(old)Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

trying find out what distro is compatible with racy?

looking in "DISTRO_COMPAT_VERSION is defined in this file:

/etc/DISTRO_SPECS" show "puppy" then farther down mentions wary.

slacko is in the ppm so can use other slack repos? thanks

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see now slacko was just used as an example in the add repo help.

still not sure what repos can use to add pets?

http://puppylinuxstuff.meownplanet.net/ ... .iso.delta
5.79mb

md5sum racy-5.2.1.90.iso___racy-5.2.1.91.iso.delta 3a2c8b95732fdca550c471810e9fcd8

other deltas and md5sums at offical site.

I binned it already same as slacko, disappearing windows.

Manual frugal install to acer netbook.
Everything worked properly on first boot, I used SNS to setup the
wireless network connection and start the firewall.
The flashplayer plugin downloaded as is working.

Racy Puppy, version 5.2.2 on Thu 17 Nov 2011

Chip description:
5.0 VGA compatible controller
ATI Technologies Inc M880G [Mobility Radeon HD 4200]
oem: ATI ATOMBIOS
product: RS880M 01.00

X Server: Xorg
Driver used: radeon

X.Org version: 1.11.0
dimensions: 1024x600 pixels (270x158 millimeters)
depth of root window: 24 planes
# glxgears
1128 frames in 5.0 seconds = 225.405 FPS
1144 frames in 5.0 seconds = 228.616 FPS
1115 frames in 5.0 seconds = 222.978 FPS
Computer
Processor AMD Athlon(tm) II Neo K125 Processor
Memory 1812MB (97MB used)
OpenGL
Vendor Mesa Project
Renderer Software Rasterizer
Version 2.1 Mesa 7.10.3
Direct Rendering Yes
Ethernet controller Atheros Communications AR8151 v1.0 Gigabit Ethernet
Network controller Broadcom Corporation BCM43225 802.11b/g/n

The clock was an hour fast and I used Psync time server synchronizer to
fix it.

Billtoo,
You are quick! Yes indeed, 5.2.2 "TESTING" is uploaded:

http://bkhome.org/blog/?viewDetailed=02599

BarryK

suppose this is a stupid question. what repos can use for pets in racy other than what are in ppm? is racy built from ubuntu or which?

BarryK wrote:Billtoo,
You are quick! Yes indeed, 5.2.2 "TESTING" is uploaded:

http://bkhome.org/blog/?viewDetailed=02599

The md5sum.txt is missing from the racytesting directory on ibiblio.

I'd like to install the proprietary driver the latest Nvidia driver, where is the kernel_source for kernel-3.0.7-pae-i686 used for this distribution located?

Thanks,
Jim

Jim1911 wrote:I'd like to install the proprietary driver the latest Nvidia driver, where is the kernel_source for kernel-3.0.7-pae-i686 used for this distribution located?

Thanks,
Jim

http://bkhome.org/sources/kernel-3.0.7/

name : puppy
password : linux

Billtoo wrote:

Jim1911 wrote:I'd like to install the proprietary driver the latest Nvidia driver, where is the kernel_source for kernel-3.0.7-pae-i686 used for this distribution located?

Thanks,
Jim

http://bkhome.org/sources/kernel-3.0.7/

name : puppy
password : linux

Thank you.

Frugal installation on an ext4 partition with a 4fs save file. It is fast and stable and the Nvidia driver installed and runs properly. However, upon reboot the nvidia driver did not work. To correct the driver problem, I removed the nouveau driver and reinstalled the proprietary driver which appears to be working properly now.

I spoke too soon, after a reboot, I could not restart regardless of driver selection. The NVIDIA-Linux-x86-285.05.09.run file installed the driver properly and was running great until I rebooted. I'll keep trying but not this evening.

Cheers,
Jim

after looking at all of the racy thread including the 6 links
on the first page one of which points to the wary thread.
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=72258

wary's first page has 10 links and somewhere in the middle is a link
leading to another site that does mention wary is built from T2 sources.

I'm a user not a programmer, builder, or computer science student
nor aspire to be. don't know what t2 sources are.

racy testing was to target wary repo doesn't indicate what wary
is compatible with.

just want to know what pets are compatible with racy.

what would help on racy first page state what is the distro_compat_version.
and in /etc/DISTRO_SPECS instead of listing "puppy" perhaps ubuntu, slacko,
debian, or whatever would be helpful.

slacko does show up in PPM. kind of confusing what
pets are compatible.

pfix=ram of 5.2.2. updated PPM then it shows slacko repo.

Wary and Racy are based on T2 ....... just as Puppy 4.00 and Quirky were.
http://t2-project.org/

That would seem to lead to the "Puppy Common", "Quirky" and "Puppy 4" repos being the ones most compatible.

522 Testing . needs to do xorgwizard xwin to boot. Network wizard doesnt work with backslash \ in the Wifi name. No scroll bars on the first info screen.

the backslash is actually \x0D which is

\r car.return (CR), same as \x0d

wicd from pussy (debian) can connect but no puppy i have tried can. the signal is flakey not strong so that may also be the part problem.

Manual frugal install to hp desktop pc.
Everything worked properly at bootup.
Sound and wired network were good.
I skipped the video wizard and rebooted loading the devx and kernel
source sfs after creating the save file.
I installed the proprietary nvidia driver in the usual way.

Thu 17 Nov 2011 Operating System: Racy Puppy-5.2.2 Linux 3.0.7
0.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GT216 [GeForce GT 220] (rev a2)
oem: NVIDIA product: GT216 Board - 0682vb12 Chip Rev

X Server: Xorg Driver: nvidia
X.Org version: 1.11.0
dimensions: 1280x1024 pixels (342x271 millimeters)
depth of root window: 24 planes

direct rendering: Yes
server glx vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
server glx version string: 1.4
OpenGL vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
OpenGL renderer string: GeForce GT 220/PCI/SSE2
OpenGL version string: 3.3.0 NVIDIA 285.05.09

Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E4500
Core 0: 2200 1: 2200 MHz

# glxgears
31298 frames in 5.0 seconds = 6259.440 FPS
31380 frames in 5.0 seconds = 6275.995 FPS
31315 frames in 5.0 seconds = 6262.841 FPS

Computer
Processor 2x Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E4500 @ 2.20GHz
Memory 4146MB (98MB used)

No problems so far.

racy 5.2.2 sanity check
IBM ThinkPad x30, 1.2GHz single core, 512MB ram
Note: racy 52190 all worked well except flash and auto wifi

racy 5.2.2
frugal manual install

1. start to black screen
nothing works
force shutdown

2. restart no desktop
use 'Menu' to reboot

3. restart no desktop
Lighthouse report = vesa
use 'Menu' exit to prompt
xorgwizard - probe
xwin
Lighthouse report = intel
usually vesa has been faster than intel
but this time intel is fast

4. wifi not automatically detected
connect to wifi manually ok
flash installed
test some pages with flash, ok! no delays, very smooth
no insert key problem

5. install devx_racy_5.2.2.sfs
Utility > Glade Interface Designer - 'icon' STILL missing

6. Note: Pmusic has been updated to 2.2.2 with many fixes

7. compile Vim 7.3.353
gtk2 not found, X11-Athena GUI compiled
worked in racy 52190 and 52191
tried:
--enable-gui=gtk2
--enable-gui=gtk2 --disable-gtktest
--enable-gui=gtk
all fail and compile a non-GUI version

-Bill

No barks at first boot, ok after X restart after settings are made.

Minor woof bug.. the Xorg puninstallsh got carried through. ( I have previously made this mistake by leaving a puninstall.sh script in a package). Woof should have a line something like..

[ -x rootfscomplete/puninstall.sh ] && rm -f rootfscomplete/puninstall.sh

I have aarf's problem with xorg-auto on my eee-701SD, need to run xorgwizard.. but how would a noob know what to do???

EDIT: Yeah, ok.. "Usual thing is to type 'xwin'".. why?. xorg-auto just failed, xorg is not configured. Wouldn't it be better to write "type xorgwizard at the login prompt.. hit ENTER to get to the login prompt" (or better still skip the login as we can't!) .. just a read keepgoing so people can get a chance to write down "xorgwizard".. just saves a step.

EDIT2: I suppose how it is is ok, when "xwin" fails you get prompted to run "xorgwzard". Only thing then is that it should probably have another line after that saying. "Once you have completed "xorgwizard" type "xwin" to get a desktop" (or words to that effect).

Racy 5.2.2 released

See blog announcement:

http://bkhome.org/blog/?viewDetailed=02602

Here's the Xorg.0.log from the eee, seems hsync is out of range and a suitable screen couldn't be found. I think this is a bug created by a fix for some other hardware as it used to work. Maybe in future detect a tiny screen? (I'll look at this some before Slacko-5.3.1, has the same problem in my 5.3.0.1/2 RC)