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Here I am in 104 or rc1.

# VIDEO REPORT: Quirky, version 104
bash: VIDEO: command not found
#
# Chip description:
bash: Chip: command not found
# oem: NVIDIA
bash: oem:: command not found
# product: G98 Board - 5610001u Chip Rev

But ok I try to do full install as you told me just in case.

after installing it from PPM# report-video
VIDEO REPORT: Quirky, version 104

Chip description:
oem: NVIDIA
product: G98 Board - 5610001u Chip Rev

Driver used by Xorg:
nvidia

Video mode used by Xorg:
Resolution: Depth 16 Depth: "Display"
Yes that looks better indeed. I test spotify now

Edit after test

Nope it did not help. I go test qrky110 now

Edit Q110 one crashed too when loading spotify in wine. Reported about it in proper place I hope.

Back in Q.1.00 and that one survive and just works. Very pleased about Q1

Mainly simply a run-through of xorgwizard to get to a desktop..
1) using the choose branch (nice having a fair-sized list) and entering "ati" gave not much in the way of results (xorg reported x pixels and no h&v refresh rates, no card or display if I recall)
2) probe and edit worked as usual (mp is a lovely thing if you have a 'known-good' cribsheet), xorg got the main display id'd and I filled in and tweaked h&v refresh and such

..then went a bit crazy and did a fair amount of 'damage' playing monkey-with-a-mouse - surprising how many things still work, even as the triangles dominated the d'n'd desktop (squiggles looks good tiled with the citrus-cut jwm and gtk) and panels. Jwm cascades windows nicely, btw. Not too crazy, I removed driveicons so the madness was confined-to-RAM

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vidcard0 - RV280 (aka ATI Radeon 9200), AGP
vidcard1 - not used, but also RV280 (switched off in BIOS - aka Radeon 9200SE), PCI (old-style)

Hi all,
@BarryK
Barry,
I have a problem with qrky-110.
I did a fresh pfix=ram boot from the CD, had to select the vesa driver at the graphics stage, graphics came up after the usual blocky flash.
Copied the qrky-110.sfs file to an USB dongle and saved the qrkysave file to the same dongle selecting ext3 file system.
Powered off and then re-powered up. The Samsung failed to boot with the following text.

"Loading personal file /qrkysave 3fs(sdb1)
EXT-fs error (device loop1): ext3-lookup: deleted inode referenced: 24618
# this text was repeated twice then
Loading the 'qrky-110.sfs' main file
EXT3-fs error (device loop1): ext3_lookup: deleted inode reference: 24618
# this text was repeated three times then
Kernel panic not syncing:Attempted to kill init !"

I'm posting this from my Dell Latitude LS using lupu-500.
By the way touchpad tapping works on the Samsung when using lupu-500 and the vesa driver.
Cheers

Please provide feedback for Quirky 1.1 on the "Quirky 1.1 feedback" forum thread:

http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=55406

Re: qret-104.iso
Also has some of same effects within Lighthouse-4.43f

1.
(a) See this and...
(b) also this.

2.
(a) After applying 1a & 1b above...
Lets say I manually save during the session...
And then reboot...
And at shut-down choose not to save...
At reload of the Puppy [Quirky or Lighthouse]...
There is a warning given of an unclean exit at the previous shut-down.

(b) However...
If I choose to save_the_session during shut-down...
The next startup/reload of the Puppy gives no warning.

3. Background:
(a) Using an 8GB Flash Drive, with 6-off 1.3GB ext3 partitions.
So far there's a different Puppy on each of 5 of these.
e.g.
Lighthouse-4.43f
Teenpup Mini 2010 beta
Quirky-1.1 [qret-104.iso]
Lupu-501
Puppy-431-boxpup.iso

(b) Having various strange problems.
e.g.
(b1) GParted cannot see Flash Drive sdd in qret-104 [only sometimes, seeing it now], yet all other Puppies see it OK.
(b2) Some Puppies don't show drive/partition icons on desktop correctly/reliably.
1GB Flash Drive lone partition sdc1 shows mounted when it isn't, or doesn't show at all when connected.
Must be unplugged/replugged to show correctly.
(b3) Puppy loads to black screen with cursor.
(b4) Keyboard won't work until Puppy is rebooted.

(b) Having various strange problems.
e.g.
(b1) GParted cannot see Flash Drive sdd in qret-104 [only sometimes, seeing it now], yet all other Puppies see it OK.
(b2) Some Puppies don't show drive/partition icons on desktop correctly/reliably.
1GB Flash Drive lone partition sdc1 shows mounted when it isn't, or doesn't show at all when connected.
Must be unplugged/replugged to show correctly.
(b3) Puppy loads to black screen with cursor.
(b4) Keyboard won't work until Puppy is rebooted.

had these kind of problems , too .

Changing the POWER-SUPPLY from 300 W to 350 W seems to help

1. "Changing the POWER-SUPPLY from 300 W to 350 W seems to help"
(a) Motivated by the fact the PC was intermittently failing to complete POST...
And prior to your answer...
I'd changed the both the CMOS battery [no fix produced]...
And swapped in a new [400 watt?] PSU [produced a fix = POST completes reliably].

(b) Most of the strange effects are cured/gone, except:
Not all puppies show ALL partitions on the desktop.
e.g. First partition on 8GB Flash Drive [and/or the only partition on an external USB HDD, with its own power unit] doesn't show in some Puppies.

2. Now at Qrky-120 rather than qret-104.