Wary Puppy 0.9.6 (096) feedback

[BarryK]

See announcement:

http://bkhome.org/blog/?viewDetailed=01940

It is on the ibiblio.org host, has not yet filtered through to the mirrors.

Lots of improvements since 094, both to Woof and Wary. Testers welcome!

I am connected with my dialup modem, Pctel, right now. I found that it (the modem) was broken when I upgraded the save-file from 094, so booted with "pfix=ram". Now I am in business.

Better upgrading of the save-file is something that is on the to-do list, don't know when though.

[DaveS]

Love having the extra drivers in a separate file that can be removed if they are no needed. All good so far.
Short Question for Barry: You posted configuration for compiling Seamonkey in Wary thanks. Would the same configuration be used for compiling Seamonkey 2.1b?

[DaveS]

This has been mentioned before and is not a specific Wary problem (maybe woof?). Menu>desktop>jwm configuration>apply current GTK theme to JWM actually deletes the contents of /root/jwmrc-tray leaving no tray at the bottom of the screen.

[Billtoo]

I installed 096 to a 4gb flash drive.
I installed the ati_fglrx-10.10-k2.6.31.14-w5.pet using the extra step
and hardware acceleration is working.
I compiled some apps and then rebooted and it took much less time than
usual to save the save file to the flash drive than it usually does
after making that many changes.
The retrovol icon is x'ed out but sound it working fine, this only
happens on this pc for some reason.I use the dial on the remote to
change sound level.
I compiled icewm-1.3.7 and switched to that.
096 is running nice so far

[pemasu]

report-video
VIDEO REPORT: Wary Puppy, version 096
Chip description:
oem: Intel(R)Ironlake Mobile Graphics Chipset Accelerated VGA BIOS
product: Intel(R)Ironlake Mobile Graphics Controller Hardware Version 0.0
Driver used by Xorg:
intel
Video mode used by Xorg:
Resolution: Depth 24 Depth: "Display"

intel driver works. In menu it is jerky (flickering) but submenus ok.

ayttm crashes in hyperlinks as it should crash Pidgin 2.6.5 pet works, it does not want missing dbus.

Flsynclient ok. Network with ath9k ok.

/opt/mozilla.org/bin/firefox symlink to /usr/bin needed in wary 096 to get firefox working in menu. If you install firefox from wary repo

[ttuuxxx]

ayttm crashes in hyperlinks as it should crash Pidgin 2.6.5 pet works, it does not want missing dbus.

I compiled pidgin without Dbus, I figured just a basic version with spellcheck should be good for most users
ttuuxxx

[L18L]

installed gtkam_NLS-0.1.17-w5
no 'trim the fat', so all language files installed.
Then, having changed
/usr/local/petget/downloadpkgs.sh 153

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  ONEFILE="`echo -n "$ONEFILE" | cut -f 1,2 -d '|' | tr '|' '/'`" #100527 path/fullfilename
  [ "`echo -n "$ONEFILE" | rev | cut -c 1-3 | rev`" = "pet" ] && FLAGPET='yes' #101016
  #if [ "$RADIO_URL_LOCAL" = "true" ];then

to (1 line inserted)

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  ONEFILE="`echo -n "$ONEFILE" | cut -f 1,2 -d '|' | tr '|' '/'`" #100527 path/fullfilename
  [ "`echo -n "$ONEFILE" | rev | cut -c 1-3 | rev`" = "pet" ] && FLAGPET='yes' #101016
  [ "`echo $ONEFILE | grep _NLS`" != ""  ] && FLAGPET=''
  #if [ "$RADIO_URL_LOCAL" = "true" ];then

now enables 'trim the fat ' for *_NLS.pet and only wanted languages were installed.
I had no idea what FLAGPET should be good for but am sure NLS needs 'trim the fat' for average user.

[Karl Godt]

This has been mentioned before and is not a specific Wary problem (maybe woof?). Menu>desktop>jwm configuration>apply current GTK theme to JWM actually deletes the contents of /root/jwmrc-tray leaving no tray at the bottom of the screen.

Applied just for interest : on dpup-009 it applies something that I hadn't had time to change but the taskbar is still there.
Also changing the JWM theme at the `jwmconfig` MenuPoint 'Choose a JWM theme' doesn't delete the .jwm-tray here:
# jwm --help
JWM vsvn-492 by Joe Wingbermuehle
compiled options: icons png shape xft xinerama xpm xrender
system configuration: /etc/system.jwmrc
usage: jwm [ options ]

system configuration: /etc/system.jwmrc

I guess there is always no time to compile with adjusted pathes inside the .c files.

[DaveS]

Also changing the JWM theme at the `jwmconfig` MenuPoint 'Choose a JWM theme' doesn't delete the .jwm-tray .

You have to select 'or apply current GTK theme to JWM'
Selecting to 'Choose a JWM theme' is fine.

[pemasu]

Has somebody uploaded working dbus sfs ?

I need it to get my outside savefile, separate folder Thunderbird working.

[DaveS]

Has somebody uploaded working dbus sfs ?

I need it to get my outside savefile, separate folder Thunderbird working.

Yes, its here:http://puppylinuxstuff.meownplanet.net/DaveS/
puppy
linux

For wary, you want dbus.sfs.

[pemasu]

Hey. That was fast. And it works !! Highly appreciated. Thanks !!

[DaveS]

Hey. That was fast. And it works !! Highly appreciated. Thanks !!

There is a bunch of other stuff I put up there too. OpenOffice/LibreOffice and an sfs for seamonkey 2.1b if I remember correctly.

[pemasu]

I noticed. I downloaded Openoffice Lite sfs also. Thank you of great work.

[Sage]

'Woof woof' seems to be disabled?
The Universal installer doesn't appear to work (for internal IDE); it shows all partitions as /sdaGUID ?? Is this a local issue? an HW problem? with this disc?
Good to see autoDHCP connects!

Update: As you were - did a low level disc clean and that has fixed it. This used to be a problem more frequently with older discs but haven't seen it much recently.

[Béèm]

Wary 096 doesn't work with Trinity (KDE 3.5.12)

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# kstartupconfig
kdostartupconfig: /lib/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.11' not found (required by /opt/kde3/lib/libkdecore.so.4)
kdostartupconfig: /lib/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.11' not found (required by /opt/kde3/lib/libkdefx.so.4)
#

Wary seems to have GLIBC 2.10.1

[wjaguar]

Setting "GDK_NATIVE_WINDOWS=true" globally from /etc/profile is dangerous - see GTK+ bug #634236. Better to make wrapper scripts for the programs that absolutely require it, and do it from there - or modify their source code, inserting setenv("GDK_NATIVE_WINDOWS=1") or equivalent before the point where gtk_init() gets called.

[James C]

Fresh manual frugal install of Wary 096 on my main Linux box.

On initial boot had working internet but sound was muted.Simple enough to remedy.


VIDEO REPORT: Wary Puppy, version 096

Chip description:
oem: NVidia
product: NV18 () Board Chip Rev A2

Driver used by Xorg:
nv

Video mode used by Xorg:
Resolution: Depth 24 Depth: "Display"

...the above also recorded in /tmp/report-video
#


-Computer-
Processor : AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2400+
Memory : 1034MB (114MB used)
Operating System : Puppy Linux 0.09
User Name : root (root)
Date/Time : Sun 07 Nov 2010 02:29:14 PM GMT-8
-Display-
Resolution : 1440x900 pixels
OpenGL Renderer : Unknown
X11 Vendor : The X.Org Foundation
-Multimedia-
Audio Adapter : VIA8233 - VIA 8235

[zigbert]

My first Wary test
- First time I get 24bits colordepth with my nvidia card.
- Keyboard (NO) was set correct.
- Playing Norwegian TV via internet. I think streamformat is realmedia, and it has not worked until Puppy 5.
- The flat-grey theme is just lovely.

- Then a tiny bug report

1.)
Wary 096 contains Pburn version 3.2.8
Changelog 3.2.9
- improved calculation of Video-DVD shrinkfactor. (thanks to Country Bumkin)
- Strip special chars from CD-text information.
- HELP: {3.5} AUDIO: Warning about using RW-discs for Audio-CD.
- Bugfix: Rename item in burnlist with ` in name (thanks to don570)
- Bugfix: Burn an audio-CD fails if track names includes ` (thanks to don570)
- Bugfix: Manual edit of command fails when it contains variables. (thanks to Country Bumkin)
- Bugfix: Remove partial ripped (vobcopy) file after 'Emergency Stop'.

Things seems to settle for Pburn. Not much bugreports lately

2.)
Viewnior doesn't accept filenames with non-english chars as ÆØÅ. Puppy uses Viewnior 0.6 while 1.0 is released. I don't know if this would help us non-english humans. I install gpicview which works perfectly.

3.)
Peasyscan didn't work for my Epson 2400, while xsane does. And why isn't peasyscan and xsane in the same sub-menu-category

4.)
Geany is still not able to execute a script like it did in the old days. The solution is still simple.
Edit the file: /root/.config/geany.conf

[tools]
make_cmd=
term_cmd=/usr/bin/xterm -e bash -c

Also linewrapping could be default ON (my very humble personal opinion)

5.)
The nv-driver is slow, so the commercial driver will be needed to get the Puppy-feeling. - a pity, since it feels like bloat....Geforce 8400M GS. I first got the message that Nvidia driver was not available.....later I found it in PPM ???

6.)
Try to open a file into Nicoedit crashes the program

7.)
Edit keyboard shortcuts for JWM doesn't work. Some bugginess has been fixed for DuDE, but there is still things to improve. It is probably not the time to upgrade - close-to-rc - but the shortcut script should be looked at.....maybe rewritten.

8.)
After activating Xlock, I didn't find the way out. Esc, mouse-click, Ctrl+Alt+F1, hammering on my keyboard...... Nothing worked until I pressed power-button for a rough power-off. How is it supposed to work?

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At last 2 questions
- Why is libSDL included (I guess it's not to play burgerspace)?
- How much space (on iso) could be saved with a gtkdialog alternative for Gparted?


Thank you for Wary.
Sigmund

[BarryK]

Has somebody uploaded working dbus sfs ?

I need it to get my outside savefile, separate folder Thunderbird working.

The Puppy Package Manager has dbus PETs. Type "dbus" in the search box -- you will also need to install 'dbus-glib'.