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[ttuuxxx]

Yes I'm also glad about Geany being default, saves me installing it also
ttuuxxx

[Jim1911]

Using Rox and selecting /usr/share/applications results in a black screen. It appears to work correctly except for that one directory. Menu/Shutdown/Restart X server, restores the desktop.

The directory can be accessed using a console.

[Terryphi]

[charlie6]

Hi,
thanks again to Barry for this !
on FujiSiemens (see characteristics in left margin under my avatar) with intel onboard video card 845G:
boot from live-cd + choice belgian keyboards + BE € shows:
- XOrg test answers OK; after Ctrl-backspace the screen remains black and no more mouse cursor; note: the here displayed horizonral frequency = 0 Hz (whereas it is not zero in xorg.conf file.)
- at this stage, Alt-Ctrl-backspace to go to command line; entering xorgwizard, etc... leads to screens for restarting XOrg: those screens looks bigger as the foot of the page lies under the bottom rim of the screen - i.e. the <OK> <TEST> <...> key are no more visible.
- I cannot succed in booting Quirky 002 on that PC.

Cheers

To Barry and all puppy developpers/users/newbies....wishes for pretty Xtmas time and 2010 newyear full of all kinds of projects and joys.

[Sage]

[Firefox]

If you burn a quirky cd as closed then a kernel panic occurs - unable to switch root. The disc has to be burned multisession. I think this is true for some other puppies as well.

[sasaqqdan]

ldd check result:
libGL.so.1 => not found
libGLU.so.1 => not found
libglut.so.3 => not found
libSDL-1.2.so.0 => not found
libgtksourceview-2.0.so.0 => not found

chinese quirky:

[JustGreg]

I still found the resolutionfix not being setup at first boot. Using the resolutionfix file from Puppy 4.3.1 fixed it. One has to copy the resolutionfix file to etc directory. Yes, I did see the post on this problem by Barry for Quirky 001. I will have to delete the copied file and try Barry post.

Good news is the wireless networking worked fine the first time. My normal WPA2 connection script worked without a hitch.

I need to try to get the web camera to work. My test script that uses ffmpeg does not work. ffmpeg complains it does not have -vd option. I will try an older version ffmpeg and see it helps. It has in the past.

Quirky 002 does look nice on the small screen.

[aarf]

other than the slow touchpad, no issues. pretty good going but boring all the same.

[tronkel]

I managed after several attempts to do a Woof build using Barry's latest Quirky Woof. I built it to use kernel version 2.6.30.5 since I wanted to try MU's ATI FGLRX dotpet to try to get the ATI radeon 3450 card. setup correctly. No success with this though.
Edit: The ATI card is working now. Had to un-disable GLX in xorg.conf.

I'm not really sure what I have ended up with though. I've either got a Quirky or a T2 Pup - LOL.

The ROX background is blue with the black-vg JWM theme. I used a mixture of the Woof GUI and the Woof scripts to get through the build.
The only package that is now missing is valide-2009.

In xorg.conf, the driver is listed as "vesa" and the screen size is 1400 x 900. This is the first time that I've been able to see 1400x900 using vesa without getting a rude message from the monitor about having an incorrect refresh rate. The aspect ratio though is incorrect here - but the video setup is in fact usable.

Sound worked first time and the whole thing is really fast. I downloaded Skype static version and it works really well.

Will play with it some more and see what happens

Edit: PupTV and Gxine now works in this T2 build. Not sure why, they didn't work in Quirky. May have been a video driver issue. FGLRX having been installed seems to have cured the problem - or a kernel issue with k2.6.31?

[BarryK]

Tronkel,
Note that 2.6.30.x is the oldest that should be used for Tpup/Quirky builds. This is because T2 uses 2.6.30 kernel headers for compiling gcc and libc -- and these can be troublesome if a iso is built with an older kernel than the version used when compiling. An older kernel might work, but there might be issues -- I have personally experienced this problem.

[drblock2]

Running Quirky 2 off a live-cd. Generally looks good, but

1. XVESA is very slow so that screen update when scrolling is not smooth. This is particularly noticeable with Sea Monkey.

2. Pnethood still has the bug inherited from Quirky 1 and Puppy 4.3.1. Unprotected network drives will not open unless something (any character at all) is typed into the log-in and password boxes.

3. CUPS does not display the smb//: option for connecting a network printer.

Keep up the good work! Looking forward to Quirky 3.

[tronkel]

Downloaded and installed the SoftMaker 2008 package for Linux.
I installed it as a DEB via the dotpet Package Manager. Installed perfectly including the menu icons (all appeared under their correct menu category).

This is a nice package. Only minor issue I can see so far are rather thin-looking fonts in the chrome toolbar. There must be some config file somewhere that can fix this.

Default printer has to be run via the lpr -P "name of your printer" command. I then got a printout from the Brother DCP-7030 3-in-one with no problem.

This Puppy/Softmaker combination would be a marriage made in heaven.
Hope it all works out with the licensing issues.

Next skittle to knock down is to get the Brother scanner to work. I have always successfully got the scanner to work using the proprietary Brother scanner driver from http://solutions.brother.com

This time seems not to want to play for some reason. Has worked in every k2.6.30.5 distro I have tried so far. Anyone else got any ideas on this?

If there is any interest in this T2 k2.6.30.5 version I'll upload it somewhere so you can use it. Could also include SoftMaker (if permission to include is forthcoming from SoftMaker).

[shinobar]

[infectiia]