg with content:

Thanks-- yes, I did (unusually- I don't often bother) check the md5 before I burned the cd.

gerry

I usually dont burn puppies to the cd, but now I tested with rw cd. Insidious-002 burns just fine and has isolinux.cfg with content.

Will Iguleder's next Insidious be an update of -002, or of his -001? Or is -001 as far as he is taking it?

gerry