racy 5.4.91
___firstlook___
Went directly to desktop without a hitch..
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Report Video 1.3 - Wed 27 Feb 2013 on Racy Puppy 5.4.91 - Linux 3.8.0 i686
Chip description:
9.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV280 [Radeon 9200 SE] (rev 01) 0.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV280 [Radeon 9200] (rev 01)
oem: ATI RADEON 9200
X Server: Xorg Driver used: radeon
X.Org version: 1.11.0
dimensions: 800x600 pixels (211x158 millimeters)
depth of root window: 24 planes
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, usb thumbdrive showed at plugin and mounted ok (pmount also fine in tabview
after a refresh).
Audio CD showed as 2nd optical driveicon after media inserted, Pmusic 321 from rootmenu->..probing disc 'til one gets tired of waiting and watching how many loglines go up in xload.. quit pmusic and try .. pCD reads disc for awhile... get tired of that and see if retrovol is doing anything .. use alsamixer instead to check levels/mutes .. pCD reads disc again for awhile... try from the console.. give up on playing a CD and see if samples play.. eject the audio CD, re-X several times, get annoyed at pprocess (wish for htop) --forget this nonsense, reboot nosave!
___take2___
De-exec everything in ~/Startup. Pmusic ok at playing local samples, not so much at closing (seems to stay resident).
'deja-vu'
BKblog - Pmusic 3.2.3 bug
Same 'can't quite get edge-to-edge' screen display with xorg editing for 1024x768 on my crt - a modeline
almost corrects the offset. If I don't use a modeline, display is shifted offscreen left quite a bit
___disc-swap upgrade (modified racy5390 savedto racy5491 disc)___
background..
racy5390 has Pmusic 2.6.6, which seems a bit better behaved for my limited use of it (audacious just works for me). Plus my racy5390 is pretty much all set up as I like. So..
Some minor adjustments after the swap and it's all good, more-or-less.
Had a minor hiccup..
(
see 'perils' for the full illustrated story)
..caused by symlinks pointing to each other, but fiddled a fix and things are back to par
3.8.0 kernel fine, as far as I can tell
.. an exception would be sfs_load-1.9.6 (various issues with on-the-fly actions locking up the os on a liveCD multisession) .. these
might be resolved with sfs_load-1.9.6-2, perhaps.
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test on: i686 machine
processor - Pentium 3 @1GHz
RAM - 512M
vidcard0 - RV280 (aka ATI Radeon 9200), AGP
vidcard1 - not used, but also RV280 (switched
off in BIOS - aka Radeon 9200SE), PCI (old-style)
soundcard - emu10k1 (aka Creative Audigy 2 ZS or SB0350)
boot/save method - liveCD multisession (cd-rw media), disc-swap upgrade from racy 5.3.90
limitations - no printer, no internet connection
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ps - Thanks, Sage