Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

[BarryK]

[BarryK]

[BarryK]

[Aitch]

There seems to be some dispute about MMX, this post suggests 386MMX...

http://www.pcguide.com/ref/cpu/arch/int/instMMX-c.html

...though I, too, thought it was 486 first, as I had a 486/60mhz with MMX, though it may have been a DX2...?

more here, though maybe for a re-introduced 386....

http://www.programmersheaven.com/tags/Embedded/Files/?Cons_Application=Security&

Gosh, I feel old

Aitch

[technosaurus]

@Aitch
& I think you misread your source

[corrisponder60329]

Hi Friends users, I have a feedback work with Abiword. My Wary 5 boots from USB. Still in testing. Abiword chrashed when clik in menu : edit/find
a word previously found. See place the snapshot. Thank you very much. BEST REGARDS.

[ICPUG]

Installed Wary 5 frugally on my 1998 desktop. Two points so far:

1) The welcome screen on first boot is cut off before the bottom and cannot be scrolled - probably because I use 800x600 resolution. Wary - good for old computers - maybe not so for old eyes.

2) Clicking on a wmv file in Rox caused mplayer to load but then shut down again without playing anything.

[don570]

There's a new version of mtpaint (version 3.34.64)
https://github.com/wjaguar/mtPaint

Apparently it does scaling of document with several options
to be more convenient to user.

I haven't had time to test though.

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[Frank Cox]

[Béèm]

[don570]

I have found a bug with mtpaint and wary lite. I didn't
test the full version of Wary.

To see the bug you must go to /root/puppy-reference/vector-images/
and try to open the SVG file there with mtpaint.

You will just be given a warning message about the fle format.

Other versions of Puppy will open this file with any recent version
of mtpaint.

mtpaint documentation says that librsvg needs to installed.
Wary lite does have this though.
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[scsijon]

folks, off topic but had to answer.

P54C - no mmx
P55C - with mmx

AMDK5 - no mmx
AMD K6 - with mmx

Cyrix 6x86(L) or 6x86-P - no mmx
Cyrix 6x86MX - with mmx

most had a clock speed of 200meg or greater

there were even PII and P with mmx, but these were just downgraded P55C's

needed a mmx compatable motherboard though.

this is also the era when double sided ram first appeared and 16Mbit memory chips were the norm.

one free online source I use for this sort of thing is
http://www.philipstorr.id.au/pcbook/
well worth bookmarking for hardware stuff.
Although a problem when I can remember 4004's being around.

[jamesbond]

Wary 500 no longer does netboot properly. Booting with humongous initrd failed - it complains that it cannot find "boot partition". I tried passing "pupsfs=rootfs,rootfs,/wary_500.sfs" boot params, same error. Seems to affect puplets build with latest woof also e.g. Lupu 5.2

[don922]

Frugal install of Wary lite using the Lin'N'Win method on a PII 350. Internet and screen resolution all correct and working on initial boot.

The Problem:
The screen of urxvt is very small about 150mm x 90mm the lettering is less than 3mm - just too small for my old eyes. I can't read this.

I don't seem to be able to adjust this in any meaningful way. Every change of font size in .Xdefault results in a very ugly bright pink screen that runs off the monitor.

To allempt to fix this I downloaded and installed rxvt-2.6.4.2pet. Substituting rxvt for urxvt in the "Console" icon, using the .Xdefault included in Wary 5 resulted in the ugly pink screen that runs off the monitor.

I copied the .Xdefault from Puppy 4.12 which works well with rxvt in that puppy, but in Wary 5 it resulted in the ugly pink screen that runs off the monitor.

Restoring urxvt and using the .Xdefault that came with Wary I get the tiny sized urxvt and
selecting rxvt from the Menu>Utility>Rxvt gives the same tiny result.

Can the urxvt screen and lettering be enlarged? I would like background: "LightYellow"; foreground: "navy"; and font: 10x20. Alteratively, I would like to use rxvt with these same settings.

Can this be fixed? This really kills Wary for me.

[jamesbond]