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Lobster · Posted: Fri 09 Jul 2010, 16:09 Post_subject:

Created a promotional video for Youtube
Using music from Creative Commons (ccmixter) and Openshot in Fatdog
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syjkBp1PIiM

Smile

01micko · Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 7037 Location: qld

hiya kirk, 007

Been running for a few hours now.. nice!

One gripe, (probably already mentioned, but I have the wog, therefore an excuse), when updating PPM the white on yellow in rxvt is a bit crappy.

Other than that, runs like a rocket, Very Happy

Great!

Cheers

kirk · Joined: 11 Nov 2005 Posts: 1334 Location: florida

Gcmartin,

Sfs loading is like any other puppy, but I've only did basic testing with the multisession cd/dvd mode. I don't really know if multisession supports sfs files, Flash would know about that.

Wognath,

When you boot with puppy pfix=nox do you end up at a prompt?

jamesbond · Joined: 26 Feb 2007 Posts: 1573 Location: The Blue Marble

Wognath, I'm shooting in the dark here, since I don't have any VIA graphics card.

1) Put this line into puppy's boot command line:

jamesbond · Joined: 26 Feb 2007 Posts: 1573 Location: The Blue Marble

Ok I did some tests with DVD multisession.

Barburo · Joined: 14 Jun 2007 Posts: 275

Just tried FatDog 64 for the first time. It is very fast with my notebook:

Wognath · Joined: 19 Apr 2009 Posts: 60

kirk and jamesbond,
My netbook gets to "loading kernel modules", then the screen goes blank. With pfix=nox, no prompt. If I blindly type in commands, such as deleting a file, or "reboot", nothing happens. So my assumption that this was just graphics was wrong. If you have any ideas, I'll try them. Otherwise, I'll just stand by until someone with this processor and more knowledge than I have weighs in. Thanks for your help.

Billtoo · Joined: 07 Apr 2009 Posts: 1507 Location: Ontario Canada

I did a frugal install on this pc today and installed the nvidia driver from your downloads page:

# glxgears
Running synchronized to the vertical refresh. The framerate should be
approximately the same as the monitor refresh rate.
15102 frames in 5.0 seconds = 3020.318 FPS
20176 frames in 5.0 seconds = 4035.168 FPS
20157 frames in 5.0 seconds = 4031.205 FPS
Vendor NVIDIA Corporation
Renderer GeForce 9300 GE/PCI/SSE2
Version 3.3.0 NVIDIA 256.35
Direct Rendering Yes

Thankyou very much Smile

jamesbond · Joined: 26 Feb 2007 Posts: 1573 Location: The Blue Marble

Billtoo · Joined: 07 Apr 2009 Posts: 1507 Location: Ontario Canada

# glxgears
Running synchronized to the vertical refresh. The framerate should be
approximately the same as the monitor refresh rate.
49862 frames in 5.0 seconds = 9972.238 FPS
51798 frames in 5.0 seconds = 10359.481 FPS
51829 frames in 5.0 seconds = 10365.601 FPS
51798 frames in 5.0 seconds = 10359.553 FPS
#
Vendor NVIDIA Corporation
Renderer GeForce 8600 GT/PCI/SSE2
Version 3.3.0 NVIDIA 256.35
Direct Rendering Yes
#
Computer
Processor 4x Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz
Memory 8186MB (165MB used)
Operating System Puppy Linux 0.50
User Name root (root)
Date/Time Sun 11 Jul 2010 08:19:50 PM GMT+5
Display
Resolution 1280x1024 pixels
OpenGL Renderer GeForce 8600 GT/PCI/SSE2
X11 Vendor The X.Org Foundation

thanks again.

Wognath · Joined: 19 Apr 2009 Posts: 60

jamesbond,
Yes, I tried all of your suggestions, several times each!! I hope I did it right--adding your instructions to the boot options on the grub screen. For example,

gcmartin · Joined: 14 Oct 2005 Posts: 2690 Location: Earth

@jamesbond Thanks for your test findings

jamesbond · Joined: 26 Feb 2007 Posts: 1573 Location: The Blue Marble

Wognath,

Yes, you're right. If my suggestions doesn't work, then I have no idea on how to proceed further ...

gcmartin, yes you're right too. 4GB of RAM is enough for the thing to work. I'm just confused why it explodes in your system but it doesn't on mine (the SFS file is there, I can find it in /, but it simply doesn't get loaded).

As for the network card, you're right. It should be, and it actually works for me - I setup my wireless via network-wizard, shutdown and reboot, and next time wireless is already configured. I didn't try with my wired ethernet - very seldom using that these days, but yeah, I will test it when get the chance.

Barburo · Joined: 14 Jun 2007 Posts: 275

White on yellow .pet doesn't install. I tried several times - same result.
My PPM is empty - no packages. Any suggestions that i can try?
*** edit - tried several other packages from /fatdog/pets/500/ - same problem.

smokey01 · Joined: 30 Dec 2006 Posts: 1642 Location: South Australia

jamesbond I deleted the arusb_lnx.ko as suggested. I then rebooted the system, plugged in the wireless dongle but the dongle was not found. I then copied the ar9170 *.fw files to /lib/firmware as suggested and rebooted, still not found.

I then tried network wizard and loaded the module ar9179usb.ko and tried network wizard again. This time the driver for wlan0 could be seen. I scanned to see if the network could be found and it was. I then connected as normal and all worked fine. I then rebooted to see if the setting were saved, they were. All good now.

I did try to download Skype but it failed as it would not allow the file to be saved to /temp. Firefox is setup to download to /root/spot/downloads.

I was able download skype by running firefox from a terminal window. I installed skype and all worked well until I tried the webcam. The webcam crashed skype and closed.

My webcam is a logitech pro 4000 which was recognised by skype. Something amiss here. Skype with video is not a biggie for me but it will be for some.

Smokey